***KUNG WALANG CORRUPT, WALANG MAHIRAP!***
PEOPLE POWER RULES! MABUHAY ANG PILIPINAS! VIVA PEOPLE POWER!
corrupt politicians like Manuel Manoy Alipon are enemies of the people of
every barangay of Santa Rosa City Laguna and of the Philippine Republic
*AT EVERY ELECTION VOTE FOR OPPONENTS OF ALIPON AND HIS GANG!*
*VOTE OUT CORRUPTION FOREVER!* *VOTE OUT CORRUPTION FOREVER!*
Local
Government Secretary Jesse Robredo has urged all city, municipal
and barangay officials to carry out their responsibilities with
transparency,
responsiveness, accountability and participation. He also advised punong
barangays to hold regular assemblies reporting to constituents about
their
programs, projects, staff and finances, including any problems, and
post their
itemized monthly collections and disbursements, and annual summaries of
income and expenditures, in conspicuous public places for all
constituents to
peruse and scrutinize. He reminded them it is incumbent upon barangays
to
provide required services to constituents efficiently and promptly and
that a
citizens’ charter, an information desk, and a disaster risk reduction
and
management committee would best enable them to achieve this. He called
for detailed inventories of barangay facilities and properties to
ensure they
are properly documented and accurately accounted for. He also urged the
formation of barangay bids and awards committees responsible for the
pre-
and post-qualification of bidders, and evaluating and awarding
contracts for
barangay projects to winning bidders. He asked for representation of
non-
government organizations and civil society organizations in
barangay-based
institutions, including barangay development council, barangay peace and
order council, barangay council for the protection of children, and
barangay
anti-drug abuse council. Let's use our People Power to ensure
compliance!!
Our barangay officials were elected to serve their constituents, not to
enrich
and empower themselves at public expense as Manuel Manoy Alipon did!!!!
Even as you read this, Alipon is scheming to rob Barangay Balibago
again..
ALWAYS VOTE FOR HONEST OPPONENTS OF ALIPON AND AND HIS GANG.
The
constituents of Sta. Rosa were not duped by 50-year-old gangster
Alipon's ridiculous teenage image on campaign tarpaulins. They laughed
at the phony computer artwork and booted this evil corrupt adulterous
thug out of City Hall.
HALALAN 2010: Hotspot Santa Rosa, CORRUPT
ALIPON BOOTED OUT
CONGRATULATIONS
TO THE
GOOD PEOPLE OF STA. ROSA
ON VOTING ARNEL GOMEZ
OUR NEW CITY VICE MAYOR
AND BOOTING OUT
THE CORRUPT OLD ONE
  Manuel
Manoy Alipon, referred to throughout Laguna as
"the
most hypocritical and corrupt vice mayor in Santa Rosa's history".
The city of Santa Rosa in the 1st District of Laguna province is less
than 1 hour's drive from Manila when traffic is light on the South
Luzon Expressway and up to 3 hours or more when traffic is heavy. It is
surrounded by thriving international industrial areas such as Laguna
Technopark and by the rapidly developing new exciting
cities-in-the-making such as Eton City, South Forbes Golf City, Nuvali
and Greenfield City.
As a result, Santa Rosa Laguna now enjoys enormous public revenues
which continuously attract more and more ambitious residents into local
politics. Some of them are honest with genuine aspirations to improve
our city for everyone, whilst
others like Manuel Manoy Alipon have proved to be utterly ruthless in
their corrupt ambitions to acquire personal wealth that public office
can bring them.
Traveling around with a private battalion of armed thugs is the norm,
and murder of opponents by hired assassins is the evil corrupt shortcut
to political power.
In a country where political corruption is accepted, the most
successful corrupt politicians are rich and powerful. But two further
requirements have always been essential to achieving, maintaining and
increasing such dubious success. These two requirements are self
discipline and political intelligence.
Both are missing in the character of Manuel Manoy Alipon. He
is totally incapable of keeping his decadent greed and immorality under
control. This is destructive to his family, relatives,
cronies and any other supporters, as well as to all the voters of Sta.
Rosa. This explains his
failure in the 2010 Election, and it also proves that he is
unsuited to any future role in local or national politics.
 Manuel
Manoy Alipon, described by voters as
"called by Satan to deceive and rob the people of Santa Rosa City".
In the 3 years since allegedly falsifying election results Manuel Manoy
Alipon has been universally criticized for abuse of public office and
for bringing the lowest forms of decadence and dishonor to City Hall.
He has built up not only ill-gotten gains but a deserved reputation for
savagely unscrupulous grafts, corruptions, extortions and obscene
immoralities. It
is no surprise to local voters that Alipon has allegedly hired
assassins to kill off some of his opponents in the past, and is
currently accused of now issuing undercover death threats to several
others.
Worse yet, Alipon is rumored to have conceived a
heinous plot to stir up violence between mayoral bets in order to
secure an opportunity for himself to take over without election if he
is the vice mayor when the next mayor is murdered, and to
divert suspicions away from himself when he is the one who hires the
assassins.
 Manuel
Manoy Alipon, whose 2010 campaign publicity has
"sparked local hilarity and ridicule by presenting him as a teenager".
Voters who love Santa Rosa and want a better future here for themselves
and their children used their voter power
on May 10 to junk Manuel Manoy Alipon to the hellfire and damnation
that his evil immoralities deserve.
Thousands of people whose votes he bought for a few pesos or who were
misled by his false publicity have now seen for themselves the evidence
of adulteries, lies, armed robberies, betrayals, blasphemies,
corruptions, frauds, grafts, misappropriations, murders, plunders and
thefts that have plagued barangay Balibago and Santa Rosa City since
Manuel Manoy Alipon entered local politics. Voters and local
businesses can now keep him crawling in the filth and stink
of rat and cockroach infested sewerage and the poisonous choking air
pollution of traffic-congested Balibago that Alipon made far worse by
stealing the public funds allocated to clean them up.
Join the
backlash against Manuel Manoy Alipon, and tell all your relatives and
friends to do the same. With the help of honest honorable politicians
such as Arnel DC Gomez we can create a city to be proud of.
Visit Arnel Gomez
on Friendster and Arnel
Gomez on Facebook, and then
FOR
A BETTER STA. ROSA
AND A BETTER LIFE
FOR ALL OUR CHILDREN
GIVE ONGOING SUPPORT
TO OUR NEW VICE MAYOR
ARNEL DC GOMEZ
"National and regional results of the the 2010
elections mean a GOD-driven fresh start for our country and a
GOD-driven fresh start for our city. Our time has surely come, and it
has come to stay. Let all the wonderful people of Santa Rosa embrace
this double blessing and double opportunity that GOD has brought to us.
HE has now placed our future in our own hands. Let us all move onward
and upward together to make it the best future that we could ever dream
of or wish for. Let our children and grandchildren rejoice with us,
because they will be the beneficiaries of our great and lasting
achievement."
- Voter Power
So where can we start our
fresh start? How do we begin to create a better future for everyone?
The first answer is to transform Philippine education from the bottom
up and to make it affordable, appealing and available to adults as well
as to kids even in the remotest provinces.
"Three things kept coming up for every problem: corruption, weak
institutions and the people who run them -- the leaders. Well, where
are these leaders coming from? What is it that produces leaders that
are unethical or unable to solve problems? I went to look at what was
happening in our educational system. And it was the same -- learning by
rote -- from elementary school through graduate school. So I decided to
engage this particular problem. Because it seems to me that every
society must be very intentional about how it trains its leaders. So
we're now trying to train leaders of exceptional integrity, who have
the ability to confront the complex problems, ask the right questions,
and come up with workable solutions. I'll admit that there are times
when it seems like 'Mission Impossible'. But we must believe that these
kids are smart. That if we involve them in their education, if we have
them discuss the real issues that they confront -- that our whole
society confronts -- and if we give them skills that enable them to
engage the real world, that magic will happen."
- Patrick Awuah
"We have to go from what is essentially an industrial model of
education, a manufacturing model, which is based on linearity and
conformity and batching people. We have to move to a model that is
based more on principles of agriculture. We have to recognize that
human flourishing is not a mechanical process, it's an organic process.
And you cannot predict the outcome of human development; all you can
do, like a farmer, is create the conditions under which they will begin
to flourish. So when we look at reforming education and transforming
it, it isn't like cloning a system. There are many great models. It's
about customizing to your circumstances, and personalizing education to
the people you're actually teaching. And doing that, I think is the
answer to the future because it's not about scaling a new solution;
it's about creating a movement in education in which people develop
their own solutions with external support."
- Ken Robinson
"Radical innovation often comes from places where you have huge need,
unmet, latent demand and not enough resources for traditional solutions
to work. When you go to places like this what you see is that education
in these settings works by pull, not push. Most of our education is
push. When we get to school, things are pushed at us, knowledge, exams,
systems, timetables, but they need to start education from things that
make a difference to them in their settings. What does that? Well, the
key is motivation. Waiting 10 years for the payoff from education is
too long when you need to meet daily needs, when you've got siblings to
look after or a business to help with. So you need education to be
relevant and help people to make a living there and then. Sebastiao
Rocha in Brazil has invented more than 200 games to teach virtually any
subject under the sun. In schools and communities the day always starts
in a circle and always starts from a question. Imagine an education
system that started from questions, not from knowledge to be imparted,
or started from a game, not from a lesson, or started from the premise
that you have to engage people first before you can possibly teach
them. And they all treat learning, not as some sort of academic,
analytical activity, but as something that's productive, something you
make, something you can do, perhaps earn a living from."
- Charles Leadbeater
"Our set of experiments in India showed that the remoter the primary
school the worse its results seemed to be, and 69% of teachers in
remote areas would prefer to work in modern urban schools so teacher
motivation and teacher migration powerfully correlated with what was
happening there, as opposed to whether the children have enough to eat
and whether they are packed too tightly into classrooms. But
Educational Technology is always piloted first in what are already the
privileged urban schools with the best results, although the relative
change it would make would be far greater with the underprivileged, not
the other way about. So what was our conclusion? It was that primary
education can happen on its own, or parts of it can happen on its own.
It does not have to be imposed from the top downwards. It could perhaps
be a self-organizing system. We found that 6 to 13 year-olds can
self-instruct in a connected environment, and if they have access to a
computer they will teach themselves. Our experiments proved
conclusively that without any adult supervision even the remotest and
poorest children can self-organize and attain an educational objective."
- Sugata Mitra
"Science tells us that you are in charge, that it's under your control,
that your happiness, well-being, abilities and capacities are all
capable of continuous modification, continuous improvement, and only
you are responsible for this."
- Michael Merzenich
"I was elected to office on the promise to fight corruption and do
better for the poor. ... I’m very fortunate to have the whole economic
team and members of my Cabinet driven by the same desire to effect real
changes. ... Acting with
compassion towards those who need help is a response that is both
humane and necessary. ... Universal human dignity should not
be defined by geographical, racial, or cultural boundaries. ...
Combating inequality remains one of the greatest challenges of our
times. ... The chasm between the powerful and powerless, the haves and
have-nots, remains to be bridged. ... We are committed to changing all
of that. ... Those who have
demonstrated abuse of their countrymen will merit an extended stay in
the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa. ... We’re given this
one chance, we hope to be able to really transform our society to such
a degree that whoever follows us will be compelled by the voice of this
majority to continue what we have started. ... I assure you that the
Philippines is committed to good housekeeping practices in its domestic
and international dealings with investors. ... The Philippines is
indeed open for business, not the under-the-table kind but the
legitimate kind. ... This does not mean a cumbersome and
intrusive government but rather a government that allows private
enterprise to thrive while ensuring they remain cognizant of their
social responsibilities. ... In all humility one of our most
prestigious survey firms gives us a net approval rating right now of
about 88 percent even after the hostage incident. ... That
emboldens us to face anybody and everybody in our country with the
support of our people and say unless you have these numbers behind you,
we are in the majority and it is the majority that decides in a
democracy. ... United, nothing is impossible. ... We call
this People Power."
- President 'Noynoy' Aquino
"Reform is a fundamental theme of this administration: first to rid
ourselves of corruption and second to shore up our competence. We will
play a key role in ensuring that reform takes place at all strata of
government. Indeed, the pillars of justice stands firmly only when the
DoJ and all its attach agencies are performing up to par. Therefore, it
is imperative that any grand effort to reform government in this new
administration must begin with the most stringent and ardent efforts to
reform the DoJ itself. From the CHR, I am well versed in the weakness
of the WPP and I have been tremendously troubled by the injustices that
emanate from its failure to be 100 percent effective. I humbly offer
you my devoted leadership just as I will ask you to offer your
experience, knowledge and expertise."
- Justice Secretary Leila De Lima
“The society is again united and the only ones who keep on complaining
like a
broken record are those who want to return to power to continue their
fun that
comes from our oppression. .... They are the ones who brought the
problems we
are shouldering now and they have the temerity to attack us
continuously. Are
you still going to pay attention to them? Are you going to be deceived
again? ....
Those who want to maintain the old system really want to destroy us,
they are
like huge crocodiles who prey on government coffers. .... Remember that
while
many of our countrymen are concerned for the country, there are a few
whose
interests are to continue the bickering. .... I have long appealed to
those who do
not want to join us in the right path. .... Following the straight path
is no joke. ....
We are serious when we say we will walk the straight and narrow path.
.... All of you
involved in wrong governance and have caused troubles to the people, I
guarantee
you, your days are numbered. .... Tingin ko ay malapit-lapit na rin ang
panahong
sasabihin ko sa kanila ay 'goodbye' at ang matatanggap naman nilang
'hello' ay ang
pagpasok nila sa Munti. .... The trust of the people is fueling our
administration’s
achievements. .... Our fight will continue and will not stop until the
necessary
reforms are in effect.”
- President Noynoy Aquino
"Business leaders here in America are excited about the new
administration, the new opportunities, and we hope there are ways the
American businessmen can participate and hopefully move the Philippines
forward. There’s a lot of opportunities and we’re excited to work with
the
President’s Cabinet. Transparency, good governance, ridding of
corruption is really critical to American companies and companies from
all over the world being enthusiastic about the Philippines.
Corruption always has a double deterrent effect. Additional to ethical
problems, corruption adds another layer of cost that makes a lot of
doing business in the Philippines uneconomical."
- Alex Feldman,
President of US-Association of Southeast Asian Nations Business Council
Already the impact made by President Aquino on the world at large has
resulted in a dramatic upsurge of foreign investment. In a report
issued by the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas the net inflow of foreign
investments up to November 12, 2010, reached $3.44 billion (US Dollars)
compared to only $372 million for the same period in 2009 under the
previous administration. These portfolio investments are in addition to
the billions of dollars of job creating new developments secured by the
President from global conglomerates with existing presence in the
Philippines, particularly from the USA and Japan. BSP governor Amando
Tetangco Jr. stated: "There is significant amount of liquidity
globally, and part of this liquidity is going to emerging economies
like the Philippines." This measurably demonstrates the world's new
confidence in us following the May 2010 Elections, and will have
far-reaching effects on the whole Philippine economy. Mr. Tetangco
added: "Credit is already growing. However, we have this huge liquidity
available in the system for deployment into productive activities, and
so there is room for further increase in bank loans." Now is time for
existing Philippine businesses to expand, and for entrepreneurs to
start up new ones. The Aquino administration's Public-Private
Partnership program is expected to stimulate growth on a bigger scale
and also create many more jobs. When the corruption is eradicated from
top to bottom at all levels of government, every Pinoy will experience
the benefits of health, education, opportunity and prosperity.
LONG LIVE PEOPLE POWER!
“Never give up. Believe in yourselves, believe in your own efforts, believe in our country and believe in your future.”
- Senator Manuel Roxas II
"Be optimistic.
Spread the ideas. Spread the light." - Alex Tabarrok
ULTIMATELY
GOD OVERCOMES ALL EVIL
With an unstoppable backlash of Voter
Power in 2010 the residents of Santa Rosa City
booted
out Manuel Manoy Alipon, the most corrupt vice
mayor in Sta. Rosa's history. Luckily for our city residents the Santa
Rosa SWAT TEAM know that the real face of gangster Manuel Manoy Alipon
is not the
falsified artwork image he presents on his propaganda tarpaulins and
Facebook website to prevent the public from knowing what he really
looks like. If he ever attempts another
unlawful act with his illegally armed staff, our city's SWAT Team will
recognize him and them. If you hear of or see any of Alipon's gang
involved in anything suspicious call the City Mayor's Office at (049)
534 1059 or send a message at the
City Mayor's website.
ULTIMATELY
GOD ALWAYS OVERCOMES EVIL
PEOPLE POWER RULES! MABUHAY ANG PILIPINAS!
corrupt politicians are enemies of the people and enemies of the nation
VOTE OUT CORRUPTION FOREVER! VIVA PEOPLE POWER!
PEOPLE POWER RULES! MABUHAY ANG PILIPINAS!
corrupt politicians are enemies of the people and enemies of the nation
VOTE OUT CORRUPTION FOREVER! VIVA PEOPLE POWER!
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WARNING: NOW WE NEED TO
BE PERMANENTLY VIGILANT!
Election 2010 winners have been inaugurated, but vigilance must be
permanent. Manuel
Manoy Alipon
is desperately seeking ways to satisfy his foiled & failed
ambition.
Manuel Manoy Alipon is sneakily now trying to get back the corrupt
stranglehold on barangay Balibago that he had before Voter Power
booted him out of City Hall.
Never
allow him, his
relatives or cronies to control Balibago or any other barangay of Sta.
Rosa City.
Manuel
Manoy Alipon has a long history of greed and corruption. His
movements and activities need to be kept under observation, along with those of his cronies, spies and
illegally armed gang. Report anything secretive or suspicious
to the City
Mayor of Sta. Rosa (Tel. 049 534 1059).
The "A+A Team" of Mayor Arlene and Vice Mayor Arnel won the election. Their fathers were both
murdered by assassins allegedly hired by Manuel Manoy Alipon.
BE EXTRA VIGILANT! Notify the Sta. Rosa City
Mayor, the police and the military if you see or hear about furtive skulking activities or
secretive unlawful payments by Manuel Manoy Alipon, his
family, or any of his relatives or cronies.
Voters make
ARNEL GOMEZ our new honest younger City Vice Mayor in a spectacular
backlash against Alipon's 3 years of graft, corruption and immorality.
Following church persuasion, to protect the innocent, including honest
but misguided members
of his own family and honest but misled and exploited staff and
supporters who were not involved with Manuel
Manoy Alipon's scandalous corruptions and immoralities,
CACOMA has released collected photographic and documentary evidence
privately through its wide volunteer network instead of using public
social network websites.
Collection of evidence
is ongoing and is shared discreetly with honest voters in all 18
barangays. Relatives, cronies and spies of Alipon are known and
excluded.
Below are some recent faces of Manuel Manoy Alipon. Under his facelift,
dyed hair and cosmetics,
it's more than 30 years ago that he
was a teenage schoolboy!
ADULTERIES
Manuel Manoy Alipon
BETRAYALS
Manuel Manoy Alipon
BLASPHEMIES
Manuel Manoy Alipon
CORRUPTIONS
Manuel Manoy Alipon
FRAUDS
Manuel Manoy Alipon
LIES
Manuel Manoy Alipon
PLOTS
Manuel Manoy Alipon
PLUNDERS
Manuel Manoy Alipon
ROBBERIES
Manuel Manoy Alipon
THEFTS
Manuel Manoy Alipon
Join
the popular backlash against
corruption of Manuel Manoy Alipon in Balibago and other barangays of
Santa Rosa City. Persuade friends and relatives to do the same.
It's time for change and it's time for all local voters to wield our
collective political power. Nobody has ever expressed this better than
Cory Acquino when she advised:
"For us who are a people of faith, Christians and Muslims alike, it is
a time to return to our true faith. True faith must be rooted in
prayer, in our trust of a loving father, in loving sacrifice of self
for the greater good of all. The problems of peace and poverty, social
justice and good governance are concerns of everyone, and everyone must
do his or her share."
ARNEL GOMEZ is working hard to bring us the desperately needed
peace, prosperity, social justice and good governance that Manuel Manoy
Alipon robbed Santa Rosa City of during
his 3-year term.
AND
YOUR SUPPORT HELPS!
BE EXTRA EXTRA VIGILANT!
Delayed returns often mean that corrupt officials are still holding out
for the highest bribes. Alipon falsified results in 2007 by bribing
election officials and buying votes. Don't allow him or his relatives
or cronies or
any of his unlawfully armed staff to tamper in any way with future
election results. Alipon has proved to us that he cannot be trusted - not now and not ever.
What the people want and voted for is an honest younger representative
who honors all the people who vote for him, respects the law, loves his
wife and children, serves his constituents and dignifies the public
office of City Vice Mayor.
This is what ARNEL GOMEZ brings with his commitment to serve the
interests of the good people of Santa Rosa.
"Never throw away your national pride for the sake of a local
corrupt politician like Manuel
Manoy Alipon who will always exploit your support for his personal
benefit, not yours and not the public’s. His history of recorded greed,
graft and corruption go back many years. Have you and your
family ever received any benefit from supporting his false election
promises to improve your lives? NO!
Because he is a liar, thief, fraudster, plunderer and robber!"
-
Volunteer campaigner in 2010 misled by lies of
Manoy Alipon
"Look around you at Balibago's traffic congestion, the flooding of the
roads in the rainy season, the sidewalks unsafe to walk on, the stench
of sewage, the general filth of trash everywhere in the streets, the
unregulated belching exhaust fumes of jeeps, tricycles and trucks, the
unhealthy suffocating air pollution, the poor starving children forced
to beg for food. These are all the result of Manuel Manoy Alipon's many
corrupt years as Barangay Chairman. All he has ever done is make
himself rich through graft, corruption and misappropriating public
funds in crooked deals with his cronies."
- Angry resident of Balibago, January 2007
In contrast with Manuel Manoy Alipon's decadent barangay and city
corruptions, we now have a new President who is fighting to eradicate
corruption at every level of government. Already his reforms are
bringing billions of dollars of new investment in the Philippines from
huge global corporations down to small and medium sized foreign
companies as they have now regained confidence in our nation's
progress. At last the future is looking good for every Filipino, but we
need to ensure that corrupt politicians like Alipon are never elected
again to rob the people and enrich themselves. People Power has proved
that YOUR
VOTE COUNTS!
"Kung
walang corrupt, walang mahirap!"
- Noynoy Aquino
"Here
at last is the person who was elected president by the biggest majority
since the return of democracy in 1986 who humbly put himself below the
true masters of this country, the sovereign people he called his boss.
President Noynoy promised to lead by example. He expressed the words as
if he has read our minds for he knew fully well that that is his call.
He has sworn to serve and promised to lead, an invitation to all of us
to help him carry the cross and share in the burden. The appeal is
Kennedyesque in essence, a declaration of war on the odds we all need
to face and to fight if we expect to see our dreams realized."
- Ramon Mayaga,
Philippine Daily Inquirer
"Kids already do a lot of learning from adults, and we have a lot to
share. I think that adults should start learning from kids. For better
or worse, we kids aren't hampered as much when it comes to thinking
about reasons why not to do things. Kids can be full of inspiring
aspirations and hopeful thinking, like my wish that no one went hungry.
Sometimes a knowledge of history and the past failures of utopian
ideals can be a burden. On the other hand, we kids still dream about
perfection. And that's a good thing because in order to make anything a
reality, you have to dream about it first. Now, adults seem to have a
prevalently restrictive attitude towards kids from every "don't do
that," "don't do this" in the school handbook, to restrictions on
school internet use. As history points out, regimes become oppressive
when they're fearful about keeping control."
- Adora Svitak
"Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should
treat it with the same status. Entrepreneurs are creative people who
have ideas and passions or see these needs in the world and decide to
stand up and do it. And I think if we could get kids to embrace the
idea, at a young age, of being entrepreneurial, we could change
everything in the world that is a problem today."
- Cameron Herold
"Be optimistic.
Spread the ideas.
Spread the light."
- Alex Tabarrok
ULTIMATELY GOD OVERCOMES ALL EVIL
NEVER SELL YOUR SOUL TO SATANIST MANUEL MANOY ALIPON
ADULTERIES
Manuel Manoy Alipon
robbed poor to get himself rich
"Corruption starts at the bottom with SK Chairmen and Barangay Captains
who care nothing for the people they represent and whose only concern
is to acquire wealth for themselves through graft and plunder and
extortion and other abuses of public office. Use your
VOTES carefully to elect honest and honorable candidates. KEEP OUT all
of Manuel Manoy Alipon's corrupt relatives, cronies and other members
of his criminal gang."
- Barangay Councilor
"Science tells us that you are in charge, that it's under your control,
that your happiness, well-being, abilities and capacities are all
capable of continuous modification, continuous improvement, and only
you are responsible for this."
- Michael Merzenich
"Our good deeds and bad deeds are locked into our own memories and into
the memories of those to whom we have done good or bad. For the rest of
our earthly days and nights, good memories are always a living paradise
and bad memories are always a living hell."
- Archbishop Tutu
Dictator Marcos ordered Benigno Aquino to stay out of politics and
hired assassins to murder him when he refused.
"The Filipino is worth dying for."
- Benigno Aquino,
husband of President Cory Aquino and father of President Noynoy Aquino
"Be optimistic.
Spread the ideas.
Spread the light."
- Alex Tabarrok
“If the Philippines is to end the politics of corruption and use of naked power, electoral reforms must start in earnest from all – the people, the leaders, and the politicians. It's time Filipinos got the governance they deserve. Electoral reforms must also be seen in the electorate itself and
the politicians. People need to stand up for what is good for them, and to demand concrete solutions to problems that ravage them. We must finally overhaul the rotten political system that has only made our people miserable.”
- Senator Loren Legarda
(written before the May 2010 Elections, the first in the Philippines to be automated and which proved that Sen. Legarda was right. It gave People Power the long overdue freedom to vote out the destructive gangster Manuel Manoy Alipon and other corrupt local politicians of his type who had previously got in by buying votes, bribing officials and tampering with voters' lists and ballot boxes)
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