by Edcer Escudero
A Bolivian national hijacked last week an Aeromexican passenger jet after it took off from a tourist resort in Cancun on its way to Mexico City.
Jose Flores Pereira, believed to be a former priest and drug addict, told Mexico police that God had instructed him to seize the plane to save Mexico from a terrible earthquake. He said that he had a divine revelation about his special mission. (Actually, it was probably just hallucination).
What an amazing coincidence. That Bolivian crackpot reminds us of a Catholic priest somewhere in Pampanga – Eddie Panlilio – who, several months back, told admiring supporters that God wants him to run for president in the 2010 elections to save the country from sinking in the ocean of corruption.
Again, there is another “man of God” also called Eddie (Villanueva), who revealed that God had told him to seek the presidency and save our faltering and deteriorating democracy.
Interestingly, both Mexico and the Philippines are Catholic nations. But what strikes me as curious is that one Eddie is a Catholic and the other a born again Christian. I wonder which is God’s official candidate. I wonder, too, which of them is a crackpot, and which is not. Or, are they both crackpots?
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Opposition politicians are oversimplifying the 2010 presidential elections.
United Opposition (UNO) boss Mayor Jejomar Binay and Liberal Party president Sen. Mar Roxas have said on separate occasions, that the coming presidential race will be a fight between good and evil.
Who is good? Who is evil?
Of course, Binay and Roxas want us to think of their parties as representing good, and the administration party – Lakas Kampi as representing evil.
That, my friend, is not necessarily true or correct. Methinks that the 2010 presidential rumble is a multi-cornered race among the good and the bad guys. I am sure the voters know who is good and who is bad. It is they who will render the final verdict on election day.
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A 5-centavo tax on every text message has been approved by the ways and means committee of the Lower House of Congress. The measure is projected by its authors to raise about P75 billion annually, and will fund social, health and educational services.
As expected, the country’s giant telecommunications companies – Smart and Globe – howled in protest branding it as anti-poor. They argued that in the end, they will have to pass on to the consumers the 5-centavo tax.
But of course! Throwing the tax onto the lap of consumers is absolutely anti-poor.
If five centavos per text can raise P75 billion, you can just imagine how many billions yearly go to the coffers of those telcos. And they have the gall to complain!
Perhaps, it would be relevant to remind telcos executives that greed caused the collapse of giant banks and financial institutions in America. Maybe, they have not heard of such word. Or, if they have, they don’t care about the consequence.
Some bible preachers swear that there are no businessmen in heaven. Maybe, again, Smart and Globe people don’t want to go to heaven. They just want to earn more profits and earn, and earn, and earn till kingdom come.
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