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Getting rid of the enemy: Population VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 03/10/2011

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Getting rid of the enemy: Population

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Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz
03/10/2011
It is not really an improbability that the incumbent administration with its known and secret allies in the present legislative department, will go down in Philippines history as the subtle but ardent enemy of the people — more concretely in its disdain if not hatred for the Filipino population. This may sound too radical and wherefore could be saddled with but fertile imagination if not downright fantasy.

How could the public officials concerned be against population when they are in fact counted among them because their own parents did not prevent their conception nor procure their abortion? Why would the government be the enemy of population when a good number of them are sadly looked upon as but chattel to offer and deploy for foreign employment? And it is also true of OFWs who precisely form part of the Filipino population..... MORE

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