Last Friday, February 24, 2006, Miss Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo with no hesitation declared our country the Philippines in a State of Emergency. She said that this Proclamation No. 1017 was in aide of the national interest and that it would protect the "elected government" at hand. My only response here is "yah right!" in the first place his position is still questionable due to the fact that there was an evidence of her cheating the May 2004 Election and now they're saying that this proclamation of a State of Emergency was in fact needed to protect the duely "elected" government. Our present government is now cowering behind the technicalities of laws. For me, to be able to have the right to declare a state of emergency, one prerequisite of this is a non-questionable ruler.
Our government as of now is throwing away our rights to air our opinion. This is for me the sickest thing that a government can do. it is like living in a wide open prison that all of your rights are suppressed but much worse because we're in this prison without any reason. We can now compare this present regime to the dark days of Martial Law. One of their reason also is to protect the "national" interest. Well for me, what they're saying national interest is the interest of one person, that is Miss Arroyo. If we're going to ask what is the national interest to the common tao, our national interest would be the ousting of the present regime.
posted by JP @ 9:58 AM
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