so this is life in manila...

I am just disturbed by FVR and his cohorts' insistence with charter change. Since I heard it billowing on the news back when i was in high school, i felt as if i have always known that this ploy appears to be a very dangerous attempt to grab the powers-that-may-be.

Let me quote what Neal Cruz of PDI said recently wrote about this issue:

A parliamentary/unicameral government is run by the political party in
power as if it is a dictatorship or a monarchy. There is no system of checks and balances as we now have in a presidential/bicameral government. The members of Parliament are also Cabinet members, and have influence over the Supreme Court and the judiciary. In other words, they can do pretty much what they want and there is nothing the people can do to stop them, except mount a revolution or a coup d'état. If the majority party can do what it is now doing in a bicameral government in rushing headlong into Cha-cha, imagine what it will do in a parliamentary government.

(italics and emphases mine)

So you see, it's pretty scary to have big changes like that without thinking it over. Personally, I don't see a need to change the constitution. What we need are rulers who have the heart and balls to enforce the law, and to lead right. It appears that they spend much time bickering and throwing mud on each others' faces than really addressing the needs of the people.

It seems that Bayani Fernando is just one of the few Filipino rulers who are really into serving the country. I myself am a son of a street-vendor, and I know how the laws he enforces feel like. When he said on TV that he'll wipe clean the sidewalks from obstructions, he really meant it. Much like Lady Justice whose eyes are blindfolded, he wields his sword without impartiality. The streetrats may say he's ruthless; but I say "Bayani understands Urbanidad more than anyone else." They shouldn't be there in the first place.

I hate to appear ruthless. Who says immigration is evil? But people from the provinces are too adventurous. Some end up in the luxuries of Forbes Park. Some end up in the slums of the Pasig River. Everyone thinks there's gold all over the metro.

Dapat itinataguyod nila ang mga porbinsya nila. Kung magsisisksikan silang lahat sa Maynila, magiging ghost towns na yung mga probinsya nila. Manila has been clogged too much. Today, Manila sucks. Reason why we have kids asking for alms?

Don't get me started.