KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.28 JULY 2011

KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.28 JULY 2011

“Children of the devil”

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us…” (Hebrews 12:1, the Holy Bible).
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POLICEMEN AS LOWLY CRIMINALS: And so, what other crimes can our policemen and others in government not do in the name of money or promotion to a higher position?

With the latest disclosures from Senior Supt. Rafael Santiago of the Philippine National Police (PNP) about how the PNP, under orders from its top leaders, stole election returns in an effort to beat an election protest against former President Gloria Arroyo, it is clear Filipinos have brought themselves so low they can commit anything now.

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“CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL”: Why has this happened? The answer is simple. While many of us continue to say we have faith in God, this is a faith that is dead, because we really have become children of the devil, doing, thinking and saying what the devil wants, because many of us grew up without the Word of God.

And since many Filipinos grew up without the Word of God, we grew up without God. Because we grew up without God, with whom did we grow up? The devil, that’s who. And that is the reason why we have become capable of acting, talking and thinking like the devil, doing what he wants us to do. Surely, hell will have a special place for many Filipinos.

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HELL AWAITS MANY FILIPINOS: For a better understanding of what hell-bound Filipinos are up against, here is what hell is like, as written in Isaiah 66:24 of the Bible: “And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”

This description of hell was echoed by Jesus Christ, our God and Savior, in His own discourses. In Mark 9:44, 46 and 48, He warned sinners that hell is a place where the worms that eat them will not die, and the fire that will burn them forever is not quenched.

What is more troublesome for those who do not listen to God and who do not obey His commands is that, it is not only them who will go to hell, but even their children to the fourth generation, as Exodus 20:5 is saying. Indeed, there is hell to pay not only for those who disobey God, but even for their descendants.

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PANGILINAN LAW AND TEEN CRIMINALITY: It is good that the United States Embassy in Manila is starting to notice the criminality that is afflicting the Filipino youth nowadays, with its warning to American tourists in the Philippines to be wary of teen criminals wherever they will be in this country. Teen criminality is a fact which can no longer ignored.

Perhaps, Sen. Francis Pangilinan can now admit that the law he principally authored, the Juvenile Justice Law, contributed largely to this rise of teen criminality, because this law prohibits the arrest of any criminal 15 years of age or below. The Filipino youth can now steal, sell drugs and do other serious crimes without being arrested, thanks to Pangilinan’s law.

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KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.25 JULY 2011

KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.25 JULY 2011

Rotary golf tourney: two cars for winners

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “…Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct their affairs with justice...” (Psalm 112:5, the Holy Bible).

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TWO CARS FOR “HOLE IN ONE”: With the kind indulgence of our readers, I am reprinting below an announcement I made as the ChangeMaker President of the Rotary Club of Intramuros of Rotary International District 3810, regarding the two cars the club is intending to give away for golfers who can make “hole in one” shots during a golf tournament on October 8, 2011.

The invitation extends to everyone from Aparri to Jolo who will be interested to join the tournament after reading this column for today: “24 JULY 2011, First announcement from RC Intramuros: Two Cars for `Hole in One’ Shots.

“This early, may I invite all Rotarians from District 3810, especially my Classmates, ChangeMaker and Leader Presidents, to participate in the Golf Tournament that the Rotary Club of Intramuros seeks to hold on October 8, 2011, God willing, at the Club Intramuros Golf Club in Intramuros, Manila.

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GOLF TOURNEY TO BENEFIT LITERACY PROJECTS: “RC Intramuros is preparing to give away possibly two Picanto Kia Sedan Cars for `Hole in One’ shots, as well as other valuable items, including trophies and medals.

“The proceeds of the tournament will go to the Club’s scholarship program for PLM’s poor but deserving students, and for our literacy projects for the benefit of Indigenous (Aeta) children, and other public school children from District 3810’s areas of coverage---Manila, Pasay City, Cavite and Occidental Mindoro.

“The price of each ticket is P2,000.00. Interested parties may call me at 0917 984 24 68, 0922 833 43 96 or 0928 438 3022. MELANIO MAURICIO JR., a.k.a. ATTY. BATAS ChangeMaker President, RC Intramuros, RY 2011-2012; Leader President, RC Intramuros, RY 2006-2007, Media Relations Chair, District 3810, RY 2011-2012…”

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ON LOVING THE WORLD, AND HATING BROTHERS AND SISTERS: 1 John 2:15-16 of the Bible forbids us from loving the world: “Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.

“For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.

1 John 2:9-11 talks about hating his brothers and sisters: “Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister is still in the darkness. Anyone who loves their brother and sister lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them…”

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KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.24 JULY 2011

KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.24 JULY 2011

“PNoy must declare revolutionary gov’t”

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “Jesus said, `Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.’ ” (Matthew 19:14, the Holy Bible).

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PNOY URGED TO DECLARE REVOLUTIONARY GOV’T: President Aquino’s only chance to effect the changes that will truly improve the lives of Filipinos under his term is to declare a revolutionary government and install himself as the country’s sole undisputed ruler, in much the same way that her mother, the late President Cory Aquino, proclaimed a revolutionary government in 1986, a prominent Mindanao leader said over the weekend.

Lawyer Homobono Adaza, a former Commissioner of Immigration and Deportation, a former governor of Misamis Oriental and a former assemblyman of the defunct Batasang Pambansa during the time of President Marcos, said the Chief Executive must, however, act on or before December 31, 2011.

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ADAZA PROPOSES A REVOLUTIONARY GOV’T: The reason for the date, Adaza told me and our viewers at the program “Kakampi Mo Ang Batas” which was aired simultaneously over BATAS INTERNET TV (www.batasmedia.com) and over several cable TV stations in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, and over three radio stations in the Eastern and Western Visayas and in Central Luzon, is practicality.

“One and a half years in office, which is the significance of December 31, 2011, for a good President is too short, but one a half years for a bad President is too long,” Adaza said.

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AFP & PNP AND PINOYS WILL SUPPORT NEW GOV’T: This would require scuttling the 1987 Constitution, which was ironically adopted during the Cory Aquino presidency, and firing and removing all the bad officials around President Aquino, the lawyer noted.

Adaza said, in response to my question, that the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police, and the Filipino nation in general, will not oppose the establishment of a revolutionary government by President Aquino, especially if he makes it clear that he would be doing to address the urgent problems of the country.

Adaza noted that the present Constitution and the institutions in place at the moment prevent the President from doing something substantial to remedy the many problems of the country, since, he said, restraints and constraints are inherent in the present system of government.

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CONDITIONS FOR AN OVERSEEER: Anyone who is appointed as an elder or overseer of a church is required, by Titus 1:6-8 of the Bible, to be spotlessly-clean in character: “… An elder must be blameless, faithful to his wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.

“Since an overseer manages God’s household, he must be blameless—not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursuing dishonest gain. Rather, he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined…”

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KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.FILIPINO SYNDICATED COLUMN. 22 JULY 2011

KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.FILIPINO SYNDICATED COLUMN. 22 JULY 2011

Mali ba ang people power?

INSPIRASYON SA BUHAY: “…Pinili ko ang daan ng katapatan; itinalaga ko ang aking puso sa iyong mga batas…” (Awit 119:30, Bibliya).

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PAGPATAY SA PEOPLE POWER PROVISION NG KONSTITUSYON? Marahil ay di alam ni Justice Secretary Leila De Lima, pero ang kanyang opinyon sa panukala ni Marine Col. Generoso Mariano na dapat patalsikin ang mga gobyernong hindi nakakatugon sa pangangailangan ng bayan ay baka pumatay sa people power provision ng Saligang Batas ng 1987, at maaaring magdulot ng problemang legal sa mga gobyernong Cory Aquino at Gloria Arroyo, na naitatag dahil sa pagkilos ng bayan.

Sa totoo lang, ang kasalukuyang Konstitusyon, na ginawa noong panahon ng Pangulong Cory Aquino (ang ina ng Pangulong Benigno Aquino III), ay kumikilala sa karapatan ng “bayan at ng kanilang mga samahan tungo sa epektibo at resonableng partisipasyon sa lahat ng antas ng pagdedesisyong sosyal, political at pang-ekonomiya”, sa kanyang people power provision (Section 16, Art. 13).

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MALI BA ANG PEOPLE POWER? Ang probisyong ito ay isiningit sa Saligang Batas upang maging batayang legal ng pagpapatalsik sa gobyerno ni Pangulong Marcos at ang pagluluklok sa gobyerno ni Pangulong Cory Aquino. Maliwanag, batay sa probisyong ito, na ang mga reglamento sa Kodigo Penal ukol sa mga krimen laban sa gobyerno, gaya ng rebelyon, sedisyon at insurreksiyon, ay nawala na, at ang paglaban sa gobyerno ay naging legal.

Ngayon, kung sinasabi ni De Lima na ang mga panukala sa pagpapatalsik ng gobyernong hindi na sinusuportahan ng mamamayan, gaya ng ginawa ni Mariano, ay ilegal dahil maaari itong ituring na rebelyon o sedisyon, ibig bang sabihin eh mali ang people power, at ang mga gobyernong Cory Aquino at Gloria Arroyo ay ilegal din?

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GSIS POLICY LABAG SA BATAS: Hindi ko makita ang buti ng alituntunin ng Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) na nagbabawal sa kanyang 25,454 na mga miyembro sa pagkuha ng loans at mga dibidendo dahil lamang sa ang kanilang sariling mga opisina kung saan sila nagtatrabaho ay hindi nakapag-remit ng kanilang mga GSIS contributions---na nakolekta na mula sa kanila.

Ang alituntuning ito ay isang uri ng katiwalian o graft and corruption ng kasalukuyang mga lider ng GSIS, sapagkat nagbibigay ito ng hindi makatwirang pinsala sa mga GSIS members---sa mga hindi nila makuhang loans at mga dibidendo---dahil sa opisyal na pagkilos ng mga GSIS officials.

Ang dapat ginawa dito ay pinabayaan na lamang sana ng GSIS ang mga miyembro nito na makakuha ng loans at makatanggap ng kanilang mga dibidendo---sapagkat ang mga ito ay matagal ng naiutang ng mga miyembro kahit ini-a-apply pa lamang nila ito---at, pagkatapos, ay usigin na lamang ng puspusan ang mga hindi nag-remit ng kanilang mga contributions.

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MGA KATOTOHANAN MULA SA BIBLIYA SA PAGLABAN SA MGA LIDER: Naririto ang isang interesanteng katotohanan mula sa Bibliya ukol sa pagpapasakop natin sa ating mga lider at pinuno, at kautusang hindi tayo dapat lumalaban sa kanila: “Dapat magpasakop ang lahat sa mga namamahala, sapagkat walang pamamahalang hindi ang Diyos ang nagtatag.

“Ang mga namamahalang umiiral ay itinatag ng Diyos. Dahil diyan, sinuman ang lumalaban sa mga namamahala ay lumalaban sa mga itinatag ng Diyos, at magkakaroon sila ng kaparusahan…”

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KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS. 21 JULY 2011

KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS. 21 JULY 2011

How about 2010 poll frauds?

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “…But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin…” (1 John 1:7, the Holy Bible).

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CLOSURE ON POLL FRAUDS NOT LIKELY TO HAPPEN: I really don’t know if the promise of a closure made by Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda over the alleged cheating in the 2004 and 2007 elections can really happen within the remaining five years of the Noynoy Aquino presidency.

No closure was made of more important cases in the past, and I am sure there is not going to be any such closure likewise on the issue of electoral frauds during the years in question, now or in the near future. Only history will ultimately bring the desired conclusion in all these, and I am willing to bet it is going to be so.

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HOW ABOUT 2010 ELECTORAL FRAUDS? And, while we are concerned with electoral cheating, how come we are focusing on alleged frauds for 2004 and 2007 only? How about accusations that even the 2010 elections was marred by massive cheating, with the use of machines? Are we going to close our eyes on these accusations just because President Aquino won?

The fact is that the Philippines seems to have perfected the art of fraudulent elections such that there are really no losers in any given political exercise here---everybody who lost got cheated, one way or the other, with Filipinos themselves participating in the cheating by way of accepting monetary and other bribes to vote or to cheat one way or the other.

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DEPED’S FIGHT VS. DENGUE TO FAIL: If Education Secretary Armin Luistro thinks his department’s PASS (Prevention Alert System in Schools) can stop dengue from victimizing school children, he should think again. PASS and any other initiative of the Department of Education to fight dengue will not stop the disease, because they fail to include a basic component to fight it.

What is this basic component? It is the realization that dengue and other deadly diseases inducing high fever is a Biblical disease, a curse promised by God to people who no longer listen to His Word (or read the Bible, in other words) and who no longer obey His commands, so that the only way to fight it is to use the Bible.

I really don’t know why this has escaped Luistro, considering he is someone who is high up in the Catholic Church hierarchy in the Philippines. But if he wants to be informed and to come up with a real solution to dengue, he should read the Bible, especially its Deuteronomy 28:15, 22.

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DENGUE AS A GOD’S CURSE: Dengue and other diseases which give rise to deadly and fatal fever and inflammation have been predicted to happen in Deuteronomy 28:15, 22 in this manner: “However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you…

“The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish…”

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KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS. 21 JULY 2011

How about 2010 poll frauds?

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “…But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin…” (1 John 1:7, the Holy Bible).

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CLOSURE ON POLL FRAUDS NOT LIKELY TO HAPPEN: I really don’t know if the promise of a closure made by Presidential Spokesman Edwin Lacierda over the alleged cheating in the 2004 and 2007 elections can really happen within the remaining five years of the Noynoy Aquino presidency.

No closure was made of more important cases in the past, and I am sure there is not going to be any such closure likewise on the issue of electoral frauds during the years in question, now or in the near future. Only history will ultimately bring the desired conclusion in all these, and I am willing to bet it is going to be so.

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HOW ABOUT 2010 ELECTORAL FRAUDS? And, while we are concerned with electoral cheating, how come we are focusing on alleged frauds for 2004 and 2007 only? How about accusations that even the 2010 elections was marred by massive cheating, with the use of machines? Are we going to close our eyes on these accusations just because President Aquino won?

The fact is that the Philippines seems to have perfected the art of fraudulent elections such that there are really no losers in any given political exercise here---everybody who lost got cheated, one way or the other, with Filipinos themselves participating in the cheating by way of accepting monetary and other bribes to vote or to cheat one way or the other.

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DEPED’S FIGHT VS. DENGUE TO FAIL: If Education Secretary Armin Luistro thinks his department’s PASS (Prevention Alert System in Schools) can stop dengue from victimizing school children, he should think again. PASS and any other initiative of the Department of Education to fight dengue will not stop the disease, because they fail to include a basic component to fight it.

What is this basic component? It is the realization that dengue and other deadly diseases inducing high fever is a Biblical disease, a curse promised by God to people who no longer listen to His Word (or read the Bible, in other words) and who no longer obey His commands, so that the only way to fight it is to use the Bible.

I really don’t know why this has escaped Luistro, considering he is someone who is high up in the Catholic Church hierarchy in the Philippines. But if he wants to be informed and to come up with a real solution to dengue, he should read the Bible, especially its Deuteronomy 28:15, 22.

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DENGUE AS A GOD’S CURSE: Dengue and other diseases which give rise to deadly and fatal fever and inflammation have been predicted to happen in Deuteronomy 28:15, 22 in this manner: “However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and do not carefully follow all his commands and decrees I am giving you today, all these curses will come on you and overtake you…

“The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, with blight and mildew, which will plague you until you perish…”

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