Seeking help, refusing to listen EDITORIAL 08/03/2010

Seeking help, refusing to listen

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 08/03/2010 Noynoy Aquino has again sought the public’s participation in his campaign against corruption, saying that citizens should not be bystanders in the fight against the twin evils of government. That’s all to the good, his calling for public support in his claimed fight. And if his yellow devotees are to be believed, they have been raring to help the Noynoy presidency, even as they have also been known to complain that they are being shunted aside by certain power blocs in the Palace. Many appear to be willing not to become bystanders in this fight against the twin evils in government. Yet it seems more like Noynoy is not willing to listen to what is being brought out even in the newspapers, with Noynoy even defending his officials who are being exposed in the media for some infraction or misdeed that goes against his so-called righteous path. Two cases in point substantiate this statement: Not too long ago, the official Noynoy appointed to head the Bureau of Customs, was reported in a big way to have cheated at a golf tournament. The facts were pretty accurate: The Golf Club itself suspended the official and fired two caddies who had altered the golf scores of this official for him to win..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100803com1.html

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