Saturday, December 8, 2012

President Noynoy Aquino did a Pilate in Typhoon Pablo catastrophe

More than a thousand people died and here we have a President who is asking us not to blame anybody for the incident. Thousands of lives were lost and futures destroyed, and no single one should be made accountable? What on earth has happened to these government officials?

Fact is---these government officials, most especially the Governor of Compostela Valley are even blaming those poor families living in those mountains for being there and living there. Those people have been there for decades, since they believe by staying in one of the highest places in the Philippines, they would be spared from the trouble of flash flooding.

Now, notice that those being victimized every single time there is a strong typhoon, are those living in high areas, ironically. and why, you ask?

Most of those who died got killed because of landslides and heavy flash flooding. Imagine, even high areas such as those mountains of Davao del Sur, Surigao del Sur and Surigao del Norte and Compostela Valley, mountainous areas are now having flooding problems and landslides.

Mr. President, are we not going to punish those miners and illegal loggers operating in the area? Are we not even going to suspend the governor of Compostela Valley whom people blame for this catastrophe because he did not properly evacuate his constituents.

Ask the people of Compostela Valley if they ever had flash flooding before and they would easily tell you no. Don't tell me that it's the effects of global warming? Even if water levels around the world rose, such a high area such as this would not have been severely affected if those mountains were still lush with forests. Don't ever tell me that landslides would still happen if mining had been adequately prevented there.

Blame the small-scale miners? According to the Mines and Geosciences Bureau, they describe "small-scale mining" as those with just a 10 million peso capital. Is that small scale to you?

This administration is similar in more ways than one with its predecessor---these oligarchs always do a Pilate every single time a catastrophe such as this happens.

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