A repository of social and political commentaries, literary attempts in Ilokano and English. This includes notes on daily occurrences and quotations and sayings. "Abel" is the IIokano term for tapestry or woven cloth. The term tried to capture the contents of the blog.
Sunday, December 16, 2012
"Bongbong" Marcos for President (Updated)
EYES WIDE OPEN
"BONGBONG' MARCOS FOR PRESIDENT?
Philippine Catholics and Iglesia ni Cristo installed Joseph Estrada, the womanizer, as president of this country and almost elected him again to power after he was convicted of plunder by the Sandiganbayan in September 2007.
Erap has two sons--detained Jinggoy who wants to become vice-president, and JV Ejercito, his bastard with Guia Gomez, current senator.
If these sons fathered by Erap who stole from us the amount of P198.7-million by investing in stocks with Belle Corporation, using our GSIS and SSS pension funds have high political ambitions, can we deny Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos, Jr. who wants to become president like his father?
Incidentally, did Erap share the P3.23-billion and other kickbacks--remember, too, the P130-million tobacco excise tax of Ilocos Sur-- with his sons so they can engage in money politics and nurse ambitions? (Hey, this character is awashed with money while the dirt poor in Metro Manila eat only once a day, their children getting sick and dying of stale bread and other throwaway garbage food.)
What's the blogger's beef on the young Marcos? He talks to Ilokanos in Tagalog like his sister Imee, governor of the province, and his mother Imelda. When you are in Kailokuan, you have to respect the culture and language is part of culture. Never mind. Never mind if his father was the dictator who also stole from the Filipino people. Never mind if his mother Imelda, a Visayan, dislodged the Ilokano lawyer Mariano Nalupta, Jr. from power in the second congressional district of Ilocos Norte.
At least, Ferdinand Edralin Marcos, was not convicted by any court of law, had a vision for his country and built MRT and other infrastructures, roads and bridges, from Aparri to Jolo. One can not say that of perceived robber baroness Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Fidel Ramos, Estrada, even Cory Aquino and his son , who were not supposed to make it hard for the Filipino people after the fall of the Ilokano president.
The dictator's son could not be the devil that the blogger would be endorsing when the time comes.
The country does not deserve more Estradas with questionable ethical-moral and intellectual orientation. If conscience is the arbiter, their father should return the money he stole from the people. Remember the dissipated Velarde account? (Okey, haha, let's be fair. Ferdinand and his heirs should also return the oodles of money--allegedly at least $10-billion with $4-billion recovered by the government -- kept in Swiss banks and other banks worldwide.)
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