Statement of Sen. Panfilo Lacson on ‘pabaon’

as Lacson said above:

Beyond those borders, I call on President Benigno Aquino III to seize this unusual opportunity of his time, highlighted by Heidi Mendoza and the supreme sacrifice inflicted by Gen Angelo Reyes upon himself, by including all other agencies of the national government in an extensive accounting of how the taxpayers’ money are being spent. I am afraid, this opportunity will not present itself again even in the next one hundred years.

Four points I’d like to suggest about the common sensical comment or question: Why Only Now?

One: Why Only Now? Why did General Angelo Reyes NOT commit suicide earlier (days or weeks before) when it was the best time to save the Armed Forces and the PMA’s honor and reputation? No time perhaps in the past was the best of time than when he did it later, as finally decided by General Reyes.

Two: Columnists, political pundits, or Opinion makers have in their arsenal of criticism the gift of hindsight. Any comment or opinion BACKED by hindsight do not the serve the weight it profess to project. In politics FORESIGHT in making decisions is sometimes overshadowed by opportunism. HINDSIGHT does not always mean wisdom. It could mean superficial brilliance.

Three: Comments based on hindsight tends to BELITTLE than to praise present actions. It is FUTILE mental exercise because you can not turn back the hands of time. Its value is as guide to future decision making. It is the best example of the truly Filipino word
SAYANG which has no apt single English word translation.

Four: Why Only Now can be the sharpest weapon that can be used against any well meaning politician or President. Slow, Indecisive decision making can sometimes result in more benefits than harm. Doing it later could well be discretion is the better part of valor. It is the philosophical counterppoint to Shakespeare’s “Cowards die many times before their death” so that many others can live because of cowardice.

Sa Tagalog ko sana sasabihin pero baka mag iba ang kahulugan.

Ther’s a saying don’t count the chicks before
They are hatched. Huwag bilangin ang sisiw
Habang itlog pa lang.

Ang ugat ng economic crisis na siyang Achilles heel ng
mga Economists ay kanilang mga assumptions. Kung ganito karami ang unemployment ganito rin kataas ang inflation. Kung ganito ang export ganito rin ang sulong ng sweldo ng manggawa.

Na shipwrecked, nakalangoy sa isang maliit na isla isang engineer,Isang abogado, at isang economist. Gutom nakakikita ng isang Latang karne norte. Hindi mabuksan. Sabi noong isa isalang sa apoy para bumukas. Yung isa naman pukpukin daw ng rock. Mali. Sabi ng ekonomista. Mas magaling “Let us assume a can opener. “

Ako bilang Pinoy nagbibilang din agad ng sisiw kahit ang manok dumalaga pa lang. Assumptions is the first step to daydreaming. Pag may lotto ticket puedeng mag daydream o mangarap (iba sa managinip). KUNG ang salitang susi ng pagbibilang ng sisiw. Kung inupakan ng presidential guards ang mga protesters ni Erap at di siya tumakbo hindi tayo naghirap kay Gloria. Kung!

Kung nagsalita at kumilos si Ping, seguro hindi lumaki ang kurakot sa military. Ang buhay ay hindi dapat nasasalay sa kung. Yang ang komedia ng economic plans ng mga ekonomista kung makokoleta ang value added tax ay liliit ang budget deficit. Kaso ninakaw at ibininta yung value added tax. Ang kung at daw ay salitang magkapatid tulad ng magnanakaw at sinungaling. Sa talakayan lang naman.

Otra cosa yun kung sa isang probinsiya yung itlog agad ibon na. Hindi tulad sa Cebu, yung lagay meron dalawang itlog.

Re #97
Medio hindi yata sila nagkaintindihan dito. “Don’t turn this into a Political event. This is Family.” Sabi noong retired Commodore ba o Rear Admiral?

Sabi ng Inquirer sabi ni PNOY: “In a speech at the Philippine Military Academy alumni homecoming in Baguio City, Mr. Aquino stressed the need to bring to justice those who committed acts of corruption in the military as stated in the ongoing congressional inquiry.

“Iimbestigahan po natin kung paano masasampahan, di lang po yung mga tinutukoy ngayon, ng kaso ngunit pati na rin po ang mga kakutsaba nila, kasama na po yung mga prosecutor na kasangkot sa Garcia plea bargain agreement [We will investigate how charges could be filed not only against those being identified now, but also their accomplices, including the prosecutors involved in the Garcia plea bargain agreement],” the President said. From INQUIRER ONLINE.

We don’t know what Mr. Robles meant when he said that, or whether he knows what he was talking about. A social event like a wedding or birthday party is different from an institutional reunion (loaded with individual self interest) where politics as subject of discourse will be taboo. There is a fine or no distinction at all of discourse or social intercourse that transpires during social and political events. Will it be polite or gross for a guest or host to tell those attending: “This is a political event. Please no social talk or gossiping here.”

P NOY accused of being somehow challenged or whatever knew his duty when he talked of his “side” on values, moral values (including money). File charges on erring prosecutors, he said. He may have accidentally learned in his economics education that “politics is nothing but the authoritative allocation values in the society.” Since
P NOY is the number one allocator of values in Philippine society. P NOY decides on who gets what, where, how and why. P NOY presence and the presence there of others anywhere makes it a political event, be it a wedding or his courtship of his lady love.

Sa tingin ko hindi sa speech writer nangaling yung sinabi niya. Ang tanong gagawin ba niya? May follow up ba?

To AdeB, Anna to others

I am non military and had only ROTC exposure. I waited for other bloggers to deny or disprove your acerbic but straight and honest seemingly close to the truth criticisms of the Philippine military ranks not file. I only heard and read Silence.

Your comment please, A de B and others. I heard this about the military in general (including French and British; ours being more American). About canalized thinking, one-track mind and the “military mind.” I remember seeing on TV a bemedalled hero of EDSA, a PN FOIC defending and asserting that there is no such thing as a “military mind” that somehow causes them to be always one step behind in guerrilla warfare. He wasn’t convincing at all.

From our smart and pogi ROTC Commandant I will not forget his admonition that we must avoid “fighting the problem instead of solving it” I thought that axiom prevents deep thinking.

Here’s my theory Ms. A de B: Instinctive obedience, the millions of YES Sir, said and yelled out for four years in a military academy and hundred thousands more during the starting career years in the service lead to canalized thinking and one track mind.

With Yes Sir all the time one has to agree before thinking and very likely accept without question inferior ideas of mentally inadequate superiors. I am not theorizing that this is also the cause why Generals have their wives as their commanders. I am not likely to say too, that army wives in many homes don’t say yes sir and therefore the Mrs. don’t develop canalized thinking. Had caused it instead. Pinoy generals make light and joke about it. AdeB, do French and British Brigadiers say even in a joke that at home the wife is the commander? I am not asking are you a commander Ms. Anna. Sorry if that’s being bastos and impolite.

“Millions of yes sirs in the sub conscious lead to Canalized Thinking” could be apt Ms Thesis title to those taking but preferably not within the portals of NDCP. Among the comissioned officers, thinking outside the box and practicing it could be traced to studies by military officers (Trillanes? Henry90?) in institutions where some professors think saying yes sir means being compliant, subservient, aquiescent, disdainful, etc.

Anna, In the issue of abolishing the PMA, can we avoid application of canalized thinking?

So far, my views I posted here about the PMA can be nutshelled into two:

One: A guts and Balls remedy—PMA to disown their scalawags graduates, delete them from the rolls of its alumni without fanfare; how the Catholic Church do it to defrock their sinfull scalawag priests may not be a good example.

Two: Innovation and creativity to transform the PMA, let it sire small (is beautiful) new, clean institutions to realized the defense and protection of the country’s sovereignty. Today if the PMA is the guardian of our sovereignty, we have in reality no sovereignty. The way China, US and other country treat us. Well, I recommended and AdeB seems to be accord for the creation of small PAA, PAFA, PSeaforcesA (PN, MC, PCG).

No government or little country in Timbukto or Alaska should say they have no resources. Inadequacy of resources is a matter of opinion, mental outlook and development orientation. I daresay and will volunteer to work on it to prove that the PMA 2011 budget with little augmentation from the Armed Forces of the Philippines budget without the horrible anomalous conversions is more than enough. The first building of the PMA was no Madison Square Garden.

It should be hammered or drummed into the heads of those in governance that deficits is mostly the result not inadequate taxation but of stupidity and shameless extravagance in government spending. Reigned in spending and you reduced need for oppressive taxation of the middle class and the poor.

Oops, nakaligtaan, datan na kasi.
Salamat A de B, etc sa response, comments
sa postings ko.