Merely walking into corruption?
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
In what is now being bruited about as Angie Reyes’ last statement that he “did not invent corruption” and merely “walked into it” while accepting aspects of corruption as a fact of life, it must therefore be asked: Why accept corruption as a fact of life in the country? Why not do something about it?
In his being in the highest post of the military and later, the many other top departmental posts in the civilian government, it is assumed that he had accepted too, the many aspects of corruption in various government positions as a fact of life.
This is much too disturbing, because it presupposes that all others in the military and the entire government, then and now, have “walked into corruption” and accepted its aspects as a way of life.
And if such is the mind set of government official and employees, who apparently feel that they too, just walked into the web of corruption, without feeling any qualms over not fighting it or even move to cut off this pernicious evil, because this, to them, is a fact of life, it can be assumed that corruption still persists even in the new military and the new government, and no one, past or present, is apparently willing to expose this corruption that eats at the soul of the government and the military, as well as the police, because apparently, from the statement issued by Reyes such a thing as acceptance of the imperfect system is not dishonorable and just a small fault..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110214com2.html
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