System failure
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| Larry Faraon, OP |
\"And I admit I am part of the system, although I tried very hard to fight it. I am not perfect and the system is rotten but I come with clean hands,” to quote star witness and whistle-blower former Commission on Audit (CoA) auditor Heidi Mendoza in her tear jerking and drenching testimony in the Senate the other day. As to what “system” is Ms. Mendoza referring to, is no longer guess work since the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the CoA are crystals in black carpet.
But the system is a network, a web of inter-agencies weaving dynamically and pathetically in a rather complicated swirl, familiar only to the crafty and creative evil minds of the malicious, whose greed is beyond moderation. In this ongoing and endless exposé of a grand scheme to steal public funds to embalm the corrupted carcasses of the avaricious, other systems in the network should not be spared.
And even if Ms. Mendoza, after all those declamatory and defamatory statements, is now being cowed by some of her bonding buddies in CoA, whose reputation as an independent constitutional body is at stake, the Senate or other investigating and prosecuting agencies should take the cudgels in enlisting even the banking system of Land Bank for instance and other soiled hands in the paper or money trail. Or further perhaps into the halls of Malacañang itself, since all these corrupt activities happened under the watch of that chronic regime of Mrs. Gloria Arroyo. Already in the media offing are clamors to get Mrs. Arroyo involved in all these since she put in more air in the balloon of the military spoiled brats which now is bursting one by one..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110206com5.html
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