Pag hindi na nabubuhay ung mga patay pag election.. hehehe
I hope you realize,
Chevalier Bouya, that if you should happen to be a registered voter but have not been taking part in any elections as of late, there is a distinct possibility that someone might have used your name to vote for a candidate that you neither like nor support.
As for the topic at hand, I seem to recall spotting
Senator Bam Aquino in attendance during the few sessions that I managed to watch on television. Perhaps he's busy putting together some bills that he feels will benefit us. Perhaps he's idling away his term in his office just twiddling his thumbs. Until such time as we find any concrete evidence pointing in either direction, we can't really damn or praise him just yet.
While I've got the floor (
so to speak), permit me to say that it's every citizen's right to offer honest criticism of the government. Whether we voted the incumbent adminisration into office or not, we all have a stake in where and how we progress as a nation. Therefore, we must speak out when we feel that the direction that our public officials are taking us is not the right one.
Having said that, might I suggest that we use the real names of the officials whom we are criticizing? Whether we like them or not, it's my belief that using disparaging nicknames in place of their real names reflects badly upon us as much as it does on them - if not more so. Such petty name-calling is all well and good for children but I know that we're all
adults here. More to the point, I know that we're all
ladies and gentlemen here, with all the privileges and responsibilities that those two terms entail.
Honest criticism, be it of the government or of any group or individual, doesn't require insults. After all, it's not playground trash-talk, is it?
