Miyerkules, Marso 16, 2011

Angelo Tomas Reyes...a good man...

   Days before he committed suicide, Reyes pleaded to the public not to drag his family into the corruption scandal that is rocking the Philippine military. But his suicide, as far as I’m concerned, settled the question on whether he was guilty of receiving millions of pesos from a payola taken from kickbacks and other corrupt practices in the military.
  Spare his family? Didn’t Reyes  think of them before he pocketed those millions? Didn’t his family, particularly his wife, think of their good name and Purificacion before they spent those monies and lived allegedly luxurious lives?


  We Filipinos are a forgiving people —  forgiving to a fault. We sweep problems like this under the rug when somebody as important as Reyes dies. Do not speak ill of the dead. The dead, no matter what they did in life, deserve respect.  I agree. But this culture of forgiveness, of burying our sense of justice along with the corrupt departed, is what makes our country such as sorry place.
  Before we speak, perhaps we need to look at ourselves and put ourselves into the shoes of those who we want to criticize because every word that comes from our mouth tells something about us..We can be judgmental, or a critic that may either bring peace or ignite chaos by believing people's words without exercising good judgment..Do we know what really happened? NOOOO!!We just heard people talk and talk and allow them to convince us that one person is bad when they themselves may be worse!!!

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