Bong Go’s impossible deniability (2)
Bong Go and the Dutertes can deny 24/7 that their conscience is clear and they did not steal a single red centavo. Conscience is always clear, especially when it is not used.

Bong Go and the Dutertes can deny 24/7 that their conscience is clear and they did not steal a single red centavo. Conscience is always clear, especially when it is not used.
Imagine Congress with workers, farmers, teachers, indigenous peoples, working people crafting laws and receiving what ordinary workers receive. They view their work primarily as service to the people, not a means for personal gain.
Go’s star shone brightest upon Duterte’s electoral victory, with people forgetting that Bong Go was in reality just a runner for Duterte and his regular partner Honeylet Avancena, buying LPG cylinders and doing errands for the emperor and empress of Davao City.
The budget hearings educate us on how this corrupt system persists and operates and the people are taking action. The myth of unassailability, like the glass house, will shatter into a million pieces.
“While the US is given the heads up over our internal affairs, Filipinos are deliberately kept in the dark,” KMP added. “This reeks of foreign interference and undermines the pompous claim that the ICI is acting in the people’s interest.”
Kung paanong walang pagkatinag ang mga nasa tuktok at galamay ng burukrata kapitalismo sa pagkakamal ng yaman at pandarahas sa mamamayan, mas dapat magpalakas ang kabataan upang komprontahin ang ugat ng suliranin sa bansa at iguhit ang kanilang natatanging papel sa lipunan bilang pag-sa ng bayan.
“Let us always remind ourselves that government aid is ours by right, not by favor, especially since it comes from taxpayers’ money,” said Raquiza.
No prosecutions, no accountability and a budget that continues the system of corruption – protests must continue this October. Support the youth-led protests on October 17. Support the farmers’ who are victims of flooding, corruption and low palay prices who will march on October 21.
Perhaps, it is the Duterte contagion, or transference, that took over their brains and compelled them to lionize the architect of the summary killings in his so-called anti-drug war.
The entire world must take pity on the Philippines, not only for suffering from the depredations of the ruling political dynasties and regimes notorious for plundering the country’s wealth, but also for the ultimate tragedy of being the most vulnerable country to typhoons, flooding, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and the twin disasters of El Nino and La Nina.







