A friend--a learned law school professor--taught me once, when I was still one of her students that Marcos institutionalized graft and corruption within the framework of the Philippine government. That may be true, but while the late strongman Marcos these days is as stiff as my dick on a Sunday morning--lying there chilled in his goddam glass sarcophagus in forgottenland--the cumulative ill-effects on Philippine governmental culture still haunts us Filipinos to this very day. The government has mutated from being the organization where the will of the people are formulated, expressed and realized to just The Organization whose workings are very similar to that of the Russian mob.
Here's a little background on the Ruskie mob: The breakthrough for the so-called Russian Mafia occurred during the economic disaster and mass emigration of the 1990s that followed the fall of the Soviet Union. Many former government officials turned to crime, others joined the large numbers of Soviet citizens who moved overseas primarily to the United States and the Mafia became a natural extension of this trend. Former KGB agents, sportsmen and veterans of the Afghan and Chechen Wars, now finding themselves out-of-work but with experience in areas which could prove useful in crime, joined the increasing crime wave. The Russian Mob's own members have been known to call their crime group "Организация" ("The Organization").
However, unlike the Russian mob, notorious for its underground operations and clean transactions, the crime organizations operating under the cloak of Philippine government is not known for its secrecy and non-flamboyant manner. These assholes have no shame whatsoever. Under the guise of a republican government, these motherfuckers are characteristically sloppy and have no sense of honor in any sense of the word. Endless barrages of mudslinging and all sorts of dirty tactics have exposed almost each and every one politician as a corrupt crook. I am sure you have all seen the imp and her evil houseband's picture at ZTE's. The Palace admitted that the picture was legit but tried to dismiss the controversial issue as "a mere social call with ZTE officials" and that it "should not be blown out of proportion." A social call my ass. Further, it is my good looks that should not be blown out of proportion, not the ZTE scandal. (BTW, some movie and TV guy in the past told me to call him if I ever wanted to be an artista when I was a teen-ager, but my father said he would disown me and strip me off my heritage if I jumped in the swine-pit world of show-business. So here I am, a lawyer for the public and the default consigliere for the family.) In the Senate, the government pawns who testified under the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee denied all allegations that their boss ever had a meeting with ZTE bigwigs. Now which is which? I understand that the evidence against the duende are circusmstantial, but the rules of evidence provide under Section 4 of Rule 133, that--
Circumstantial evidence is sufficient for conviction if:
(a)There is more than one circumstance;
(b)The facts from which the inferences are derived are proven; and
(c)The combination of all the circumstances is such as to produce a conviction beyond reasonable doubt.
What more can we ask for? An open court admission? Let's get real. Even a street thief wouldn't do such a thing. At least not without some torture or threat of an ass-fucking. Maybe that's what GMA needs, a threat of an ass-fucking by the multitudes of people she had screwed.
Just a few months ago, I was listening to my morning shows on the car's AM radio and I heard one funny-ass comment from Erap. He said something to this effect: "The GMA administration is like a book with a very thick cover. They are very good at making cover-ups." Erap sure has his moments. I almost rammed the goddam jeepney in front of me as I was laughing my dick off after hearing that ridiculous interview. Funny shit, but that goes deep man. Fuckin' Deep. Some friends of mine, not me, but some friends I have believe that president evil and her organization of filthy ass amateur crooks are responsible for the Glorietta bombing, the sky-rocketing oil price hikes, the rice crisis, and even our huge-ass electric bills. They insist that all of these problems we are facing are the brainchild of the government aimed at covering up the multi-million dollar scams they pull on us every single fuckin' time the opportunity arises. I do not agree. They are not that smart. Certainly, they are not part of the solution and part of the goddam general problem but I think it is hasty and erroneous to conclude that they are the proximate cause of these problems. If I believe that they are, I'd probably holding an automatic Kalashnikov (IMO the new tommy gun) right now and not my fountain pen.
Corruption is defined (in Wikipedia) as a general concept describing any organized, interdependent system in which part of the system is either not performing duties it was originally intended to, or performing them in an improper way, to the detriment of the system's original purpose. Its original meaning has connotations of evil, malignance, sickness, and loss of innocence or purity. The corruption in the Philippines is so deeply rooted, that if you trace back its origin, you'd end up in Spain. And, if you go back further, you'll find its origins in China. I do not want to talk about that aspect of this topic because I know, that even if I do not look it, I might have some Spanish or Chinese blood flowing through my veins, like most Flips.
Corruption is a dysfunction which encompasses bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, and embezzlement. Rizal said it is a disease similar to cancer with no known cure. Some cancers have vaccines now and some are made currently curable by the advances made by modern medicine. Perhaps the martyr's description has become inaccurate for our times. Perhaps corruption is like a zombie bite. Once you get bitten, you transform into an undead zombie like zombie movie-nuts see in those cheap-ass zombie movies. If that's the case, the only way to cure the corrupted is to blow its head off with a shotgun or cut the damn thing with a bad-ass motorized chain-saw. The only problem is that in those zombie movies, everybody else but the hero and the girl dies. Only they see the sunlight after the overnight onslaught. Now who's the gonna be the hero and the girl? Not me. I'm just a family man who has friends who have some more friends. I cannot afford to play hero and try to chop zombie heads. I just hope the family and these zombies can do business. If not, let's just say that someday maybe I'll make them an offer even they cannot refuse.
What more can we ask for? An open court admission? Let's get real. Even a street thief wouldn't do such a thing. At least not without some torture or threat of an ass-fucking. Maybe that's what GMA needs, a threat of an ass-fucking by the multitudes of people she had screwed.
Just a few months ago, I was listening to my morning shows on the car's AM radio and I heard one funny-ass comment from Erap. He said something to this effect: "The GMA administration is like a book with a very thick cover. They are very good at making cover-ups." Erap sure has his moments. I almost rammed the goddam jeepney in front of me as I was laughing my dick off after hearing that ridiculous interview. Funny shit, but that goes deep man. Fuckin' Deep. Some friends of mine, not me, but some friends I have believe that president evil and her organization of filthy ass amateur crooks are responsible for the Glorietta bombing, the sky-rocketing oil price hikes, the rice crisis, and even our huge-ass electric bills. They insist that all of these problems we are facing are the brainchild of the government aimed at covering up the multi-million dollar scams they pull on us every single fuckin' time the opportunity arises. I do not agree. They are not that smart. Certainly, they are not part of the solution and part of the goddam general problem but I think it is hasty and erroneous to conclude that they are the proximate cause of these problems. If I believe that they are, I'd probably holding an automatic Kalashnikov (IMO the new tommy gun) right now and not my fountain pen.
Corruption is defined (in Wikipedia) as a general concept describing any organized, interdependent system in which part of the system is either not performing duties it was originally intended to, or performing them in an improper way, to the detriment of the system's original purpose. Its original meaning has connotations of evil, malignance, sickness, and loss of innocence or purity. The corruption in the Philippines is so deeply rooted, that if you trace back its origin, you'd end up in Spain. And, if you go back further, you'll find its origins in China. I do not want to talk about that aspect of this topic because I know, that even if I do not look it, I might have some Spanish or Chinese blood flowing through my veins, like most Flips.
Corruption is a dysfunction which encompasses bribery, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, patronage, graft, and embezzlement. Rizal said it is a disease similar to cancer with no known cure. Some cancers have vaccines now and some are made currently curable by the advances made by modern medicine. Perhaps the martyr's description has become inaccurate for our times. Perhaps corruption is like a zombie bite. Once you get bitten, you transform into an undead zombie like zombie movie-nuts see in those cheap-ass zombie movies. If that's the case, the only way to cure the corrupted is to blow its head off with a shotgun or cut the damn thing with a bad-ass motorized chain-saw. The only problem is that in those zombie movies, everybody else but the hero and the girl dies. Only they see the sunlight after the overnight onslaught. Now who's the gonna be the hero and the girl? Not me. I'm just a family man who has friends who have some more friends. I cannot afford to play hero and try to chop zombie heads. I just hope the family and these zombies can do business. If not, let's just say that someday maybe I'll make them an offer even they cannot refuse.
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