The Paradise That is Filipinas!

Surprised why more than US$100 billion worth of investments flew out of the country last month?

Surprised that foreigners, especially Middle Easterners abuse Filipinas and Filipinos working for them?

Surprised of the reactions of fellow Asians when they realized that you are "Pinoy" and not an Indonesian?

Don't be.

I remember one reaction made by a beautiful Singaporean Malay friend of mine about the Philippines. She said that we have our own way here. And, the world is simply going on a different direction.

Yes, there's a "Pinoy Way" in every thing.

Look at how traffic enforcers conduct traffic in the corner of South Super and Buendia avenue. The traffic light is red, yet, traffic enforcers urge you to go. When it's green, they want you to stop. Do they understand traffic signals? Or they're just too stupid to know the right thing?

Yes, there is a "Pinoy Way" of doing things.

Look at how we view "democracy". Democracy for us, is a license to do almost anything for as long as you're a member of the elite. Or, you're a White Man or a person with almond eyes.

You can rape a child and walk away with it. You can shoot teenagers at will inside posh subdivisions.

You can shoot someone in the head when they politely ask you why you parked the wrong way.

You can rape someone, anybody, even with a university degree and tell everybody you're an American. You can spend jail time in the comforts of your embassy and with some moolah, you can even be acquitted of the crime.

You can sell drugs here, all 76 Ecstacy pills and some cocaine and get away with it IF you're somebody who lives in Ayala Alabang. You can even cry "Foul!" or "I was mauled!" or question the conduct of those who arrested you and possibly get an acquital or release from prison.

You can even build banks here, though you're blacklisted and a person with a "criminal mind". Just support the candidacies of some highly ranked government official and enter into deals with them and presto! You are now licensed to steal 14 billion pesos worth of taxpayer's money.

You can sell government diluted fertilizers and get away with 800 million pesos. Just endure the brickbats and the insults during a Senate hearing, anyway, what's a fistful of curses when you're richer by 800 million pesos anyway?

You can riddle a suspected felon with bullets and simply say you want to make sure they're dead. They're the scums of the earth anyway and killing them simply won't matter.

You can steal someone's money with the promise of selling them some land in Boracay and simply, get away with it because you're a member of the Alta Sociedad and you just happen to own one of the surnames that control Meralco or San Miguel.

You can use someone else pension here and his contributions to social security and simply say that you're giving it to the businessmen and not you, a lowly peon who wants to loan some money just to survive.

You can even run an oil company here, buy oil abroad for just US$20 and sell it here double or triple. No one will check on your books, since you paid your contribution to the lobby fund for that general who runs the energy department. Such a cancer!

You can set up a company here, ask for some loan from government, use the loan to setup shop, get those profits, deposit it to some bank abroad, get more profits, then mismanage your company and then close shop, without even paying the loan that government gave you.

You can point any mountain, river, ricefield, valley or even a lowly hill here and ask the DENR secretary to give you a permit to exploit those ores in there. Those you managed to find, you can sell it abroad, get some profits and after a while, leave those barren hills, let those mercury seep into the river, cut down those virgin forests and let those valleys rot without paying any cent.

You can mock, bribe, steal, sell drugs, hostage someone, kill and rape, for as many times, and for as long as you want if you have the money to build gyms, houses, or bribe some jail officer. Anyway, it's democracy here and you have the license to do whatever you want for as long as you have the money to cover all those stupid, evil, nasty, brutish, devilish things you do.

You can even rape Lady Justice, that statue infront of the Department of Justice and someone out there would simply advice Lady Justice to " just endure and enjoy it!"

Ah, paradise. This country is a paradise for those with criminal minds and evil hearts. Ah, what paradise