Col. Generoso Mariano's State of the Nation Address (or Sermon): The Absence of Malasakit in present government

I was not surprised when I heard that a certain colonel came out of the woodworks to denounce the Aquino administration. Whether or not this colonel is calling for the specific ouster of Aquino or not, the fact remains that the things or issues he raised in his video were legitimate. There were no linkages between Colonel Generoso Mariano of the Naval Command nor of the former camps of Querubin-Lim but the issues are the same simply because we have'nt changed this system that continues to oppress us.


Mariano is simply stating facts which exists in our economic and political reality. There is no treason there. There was no specific grievance that he uttered against the system. Mariano was simply trying to state the present realities of everyday Filipino life. 


" We soldiers, are humans too. "says Mariano in his video speech.


Mariano stated a very nice deconstruction of Philippine reality. His stated recommendations are constitutional ones, nothing illegal, just plain narration of what prescriptions are stated in the charter.


NOW, A WEAKENED GOVERNMENT WOULD REACT NEGATIVELY because of self-preservation. Or simply, kayabangan.


Noynoy should treat this as a wakeup call. Admit that there were erroneous decisions he did in the past and he did poorly in his first year administration.


And there was good news that Noynoy simply glossed over simply because he was cloistered enough, like a priest inside a seminary.


There are three words which this government forgot on the way to power, and these are " kababaang-loob, kapatiran and malasakit."


Malasakit is one word which escaped Pnoy and his Cabinet members on the way to power. They forgot that the reason why they were elected in the first place by the people was the huge perception that they knew what ails the country and how best to solve it.


It seems that they know nothing and prescribes almost the same things which the past dispensation did and erred.


Worst, they failed to be there when needed by the people. The inability of the government to act against rising oil and food prices is just one example of the absence of malasakit. (for English readers, just research what this means.). The continued oppression of the poeple and the inability of government to address this is another example of the absence of malasakit.


There is still time for Noynoy and his fellows up there to re-discover their former selves and dispense of the sickness which afflicted those in the former government.