Many of us accept as normal the things we lived with and got used to for many years, even including things which we know are wrong, and it takes just as long or even longer to finally recognize them as they are: that they are wrong. This is exactly the case of the culture of kleptocracy that we live with since the time we no longer can recall when. Ask an ordinary man in the street about the kickbacks government project contractors give to their project proponents and you would get a ready, nonchalant answer: Normal yan, di ba?, or, S.O.P. yan di ba? I remember the time PDAF began to unravel. Several leading Congressmen, interviewed live on TV, declared, Paano na yung mga mahihirap na constituents namin, sino na ngayon ang tutulong sa kanila? I interviewed some recipients of the famous, or infamous (depending on your persuasion), birthday cakes given by the local government unit to which they belonged, and asked them about the possibility that the distribution of those cakes could be anomalous. Their answer was unanimous, Mabuti nga pinamahagi pa sa mahihirap yung nakulimbat nila. So there, our journey along daang matuwid will surely be long and arduous.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 04:33:37 +0000
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