Storm a-brewin

Malacanang is only monitoring things

Malacanang says its helpless, no power to stop over-eager oil giants from raising their pump prices. Fact is, Shell even raised theirs twice and others followed suit. This oil deregulation law is a joke. 


So, what's the purpose of government? Just to monitor everything, says Edwin Lacierda, presidential spokesperson. So Malacanang is not governing, only monitoring.


Had these things happened during the time of Arroyo, groups would have militated and raised howl. Lacierda would have probably proposed to Arroyo to scrap that joke of a law and replaced it with something else while Leah Navarro of Black and White Movement and Manolo Quezon III would have mobilized their small force in the streets.


No. This is an Aquino administration, a political ally. 


Instead of saying the State has the power, Lacierda says the best option available for everybody is "follow market forces". Wow, Lacierda just parroted what previous Gloria Arroyo spokespersons always say. 


Arroyo apologists say that with a grin, and the only difference now with Lacierda is, Aquino's spokesperson tells it with a grim, sly smile to boot, as if he really meant it. 


Lacierda and the rest of the people behind the Aquino administration probably believed in that propaganda song, " Global Pinoy"---that the Pinoy has the skills to be the best in the world. They must have interpreted it even to mean that even our oil prices must follow the dictates of world crude prices.


The United Nations already alerted the nations of the world way back last January---that oil prices and spiralling prices of food and unemployment would spark violence and riots in several countries, including the Philippines. That probably explains why Malacanang is only monitoring, not governing. The people behind Aquino are monitoring and expecting people to militate against oil prices. 


Worse, those who vowed to fight to their death the welfare of the Filipino People are now coopted by government. Those who have risked their futures and fought various dictatorships and forms of misfeasance  are now in government, bending their principles and being swallowed by the system, not in parts but in wholes.


The only ones militating are those without agreements with governments. Time to form a true-blue movement that will not compromise its principles over empty and shallow promises of straight roads.