Apathetic Pinoys

President Noy says he has changed people’s attitude from resignation, dejection and apathy to optimism since he took over the country’s helm a year ago.

He must be referring to a different people, a different nation.

Filipinos are still the same,  even  before P-Noy became Chief Executive: Apathetic. They don’t care if their government goes to the dogs.

Proof that Pinoys don’t care about their government is the fact that they vote or reelect nincompoops, lame-brains and scoundrels to public office.

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Saudi Arabia has banned Filipino domestic workers, the euphemism for housemaids.

We should be thankful that it did.

Most Saudi employers treat domestics as slaves. What do you expect from men who treat  women as chattel or their personal property.

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This custom of treating women as chattel has rubbed off on some of the staff at the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh.

Some embassy employers force runaway Filipino maids into prostitution, according to Girlie Baclor, a former domestic in Saudi.

She claimed that male embassy employees, who are Muslim, even force themselves on  runaway maids at  Bahay Kalinga which is within the embassy grounds.

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Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo should relieve Chief Supt. Arnold Revilla, police director of Eastern Visayas, of his post for insubordination.

Revilla did not obey Robredo’s order to intervene in the confrontation between Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez and the participants of the Mardi Gras-type Pintados parade on June 27.

Robredo directed Revilla see to it that a court order for the parade to take place be carried out.

The city mayor had forbidden the holding of the parade.

In the end, the parade didn’t push through because the mayor’s office blocked the parade route with heavy equipment and dump trucks.

Revilla, by citing the court order, could have ordered policemen to remove the barricade.

Even if he’s the city mayor, Romualdez would have to bow to the court order had somebody persuaded him to do so.

After all, Tacloban City is not under martial law. Or is it?

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Mayor Sara “Inday Sara” Duterte punched an arrogant court sheriff according to news reports.

The court sheriff, Abe Andres, was asked by the mayor to defer the implementation of a court order to demolish squatter shanties in Agdao district while she talked with the informal settlers.

Andres went on with the demolition,  resulting in a “war” between the police and the squatters.

Inday Sara took after her father, Vice Mayor Rody Duterte, who always sides with the poor and the downtrodden.

A santol tree does not bear mango fruits.

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Customs Commissioner Lito Alvarez has ignored a recommendation from his subordinates to demand payment from Shell for nonpayment of customs duties and taxes amounting to P1.6 billion.

Why?