Dear Ladies and Brothers in Dr Jose Rizal,
Thanks very much to Sir Jürgen Sprenger for obliging me with these (subject) information. Lucky him for getting invited! (ha!)
Not having been to Paris (not once, in my 25 yrs in GE!) would have been indeed a good reason to go! But allow me to explain...
In high school, I remember the word Paris as a whole chapter titled, "In Gay Paris". Other famous EU cities carried the title: "The Grandeur that was Rome", "The Glory that was Greece", "In Sunny Spain", etc. I can't remember how Bonn, Brussels, The Hague nor Lisbon, Dublin and London were depicted in the same book. Europe is big.
The invitation looks nice, well-prepared! but empty! (no offense upon anyone attending on their own free volition!, we're all Free women and men, Ladies and Sirs! -- FREE to act what we deem right, correct, responsible!) owing to the absence of a European Commander who, in my opinion, could stand the test of Time, Character, Integrity, Leadership!
It is both sad and bad, that Europe starts to mirror Manila IHQ, somehow, in terms of the latter's INDECISION to do right once and for all, APATHY towards valid complaints, NEGLECT of what RIZALISM really stands for, SELF-PROMOTION of narrow-minded goals/self-serving interests by individuals who unabashedly call themselves leaders (???), DISPLAY of worthless/undeserved titles, ranks and medals!!! Fun! Fun! Fun! no end without substance! What for? In the name of Dr Jose Rizal? The question boils down to the basic: Where's the beef??
Once more, the undersigned is reminded of William Tell being told to bow before a wooden post holding the cap of the Swiss tyrant, Gessler!
And once more, the picture of ostentatious wealth surrounded by abject poverty in Metro Manila, well-maintained lawns in Forbes Park and polluted Pasig as well as tributaries in the capital, magnificent trees at Arroceros Park and hundreds if not thousands of discarded batteries along distant sea shores on many of our 7,100 islands, corruption/corrupt practices in government as well as in the IHQ/KOR we know -- exemplefied by no other than the exhaltation/promotion of Paras in Europe by his "Padrino(s)" Quiambao & Co back home!
Just this month, we commemorated the 146th birth anniversary of a good man, Dr Jose Rizal. And next month we are to gather in Paris for "friendship, camaraderie, FUN! FUN! FUN!" while ignoring the very reason for why the Knights of Rizal was established and founded long, long time ago! deflecting complaints with the raising of wine/beer glasses, toasting the abuse (exhalting/promoting an accused plagiarist by an incompetent IHQ is ABUSE, mind you!) to high heavens!
To go to Paris, to name Paris the venue, to even just organize the said event, is already a Shame! Why? Because the event carries the name of a good person, the national hero! Yet, those who go, organize said event seem not to mind this glaring fact! When will the abuse of the good name of Dr Jose Rizal come to an end? No amount of excuse can wipe this Shame! Thanks and No Thanks! to this 27-29 July 2007 event planners/organizers/supporters/visitors!
It's like toasting San Miguel beer for its excellent taste/quality! in a tall glass, while throwing the same liquid into the sink, or worse, into the toilet bowl!
I don't believe Sir Hilario will attend. Even if his post were located at the UN-Geneva, Switzerland, HQs, I don't think he would attend. Having been "by-passed/sidetracked/half-informed" by ommission or commission, intentionally or unintentionally on this Paras imbroglio, would any "man of honor" like Sir Hilario still stand straight in such a gathering where we honor the national hero's name for unswerving character, good morals and integrity? If Dr Jose Rizal were alive, I think he would also excuse himself and speak frankly! I see the same thing of Sir Hilario. I wish his good name and that of the national hero were not dragged into this SHAMEFUL event!
(Sir Peter Ristig, could you please confirm if Sir Hilario will go to Paris in next month's event? Being from Cebu, you sure have better information sources than us here. Thanks kind Sir!)
Doing the opposite of what Dr Jose Rizal lived and died for is no honor. I speak for myself and I dare say that my attendance next month in Paris is tantamount to bowing to a corrupt IHQ practice and recognition of an accused plagiarist as its appointed european caretaker. Hence I chose to stay away and rather watch God's wonderful creations, the funny gorillas at the Heidelberg Zoo. A Paris trip is just like having a good aromatic banana! It's not the cost (Parisian 5* hotel, meals, airfare and zoo!), but observant persons can always learn something from those gorillas!
I reckon, if Paras were still holding the same post Quiambao & Co gave him, till 2010, he might just always travel between Brussels and Paris! (For Christmas, perhaps someone gifts him a GPS!)
Last year, he had a meeting held in Paris, then Brussels this year, 24 Mar 07! Europe is quite BIG to just move south, then north! Don't you think dear Ladies? Or his vision for Europe is up and down, Brussels and Paris, then back? ...not afraid of his own shadow, I hope! The only creation afraid of his shadow I know was Alexander the Great's horse! (with kind apologies to Alexander's horse!)
For a Democratic Order
For Pride in the Order
For the Good of the Order
Yours sincerely,
:)
Lazir
Rizal P. Victoria
Wilhelmsfeld-Heidelberg Chapter
"The arrogant one is he who wants to be worshipped, who misleads others, and who wants his will to prevail over reason and justice." - Dr Jose P. Rizal - Message to the women of Malolos, February 1889
"My ambition is not to win honors or hold positions, but to see what is just, exact and suitable, is done in political matters." - Dr Jose P. Rizal
"No one will be corrupt if we don't let them." - Tony Meloto in his speech before Davao University graduates, 2007
"...Dare to cross boundaries in your minds and hearts! In your strength and courage! In the space inside and around you! Dare to be different! Dare what you never dared before! The highest thing that obliges you is your conscience. Act whatever good forces dictate! Then you are closer to Rizal's ideals than any policy or philosophy could ever be. What he can teach you, you will not understand without Kant's lessons..." - An excerpt of the speech Christoph S. Eberle delivered on Rizal Day in Hamburg, Dec. 2006.
"Be the Change you want to see in the World!" - Mahatma Gandhi
P.S. - Even if I see no European Commander who leads us honorably, I still wish those attending a memorable Paris trip, tour and stay! I don't think I'll miss a thing if I decide to simply spend Quality Time with my kids going to the zoo. Your Paris trip and my zoo visit can be a good time to contemplate over Corruption and Corrupt practices that prevail in the KOR, especially in the IHQ. We need less of them and more GOOD ideas for country and people!
Bon Voyage!
Au Revoir...!
-same-
(The grapevine spotted on 19 Jun 07 Sir Klaus Hartung gracing an event in Stuttgart, "using" the title "European Commander"!? Do we now have two caretakers for Europe? I'm just asking please, wanting clarification. A lowly freeman like me cannot be in all places with just one body!)
Thanks very much to Sir Jürgen Sprenger for obliging me with these (subject) information. Lucky him for getting invited! (ha!)
Not having been to Paris (not once, in my 25 yrs in GE!) would have been indeed a good reason to go! But allow me to explain...
In high school, I remember the word Paris as a whole chapter titled, "In Gay Paris". Other famous EU cities carried the title: "The Grandeur that was Rome", "The Glory that was Greece", "In Sunny Spain", etc. I can't remember how Bonn, Brussels, The Hague nor Lisbon, Dublin and London were depicted in the same book. Europe is big.
The invitation looks nice, well-prepared! but empty! (no offense upon anyone attending on their own free volition!, we're all Free women and men, Ladies and Sirs! -- FREE to act what we deem right, correct, responsible!) owing to the absence of a European Commander who, in my opinion, could stand the test of Time, Character, Integrity, Leadership!
It is both sad and bad, that Europe starts to mirror Manila IHQ, somehow, in terms of the latter's INDECISION to do right once and for all, APATHY towards valid complaints, NEGLECT of what RIZALISM really stands for, SELF-PROMOTION of narrow-minded goals/self-serving interests by individuals who unabashedly call themselves leaders (???), DISPLAY of worthless/undeserved titles, ranks and medals!!! Fun! Fun! Fun! no end without substance! What for? In the name of Dr Jose Rizal? The question boils down to the basic: Where's the beef??
Once more, the undersigned is reminded of William Tell being told to bow before a wooden post holding the cap of the Swiss tyrant, Gessler!
And once more, the picture of ostentatious wealth surrounded by abject poverty in Metro Manila, well-maintained lawns in Forbes Park and polluted Pasig as well as tributaries in the capital, magnificent trees at Arroceros Park and hundreds if not thousands of discarded batteries along distant sea shores on many of our 7,100 islands, corruption/corrupt practices in government as well as in the IHQ/KOR we know -- exemplefied by no other than the exhaltation/promotion of Paras in Europe by his "Padrino(s)" Quiambao & Co back home!
Just this month, we commemorated the 146th birth anniversary of a good man, Dr Jose Rizal. And next month we are to gather in Paris for "friendship, camaraderie, FUN! FUN! FUN!" while ignoring the very reason for why the Knights of Rizal was established and founded long, long time ago! deflecting complaints with the raising of wine/beer glasses, toasting the abuse (exhalting/promoting an accused plagiarist by an incompetent IHQ is ABUSE, mind you!) to high heavens!
To go to Paris, to name Paris the venue, to even just organize the said event, is already a Shame! Why? Because the event carries the name of a good person, the national hero! Yet, those who go, organize said event seem not to mind this glaring fact! When will the abuse of the good name of Dr Jose Rizal come to an end? No amount of excuse can wipe this Shame! Thanks and No Thanks! to this 27-29 July 2007 event planners/organizers/supporters
It's like toasting San Miguel beer for its excellent taste/quality! in a tall glass, while throwing the same liquid into the sink, or worse, into the toilet bowl!
I don't believe Sir Hilario will attend. Even if his post were located at the UN-Geneva, Switzerland, HQs, I don't think he would attend. Having been "by-passed/sidetracked/half
(Sir Peter Ristig, could you please confirm if Sir Hilario will go to Paris in next month's event? Being from Cebu, you sure have better information sources than us here. Thanks kind Sir!)
Doing the opposite of what Dr Jose Rizal lived and died for is no honor. I speak for myself and I dare say that my attendance next month in Paris is tantamount to bowing to a corrupt IHQ practice and recognition of an accused plagiarist as its appointed european caretaker. Hence I chose to stay away and rather watch God's wonderful creations, the funny gorillas at the Heidelberg Zoo. A Paris trip is just like having a good aromatic banana! It's not the cost (Parisian 5* hotel, meals, airfare and zoo!), but observant persons can always learn something from those gorillas!
I reckon, if Paras were still holding the same post Quiambao & Co gave him, till 2010, he might just always travel between Brussels and Paris! (For Christmas, perhaps someone gifts him a GPS!)
Last year, he had a meeting held in Paris, then Brussels this year, 24 Mar 07! Europe is quite BIG to just move south, then north! Don't you think dear Ladies? Or his vision for Europe is up and down, Brussels and Paris, then back? ...not afraid of his own shadow, I hope! The only creation afraid of his shadow I know was Alexander the Great's horse! (with kind apologies to Alexander's horse!)
For a Democratic Order
For Pride in the Order
For the Good of the Order
Yours sincerely,
:)
Lazir
Rizal P. Victoria
Wilhelmsfeld-Heidelberg Chapter
"The arrogant one is he who wants to be worshipped, who misleads others, and who wants his will to prevail over reason and justice." - Dr Jose P. Rizal - Message to the women of Malolos, February 1889
"My ambition is not to win honors or hold positions, but to see what is just, exact and suitable, is done in political matters." - Dr Jose P. Rizal
"No one will be corrupt if we don't let them." - Tony Meloto in his speech before Davao University graduates, 2007
"...Dare to cross boundaries in your minds and hearts! In your strength and courage! In the space inside and around you! Dare to be different! Dare what you never dared before! The highest thing that obliges you is your conscience. Act whatever good forces dictate! Then you are closer to Rizal's ideals than any policy or philosophy could ever be. What he can teach you, you will not understand without Kant's lessons..." - An excerpt of the speech Christoph S. Eberle delivered on Rizal Day in Hamburg, Dec. 2006.
"Be the Change you want to see in the World!" - Mahatma Gandhi
P.S. - Even if I see no European Commander who leads us honorably, I still wish those attending a memorable Paris trip, tour and stay! I don't think I'll miss a thing if I decide to simply spend Quality Time with my kids going to the zoo. Your Paris trip and my zoo visit can be a good time to contemplate over Corruption and Corrupt practices that prevail in the KOR, especially in the IHQ. We need less of them and more GOOD ideas for country and people!
Bon Voyage!
Au Revoir...!
-same-
(The grapevine spotted on 19 Jun 07 Sir Klaus Hartung gracing an event in Stuttgart, "using" the title "European Commander"!? Do we now have two caretakers for Europe? I'm just asking please, wanting clarification. A lowly freeman like me cannot be in all places with just one body!)
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