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Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Editorial: Vote-buying
REMEMBER the infamous Tejeros Convention where the Katipunan Supremo Andres Bonifacio was unseated?
The historian monk Ambeth Ocampo claims the election of the new set of officers were done through secret balloting.
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Sounds nice for a budding democracy in the Philippines which is in contrast to the absolutistic Spanish colonialists.
There is a punch here.
Some guys organized as 'Comelec' switched these ballots to a set were Caviteños will surely win.
Fortunately, Andres Bonifacio got one seat, the Secretary for Internal Affairs but his person was questioned for being a non-lawyer.
Wow, switching ballots in the 1800s!
We could have learned from this and developed as a people of honesty and integrity. So sad, we did not.
Centuries had passed and we are witnesses to hundreds of elections from barangay to presidential elections.
We spent hundreds and hundreds of billions pesos from Tejeros Convention down to this barangay election.
What do we see?
Now people are openly bragging about the money they received and took pride in comparing amounts given by this or that.
We are now a people who cannot even distinguish what crime is done in vote-buying and money receiving.
Every election including this barangay election is a money-giving election.
Nobody complains and everybody expects to be bought.
What disease is plaguing our people and where is this leading us?
We are not learning from history, some voices are saying, but these are but mere voices in the wilderness.
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(October 30, 2007 issue)
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