AN OPEN LETTER TO SIR VIRGILIO

Thanks to Memo 006, Series of 2008! I consider that my 'Badge of Honor'!

Please allow me to quote from your letter of today:

The records of the incumbent Supreme Council is an open book. Responsible leadership and shared accountability are our concern. Morality in the conduct of our office is our primordial design. Rule of law and history have vindicated us. And these are the legacies we leave behind.


I still INSIST you talk with a FORKED tongue, claiming "OPEN RECORDS", "RESPONSIBLE Leadership" as well as the "MORALITY in the conduct of (y)our office"... Yet, FACTS known to all SPEAK for themselves and PROVE your pronouncements to be FAR from the TRUTH!


SUPREME COUNCIL RECORDS THAT ARE AN "OPEN BOOK"???:

1. When will you please send me the requested copy/ies of the RECOMMENDATION for KGOR Exaltations of Sir Alcoba, Sir Nollas, Sir Guansing? This request was sent last (October?) 2007!

2. Where is the ca. Euro 5,000 that Sir Mushake donated to the KOR ca. 1999-2000? Why is this NOT SHOWN in the KOR "Books of Accounts"? (Going to a bank is not necessary, as KOR supposedly got the donation, NOT the bank!)

3. If you can e-mail Memo 006, Series of 2008, WHY CAN'T YOU FORWARD THESE REQUESTED DOCUMENTS from the OPEN BOOK!


"RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP"???:


1. What is RESPONSIBLE with KEEPING a PLAGIARIST AND TWO RACISTS in the KOR under your WATCH?

2. What is RESPONSIBLE in rush INVESTIGATIONS of Sir Jun Zerrudo, Lazir, Sir Manny Bade, who VALIDLY question IHQ INACTION/S when up to now, no Memo has been publicly issued for RACISTIC Sir Paras and Sir Alcoba?

3. What is RESPONSIBLE with hiding requested copies of Supreme Council deliberations about the UNDESERVING Exaltations?

"MORALITY IN THE CONDUCT OF (Y)OUR OFFICE"???:

1. Did you put or HELP put Sir Felino Wy Paras or not to be European "commander"? Yes or No.

2. What is MORALLY correct in keeping a PLAGIARIST and RACIST like Sir Paras?

3. Did you exalt or HELP exalt Sir Boy Alcoba from KCR to KGOR? Yes or No.

4. What is MORALLY CORRECT in exalting a RACIST or keeping him in the KOR?

5. What is MORALLY CORRECT with allowing Sir Paras to call his "consultative meeting" on 26 Apr 2008, when he is SUPPOSEDLY being INVESTIGATED?

6. What is MORALLY CORRECT with the Ms Guevarra SUSPENSION done in haste while Sir Paras and Sir Alcoba are NOT/NEVER SUSPENDED, despite the HEAVIER violations of these two?

7. What is MORALLY CORRECT with BEING SILENT when asked all these QUESTIONS here by Lazir?

8. What is MORALLY CORRECT with KEEPING us wait more than 12 months on the Sir Paras/Sir Alcoba SUSPENSION? We are still WAITING!

9. What is MORALLY CORRECT with COMBINING your e-mails with Sir Vital and Sir Gardoce?

10. What is MORALLY CORRECT with a SELF-SERVING Entity headed by you, playing ACCUSER, JUDGE AND EXECUTIONER all rolled into one? (No wonder Ms Guevarra literally "hanged" perhaps even before being investigated! But Sir Paras and Sir Alcoba, after 12 months, are still sitting, THANKS to your HYPOCRISY!)

11. What is MORALLY CORRECT with "RESPONSIBLE LEADERSHIP" and "MORALITY" pronouncements you make in Memo 006, Series of 2008, while you do the EXACT oppossite as shown above?

12. What is MORALLY CORRECT with being KOR acting Supreme Commander but AFRAID to even SUSPEND the Plagiarist and the Racists in Europe?

PLEASE DO NOT SWALLOW YOUR WORDS NOW, I DON'T WANT YOU TO PUKE...! Your Family needs you!

But anybody who can read English can also see through your DOUBLE-SPEAK!

You and your backer/s CANNOT TAKE nor ACCEPT the TRUTH and have decided to HIDE behind the cloak of an Illustrious KOR, whose name you CONTINUE to DRAG into the abyss of the Philippine Deep!, blaming Lazir, Sir Jun Zerrudo, Sir Manny Bade, Sir Carmelo and OTHERS although it is your FAULT!

Knowing Dr Jose Rizal's 'Noli' and 'Fili', where the hidden hand (of Sir Quiambao?) of the Spanish priests controlled the investigation, court hearings, till execution of the National Hero, your actions of today remind me of a Kangaroo Court!

Lazir prefers to be pilloried by CORRUPT(IBLE) men like you, than be judged later by history for DOING NOTHING!

Like my hero Dr Jose Rizal, NO ONE (not even all Power, Position and Wealth!) CAN STOP Lazir from his ANTI-CORRUPTION FIGHT...! Not even bullets...!

You have 24 Hours to choose and give even JUST five (5) ANSWERs to any of the Questions above!

And, I wish you would re-calibrate your THINKING and do GOOD for the KOR and


For Country and People!

:)
Lazir


"Integrity goes beyond mere honesty or the refusal to tell a falsehood; it is the moral COURAGE to denounce a wrong and to promote the truth; to punish the greedy, to chase the robbers and to prosecute the tyrants." - Former Philippine Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban

SPECIMEN RESOLUTION...

For the third time in a row within a span of three short weeks (the first being a resolution to dismiss the case filed by Sir Gempesaw against Sir Esguerra as 'without merit' and the second the resolution to 'dismiss' Ms. Loren Guevarra herself) the amazing Supreme Council has once again proven it can act when it wants to act. It is alive after all!

But while this sudden outburst of life is commendable it highlights that which is most lamentable. For the past two years a most needful resolution was not even given so much as a 'fleeting glance'. For example, the case against Sir Paras of Belgium has been in the shelves for two long years not because everybody forgot about it or because the 'illustrious' gentlemen tasked to oversee the affairs of the organization were simply too busy with more important things, but because they deliberately ignored the pleas, the petitions, the cries, the groans and grunts from numerous members all over the world for reasons only known to them.

Good news is that now they indicate they are willing to do what they were elected to do in the first place - take action. Whether that action is correct, appropriate, fair and just or 'none of the above' is beside the point. What is important is that henceforth we can expect more from them. They deserve our compliments.

We can for instance expect another resolution to come shortly from the Supreme Council. One that is long overdue. If this helps may we suggest the following 'specimen'?

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SPECIMEN RESOLUTION

The Knights of RiZal

(Chartered Under Republic Act No. 646)

SUPREME COUNCIL

Non Omnis Moriar Manila, Philippines

A civic patriotic, cultural, non-partisan, non-sectarian, non-profit organization

Theme: 'Key to Global Peace, Solidarity and Prosperity'

A RESOLUTION PASSED BY THE SUPREME COUNCIL IN ITS REGULAR MEETING AT ITS HEADQUARTERS ON APRIL 25, 2008

RESOLUTION # 005 Series of 2008

WHEREAS, Sir Lino Paras, KGOR, a Knight of Rizal in Brussels, Belgium, currently the appointed Regional Commander for Europe, has been formally charged for 'Plagiarism' in accordance with the directive of Supreme Commander Sir Hilario G. Davide, Jr. KGCR, dated September 19, 2006;

WHEREAS, Sir Sir Lino Paras, KGOR, has failed to submit an explanation of his side ordered from him by Sir Hilario G. Davide, Jr. within the ten (10) day period commencing the date of the directive in direct defiance of the directive from the Supreme Commander Sir Hilario Davide, Jr.;

WHEREAS, the charges so filed against Sir Sir Lino Paras, KGOR, is of such serious nature that allowing Sir Paras to continue to hold any position of responsibility pending resolution of the case will compromise the integrity, name and reputation of the Knights of Rizal;

NOW, THEREFORE, on mass motion of the members of the Supreme Council present in a quorum in its regular meeting:

RESOLVE, AS IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED, that the Supreme Council create as it hereby creates an investigation committee composed of Sir Pablo R. Chavez, KGOR- Chairman, Sir Ricardo R. Aquino, KGOR and Sir Pedro A. Rosito, KGOR as members to investigate the charges against Sir Lino Paras of Brussels, Belgium, and, pending the resolution of the case against Sir Paras, to temporarily relieve Sir Paras of his position as Regional Commander for Europe and to suspend Sir Paras from active participation in any of the organization's activities, projects or programs.

UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED.

Done this 25^{th day of April 2008, in the City of Manila, Philippines.}

CERTIFIED BY:

(signed) SIR RICARDO R. AQUINO, KGOR

Acting Supreme Pursuivant

ATTESTED BY:

. . .

We hope continued success to the revitalized Supreme Council which is assisted magnanimously by some members of the Council of Elders.

Yours truly on behalf of those who have been clamoring for truth, justice and freedom from tyrannical rule,

Ramon 'Jun' Zerrudo

WHAT A BABY!

Su Wong marries Lee Wong. The next year, the Wongs have a new baby.

The nurse brings over a lovely, healthy, bouncy, but definitely a Caucasian, WHITE baby boy.

'Congratulations,' says the nurse to the new parents. 'Well Mr. Wong, what will you and Mrs. Wong name the baby?'

The puzzled father looks at his new baby boy and says, 'Well, two Wong's don't make a white, so I think we will name him...

Are you ready for this?

Sum Ting Wong

QUO VADIS, RIZAL FOLLOWERS, MOVERS AND SHAKERS?

The problems being experienced by the Order of the Knights of Rizal (OKOR) -- from its Supreme Council in Manila to some chapters abroad -- can be traced mainly to the meaningless quarrel over sashes, medals and ribbons (that represent fame, glory, if not vanity). We in the budding "International Society of Rizal Advocates (ISRA)" want to do away with the uniform, the sashes, medals and ribbons and even the use of "Sir" in addressing ourselves. Since the OKOR was founded on Dec. 30, 1911, it had always been viewed as a elitist organization. The poor farmers, the marginal fishermen, the daily-wage earners and the ordinary folks never joined the OKOR for they could not afford the membership fee, the uniform, the medals, the pomp and the pageantry that all involved modest expenditures. The OKOR failed in even organizing a chapter in every Philippine province and much more in the barrios high on the boondocks.

Let me quote a portion of the legislative bill that became Republic Act 646 that recognized the OKOR: " . . . official recognition . . . of the inestimable value to the nation of his teachings and examples and of the wisdom and necessity of inculcating them in the minds and hearts of our people so they may strive to follow and practice them . . . if the purposes thereof are faithfully and effectively carried out, social discipline, civic virtues and love of justice will be fostered, promoted and enhanced in this country, and that the Knights of Rizal as chartered entity is the most-convenient instrumentality by which this (sic) desirable ends can be attained: Let Rizal's life and martyrdom influence and guide the destiny of the nation. Let this and future generations live the Rizal way."

Since the bill was signed into law as R.A. 646 on June 14, 1951, not much was done to make "Rizal's life and martyrdom influence and guide the destiny of the nation." And many Overseas Filipinos and foreign friends of the Philippines now frequently ask: How come a people that produced one of the greatest men in the world could be, and are still, led by crooks, scoundrels and nincompoops -- for majority of the time since July 4, 1946?

Perhaps during the Toronto, Canada, convention of brothers and sisters in Rizal, on Sept. 11-13, 2008, we may be able to seize the defining moment and find the motivation that can reinvent the Rizalian movement so that we can bring not only back to life the purposes stated in R.A. 646 but also do the unfinished work of Jose Rizal. Perhaps after the Toronto convention, we may be able to start turning Philippine towns and barrios into the modern-day version of Rizal's Dapitan so that in a matter of decades -- not generations -- we will be able to succeed in making "social discipline, civic virtues and love of justice" as permanent and active components of the Filipino way of life -- all the way from Batanes to Sulu.

In the meantime, I wish to suggest respectfully that we just ignore all the brouhaha in the Supreme Council in Manila, all the different chapters in the Philippines and abroad. We must give the quarrelsome (and even the corrupt) Knights all the freedom to make fools of themselves and appear naked like the fabled emperor without clothes but of course with their ubiquitous sashes, medals and ribbons intact.

Let us no longer talk about the quarrels but the ways and means that we can use to complete the works of Jose P. Rizal, our hero, our inspiration and our motivation. Life is too short to be devoting the remaining days of our respective lives to in-fighting, debate on whether Tagalog is the language of Filipino nationalism, etceteras, etc., and what not.

Mabuhay,

Bobby M. Reyes

GIVE RIZAL A CHANCE!

...under pain of disloyalty and insubordination against the LEGITIMATE (Which one???) ORDER OF THE KNIGHTS OF RIZAL...!

All concerned,

All our VALID complaints were IGNORED all these years and months by IHQ! That's the WORST kind of INSUBORDINATION because the KOR Leadership, strictly-speaking, supposedly SERVES the whole KOR body, the KOR General Membership, not the other way around! (Didn't Jesus wash the feet of His disciples?)

The KOR Leadership need no such 'feet washing'! But the reason they were VOTED upon was to RUN/ADMINISTER the KOR like a "good father of a family"! Judging from the mess the KOR is in now, the Leadership FAILED miserably! (Not just lawyers, but even ordinary LAYMEN can make that observation!)

Legitimate RIZALISM is following closely what Dr Jose Rizal taught us! Reading Noli and Fili, we would know he wanted REFORMS for country and ILLUSTRATED numerous Spanish abuses! By keeping RACISTS in the KOR, exalting the UNDESERVING members to KGORs, backing fully a PLAGIARIST, etcetera, this present KOR Leadership acts like the Spaniards of old! It may hold POWER still, but LEGITIMATE it is no more, based on the aforementioned reasons!

Those CORRUPT PRACTICES above did Sir Virgilio Esguerra and Sir Rogelio Quiambao in!! They approved the UNDESERVING KGOR promotions, distributed the medals in Paris last July 2007!, REFUSE to expell the proven RACISTS in the KOR, namely: Sir Paras and Sir Alcoba! No wonder KOR can't take off the ground back to its ILLUSTRIOUS time, due to HEAVY BAGGAGE the present Leadership refuses to rid of!

NOTHING WRONG following the teachings of the National Hero! NOTHING WRONG joining IFKOR, taking part in the 11-13 Sep 08 "KAPEHAN 2008", where idealistic RIZALISTS from all over the world could meet, make plans for a BETTER world, learn of PRACTICAL lessons on how RIZALIAN teachings can be applied in our daily lives, hear and see newly-discovered info/details on how Dr Jose Rizal lived in his time/where he stayed!, listen to BRIGHT IDEAS the current KOR Leadership CANNOT produce because they are too BUSY with their dark schemes and how to perpetuate themselves in power!

If one of the legal luminaries at IHQ (Sir Rogelio is a lawyer!) can show me any part of the KOR Constitution and By-Laws that says something like or similar to "illegal/disloyal/impertinent to follow the teachings" of Dr Jose Rizal, then IFKOR is the WRONG Rizalian organization to be a member of!

The mere FACT that this very same IHQ Leadership EXALTED the UNDESERVING KGORs Sir Alcoba (identified RACIST member!), Sir Nollas (owned up to writing Preface of PLAGIARIZED "Born to be a Hero"), Sir Guansing (reportedly doubles as writer to Sir Paras -- the first identified RACIST by Sir Dr Fritz Hack-Ullmer, way way back, more than 24 months ago! -- for "serious" correspondence!), this present Leadership headed by Sir Virgilio and Sir Rogelio are DISLOYAL to the revised KOR Constitution and By-Laws!

These two, should they CONTINUE with their dark schemes, undoubtedly CONTRADICT the very tenets of Dr Jose Rizal's teachings, ideas and ideals!

The National Hero, if he were alive today, would NEVER have anything TO DO with Sir Virgilio and Sir Rogelio! Dr Jose Rizal was the "pride of the Malay race" because of his unquestionable INTEGRITY, HONESTY, STRONG CHARACTER in all his dealings! For one, he would NEVER EXALT a RACIST!

TO PUT THINGS BLUNTLY, SIR VIRGILIO ESGUERRA AND SIR ROGELIO QUIAMBAO ARE DISLOYAL AND INSUBORDINATE TO DR JOSE RIZAL's IDEALS, PRINCIPLES AND TEACHINGS! (They might need to take a good sleep both and re-calibrate their thinking!)

Lazir's call: NOW IS THE TIME FOR TRUE RIZALISTS TO MAKE A DECISION AND MAKE THEIR STAND KNOWN!

TRUE RIZALISTS FROM ANY PLACE IN THE WORLD CAN, SHOULD, MAY JOIN THE IFKOR ANYTIME, ANYWHERE, EVEN AT THE COMFORT OF THEIR HOMES BY GOING INTO: WWW.RIZALCANADA.ORG! THIS IS THE RIGHT THING!

IGNORE ANYONE AT IHQ MAKING FALSE CLAIMS OF "RIZALISM" THRU BLAH! BLAH! BLAH! AND CORRUPT PRACTICES!

Down with Sir Virgilio Esguerra! Down with Sir Rogelio Quiambao! Down with Sir Felino Paras! Down with Sir Boy Alcoba!

Let us use Dr Jose Rizal's TRUE TEACHINGS and work for a BETTER World!

For Country and People!

For a Democratic Order!
For Pride in the Order!
For the Good of the Order!

:)
Lazir

"Real Filipino men are those who are ready to die for honor, not those willing to live in shame." - Antonio Meloto

"One thing I'd like people hopefully to realize: the word Filipino pertains not just to family but to the entire nation of people called Filipinos. Once in a while you take risks for this nation." - Rodolfo Lozada, Jr.

"Integrity goes beyond mere honesty or the refusal to tell a falsehood; it is the moral COURAGE to denounce a wrong and to promote the truth; to punish the greedy, to chase the robbers and to prosecute the tyrants." - Former Philippine Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban

THE GODFATHER

WHY THE PHILIPPINES IS SO POOR

I wish to recall Rizal's "Indolence of the Filipino." In short, our national hero attributed that phenomenon to the manner our former colonizers -- with the combined sword and crucifix -- governed our forefathers.

The prevailing conditions in our country, in the way our erstwhile leaders tried to govern us clearly indicate that we have not yet become truly independent, for over half a century now, notwithstanding repeated outpourings of enthusiasm every year since July 4, 1946; which was changed to June 12 by then President Diosdado Macapagal.

If our nation's leaders could only be guided by the admonitions by Bro. Dr. Jose Rizal, particularly in the Seventh Chapter of El Filibusterismo, especifically in the matter of language, our nation could hope to be brought up from the cultual quagmire that we are deeply enmeshed.

Our government's obstinacy in perpetuating the use of English in public administration and in the educational system has kept our society groveling in the quicksand of american contagion. Government leaders are blinded by the Washington propaganda that English language is the most desirable for us. It simply keeps us captive to the IMF-World Bank policy of ensuring the unhampered supply of cheap Filipino labor force to feed the needs of multinationals here and abroad. In effect, the policy perpetuates the pathetic condition of keeping the OFWs menial workers in the employ of other nations/races.

We ought to be mindful, and guided by, the exhortations by our national hero -- Dr. Jose Rizal -- that "language is the thought of the peoples".

History clearly shows that progressive countries educate their young in their native language.

When the USA colonized our country through the so-called "benevolent assimilation proclamation" by President McKinley and enforced the teaching of English to children of school age -- with the attendant prohibiition for us to speak our own languages -- it was in effect the altruistic conquest of the Filipino mind.

The more intelligent were taken in as government's "state pensionados" to pursue studies in the USA, and upon return to the home country, became the implementors of the Washington policy of keeping the Philippines an economic and cultural vasal of the USA.

President Quezon started to wiggle out from the quicksand of US cultural contagion when he created the Institute of National Language, and proclaimed August 13 - 19 yearly as National Language Week. He merely floated a toy paper boat in the lake of Americanized culture.

President Ramon Magsaysay ordered the translation of Philippine National Anthen into, Bayang Magiliw or "Lupang Hinirang"; and also the military commands into Filipino. Moreover, he instituted the practice of delivering in the native language his formal acceptance speech whenever a new ambassador presented his credentials as the envoy of his sovereign to the Philippines. But the "Guy" perished in a mysterious plane crash on March 17, 1957; in what the US-AID proclaimned as caused by metal fatigue!

When President Corazon Aquino certified to Congress the urgency of creating the National Language Commission, and she also issued Executive Order No. 335 ordering the use of Filipino in official correspondence, she was hounded by a series of coup d'etat(s), and there was a stern CIA warning that she would not last her term. Significantly, a lady lawmaker from Cebu, possibly by means of external proddings, demanded in her privilege speech that Tita Cory withdrew her EO 335!

The National Language Commission was established, nevertheless, but it was allotted only six-hundredths (0.06%) percent of the Dept. of Education budget, which rendered it inutile! There came about perhaps a secret understanding with the rank and file implementors of the order. Tita Cory survived her term.

On July 15, 1997 President Fidel V. Ramos proclaimed August as national language month every year (Proc. 1041), but it was like the curse of Sisyphus -- pushing uphill the national language policy for one month, and then letting it slide down back to the plains for eleven months -- "for global competitiveness!" And so, our official language policy has remained -- urung-sulong -- or back-and-forth!

But the most serious blow was when the CIA with the US marines, abducted President Marcos (et. al) to Hawaii and detained him (them) there until death. Marcos had issued an order -- a Memorandum to the Minister of Education and Culture, and all other members of the Cabinet, dated 17 January 1986 -- or just over a month before EDSA One erupted -- "To create the conditions in your respective ministries and other instrumentalities of the government for the optimal promotion and development of Fiipino as a national language.

"Further the Minister of the Budget is directed to cooperate with the University of the Philippines in realizing the endowment of a Translation Center for the translation of major literary works into Filipino..."

The memorandum was officially transmitted on 20 Janaury 1986 through a covering memorandum by Presidential Executive Assistant Juan C. Tuvera, to Minister Jaime C. Laya and others concerned. It is highly suspected that the vital directive might, or not, have reached its intended addressees, and/or probably intercepted by CIA surrogates in the government bureaucracy.

To the Washington policy makers such audacity by a former Asian spokesman who, 20 years earlier, held the joint session of the US Congress spellbound when he delivered in excellent English, "An Asian Message to America -- Trustee of Civilization," was an act of sacrilege, a fatal error, if not a direct affront to the "IMF policy of insuring that English should remain as the Philippine language of administration and for instruction in the Filipino classrooms," according to Dean Apolinar B. Parale in his book, A Case for Filipino.

It is very necessary for Congress to enact a law declaring Visayan and Ilocano as ALSO official languages of the country, and that after a certain period of time English shall cease to be an official language, and become, as other major languages of the world, an elective language of study in the schools.

It would be also necessary for Filipino journalists and owners of the local periodicals to rethink their language policy, if they still value the meaning of patriotism, or love of Motherland. And this writer hereby appeals to the good reader to kindly visit -- http://www.Petition Online.com/ maBIni2 click this address, and just follow the prompts to endorse the Petition pending in Congress for the rationalization of our governments policy on language.

IRINEO PEREZ GOCE -- a.k.a. Ka Pule2
Marawoy, Lipa City, Batangas