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What’s next after the panic?

jhay — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:56:35 +0000

Filipino sociologist Prof. Randy David in his recent column in one of the national broadsheets has aptly described the sate in which the public and the government is in: ‘Moral panic.’

Criminals appear more brazen. The police seem more helpless, or in cahoots with the criminals themselves. Prosecutors are unable to pin down the guilty; the courts are not trusted. Journalists are murdered. Politicians are beyond the reach of the law. The metropolis has become the hunting ground of carnappers, terrorist groups, mobile phone muggers and motorbike-riding hold-up men. Criminal syndicates dealing in drugs, human trafficking and kidnap for ransom operate with impunity. And the whole government itself seems powerless to combat corruption.

The recent wave of crimes, accidents and a bombing incident has rattled the collective psyches of government officials and the citizenry.

In response to the recent brutal murders related to car dealerships, lawmakers have proposed the re-imposition of the death penalty.

To help law enforcement agencies with intelligence gathering and tracking down terrorists and other criminals, the registration of SIM card modules have been proposed through legislation.

To top it all off, a Senator has asked President Aquino to appoint a so-called ‘anti-crime czar’ that will spearhead the manhunt for the mastermind of these recent crimes.

These proposals are not without merit. However, looking at the bigger picture, it is not hard to conclude that such are more of knee-jerk reactions that fail to really put these crimes in check – prevent such from happening or deter its re-occurrence through effective and efficient law enforcement , crime solving and prosecution.

They fail to address what Prof David has illustrated: Criminals being less fearful in doing their crimes partly because either the police are in cahoots with them or are completely inept at doing their job. Prosecutors in this country are the almost the same and our courts amongst the untrustworthy today.

The situation has gone down so low, one would hardly need academicians, pundits and even opinion polls to say that Filipinos are now indeed in a panicked state. Just listen to them and you’d often read and hear that for now, prayers are all they are clinging to in these troubled times.

Sins 2.0: New 7 deadly sins

jhay — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 01:10:02 +0000

Was actually waiting for the release of WordPress 2.5 but I never expected to read about the update made to the seven deadly sins according to the Catholic Church.

Just as the ancient wonders of the world were matched by seven modern wonders, the deadly sins have a 21st-century version.

Polluting, genetic engineering, obscene riches, taking drugs, abortion, pedophilia and causing social injustice join the original seven deadly sins defined by Pope Gregory the Great in the sixth century: pride, envy, gluttony, greed, lust, wrath and sloth.

We thank the famous classical writer Dante for popularizing these 7 sins in the human memory. So what are the new 7 deadly sins? There are various versions of the new list but they are summarized in this one:

Pride
Envy
Gluttony
Lust
Anger
Greed
Sloth
Polluting
Genetic engineering
obscene wealth
taking drugs
abortion
pedophilia
causing social injustice

I simly called it “Sins 2.0″ hence the title of this entry. The original list referred to a more individualistic approach but now in our modern world of globalisation, internet and web 2.0 sins have taken a more “global” or wider dimension.

Science vs Religion…again

The reactions in the blogosphere are varied and interesting. Jam notes that the first two depicted well yet again another science and religion conflict. Eye on DNA, a leading blog about genetics and health, helps out the Vatican by further extending the list with particular focus on genetic engineering. And here I am dreaming of being a geneticist one day…thanks ~~Darth~~ Pope Gregory!

Making money off the internets

Interesting and something I find a bit more intriguing is the addition of having “obscene wealth” to the new list. Watch out Bill Gates and the rest of the world’s billionaires, God and the Vatican’s eyes are on you. The same goes for the Google gods Larry Page and Sergey Brin and M$ bigman Steve Ballmer, told ya Micro$oft is evil! Now I wonder, if becoming a dot com mogul like John Chow, Jeremy Schoemaker, Kevin Rowse, Yuga and the other top probloggers would also fall as sin under this category? I’m just thinking out loud here, okay?

Father, forgive me.

But wait, isn’t that priests are amongst the wealthiest in our community too? They drive around the parishes in SUVs, they have the latest Nokia phones, they recieve fat envelopes from source of evil in this country and so on. Are they sinners too?

an even more inconvenient truth

Something more welcoming on the other hand is inclusion of polluting as a deadly sin. Well if Al Gore’s documentary/Hollywood film about the impending doom of our planet doesn’t wake you up perhaps the floods and landslides in the Bicol region will be enough to convince you that it’s time to clean up our acts. Imagine that, first sins of commission and ommision, and now sins of emission!

I just hope that this would help the environmental movement, I want my grandson’s grandchildren to see a real flowing river that’s clean and safe enough to bathe in.

Confess sinners

When was the last time you had a confession? Frankly, I can’t remember mine. Apparently, the decline in practice of this sacrament is what has led Pope Benedict VXI to update the list of deadly sins. And this is at the crux of this whole new update, Joe Buckley drives home a sharp point;

The seven deadly sins are still deadly. The Vatican’s attempt to make confession more relevant, if that’s what this is, will fail badly in the case of the American laity, because it appears to merely make Political CorrectnessTM a virtue. It has the unfortunate effect of trivializing sin and the sacrament of confession.

It reminds me of my very first confession back in my 3rd grade of elementary school. We hardly understood all the previous rituals and prayers the priest had us recite and perform. Things got exciting and difficult when we were told to write down all of our sins on a piece of paper which later would be burned, which in turn would grant us pardon by the Big Guy in the sky.

Can you write all of your sins on a single piece of paper? When I ask all sins, I mean ALL sins because back then, we were whispering to each other if we included this particular bad thing we did yesterday or that awful naughty thing we did last week and so on. The same questions I asked myself, do I include the one when I took 10 pesos from my mom’s wallet or when I bought some fancy toy instead of the stuff I needed for my school project? Some of my classmates were even copying what others have written on their paper!

So Joe has a good point, requiring people to step into a booth with a man in a skirt, I mean robes and confessing up their sins trivializes the whole thing. I say, why bother to tell the priest if God himself knows every little thing we do and in the times we give in and follow our conscience, say silently and sincerely to ourselves, even if not in the presence of others, we’re sorry and we repent for our wrongdoings.

A good discussion by Ed Morrisey in Hot Air about confession and the new seven sins could wrap this up for now:

It’s an exercise I find challenging, unpleasant, but necessary on at least an occasional basis. A hazy and private “My bad!” to God every once in a while doesn’t force me into that level of introspection. With a priest, I know that the actual verbalization of these issues will go no farther, and he acts as a mechanism between penitent and God to ensure that process occurs at all.

However, the addition of sins based on political correctness demeans the process. If pollution is a sin, do I have to give up driving a car? Lighting my house? Burning wood in the fireplace? Or is there a level at which sin arises; if so, will the Vatican provide the formulas? It’s silly, because excessive consumption is already covered by gluttony. This looks like a desperate attempt at temporal relevancy when the Church should be concerned about eternal truths. It’s like watching your parents try to rap.

If the Vatican wonders why Catholics feel that reconciliation has become less relevant, perhaps it’s because the Church tries to impose faddish notions of sin on its members. If the Vatican doesn’t take sin and repentance seriously, why should Catholics?

Glorietta Bombing: Tragic but a bit suspicious

jhay — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:41:22 +0000

First of all, prayers are all I could offer to the families and friends of the victims of the Glorietta bombing.

I first heard about the bombing when some one who was with me in a meeting at the DLSU-D University Student Council office read out loud from a text message he just recieved from a friend that there was a bombing at the Glorietta. We first brushed off his pronouncement and even made jokes about it.

Until after the meeting, I checked out Inquirer.net and there it was, indeed a bomb has exploded in Glorietta. MLQ3 has a good round-up of first-hand blogger eyewitness accounts. It’s citizen-journalism at its peak again.

Update: Here’s a video courtesy of Gambito of the scene after the bombing:

The latest body count are 9 dead and 100+ wounded.

Flak may be thrown at this blog, but I cannot help sharing the sentiments of notes from the peanut gallery, that there is something suspicious about this tragedy. Let me quote:

I cannot help but suspect that the government is creating terrible distractions to draw attention away from the latest Malacanang bribery scandal, where 190 congressmen and officials were handed out glossy bags of cash ranging from 200k-500k. With the heat on our Lady President, her circle has transformed into a bastion of denial, deadma, and absurdist reasoning: that those were early Christmas gifts, that it did not come from the government, that the Lady President did not know about it despite the fact that she attended the very same breakfast meeting where the cash was distributed like loot bags for a children’s party. And when she denies any knowledge of such cash disbursements, the implacation is that she is not in control (how can she not know?, ask many observers).

In the light of so many important issues that our government needs to address, this explosive sleight-of-hand – if it is what I think it is – is simply too cruel.

The following questions are still stuck in my mind;

Why was there no reports or warnings or intelligence alerts that we get to recieve every now and then during the height of the call for the GMA to resign and coup rumors to overthrow her administration?
The government’s intelligence units were so quick to issue warnings of terror alerts or coup attempts or plots to destabilize the government last year. But now that something horrible did happened, why is the government acting too calm and collected, it’s as equally disturbing as the bombing itself?
What happened to all that training and assistance, particularly anti-terror related training, exercises, assistance the AFP got from the US military?

Is this another ploy of the administration to distract the public from the recent wave of scandals that has once more ‘exploded’ into its face? Or is it a signal to all its opponents and critics that this administration would not go down without a fight? Or worse, it’s rehearsal of sorts for darker times to come. (read: pre-text for declaring martial law) I pray not.

Either way, it is not acceptable. It is downright inhuman, dastardly and utterly revolting.

Kung totoo nga talaga, p*t*ng in*!!! Garapal at masahol pa sa kampon ng kasamaan ang administrasyong ito.

On Hello Garci, amnesties, 9/11 and Cris Mendez

jhay — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:05:15 +0000

Being uber busy with offline engagements of late has somewhat prevented me from blogging about the latest events that are making the mainstream media healdlines of late.

There’s the revived ‘Hello, Garci‘ issue, the recent proclamation of an amnesty for CPP-NDF-NPA and other communist rebels, and one of the hottest issues, the senseless and tragic death of Cris Mendez.

On ‘Hello, Garci’

I am in favor of the Senate’s investigation of the issue. This is in the absence of a more credible, more indipendent body or commission that would carry out the investigation armed by laws to give it teeth and brawn as it will have to weave through the myriad of corrupt and vile connections, collusions and collaborations that has enthralled the entire bureaucracy of the government.

As for Sen Santiago’s claim that playing of the ‘Hello Garci’ recordings in the Senate would be a violation of the RA 4200 and provisions of the Constitution safeguarding the privacy of communications between two persons; I am with Sen Escudero on this one. By saying that such laws and provisions of the Constitution would be violated if one Senator let alone the entire Upper House, would listen to the recordings is assuming and even proving that the recordings were indeed wiretapped conversations between two individuals.

As for the the contention of the Administration Senators that the investigation should focus only on the persons or groups, purportedly from the Armed Forces, who allegedly committed the wiretappings and not on the ‘material’ of the recordings; I agree and disagree.

I agree that the investigations should draw out those who were responsible for the wiretappings for clearly, they violated RA 4200 and the Constitutions. If indeed it was the military, the full strenght of the law should be applied because for once, this will show that indeed as enshrined in Sec. III Article II, 1987 Constitution, “Civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the military.”

More so, if the military were to be proven to have violated the laws protecting the rights to the privacy of communication, what more about the allegations that the military has been violating the human and democratic rights of those who are not so friendly and critical of the current administration.

On the second point, I disagree that the investigations should not touch on the ‘material’ of the recordings. Is this possible? Is this practical? Can you listen, let’s say, to a song and only focus on who sang it, how it was sang and not what the song was about? If you’re a vocal coach or sound engineer perhaps you could. But if you’re a legal entity or body tasked by the Constitution to serve justice and the welfare of the people, your task does not end with pin-pointing who did the recordings and bringing them to justice, more to the point, you’re obligated to pin-point and prosecute if necessary the persons who conversed in the recordings if the nature of their conversation involves the national interests. And I tell you, talking about rigging the national elections is a paramount national interest.

If the Senate fails to deliver this time around, the years leading up to the 2010 Presidential elections would be more tumultuous than the years when the ‘Hello, Garci’ was unleashed to the public for the very first time.

The message here is clear and simple, if indeed Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo did not call Comelec Commissioner Virgillo Garcillano over the phone and conpired to manipulate the results of the elections to her favor, then the current occupier of Malacanang and her minions should not be afraid of this new investigation. Sure the burden of proof is with the opposition, but if GMA were indeed innocent, they would waste no time in presenting evidence that would prove as such, instead of stalling and watering down the investigations with smokescreen tactics like EO 464, the numbers game in Congress and flaunting the need of JDV, I mean supposed need to amend our current Constitution.

The question still stands, did GMA, Garcillano and the AFP conspired to manipulate the results of the previous Presidential elections? Looking back on all the actions GMA and her minions undertook ever since the issue first came out, the people still belives, “Mukhang guilty.”

As for the Amnesty on communist rebels

I just hope the Government is sincere this time around, which is for the nth time if one would recall. However, this carrot-and-stick method would not be really effective if the root causes of the armed rebellion are not addressed. And I’m telling you, as long as the government listens to Uncle Sam and his pals from the West this will last even longer.

Aside from the amnesty, the government should also drop the cases against activists, progressive groups and their representatives in government. It should also really, really investigate the numerous cases of human rights abuses and forced disappearances. This will be a good start to really ending the armed struggle in the country.

Justice for Criz Mendez

There are no fraternities, officially recognized ones, in DLSU-D so my take on the issue of fraternities and sororities would be a bit handicapped. Nonetheless, this cannot prevent me from joining those who are mourning the loss of Criz Mendez and calling for justice to be done to him as well as all the other victims of frat-related deaths, injuries and abuses.

Banning frats is not the solution. However, I must stress that hazing is just plain dumb, neanderthal and barbaric. Do parents beat their children to a pulp in order to welcome them into their family and to teach them loyalty?

The video below is a tribute to Cris Mendez, may it all send the message loud and clear, justice for Criz, justice for all the victims of hazing and frat-related violences. Kudos to Shari and The Jester-in-Exile and of course adrianatorres1111 for the video.

Remembering 9/11

Today is the 6th anniversary of the terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Prayers for all the victims and their families. Prayers as well to those who became the innocent targets of George W. Bush’s “War on Terror” in Afghanistan, Guatanamo Bay in Cuba and in Iraq.

In line with this, I’ll be attending a Forum on Terrorism organized by the District Justice and Peace Commission of the De La Salle Philippines at the College of St. Benilde this 1pm in the afternoon. I’ll blog about it later tonight or tomorrow.

Until then, sulong para sa karapatan, kalayaan, kapayapaan at hustisya!

Bad cholesterol, very bad cholesterol

jhay — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 09:49:35 +0000

Nagtatalo ang mga inis, galit, pagkapoot laban sa aking mapang-unawa, rasyunal at pagiging kalmado na personalidad. Matagal-tagal din akong hindi nakapagsulat ng isang Tagalog na artikulo sa blog na ito, nangangahulugan na ang paksa rito ay isang isyu na malapit sa aking puso at mga paninindigan.

Nagsimula ang pagninilay na ito nang una kong nalaman sa blog ni Ederic, may isang balasubas, este kolumnista sa pahayagang Manila Standard Today na nagngangalang Malu Fernandez ang nagsulat tungkol sa paglilibot nya sa bansang Greece kamakailan, at kasama sa kanyang isinulat ang mga engkwentro nya sa mga kababayan nating OFW. Mula sa mga karanasang ito, isinulat niya ang kanyang mga obserbasyon tungkol sa mga OFWs na siyang pinagugatan ng pinakabagong usap-usapan sa blogosphere ngayon.

Sa aking unang akala, pulitiko o isang kampon ng pekeng Pangulo ang tinutukoy ni Ederic sa pambungad niya. Hindi pala pulitiko, at hindi rin kampon ng mandaraya sa eleksyon, kung hindi isang ka-uri niya.

Nakakalungkot hindi ba? Kung sino ang may impluwensya sa lipunan, kilala at may dunong ay siya pang makikitaan mo ng kasuklam-suklam na katangian.

Bakit kamo? Hihiramin ko ang mga bahagi ng kanyang kolum sa isang magasin na binigyang diin ni Schumey sa kanyang blog, at dito ay bibigyan ko ng reaksyon:

“However I forgot that the hub was in Dubai and the majority of OFWs (overseas Filipino workers) were stationed there. The duty-free shop was overrun with Filipino workers selling cell phones and perfume. Meanwhile, I wanted to slash my wrists at the thought of being trapped in a plane with all of them.”

“While I was on the plane (where the seats were too small I had bruises on my legs), my only consolation was the entertainment on the small flat screen in front of me. But it was busted, so I heaved a sigh, popped my sleeping pills and dozed off to the sounds of gum chewing and endless yelling of “HOY! Kumusta ka na? At taga saan ka? Domestic helper ka rin ba?” I thought I had died and God had sent me to my very own private hell.”

Anong mali sa pagkakaupo mo sa loob ng isang eroplano na maraming OFW na naghahanap buhay sa ibang bansa? Oo nga pala, ikaw nga pala ay maglilibot lang sa Greece, hindi sa Geenbelt, sa Greece.

Pero nagtataka ako, bakit gusto niyang maglaslas ng pulso? Bakit siya umiinom ng sleeping pills para lang makatulog? Bakit naman naapektuhan siya ng mga tunog ng pagnguya ng bubble gum o kaya ay ang pagkakamustahan ng mga Pilipino sa eroplano? At sa huli, bakit kaya naisipan niya na bibigyan siya ng Diyos ng sarili niyang impyerno?

Marahil dahil sa nagkaroon siya ng pangit na karanasan noong bata pa siya. O sadyang may sayad lang ang kanyang pag-iisip. Sino ang matinong tao na gustong maglaslas ng kanyang pulso? Sino ang nasa tamang kaisipan ang nangangailangan ng sleeping pills para lamang makatulog?

O siguro ay “insecure” lang siya dahil tila siya lang ang hindi binati ng kanyang kapwa Pilipino sa eroplano? Minsang napagusapan namin sa mga klase ko sa Sikolohiya na ang pagiging insecure ng isang babae sa kanyang sarili ay siyang nagdudulot ng kanyang pagkataba, labis na pagkataba. Nasabi ko ito dahil sinabi niyang pinagkasya lang niya ang kanyang sarili sa upuan ng eroplano upang makaupo.

Nabanggit ko rin naman ang pagiging labis na mataba, may ilang pagtingin dito na ang pagiging mataba ay simbolo ng kagahaman sa mga bagay-bagay.

Karaniwan ay pagkain (kaya matunog sa tenga niya ang bubble gum), pera (kaya naglilibot-libot na lang sa Greece), materyal na bagay (kaya mainit sa mata niya ang mga binebentang cellphones ng mga OFWs) attensyon (biruin mo ‘yun, nangangarap siya na bibigyan siya ng Diyos ng bukod na impyerno para lang sa kanya? O baka naman ganoon na siya talaga kataba?) o kasikatan, (kaya ipinagyayabang niya ang kanyang paglilibot sa Greece at pumasok siya sa pagiging manunulat o kolumnista)

“On my way back, I had to bravely take the economy flight once more. This time I had already resigned myself to being trapped like a sardine in a sardine can with all these OFWs smelling of AXE and Charlie cologne while my Jo Malone evaporated into thin air.”

Muli ay may mga bagay na ipinapagtaka ko. Bakit kailangan niyang maglakas loob na sumakay sa economy class? At bakit Jo Malone pa ang ginamit niyang pabango?

Siguro ay hindi na siya kasya o kulang na ang pera niya para sa First class. Pangalawa ay kahit makasakay pa siya sa First class at magpabango ng Jo Malone ay wala pa ring babati at mangangamusta sa kanya na kapwa Pilipino doon dahil walang nakakakilala sa kanya. Ako nga, sa totoo lang ay ngayon ko lang unang narinig ang kanyang pangalan, at isa pala siyang kolumnista. Paumanhin, kasi kapag wala akong natututunan sa isang kolumnista, hindi ko na binabasa muli ang kanyang mga kolum.

Hindi lang ako ang nagbigay pansin sa kanyang kolum. Maraming mambabasa ng magasin na iyon ay nakatanggap ng mga mensaheng nagsasabing may mali o hindi nila nagustuhan ang isinulat ng kolumnistang ito. Narito naman ang kanyang tugon;

“Just recently, I wrote a funny article in my magazine column and my friends thought it was hilarious. It was humorous and quite tongue-in-cheek, or at least I thought so, until the magazine got a few e-mails from people who didn’t get the meaning of my acerbic wit. The bottom line was just that I had offended the reader’s socioeconomic background. If any of these people actually read anything thicker then a magazine they would find it very funny. Most people don’t get the fact that they need bitches like me to shake up their world, otherwise their lives would be boring and mediocre. I obviously write for the a certain target audience and if what I write offends you, just stop reading.

Although it may sound elitist to you the fact is this country is built on the foundation of haves, have-nots and wannabes. One group will never get the culture of the other. Although I could mention that it is easier to understand someone who has a lower socioeconomic background that would entail a whole other page and frankly I don’t want to be someone to bridge the gap between socioeconomic classes. I leave that to the politicians in my family who believe they can actually help. Now I seriously ask you, am I being a diva or are people around me just lacking in common sense? Perhaps it’s a little of both!”

Tama rin naman siya, hindi talaga mabilis na magkakaunawaan ang mga tulad niyang burgis at elitista dahil para sa mga ito, ang mga nakakababang uri ay nariyan lamang upang kanilang pagsamantalahan at gawing kasangkapan sa kanilang pagpapayaman at patuloy na pamumuhay sa karanghiyaan. Ang mga tulad niyang magkakape lang ay gagastos pa ng mahigit 100-piso, yung mga kakain lang ng butas na tinapay ay gagastos ng halos 500-piso, yung mga nagbabakasyon o naglilibot lang sa ibang bansa kapag naisipan, yung mga lumolobo sa kagahaman at katamaran at nangangailangang uminom ng sleeping pills dahil hindi na makatulog sa sobrang pagiging insecure sa sarili at sa kanyang ka-uri.

Muli ay tama siya na silang magkakauri lamang ang magkakaintindihan at magiging komportable sa kanyang isinulat, ngunit nalilimutan niya na ang uri nila ay iilan lamang. At kapag hindi nakapag-pigil ang mga nasa ibabang uri, na siyang higit na nakararami sa bilang at lakas, o dun na lang sa mga nakasakay niyang mga OFW sa eroplano, ay malamang hindi lang laslas sa pulso ang makukuha niya.

Ang mga ibang bloggero na nagbigay ng kanilang mga reaksyon:

Jae, Ailee, Arn-Arn, Selvo, Maru, Arbert, CVJ, Sparks, Nick at Pedestrian Observer

Update:

May sinimulang kampanya sa Tingog.com upang patalsikin sa kanyang posisyon bilang kolumnista sa Manila Standard Today ang ~~balasubas~~ walang kasing kitid ng isip at matapobreng sosyalista na si Malu Fernandez.

Kung sino man ang nais sumuporta sa kampanyang ito at labanan ang ganitong uri ng pamamahayag na lumalapastangan sa dignidad at pagkatao ng mga migranteng manggagawa (OFW) sundin lamang ang mga sumusunod na hakbang:

1. Mag email sa Manila Standard Today at hilingin ang resignasyon o ang pasibak kay Malu Fernandez.
2. Magsulat sa iyong blog tungkol sa iyong posisyon sa isyung iyo at manawagan ng suporta sa kampanya para sibakin si Malu Fernandez.
3. Huwag munang bumili ng Manila Standard Today hangga’t hindi nareresolba ang isyu.
4. Ipaalam sa mga kaanak at kaibigan ang tungkol sa isyu na ito.
5. Palaganapin ang isyu na ito upang mapagusapan.
6. Sumulat o tumawag sa mga lokal at nasyunal na pahayagan tungkol sa isyu na ito.

Kailan man hindi dapat maging sukatan ng pagkatao at dignidad ng isang tao ang materyal na yaman. Sa panahong ngayon na labis ang paghihirap ng mamamayan, lalo na ng mga migranteng manggagawa o OFW, walang lugar sa bansang ito para sa mga katulad ni Malu Fernandez.

UPDATE:

Nagbitiw na raw sa kanyang posisyon sa Manila Standard Today at People Asia si Malu Fernandez. Mabuti kung ganoon. Marami ang nagsasabi na hindi dapat magsaya ng lubusan ang blogosphere at akuin ng lahat ang glorya ng tagumpay na ito. Sa aking pagtingin, ang tagumpay na ito ay para sa lahat nang hindi sang-ayon sa mga isinulat ni Bb Fernandez.

May ilang nagsasabi na ang mga ibang kritiko ni Bb. Fernandez ay naging hipokrito sa kanilang mga reaksyon at aksyon. Yung tipong “bago mo punahin ang uling sa mukha ng iba ay siguraduhing wala munang uling sa sarili mong mukha.”

Balikan natin ang kwento kung saan sinabi ni Kristo, “Kung sino man ang walang pagkakasala, ay siyang unang pumukol ng bato.” Walang nambato diba? Ngunit dahil tayo ay may pare-parehong bahid ng dumi ay magsasawalang-bahala na lang tayo? Hihintayin pa ba nating may isa sa ating maging tuluyang malinis bago balikan ang pagtuturo ng mga uling sa ating sarili? Papano na lang kung hanggang sa katapusan ng panahon ay walang luminis, kahit isa? Papaano na tayo?

Ang punto dito ay sama-sama tayong magturuan ng dumi sa ating mga sarili. Kumbaga pupunahin ko ang iyong dumi at ganoon ka naman sa akin. Nang sa ganoon ay sama-sama at sabay-sabay tayong luminis at makawala sa mga dumi.

Nakakalungkot man, ang mga paraang marumi ang tanging paraan para mapansin ng ating pinupuna ang kanilang pagkakamali, dahil tanging yaong bagay na lang ang kanilang nakikita o nauunawaan.

Kailan hindi dumanak ang dugo sa tuwing may sanggol na isinisilang?

Dahil tapos na ang isyung ito, at para maisawan na rin ang iba pang bagay na hindi maganda o tama, sarado na ang pagkokomento sa artikulo na ito.