GREED RULE OVER A HUNGRY NATION

Naked Philippine Politics

THE ROOTS

In the Filipino way of life, politics plays such an important role as

to it influences every little aspect of our lives, may it be economic,
social, physical or cultural.

Basically, aside from the smallest and yet first most influential
social institution, the family, it is the POLITICAL SCENE that
influences an individual’s existence and exhibits how he responds to
SOCIAL CHANGES and dilemmas. Politics is the main factor for the rise
and fall of a nation’s economy, the nation itself and the people in it.

Government is the organization through which the state

expresses and enforces its will. Ideally, the government exists for the
benefit of the governed—that is we, its citizens. It is and should be the
nation’s servant, and not the other way around.

Noli Me Tangere & El Filibusterismo, the immortalizations of a

true Hispano-Filipino political scene for more than three centuries,
exposed us to the adversities the foreign government already has;
problems that placed the Filipinos in great agony. Same problems that
up to this time are making the Filipino Nation starve and suffer.

“When we cease to be rich we shall no longer be able to control

consciences”

-The Head of the Dominican Order speaking to Fray Sibyla, Chapter 9,

Noli Me Tangere

 Acceptance of Bribery
Even before
 Over-taxing
 Corruption
 “Palakasan” at “Balimbing”

"These people do not complain because it has no voice, it does not

move because it is lethargic, and you say that it does not suffer
because you haven't seen how their hearts bleed.”

-Pilosopong Tasio speaking to Ibarra, Chapter 25, Noli Me Tangere

 Power Abuse
 Injustice and Discrimination
 “A gobierno inmoral corresponde un pueblo desmoralizado; a
administracion sin concencia, ciudadanos rapaces y serviles en el
poblado, bandidos y ladrones en las montañas. Tal amo, tal esclavo.
Tal gobierno, tal pais!”

To an immoral government belongs a demoralized people; to an

administration without conscience, servile and rapacious citizens in the
cities, thieves and bandits in the countryside; like master, like slave;
like government, like country.)

 Rebellion

Simoun (dying): "Then what can be done"?

Father Florentino: "To suffer and to work!"

Last chapter, El Filibusterismo

 Aristocracy
 Dictatorial Law

Until now, what was written in Rizal’s novels is still making the
Philippines suffer. A mirror of the past and of the written, the current
Philippine Political Scene shows the same effects of a rotten system of
people and government.

Today, we may have a different breed of politicians, we may have

some courageous young Filipinos leading us, but courage isn’t enough
for us to break-off the leashes strengthened by corruption, abuse and
discrimination.

Courage will never be enough for the Philippines to be free.

Yes, we aren’t free yet.
Yes, we are still slaves of the past, the present, and if we would
allow it, of the future.
What kind of political system will our children grow-up with?
This?

Pests are best solved from the roots. Trace the roots, solve the
problems, free the Philippines.
Don’t you let your off springs grow seeing the madness of greed
for money and power through exposure to such a government system?
Act now. Make a change.
And please, one Obama is enough. We don’t need an Obama in
the Philippines.
 What we need is the courage to change, and the courage to kill
that old, rotten political system.

But I don’t know how WE can do it. Maybe let’s try asking Ibarra
or Simon. Maybe they know the answers.

"Without 1872, there would not now be any Plaridel, or

Jaena, or Sancianco, nor would the valiant and generous
Filipino colonies in Europe exist; without 1872, Rizal would
now be a Jesuit, and instead of writing the Noli Me Tangere,
would have written the contrary. At the sight of those
injustices and cruelties, though still a child, my imagination
awoke, and I swore I would dedicate myself to avenge one
day so many victims, and with this idea I have gone on
studying, and this can be read in all my works and writings.
God will one day grant me the opportunity to fulfill my
promise."
~Dr. Jose Rizal