The height of Noynoy’s hypocrisy EDITORIAL 08/14/2010

The height of Noynoy’s hypocrisy

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 08/14/2010 Proof of the exploitation of the poor by the wealthy and again politically powerful Cojuangco-Aquino clan can be proven in a photograph of an out of job Hacienda Luisita farm worker, getting a measly P260 for having signed away his right to own the hacienda land and agreeing to retain the Stock Distribution Option (SDO), while another worker, a limping 76-year-old man was paid P347, the equivalent of his 2,400 shares in the Hacienda Luisita Inc. (HLI). The reason the old man chose the SDO? He chose the SDO to be able to work again, because owning the land would not be enough. What an injustice it is, for the poor to be reduced to selling their legal right for a few hundred pesos, which is peanuts to the Cojuangco-Aquinos, who know just the right but immoral and illegal buttons to push the poverty-stricken farm workers into submission and for a song. Yet Noynoy Aquino pledged to give justice to all, when he is part and parcel of that illegal and immoral SDO, and part as well of the blatant bribery engaged in by the clan. He certainly knew what the clan was doing and what it is after. Noynoy claims he owns merely 1 percent or so of HLI and that he will not interfere with the problem at HLI because he claims he won’t involve himself in an intra-corporate dispute. That is a pure hypocritical stand, and he and his boys in Malacañang know it. Noynoy, like his mother before him, and like his hacendero relatives, want the SDO retained even if illegal. They want to keep the land, and continue shortchanging and exploiting further the poor workers.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100814com1.html

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