CBCP condemns Arroyo for corruption

The Catholic Bishop's Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) just released a strongly worded condemnation of the Arroyo regime. CBCP head Archbishop Angel Lagdameo condemned the Arroyo regime for doing nothing to fight corruption. Lagdameo urged the people to act now and change the government.

This, by far, according to Ricky Carandang, is the strongest denunciation ever by the CBCP against Arroyo. Do we see a snowball of dissent against this regime, with Bolante's arrival as the starting point? Hopefully, yes. 

The rise of the New Patriots have begun. 

On second thought...maybe the CBCP is just muscle flexing so that Arroyo strictly followed what she promised---a veto against the Reproductive Health Bill? 

Is this another stunt to show Arroyo that CBCP has the numbers and the power of mischief to force Gloria to choose the CBCP over globalist reproductive health bill lobbyists?

Worsening RP Government corruption

Is this the government we want?

Arroyo gov't fails US aid firm's 'control of corruption' test
abs-cbnNEWS.com as of 10/19/2008 4:11 AM

The Arroyo government stands to lose future US government assistance due to its worsening corruption record, Senator Mar Roxas warned Saturday.

According to a report recently released by the Washington-based think-tank, Center for Global Development, the Philippines, for the first time in three years, failed this year the "control of corruption" indicator set by the US-funded Millennium Challenge Corp.

Most of us disagree with ousting this government prior to 2010, but if we continue having a government like this, how would we be able to say that we can weather the global financial storm, having a government such as this, controlling our affairs?

Corruption is just one of the worsening problems. More disturbing is the obvious fact that government has this propensity to bend the law, as a capricious way of getting what they want. With the palace having control over literally all levers of power, how would we possibly fight this scourge that's costing us billions of pesos? 

Do we still need a foreign think-tank group to show us how corrupt our government is right now?