Challenge to Discipline and Punish

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Challenge to Discipline and Punish

How quickly the British punish the erring ministers with regard to their parliamentary expenses. Note:

“The Daily Telegraph said Malik had claimed 66,827 pounds (102,000 dollars, 75,000 euros) on his London home over three years, while paying less than 100 pounds a week on a house in his constituency he designated his main residence.(British junior justice minister Shahid Malik is stepping down pending the outcome of an investigation into his parliamentary expenses, Prime Minister Gordon Brown's office said Friday.)

On Thursday, a former minister and lawmaker from Brown's ruling Labour party, Elliot Morley, was suspended after claiming thousands of pounds for a non-existent mortgage.

Also Thursday an opposition MP, Andrew MacKay, who is married to a fellow Tory MP, resigned as an aide to Conservative chief David Cameron after it was revealed that he had claimed for mortgage repayments on both the couple's homes." (culled from AFP 15 May 2009)

If only similarly erring officials could be readily disciplined or punished then there would not be many applicants for jobs abroad in our country.

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PRG DECLARATION

Philippines for Righteous Governance (PRG)
Forbes Park, Makati City, March 26, 2009

WE, FILIPINOS OF DIFFERENT CREEDS, DECLARE AND BELIEVE IN THE EXISTENCE OF GOD (A DIVINE BEING) WHO CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH; THUS, IN GOD WE TRUST.

We, are citizens of the Republic of the Philippines comprising of individuals and various organizations, and hereby state a DECLARATION OF UNITY in common vision for RIGHTEOUS GOVERNANCE and GENUINE SYSTEMS CHANGE. Because of this declaration of unity, we do hereby state the following:

That the Philipines today is in a state of MORAL DECAY perpetrated by our present leadership who has shamelessly displayed the absence of morality in governance, integrity, justice and love of country.
Our nation is tainted with crimes against God and humanity where HUMAN RIGHTS are systematically violated resulting in the disappearance and death of over a thousand victims. The past several administrations had never instituted a GENUINE LAND REFORM that could have resulted in economic prosperity, promotion of nationalism and morality, dignity in the Filipino; thus we cannot anymore stand as mere spectators of dismal and flagrant display of historical failures to bring about GENUINE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC REFORMS.

That the Philippines today needs GENUINE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC REFORMS that will be mustered by NON-TRADITIONAL POLITICIANS and a few exceptional traditional politicians at all levels of public governance, from the Presidency down to the Barangay Captain level. They will run the Philippines to be a great country with righteous governance, with shame; will possess integrity, selflessness and not greed; must dispense proper justice, promote peace, push for poverty alleviation, put the country back to order, enhance ecological balance, uplift morality, good values, and LOVE OF FAMILY, and be more nationalistic through LOVE OF COUNTRY.

thirdforce - PRG

Saturday, May 16, 2009