On RJ Nieto's and Mocha Uson's claims that there is nothing wrong with blogging and of being a government official?

Lifted from Ms. Uson's blog: shared thru
the universal concept of free speech

I admire Mocha Uson's stupidity. Uson invokes the right to self-expression like a mantra in her defense during the Senate probe on fake news. She thinks there is simply nothing wrong with her serving as an Assistant Secretary of the Presidential Communications Office while not taming her blog with attacks against the political opposition. 

She bemoans that she had been attacked, belittled, cursed and shamed by several people. Well, had her brain been configured as sexy as her body, things would have been different. 

I am not in the habit of checking other people's blogs but for this blog entry, I visited her sites. I checked and analyzed and what I found shocked me---Ms. Uson claims to have five million followers, when in truth and in fact, she only have about 23,450 TRUE FOLLOWERS and the rest of those millions are BOTS!! Hay nacu, we have been deceived. I told myself--o see!

Ms. Uson is a product of someone's witty imagination. Her so-called "mass base" is an illusion for the rest of us, mere mortals, to believe that she is as popular as what she claims and several other people also claim as a Hollywood celebrity.

A good friend, a broadcast journalist, told me that there are two (2) things which Filipinos indulge in with vigorous frequency: sex and gossip. Mocha, for all intents and purposes, represents both sex and gossip. 

Okey, going back to the original topic.

Mocha says that she has every right to express herself thru her blog. Fine. That is the very essence of the right to free speech as guaranteed by the Constitution. 

Rights however, are not absolute. Like any other right, it entails responsibility. 

When you use this right to besmirch the reputation of another, with evident malice, and accuse them of committing a crime, you commit libel. When you curse someone, you commit slander. When you weaponize your site or blog and cause undue damage to a person or company online, you violate a special law, that is the Cyberlaw. 

Now, here's the thing. 

When you serve government, and you get your grocery budget from government, you lose your privacy status. You now become a public servant. You serve the people, not a person, such as President Duterte, because the monies you now get from being appointed as a government official come from the public treasury. Mr. Duterte admits not drawing monies from his own pocket. Hence, every centavo that Ms. Uson and, even by Mr. Nieto, is drawn from the public coffers. It comes from my taxes.  It comes from every Filipino's hard earned taxes. I don't allow government to spend my money paying such dimwits in government, no!

As a public servant, meaning an employed person under the bureaucracy of government, you are governed by the rules on conduct and demeanor as established by Congress thru the Civil Service Commission (CSC). Generally speaking, you don't curse other employees of government. You don't besmirch the reputation of another government official. In private firms, this is what you call having a divisive, unpardonable and un-teamster-like behavior subject to dismissal.

You may say--I am entitled to my own opinions. Yes, you are. What the rules say is that you are not being deprived of this right--you are being asked to exercise self-regulation or self-restraint. That is how a decent and moral person would do. 

Okey, granting for the sake of argument, that this right is absolute. The second point seemed too basic for Ms. Uson's taste, I guess. 

As a senior Communications official, it seemed that it did not occur in Ms. Uson's mind that she represents government and whatever comes out of her filthy mouth is now cloaked with public interest. 

She is different, because whatever she says, can be interpreted as official statements. 

Imagine, elementary and high school students quoting Ms. Uson and including her statements in their term papers? What if Ms. Uson's views are so outrageously different from official statements or opinions of government,what now? Will the PCOO issue disclaimers and corrections, everytime Ms. Uson communicates her mind? Will that serve the interests of communication and of the people? 

Okey, again, granting for the sake of argument that I am wrong and she is right. My third point is hard to dismiss.

There is this principle of "regularity" in the actions of public officials. Meaning, one is presumed to act or had acted with due diligence and in a lawful and rational manner. 

Ms. Uson is the Assistant Secretary for Social Media. Whether or not she says she does not use the resources of government in her blogging, Ms. Uson is presumed to be using the government in her daily blogging activities. 

If there are pieces of evidence that proves that Ms. Uson uses or have used the internet facilities of government or had ordered or issued an official order which affects the online activities of perceived "enemies of the state" which, according to the Civilian National Guard, includes "yellowtards", there is a strong possibility that Ms. Uson acted in contravention of her sworn duty as a public servant. 

When Ms. Uson spends money in promoting her insidious views or opinion in her blog, there is a presumption that she is using or had used government monies as well. Why? Simply because her designation is "assistant secretary of communications". The minute Ms. Uson types anything online, she is presumed to be acting in her capacity as a government official.

Neither the courts nor the CSC would accept the alibi of Ms. Uson that she spends her own monies doing her online activities because being online or administering government's social media activities is specifically her only function. It is her job to be online and to direct government activities online. 

And when we say "government" here, it does not say it is Mr. Duterte's, Uson's god. Mr. Duterte is just an elected official. He does not own government. 

Hence, Ms. Uson is expected to do her job as a government official handling the communication of government to its stakeholders, meaning the people and the international community. She is supposed to convey messages and statements that the government thinks it wise to convey. 

When Ms. Uson uses government resources and facilities in hitting perceived enemies of the state, Ms. Uson is simply liable for the misuse of public resources. 

And oh, by the way, this also applies to RJ "Thinking Panot" Nieto. Mr. Nieto tries to parry serious attacks on him by invoking that he is free to do and say whatever he wants, because he is just a mere consultant of government getting 12,000 pesos. 

There is no employee-employer relationship, says the Thinking Panot. 

Well, read the rules on government consultants, Mr. Panot, err Mr. Pun-Nieto. 

That 12,000 pesos which you get monthly from the DFA as their strategic head for communications, is highly irregular and suspicious. Mr. Panot admitted that he works alone and does not have a staff despite being a "strategic head."

That simply means, Mr. Panot that you are receiving a monthly payola from government. And your fancy title is simply a cover for that. 

Let me also remind my former student council member Mr. Foreign Secretary Allan Peter Cayetano that the act of a consultant reflects the mind of his principal. 

Are you then allowing your consultant Mr. Thinking Panot to act as your surrogate assassin? I don't think so. Yet, Mr. Cayetano, the very act of your thinking Panot seemed so.

Lemme ask decent government employees of the DFA and the OWWA--- does Mr. Nieto here represent your views and opinions online? Do you share Mr. Nieto's disrespectful demeanor and obvious disdain of fellow government colleagues like those Senators whom Mr. Nieto disrespected during the probe? 

I've been a DFA employee and those men and women at the DFA and at the OWWA are the most respected people in all of this Republic. Then, why allow such an imperious person like Mr. Nieto serve as your consultant for social media? 

This is what I am saying here---these despicable acts of these two laughable characters, Ms. Uson and Mr. Nieto, are affecting the image and reputation of this administration.

They are dead weights and future events would show that they are serving not Mr. Duterte's interests but of those who want him thrown in jail. By showing how imperious and how arrogant they are, Mr. Nieto and Ms. Uson are destroying Mr. Duterte.