"After Corruptors, Oppressors,
a growing Pandemic and a Leader who is Pathetic"
Thoughts after the recent statements and actions
made by the present Duterte administration
At first, this note expresses a deep concern of the people over the recent remarks of president Duterte in regards to his actions surrounding this COVID19 pandemic. Mostly in his unusual drunken and callous self, his messages seemed contrary to reassuring the people as it confuses those who listened.
In this note, people are concerned with deep anxiety about what the Duterte administration as well as those of the administration's actions that:
1.) Duterte failing to answer to the Filipino people after dismissing speculations of him going to Singapore for a medical checkup, while insisting his right to do so, contemptuously ignoring the travel restrictions which he and his quarantine generals have harshly imposed in the name of pandemic control.
2.) The misinterpretation of woes surrounding the pandemic situation especially from health workers and medical professionals as "inciting to revolution."
3.) The corruption within the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation amidst pandemic, whose executives have pocketed 15 million pesos from its funds, and overpriced IT equipment.
4.) The passage of the antiterror act that equates the right to dissent as an act of terror and an elaborate system of surveillance including attempts to regulate social media by state elements. It is also the same law that justifies the carrying out of assassinations against radicals like Randall Echanis and Zara Alvarez.
5.) The ever-submissive stance towards China instead of defending sovereignty in the contested Kalayaan Group and Panatag Shoal. Which is way contrary to the promise of "having an Independent Foreign Policy" stated by Duterte.
6.) The shutdown of ABS CBN in an attempt to silence opposition on the basis of "technicality".
There are more statements and actions brought about by the administration, but given the these examples lies the further need to "seek truth from facts" and to expose, oppose the inconveniences brought by the order through the administration. To "Seek truth" has becoming more than just diligence in study or investigation, of beating around, scratching the surface, or digging deeper in search for truth, but also includes finding correct solutions to the emerging as well as inherited problems- that at times be more than just the convention.
For contrary to the supporter's impression that the administration still adheres to democratic principles, the vulgar orderist agenda has shown that such any action against the administration, what more of the order in itself is interpreted as being "antidemocratic"; but this doesn't stop the people from ever-getting concerned over matters surrounding the regime and its actions, especially in this pandemic situation that the order treated as a "chance" to pursue their orderist agenda masked as "development".