Recover the loot: Jail all crooks (but beware of destabilizers)

By Reni M. Valenzuela

Rallies are not about numbers, but about heart.

There is only one forthcoming protest rally against corruption – by the people, of the people, with the people, through the people, for the people. And that is the November 30 Bonifacio Day “Trillion Peso March” Part 2.

Beware of destabilizers, dearest countrymen. Don’t let our outrage over corruption and the corrupt be funneled and directed toward the wrong object, exploited by the ill-motivated, the ignorant and by the assorted crackpots, weasels and trouble-makers.

Watch out, dear media, that you be not swayed to flow with the throng, blinded and synod, each with their respective plots designed and schemed out by politicians who have fallen from grace alongside the religious and sacrilegious who have fallen by the way side, aided by a few ex-military/police officers whose careers as men in uniform have fallen or transitioned into pangs, grievance, irrelevance, oblivion and silent rebellion.

All are self-obsessed with varied axe to grind (personally, politically, parochially) against the Way, the Truth, the Life, and the Light – against justice, equity and righteousness. Cover only the news or the real – not that of the mere, poorer copycats, dear members of the fourth estate.

To my fellow patriots: The enemy is not the President or the BBM administration, BUT corruption. For all its flaws, blinkers and blunders, this present government should be credited for initiating and sustaining the series of continuing exposes and investigations regarding the massive, blatant looting of the nation’s coffers in the ignominious flood control projects of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) which started long, long ago and worsened during the debauched immediate past Duterte administration, and whose worsening was carried over to the present dispensation.

Mon Tulfo’s list of destabilizers may be unreal, but the names listed therein are real people, I mean real.

Right, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. cannot wash his hands and could be questioned for approving the bad national budget of the previous years, but he responded and acted promptly and aptly the split moment the ghost projects of the DPWH (initially) reached his attention. “Mahiya naman kayo,” he preached in his July SONA.  Hence, BBM’s swift and serious actions (equal to repentance) make the sin forgivable. And that answers the question.

Don’t use the book to circumvent the law and favor the bad. Read between the lines and read well to grasp its depth and cite correctly every string and row, every code and edict of every precept and statute embodied and engraved therein. Take wigs and blinders off. Take wings, instead.

Employ and enforce the law to do what is right, what’s just, wise and virtuous, and thereby bless/benefit the people — and heal, invigorate, recover and uplift our ransacked, violated, brutalized, raped motherland amid the mother of all scandals, thieveries and ignominies.

Dear Executive, Legislature and Judiciary: Let the interest of the Filipino people be foremost in your agenda – away from your own and ambitions. Identify, ostracize, shame and beat the shameless, crooks, crocs and Jokers among you. Be extra cautious of impostors, the ones who love to paint themselves as “experts” by twisting the law just to serve their personal, devious, vociferous interests. Covetous.

Ang kapal. 

Apply the law but fail thee not to heed and apply reason, common sense, fairness and conscience, if you have them all. Use moral compass — each time. Thus, uphold the unwritten Law that is higher than any Constitution or human laws anywhere on the planet. Put the Omnipotent One in the equation or you put all in disarray, misjudgment, confusion and debacle. “God is like oxygen. You can’t see Him, but you need Him to survive” (and perform).

No matter the “piety” / religiousness and pettiness of robbers, thugs, clowns and charlatans, they are godless and fools. “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.” – Psalm 14:1

Filipinos will settle for nothing less than the recovery of the stolen money (all of it) by the avaricious and cannibalistic in the anomalous, animalistic, flood control projects and countless other fraudulent infrastructure undertakings of the government (discovered and yet to be discovered) all over the country – under hell’s management / superintendence, the DPWH.

But thank God for its new department head, the hard-working, upright, wise, spot-on and brave Vince Dizon. He has been doing his best to turn the inferno into a Great White Throne Judgment and purge/cleanse/purify the most filthy, hellish, notoriously corrupt government agency whose corruptness can be traced back from the time the ambitious, abominable Tower of Babel (or “logo”) was built, constructed and erected (and worshiped), courtesy of the prodigals, pharisaical and diabolical in the olden times, via the Old Testament “DPWH.” Kudos.

Seeing the crooks (all of them) caught, prosecuted, punished and jailed for their crimes the soonest possible time is the next great, big thing that may happen in our country at this juncture of our annals as a people, subsequent to repossessing the billions upon billions of pesos worth of stolen people’s property and money — to its last centavo.

Only then the “Indio” outrage over corruption and the corrupt will be tempered and assuaged. Until such phenomena take place, the massive rallies by awakened, angered Filipinos as one people (not as a religious bloc) will not stop. Tuloy-tuloy ang laban sa katiwalian at kasamaan hanggang malipol at masupil ang lahat ng mga tiwali, liko at demonyo sa pamahalaan, lipunan at simbahan.

But what about politicians who act like bears with sore, bald heads, mad as a badger, to drive all up the wall; they who apparently don’t just play the role of a devil’s advocate in the ongoing “halloween” brouhaha, but with bare face, are they (conspicuously as well) serving their covert, pernicious trades and agendas in blatant, arrogant, portentous, pretentious, brazen manners? “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” – Romans 1:22

Why shield the corrupt and opt to be silly and ridiculous in Blue Ribbon committee hearings via your antics and by always citing “laws” to defend the villainous and advance the dubious and obvious, my dear Senator Rodante “Hilarious” Marcoleta? I ask thee, with due respect: Are you indeed in the senate because you’re up to something else or to something nefarious, clandestinely — and NOT (really) to serve our people and nation? “Kagalang galang.”

This morning, whiIe I was watching one of the recent “flood control” senate hearings on YouTube, I told my wife how Marcoleta was looking very clownish and sounding very jokey, acting like a defense counsel for the contractor couple, Curlee and Sara Discaya. He appeared all geared up for battle in a circus show. By the way, who’s paying Marcoleta to serve as a “public servant”? Is it not the government, from the public’s tax money? Who, indeed? Or who else?

The funniest part in the video was when the said lawmaker questioned (oddly) the “demand” of the government for the Discayas to return/surrender their ill-gained, stolen wealth as a matter of restitution before they (his clients) can be considered to stand as star witnesses.

My wife quipped: “Bakit ba ayaw ni Marcoleta mabawi ang pera ng bayan? Kanino ba nya gustong mapunta yung pera, sa kanya?”

A resounding NO to the Discayas as star witnesses.

Corruption behind corruption.

renimvalenzuela@yahoo.com