Independence Day Notes

::In the face of a grave moral turpitude, apathy is a sin and inaction is suicide. liberate yourself, free our nation.

::Letting CARP, die a natural death is conceiving a new life to the great mass of peasants who continuously fought for genuine agrarian reform.

::Arroyo's subsidy program is but a band-aid solution to the crisis, albeit, relieving the pain, the infection is persistently lethal.

::The confirmation of some cabinet members in the Commission on Appointments, amidst valid questions in legality of the process, entails a tyranny of the majority and of self interests, with respect to 2010.

::DAR's Nasser Pangandaman was short of his calculations in finishing off land acquisition and distribution (LAD) in the 5 years extension of CARP. Given a 150,000ha/annum LAD target, the target of 1.8 million hectares is far from reality. That is, the tragedy of simple arithmetic.

::Arroyo points to global market conditions as rationale to the rice crisis. She insisted, that there is no shortage of rice, only prices are high. A classmate of mine lamented, "All along, I was right. Supply and Demand theory is false."

::The AFP remarked as if pointing the blame to Ces Drilon and company for not coordinating with them in their way to Maimbung town, hence, their abduction. ABS-CBN might ask, where are the Military and Police Mobile Groups that time? You are pursuing the mountains but not securing the roads. How intelligent was your intelligence?

::Ironically, Noli de Castro hits 'oligarchs' in his Independence Day message saying, they are root to poverty. An urban poor cried, "traidor, isa ka naman sa kanila eh!. Mahirap na nga kami, nawala pa trabaho at bahay namin dahil sa demolisyon, upang bigyan daan ang subdivision ng mga Ayala, Sy."