I reserve judgement on Sec Reyes because I have no personal knowledge of the facts – and therefore presume him to be innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Trial by a court of public opinion does not do us any good because public opinion can be easily swayed. What distinguishes a civilized society is not only its ability to craft good laws but to observe and enforce them as well.
Reyes apparent suicide will be viewed from different filters, lenses, points of view. -It can be an act of a sinner, saint, patriot, corrupt, a coward – and to another former AFP chief – a “savior and protector”
MANILA, Philippines – Former Armed Forces chief Angelo Reyes “protected us all” when he died Tuesday, another ex-military chief said in an interview at Reyes’ wake in a funeral home in Quezon City.
“He protected all of us, even the institution, for the Filipino people, for us to move on,” General Dionisio Santiago, former Armed Forces chief when Reyes was defense secretary, said in Filipino in an interview with media in Arlington.
Santiago said he never thought that Reyes would do it, referring to the apparent suicide of the military officer early Tuesday when he shot himself in the chest at the grave of his mother in Marikina City.
Santiago said he appreciated Reyes more because what he did was “an act of courage to save the PMA [Philippine Military Academy] and the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines].”
Both institutions have been under fire following the expose of a multimillion-peso fund scam in the military by former budget officer, Lieutenant Colonel George Rabusa, who implicated Reyes, the Armed Forces chief at that time. Reyes was also a PMA graduate.
“It is a difficult act to do, very few people will do that,” said Santiago.
Santiago said what Reyes did was the “best solution so that the AFP will be out of the issue.”
Santiago was referring to an interview with retired commodore Rex Robles who, in his last talk with Reyes, quoted him as saying that he has found a solution where “everyone will be at peace.”
Philippine Generals as Ancient Samurais?
The parallelism of Reyes’ act with the seppuku of the Japanese can be easily made by Philippine media, but does it apply to this case?
Part of the samurai bushido honor code, seppuku was used voluntarily by samurai to die with honour rather than fall into the hands of their enemies (and likely suffer torture), as a form of capital punishment for samurai who had committed serious offenses, or performed for other reasons that had brought shame to them.
In practice the most common form of seppuku was obligatory seppuku, used as a form of capital punishment for disgraced samurai, especially for those who committed a serious offense such as unprovoked murder, robbery, corruption, or treason. The samurai were generally told of their offense in full and given a set time to commit seppuku, usually before sunset on a given day. If the sentenced was uncooperative, it was not unheard of for them to be restrained, or for the actual execution to be carried out by decapitation while retaining only the trappings of seppuku; even the short sword laid out in front of the victim could be replaced with a fan. Unlike voluntary seppuku, seppuku carried out as capital punishment did not necessarily absolve the victim’s family of the crime. Depending on the severity of the crime, half or all of the deceased’s property could be confiscated, and the family stripped of rank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku
When viewed from the Samurai lens – does this mean that Senate probes are “enemies”? If Reyes is but a samurai who is his daimyo? Who are the other “samurai’s” ? If the AFP leadership views Senate probes as “enemies” – the Philippines is in deeper shit than it dares to acknowledge – a no-brainer alert.
An act of courage to save the PMA [Philippine Military Academy] and the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines].
Save the PMA and AFP from who and what exactly? Will suicide open the floodgates that will destroy the traditions built on a perversion of loyalty? Loyalty to who exactly? Mon Tulfo didn’t mince words when he singled out the PMA Mafia within the AFP and PNP
MANILA, Philippines—Why should Angelo Reyes be singled out for amassing wealth while he was Armed Forces chief of staff?
Every AFP chief of staff—before and after Reyes—enriched himself while he was at the helm of the military.
The chiefs of the Philippine National Police (PNP) and its predecessor Philippine Constabulary are no exception.
To blame Reyes for enriching himself as AFP chief of staff is to blame corruption in the Armed Forces, past and present, on one man.
The AFP was corrupt long before Reyes became its chief of staff.
It continues to be a corrupt organization.
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The system in the military as well as the civil service breeds corruption.
Before they point an accusing finger at the corruption in the Armed Forces, why don’t the senators and congressmen look at themselves in the mirror?
The No. 1 source of corruption of legislators is the pork barrel.
Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.
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Haven’t you noticed that all military and police generals accused of corruption, past and present, all graduated from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA)?
It seems the PMA—whose motto is “courage, integrity, loyalty”—should exclude “integrity” in its motto since many of its graduates don’t have it.
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Only PMA graduates become AFP chief of staff or chief of the PNP.
Name me one graduate of the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) who has become AFP chief of staff or PNP chief since the time of President Cory Aquino.
The AFP chief of staff or the PNP chief chooses “PMAyers” as members of his immediate staff—including officers who hold the purse strings—to succeed him.
That’s because of the so-called “PMA Mafia” that operates within the AFP and the PNP.
The PMA is a brotherhood, and if you’re a non-PMAyer you’re out of the loop and don’t have a chance to reach the highest post.
As Madam Carmen Pedrosa joked – Yakuzas and Triads are scared of coming into the Philippines because it is already the gang turf of the AFP and PNP.
I dunno guys – the Philippine “Samurais” sound a lot more like Yakuza. But then, it will be amusing to see Congressmen, Senators, Mayors, Councilors, Governors, judges, military and police officers sporting missing fingers – they are way too Pinoy to slash their fingers. 
Reyes’ alleged suicide is the “best solution so that the AFP will be out of the issue.”?
Will it stop the systemic pressures that increase the probabilities of committing corruption? I beg to differ. There will be more Reyes and Rabusa to come because the policy environment is conducive to corruption.
Empirical evidence has shown that corruption is needed to maintain the corrupted policy environments. In the case of the Philippines – keeping a lid on the Filipino consumers demand for more choices and more jobs needs an entire array of social tools to keep such demands in check. What better way than thru the constitution. Politicians receiving substantial campaign contributions and largesse to keep the Filipino consumers’ choices restricted is no secret – it is a way of life.
In an article titled “Dancing with Anticorruption: Is Government Complicity in Corruption a Form of Economic Protectionism? (published in the East European Constitutional Review, Vol.7, No.3., Summer 1998, p.56,, Internet web-site:http://www.law.nyu.edu/eecr/) Ivan Krastev (director of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia, and a fellow at the Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Studies) points out that corruption itself, can be a form of protectionism.
Corruption as a hidden form of protectionism
Multinational companies—foreign investors in general—and international financial institutions are the driving forces in today’s global anticorruption campaign. Transparency International’s Corruption Index registers the evaluations of “cleanness” given to specific countries by the officers of multinational corporations. In the traditional perception of bribery, the “conversion” of multinational companies from sources of corruption into fighters against corruption is a dramatic change. To illustrate the extent to which foreign capital was once seen as a source of corruption, I have only to point out that in the Bulgarian language, all French, German, and English words for doing business—Geschäft, for example—have the connotation of performing a corrupt act.
In the 1960s and 70s, foreign investors considered corruption to be a useful vehicle for opening up and modernizing the economies of developing countries. Corruption was an instrument for breaking the official protectionist barriers that were tolerated and in some cases encouraged by the governments of developing countries.
In the new world of global finance and free trade, protectionism is an unaffordable luxury for most governments. In the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe, protectionism is simply unthinkable. Their need for market reforms and their dependence on foreign investment and on World Bank and IMF financing has forced the postcommunist states to open their economies and to adopt nonprotectionist legislation. But in this new openness, postcommunist industries have had to face the harsh reality that they are in fact uncompetitive.
A look at the Transparency International Corruption Index reveals that the least competitive countries are the most corrupt. The correlation could suggest that corruption is a major factor contributing to uncompetitiveness. But a different conclusion may be closer to the truth: corruption is a response to uncompetitiveness. Postcommunist governments are torn between their commitment to free trade and openness and their desire to create a favorable environment for noncompetitive local businesses.
Compared with the normal markets of goods and services, corrupted markets are characterized by the very high value to be placed on local knowledge. In order to corrupt public officials, one cannot rely simply on offering the biggest bribe in the biggest brown-paper bag. The market in corruption services is a clandestine, closed market. In order to be competitive in this market, one has to know whether to give a bribe, to whom to give the bribe, how to give the bribe, and when to give the bribe. Local businesses are much better positioned in the corruption market because they are plugged into existing networks and because they possess local knowledge. In other words, a corrupted business environment is much more favorable to local businesses than a transparent market. This “patriotic” side of corruption is one of the major reasons for the much lamented ineffectiveness of anticorruption campaigns and the (tacit) unwillingness of postcommunist governments to crack down seriously on corrupt practices.
The protectionist nature of present-day corruption complicates the attitude of postcommunist governments toward their own official anticorruption policies. For instance, we can expect the Bulgarian government to focus its efforts on fighting the illegal import of foreign goods into the Bulgarian market rather than on fighting the illegal export of untaxed Bulgarian goods. This symbiosis between corruption and protectionism is crucial in understanding the ambiguous, half-hearted, and selective policies of the postcommunist governments.
One of the major assumptions of the present campaign against corruption is that anticorruption rhetoric and anticorruption “sensitivity” are part of the reform effort. But a review of the history of anticorruption rhetoric demonstrates that such an assumption is misleading. In Bulgaria, at the turn of the century, anticorruption rhetoric was associated with virulent hostility toward modernity and modernization. Corruption was conceptualized as the essence of modernization, as the all-corrosive force bent on destroying traditional morality and traditional community.
In the 1920s and 30s, Bulgaria witnessed a heated anticorruption debate provoked by the rise in the incidents of bribery and by growth in the black market. In its essence, this debate was a part of the deep anticapitalist sentiments that had captured people’s imagination in the prewar period. In the communist period, the accusations of corruption were successfully used to attack communist reformers. In the late 1980s, anticorruption rhetoric was heavily used by communist hard-liners to attack Gorbachev’s perestroika. This brief backward glance at the anticorruption rhetoric of this century in Bulgaria serves to remind us that the new war on corruption declared by the IMF and World Bank can be counterproductive if it does not take into account the cultural and political hinterland within which this war takes place.
The success of anticorruption rhetoric is endangered, in the context of postcommunist politics, because the majority of the public sees corruption as a direct result of market reforms. Public-opinion polls testify that, for the losers in the transition, privatization of state assets is the quintessential example of corruption. The success of politicians, like Alexander Lukashenka in Belarus and Alexander Lebed in Russia, illustrates that the anticorruption platform can be misused by antireform populists. In an ideological environment where there are no plausible alternatives to democracy and a free market, anticorruption rhetoric can, in a distorted way, occupy the place of a policy alternative.
What all this points to is that before we indulge ourselves in Reyes suicide, it might do us good to give a closer look at the national suicide we commit for each day we allow the 1987 Constitution’s 60/40 provisions to maintain a policy environment that is a well spring of corruption.
daaang!…. he’s a COWARD!… a gung gong… he knew what’s going on his turf…. only fellow gung gongs would believe that he was “innocent” …
…while on active duty, what was his position again???? bwa ha ha ha ha ha…
… he was the head honcho of flipland mapiosi… all his mistahs are broduhs from PILIPINO MAGNANAKAW AKADEMI (PMA)… go figure…
(me, calling doktora santa ate glo, phd: hoy, mekeni abe, ano ne? meron ba tayong kaldereta mamaya sa inuman jan?)
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Lookit, yo! Reyes broughted chairs and a book to read in the cemetery. Not your usual kind of suicidal person. When Reyes shotted himself in the chest, they took him to the hospital, LO AND BEHOLD, in the bloody carnage someone has THE PRESENCE OF MIND TO TAKE THE GUN WITH THEM AND CANOT BE LOCATED. WOW! Parang Trining Failon suicide mystery ito !!!!! The Reyes family doesn’t want autopsy. Aw, c’mon Mrs. Reyes and Sons. What harm does it do? The Fifol just wanted to know if there was a presence of powder burns on the chest and on his hands. Powder burns on the chest evidenced he was shotted at close range. No powder burns means someone shotted him with a scope, most likely some black-ops ! Killing himself means the family gets to keep the “pabaon” WoW! Nice try General !!!! Goot work !!!!! WILL THERE BE INVISTIGATION? NO ! WAS THERE AN INVISTIGATION TRINING FAILON CONVULOUTED CASE? NON ! It was easily forgotten after they shotten themselves to dead.
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daaang! @renpac >>> according to a sementeryo tsismoso that he heard angie reyes said “SORRY” bipor angie kalabit de gatilyo…. so derpor, he’s soooooo close to him and should know the real thang…. allah eh, der yu go flips intelijens… look por the sementeryo tsismor and istart da imbistigasyon de gung gongs… bwi hi hi hi…
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Reyes was a victim; I do not think there is any doubt about that. People who are more powerful than him pushed his back against the wall – with the help of oligarch-controlled media that have vested interest in covering something else up. It is frightening how vindictive the reporting on ABS-CBN is; it is one of the most sensational news channels in the world.
At etong si Jinggoy: THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK ika nga.
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Lookit, Colonel Rabusa was envious of Gen Reyes. Gen REyes got plenty of pabaon whereas Colonel Rabusa walang pabaon. Who doesn’t get frustrated. Lookit, when anyone steal from the people money has to be divvied up equally. MOST OF ALL MONEY IS A LOGICAL NUMBER. NUMBERS DON’T LIE ! PEOPLE DO !!!! HERE IS MY KWESTYON FOR THE DAY: Where art thou United Nations Remittance ? IT IS NOT IN THE BOOKS ! SOMEONE PICKED IT UP FROM UNITED NATIONS ! IN PERSON …. WHY NOT THE AMBASSADOR FROM NEW YORK PICKED-UP THE CHECK FROM UNITED NATIONS? HMMMMMM ….. hmmmmm ….. aw, c’mon. JUST TELL ME, YO, WHERE IS THE UNITED NATIONS REMITTANCE? I want to know. I want it now !
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daaang! @renpac naman naman namannnnn…. the UN remittance was put in the mail… and y’all know what happens in da flip mail… the kartero pinitik ang tseke…. resealed the envelope and put in renpac’s mailbox… da kartero cashed the check at intsik beho’s check cashing bangko de gung gongs, a subsidiary of renpac’s bank of viva republic of cebu…
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daaaang! $53M/yr since 1997???? … wow, that’s sang tambaks na benjamins… wawa naman ang flip sundalong kanin on patrol doon sa haiti… lugaw & tuyo pa rin ang tsibog, while angie’s boyz nagsho-shopping ng mansion sa “merka…..
Now that Angelo Reyes is gone, who’s gonna name the politicians and businessmen who are protecting Carlos Garcia? Heck, I’d say that Reyes’ suicide only thickened the plot…..and people with the right frame of mind would lean towards Mon Tulfo’s words as opposed to the recent statements by Dionisio Santiago (as seen above).
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Taken from an editorial piece on today’s Manila Standard:
Rex Robles, who was a leading member of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement and part of the Feliciano Committee that investigated the Oakwood uprising, identified Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez the prime mover of the witch-hunt that is targeting former Defense Secretary Angelo Reyes, in a bid to get Garcia off the hook. “People who are still active in the military and the ‘real power’ behind Garcia are working to clear him and make [Reyes] the fall guy,” Robles said.
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Who picked-up the check from United Nations? Why needed to be picked-up personally? Why wasn’t it deposited directly? Where is the check now? Who cashed it? Whose account? Why the check is not in the books? Aw, c’mon, use your kukote ? If anyone is tough enough to steal from the people in front of the people FOR HIS SOLE FAMILY …. THEREFORE HE HAS THE COURAGE TO KILL HIMSELF TO PROTECT THE WEALTH OF THE FAMILY !!!! NOW HE IS DEAD THE FAMILY GETS TO KEEP THE PABAON !!!! WOW! Lookit ! ROBERT LUDLUM IS GOING TO WRITE ABOUT THIS THRILLA IN MANILA !!! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!
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daaang! @renpac naman naman namannnnn… when it comes to txting, fcukbook, twatter, flipland is soooo technically advanced…. but not in electronic fund transfer (eft)… it has to be picked up by an undercover intelijens special SQUAT oooopsie SWAT….
In any government, corruption is already a given, especially in third world countries. Is General Angelo Reyes guilty? I also cant answer that since there were no evidence presented. And it is also a no-brainer that this Senate hearing is just politics.
As pointed out by G6 in AP chat. Any corruption in the AFP would certainly affect the institution in its function, which is to protect our country. From who? Its as if we are engaged in any war with any Asian neighbor.
There are 113,500 active personnel and 131,000 reserves. Any corruption in the AFP will affect these small number of people.
As compared to the 90 Million filipino lives which is under the mercy of Congressmens, Governors and Mayors. I dont know about you guys but numbers speak for itself.
Congressmen have 70 million pesos Pork Barrel EACH. Senators have 200 million pesos EACH. And our brilliant- President have 68 BILLION PESOS for himself, thats billions with a capital Bull. All unaudited funds, all came from our pockets. And these are just the LEGAL funds to be disbursed. Hindi pa kasama jan ung illegal rackets ng ilang pulitiko.
And dont get me started with the MEDIA…Public Service owned by a family-owned company. Businesses has its interest, mainly to earn profits. And to protect these interests, its easy to assume they use their public service outfits to serve them. So they choose which issue that needs to be talked about. They dont corrupt public coffers, but they corrupt public minds. They use the media to create a circus in order to cover up REAL news. Like the President’s inefficiency as a leader. Or the next rate hike by their own company (water,electricity etc..).
AFP Scandal is but a mere media circus. So line up and get your tickets. Its not gonna end soon.
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true enough. You can’t blame these armed forces ranks in wanting to get their cut since they know the politicians get a bigger share of that corruption pie.
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In the ancient Roman Empire. The Roman Citizens were entertained with: Circus and Bread, to take out their minds from revolting…In the Philippines, we have: Circus ; and Imported Rice from Vietnam and Thailand…I am not surprised that there are Real Actors, doing the investigating; and investigators acting like Actors…only this has lead to a Real Melodrama…next show, please…
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Yon ang problema sa Pilipinas. KICKAPOO, yes there was evidence presented. Gen Reyes is guilty-by-Affidavit. Madali lang yung affidavit. Guilty-by-association. Guilty-by-publicity. BUT THE EASIEST PART IS GUILTY-BY-AFFIDAVIT. They can affidavit you to death !!!!!
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daaang! @renpac naman naman namann…. angie reyes was the uniformed thugs head honcho of flipland department op nacional depends… billion pesos is charged to that department, and he didn’t know what happen to my kaparte????…. if y’all believe that he is inosente…. well, i’m a full blooded blond blue eye ‘merkan….
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I dont know if hes guilty or not. But the idea of being grilled in the senate “just because” is too damn crazy. Mabuti sana kung matitinong tao ung kukuwestyon sa iyo eh. Para kang pinagalitan ng titser sa harapan ng mga classmates at crushes mo, on the basis of a teacher’s pet’s sumbong. Guilty or not, the damage is done. And the teachers dont have any damn right to humiliate you in the first place.
daaang! @poo, if the questioning is done in private, there’s going to be no outcome…. private questioning is AREGLOHAN… nothing is going to come out… let kapwa balasubas fight it out in public… i’m in favor of CSPAN (kuno) type questioning in aid of legislation (daw) … in aid of legislation??? ano ba yon?… onli in flipland…
daang! … as a military man, there is no honor in “suicide”… gung gong was not even in any kind of torture in the hands of enemies… he’s a waste…. he should have stood up, faced the allegations, and told the TRUTH not TUROTOT…. i paid his salary… i want my money (taxes) back… no sympathy from this ‘hood!… i hope the rest of the uniformed thugs follow suit…. they’re an embarrassment to the uniform and the oath they took…. but of course, flip gung gongs would feel sad….. boooooo hoooooo hooooo waaaaaaaah!…. hay naku, flips puro kayo gung gongs!
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Aw, c’mon, Pareng Ulo. YES, THERE IS HONOR IN SUICIDE !!!! For all you know Gen Reyes must be studying correspondence with Japan Military Academy major in Harakiri
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daaang!… @renpac, then, flipland needs to send all mistahs/PMAers to japan military academy of harakiri and not to west pointing academy… flipland west pointing mistahs send their nakaws to west covina kalipornya…
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Well said Hyden. I agree
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HAYDEN, HAYDEN, HAYDEN, Courage, Loyalty, Integrity, Duty, Honor and Country is last !!!! WHAT IS FOREMOST IN THE MINDS OF PMAYyers is guns, power and money !!!!!! One you have these three torotot-sing-along !!!! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!
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I agree Hayden, it is really the system that makes public servants corrupt to the core. The system itself is corrupt, put upright individuals in a system that does not have an awareness of professional public service, then, even these honorable men and women who serve in government get tempted and ride along. We need serious reforms in government, Reyes was honorable enough to have realized how he had been corrupted by a corrupt system. The Marcos’ government erased all professionalism in the military first by appointing his unqualified relatives to serve and then make promotion conditional to personal loyalty to him. With budgets not subject to serious monitoring by the legislature and other government bodies, corruption has been institutionalized in the AFP. Reyes is a victim, and so are the many corrupt government officials, I am now of the opinion that it is really the system of government that we have that has created a corrupt institution of government. Congressmen, senators, presidents, barrio captains, everyone in government is encouraged to be corrupt because of the opportunities presented to them. We need to reform the government and have more accountability by shifting to a parliamentary form of government.
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I am idealist. I became corrupt because it is berry berry dippicult to fight the corrupt. If you shooten in Makati in the meddle of rush hour YOU LIKELY HIT A CORRUPT FILIPINO 99.999% OF THE TIME
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daaang…. @prof miriam q naman naman namannnn…. personal accountabiity – i know you’re familiar with it… if the “opportunity” is presented to an ethical person, he/she knows what to do… excuses prolong the culture of corruption… be part of the solution… again, changing the form of government with the same magnanakaws will do no good…
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No Pulong, nobody is a saint, if everyone around you is dipping their hands in the cookie jar, you either leave or join the party. No ethical person can resist the temptation of billions in pork barrel, without audit. It is human nature to succumb to the temptation and advanced cultures and civilizations have accepted the corrupt nature of humans and that is why their system is foolproofed to lessen the temptation and opportunities to commit acts of corruption. We cannot all be asked to be saints when human avarice is part of our nature.
hay naku, prof mirian q: where is this “saint” thingy comes about?… being ethical is not asking anybody to be a saint… flips are weak gung gongs… what part of NO don’t they understand? stealing, i believe, is included/written in the 10 commandments… it is the basic tenet of catholicsm… and flipland is the only devout catholic country in SE asia… to curb corruption, DO NOT PARTICIPATE (caps for emphasis), IT’S SIMPLE ETHICS/VALUE…
daaang!… now y’all know why flipland is broke… all traposakals, balasubas, magnanakaws, mistahs, et al spend their loot buying real estate in ‘merka >>> vegas, lost angeles, nuyak, insane diego… flips acquired million dollar houses on flips civil servant/gobmint pay…. wow…. it’s a mirakol!!!! bwa ha ha ha ha ha ha…
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daaang!… @renpac naman naman namnnn… as you know, any immigrant with datong could purchase a property in ‘merka…. if you need more info, call ulong’s fliprealty, remittance, passport/visa, and balikbayan, inc… we cater to all gung gongs, flips/flipflams…
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Lookit ! Yo!
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Something in the suicide doesn’t add up ! Looks like Trining Failon suicide again. MYSTERY ! MYSTERIOUS !!! MISTER YOSO !!!!
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daaang! as i posted earlier, da sepulterero de sementeryo heard “SORRY” before angie reyes pulled the gatilyo de 45… it’s a MIRAKOL that the sepulterero did not get bloodied being such proximity from him…
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The Filipnos becomes goot in any form of government in any designer constitution abroad. Filipinos do not want to work hard. They’d rather be living in a ready-made-country than Filipinos work for their country. What goot working for a corrupt country it is dippicult to swim against the tide of corruption.
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Lookit, forget Bolante. Forget Rabusa. Forget Garcia. Forget Reyes. EVEN B4 investigation ended another scandalously corruption spring into action. Op kors, string of scandals is goot por corroupt flippinos. one corruption covers one corruption till forget-time before they are convicted. Isn’t Filipinos great?
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daaang!… let us say, somebody got convicted of a major major major corruption… a couple months of politico-zarzuela, the convicts would be pardoned by the retarded prez… the convicts, together with the mutineers, webb, eraps, et al would be taking a long vacation in lost angeles >>> renpac’s ‘hood, flip magnanakaws gated subdivision…
“the newly elected congressman said there were actually a number of “political point men” who approached him to act in his behalf and have his PDAF released on time or together with those of the pro-administration congressmen. But what angered him is the demand for a 30% commission. He was told that a big part of the commission will allegedly go to a very close relative of President Benigno C. Aquino III or our popular P-Noy.
In the congressman’s computation, with the 30% demand as “facilitation fee” his projects will be left with about 40% or less of whatever amount will be released. He said if he gets 15% for his own savings or SOP, 45% will immediately be gone. And you have to set aside another 10% as earning or profit for the contractor or supplier and another 5% for DPWH officials. “All these amount to 60% of the entire PDAF and a particular project will be left with only 40% of the budget.”
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Corruption in the chaotic manner practiced in the Philippines can be a form of protectionism. As GRP pointed out, it can also work in the other direction.
Remove economic restrictions through constitution and system change etc., but do it in a manner that can give local governments incentive to turn the “corruption” toward productivity (the regional families will look good if they can make their provinces look good) as a first step out of the chaotic culture of corruption we’re in.
This is actually a sort of “Plan B” to the likely scenario that any moronic initiative to “eradicate” corruption will simply fall flat on its face every time.
If we cannot eradicate corruption, then at least we should stabilize it so that business can incorporate it into their operating model and cost structure as a managed risk.
Risk Management 101 there.
Plan B basically is for us to learn how to live with Pinoy-style corruption in a manageable way even as we strive to reduce poverty by achieving economic progress. As economic progress kicks in and touches more Filipinos, then the less counter-intuitive idea that increased wealth may eventually reduce a need for Filipinos to be corrupt may start to become more relevant.
http://getrealphilippines.blogspot.com/2010/06/pinoy-style-corruption-in-need-of-bit.html
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It’s a given that we cannot eradicate corruption; it can only be reduced or contained, and this is true everywhere. That said, I suppose this Plan B scenario is feasible, although system change as we see it here is expected to bring in the greatest reduction.
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daaang! @chinof namaan naman naman…. the corruption in the AFP/PNP WAS almost contained had bottle hardened mistah angie reyes took the stance… he had the “container”, the goods, to end it all… but he was not about to do that… he wanted the corrupt MISTAH military to continue its fcuked up ways… he killed himself to save face and the corrupt tradition…. in my books, that’s TOTALLY FCUKED UP…. he could have been my hero…. coming out from the sump to clean up the mess… he chose to stay in the sump… imbunal, he deserved…
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Di containment tawag dyan… pagtatago yan.
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western businesses will incorporate the factor of corruption in their business model, however firstly they will never respect the country, secondly they will invest less and maybe take holding position until things change, and thirdly many companies will avoid altogether. so please dont go down that path.
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The guy is dead, so it’s best to leave him alone. It’s better to focus one’s attention on the living… since those left certainly do know something too.
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daaang!… the gung gong killed himself to save what’s left of his “honor”… his wife&entourage traveled to california like it’s their ‘hood… the govt should confiscate all the “MIRACLE WEALTH” the uniformed thugs accumulated….they do it in ‘merka, don’t they? NO SYMPATHY HERE! (caps for emphasis)… do not be swayed by emotions…
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It’s not emotions… it’s just plain courtesy and civility. The dead are already dead, don’t kill ‘em again.
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daaang!@renpac naman naman namannn… ex-angie reyes was about to be kicked out of the harvard alum aso…ciation… and, dat’s a big deal… kasi, to be kicked out of an ivy leagued asos is a no no no no noooooooo in the eyes of flip HILOminatis…. bwi hi hi hi hi….
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daaaang!… familia reyes will be grieving in style… in vegas, hawaii, bahamas, europa, booooo hooooo hooooo waaaaaaah….. lookit ate imeldafcuk after d!cktator marcos demise… she grieved en grande >>> from paris to nuyak….. and lives like a queen back in ilocandia empire with her studs…
hay naku, flips puro kayo gung gongs!
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daaang! @renpac, that’s what i like about flipland… flip gung gongs would “forgive” (bekos flips are devout katolickd!icks) and elect the magnanakaws, balasubas, traposakals, et al to the highest office… then, flips would ‘bakwet sa abroad and b!tch about the administrasyon de gung gongs…. and would pursue to change the constipation ooooopsie constitution and/or form of gogmint…. hay naku, flips, puro kayo mga sira!
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I certainly want to focus attention on the administration’s effort to destablize the AFP by targeting the old boys. Time and again, PNOY’s kapalpakans would seem to incite another people power. If theres one group that know people power very well. Its the yellow army. And they know People Power will only exist if theres support from the military. So they need to destabilize AFP so no people power will rise up against the yellowist.
That would actually be the greatest irony that will cap the aquino domination in our history. People power against the Yellows.
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daaang!…@poo, prez gung gong’s admin is weak… the mistahs and their handlers know it… it’s going to be a turf battle… the flipland’s DoD gets the big chunk of the pie… the rest of pie is divvied up to the rest of the traposakals… 50cc honda squad is going to be busy… hey y’all, invest in renpac’s puneraria biznez and memorial park… it’s gonna boom…
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Maybe you have a point here, apparently the offices of the Comptroller within the AFP have already been abolished way back and reforms within the AFP have been put in place, making it difficult to release funds without proper authorization. If you look at these allegations, those involved were generals who profited from a corrupt system before 2004. Could it be that Teodoro during his stint added to the system of foolproofing the department against corruption. How come the media are not doing any research at all about the internal system within the AFP to educate the public. What the system was then and what has been done to correct the loopholes so far. The AFP is getting a bad rap from the media in general, although some radio commentators have interviewed friends of Reyes who shed light on his character. Again, we are focusing too much on the person, rather than the system and reforms that should be made. We are indeed a personality-oriented society, we shun debates on how to reform the system. Media people, wake up, you have a duty to promote true democracy, stop rousing people’s emotions this way or that way, start making people think about our national problems and lead sustained debates on charter change.
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Your call to the media will go unheard! Why would media people, who are benefiting greatly from Filipino stupidity, want to change the status quo? The media here is not used to shed the truth. Rather it is used by the Lopez family, et al to hide the truth and manipulate the story to serve their own interest.
Perhaps destabilizing the AFP through the use of the yellow-infested media is a plot to keep Abnoy in power.
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I heard what Gibo did to the DND. How he fixed it. We can only imagine what he couldve done with this country. Sayang talaga. Can you imagine men like Gibo, FVR, Gordon and Bayani, assigning their own chief trouble-shooters? Its an insult to their capacity to lead. And now compare that to our president, the “chosen-one” appointing his chief troubleshooter..
Real journalism is almost dead in the Philippines.
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daaang! @poo…. slow down, will you? the ampatuan’s armory con todo howitzers, 50mm, ‘sang tambaks na ammo, personnel armored carrier, etchastera, etc are stocked with DND’s munitions… ampatuans are better armed than the regular AFP/PNP soljas… kaya laging dehado/laglag sa barilan ang mga sundalong kanin… all this under santa doktora ate glo, phd and gibo’s terms…
You cannot blame the government policy on using civilians for para-military operations on the term of Gibo, he was only DND chief for two years from 2007-2009, put everything in perspective. During Gibo’s term, record-keeping on issuance of weapons has been systematized and I heard he put in place more reforms, working on the past reforms of the person he replaced on the purchasing processes within DND. This is why we need responsible journalism, we need to know the facts, or we just blame everyone who serves in government for the long and irrational way this government has been run. Remember who put the Ampatuans in power in the first place.
@Miriam
Which is interesting you note about paying attention to the system because from what I’m gathering from the chief Yellow media station, they are eating Trillianes’ little suspicion and trying to get PGMA to shed light on this. YEP, a renewed attack on the old admin and the president that carried it because she was totally unpopular and a supposed innocent and beloved army man under her killed himself due to all this. Many now are saying that much money couldn’t have been moved easily OUTSIDE of Malacanang then. Heck, Gibo was under the department of Defense then so why not get his opinion? Because they want people to believe that the reason PGMA retreated as congresswoman after her presidency was to gain some form of immunity and that she has the Supreme Court under her. Which is hilarious considering the pork barrel numbers thrown around, PNOY can actually BUY them as well to actually get whatever evidence he has on the head of the former admin to answer for her crimes.
I honestly think the answer is long dead and the events were into play even before the height of PGMA’s presidency.
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calling all mistahs: your squeaky-clean leader killed himself (?), who’s next?…. c’mon, do not be bashful… sige na naman… get it while the barrel is still hot…
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EASY THERE PARENG ULO, if all corrupt Mistah commiting suicide who’ll lead the troops? HA!HA!H!A!
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If we outsource the government, do we outsource the military? haha
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daaang! @renpac: flipland’s phantom troops will be “unleaded” for the time being… once, flipland wage war with taiwanese/hongkongese, the phantom troops will rise up like a phoenix and would be “leaded” by flipland’s commanded in cheap, the retarded prez gung gong…
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Napakaganda po ng pagkakatira ng artikulong ito. Sa palagay ko po, ‘yun ang kanyang “sariling sepukku”.
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daaang!… the mistahs are not about to stop gang fcuking maria clara….they will continue to rob the country dry…. picture this: the corruption monster was stark naked, in the open, ready to be slaugthered by flipland’s west pointing knights in the shining armor headed by squeaky-clean bottle hardened angie reyes… angie had the goods to stop the corruption monster once and for all…. but instead, he KILLED himself >>> to save and let the corruption monster live and breed; the monster gave him the luxury that he could never achieve as an OFFICER and a GENTLEMAN… had he faced the music, at least the corruption monster could have been dented… well, flips will just have to change the “SYSTEM”…. bwi hi hi hi hi hi…
hay naku, flips, puro kayo mga gung gongs!…
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yO WA HAPPEN?
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daaaang! aussie amb smith to flipland: “Smith said, but noted that Australia expects the “proper accountability” of funds it gave to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP).”… NAKUPO, NAKAKAHIYA!… hoy, mga magnanakaws, traposakals, balasubas >>> PURO KAYO MGA HINDOTS!… go ahead and play war games amongst yourselves… siempre, using live ammos…
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daaaaang! @adult: another squeaky clean UN ambassador hilario davide knew about the “TNT” UN remittance to flipland… (TNT, kasi the fund change bank more than pareng adulterator change his thong)… he’s kotong/komisyon is on the line… is davide used to be a supremo abugago or abugago supremo???…. bwi hi hi hi hi hi… hay naku, flips, YOU ARE EMBARRASSMENT TO HUMANITY!
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Hilario Davide? His Bisdaker brothers of Afrikaners. He is on the take, too? Marketing arm of PMAyer Battalion-for-hire for United Nations? Lookit, I didn’t know it was easy to get check from United Nations. Just walk-up to the cashier. Showed my brown-skin-punk’d nose and Flip ID. VOILA! They give me the check. Is that how easy they release the check? I really thoughted U.N. tleegraph transfer or moneygram to credit the check to FlipGov bank. I recommend to U.N. to use Xoom.com or might as well FOREX Pick-up and delivery me-bigas pa!
daaaaang!… yo flip magnanakaws/balasubas/garapales: just go ahead and send k. aquino to return the money (in aussie money, not monkey money)… amb smith need a good handjob from the first laid-y…
may nabasa ako comment sa fb na may possibilty na blinackmail rin si Reyes para mag suicide para macoveran ang mga corrupt issues na yan sa AFP. tsk tsk
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