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Senate President Pro Tempore Jinggoy Estrada is clashing head on with the Church and other moralist civic society groups over his advocating the legalization of jueteng or the two-number game of chance that had preyed on the state of poverty among the poor majority.
The proposal, however, appears for now the only pragmatic solution to the massive corruption and the overpowering influence on government and the society of the evil network built up from the illegal numbers game.
Scandals, as a result of government, military and Police officials being caught in the lucrative bribery web spun by jueteng lords, have become a seasonal affair and it is rare that anybody gets prosecuted. Such revelations on the government officials coddling of jueteng lords are then followed by perfunctory orders on the Philippine National Police (PNP) and local government officials to crack down on the illegal numbers game.
When the outrage dies down, the illegal gambling lords and their cohorts in government come out of their temporary retreats to again resume making hay, with impunity this time around to make up for lost time.
The next year, somebody from the Church or a disgruntled member of the gambling network explodes a bombshell and the same yearly vicious cycle is repeated..... MORESource: The Daily Tribune
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