With all the news about Pork Barrel scam hitting every newstand and every filipino channel for he past few weeks, we cannot help but wonder if this is another case of issue in the philippines where everybody talks about it for a month and eventually forget after nother kris aquino news or claudine raymart issue or probably a sex video scandal. I hope not. As Senator Miriam Santiago has explained it, it is an "organized system of graft and corruption" . I couldnt agree with her more. but we should not just focus on the issue, we should solve the very disease/virus rotting our society. We should sop focusing on the "symptoms" and start dealing with the disease. The very problem with our society is we all know these are happening, but chose to accept it, be forgiving and live with it. True, theres nothing wrong with forgiveness. But not in building a nation - or in our case rebuilding the nation. We should stop compromising all our laws to fit in every injustices and malicious practices in our country, even in our lives. I remember Pastor Peter Tanchi talk about how God has called us to be come to the full knowledge of His word, to speak forth Christ and be testimony. But if we compromise, bend God's word to be politically correct in the world, we will not give justice to God's calling. It is the very problem in our society today. The strength that we all call in filipino culture - the ability to adjust and be flexible, is the very reason why our country has not progressed over these decades. We bend every rules, laws to fit our preferences and to give way to pakiusap, favors and personal interests. If we choose to excuse one from the law/ rule to serve his/her preferences,we loose the very reason why rules and laws are established.
This morning, i was lookingfor drivers' handbook in the philippines. After checking lto website, i found nothing. Nada! With all the accidents and traffic violations that happens everyday, we can probably minimize 50% of that by giving each driver a handbook. But he very problem in driving in the philippines is there are no rules. Everything is about 'diskarte' or the ability to survive in the road. Seriously?!