Noynoying revisited
One of the reasons being offered to justify Noynoy Aquino's hijacking of public funds for purposes other than what they were appropriated for is that he needed to urgently and immediately address the problems besetting the Filipino people.
Like all the other reasons given to justify the unconstitutional Development Acceleration Program, this too is a big fat lie. Nothing in the life of Noynoy Aquino has anything transpired that remotely resembles some sense of urgency or immediacy.
In fact, it is his extremely laid-back character that has given birth to the term "noynoying" which his critics coined from his name to describe someone not disposed to taking swift action. A person who inspires the birth of such a term cannot be expected to fit some other description denoting urgency and immediacy.
To make things even more consternating, nowhere does noynoying become more evident than in times when, to the contrary, greater urgency and immediacy is most needed, such as in times of great calamity. Remember the great earthquake in Bohol? It took Noynoy several days to show his face in the devastated island.
And then there was Tacloban, which Yolanda, the strongest typhoon to hit land in the recorded history of the world, nearly wiped off the face of the earth. Again, it took days for Noynoy to show his face. Worse, when he showed up, he merely brought bottles of water with him. That is noynoying.
So why are we revisiting noynoying? Because up to this day Noynoy and his apologists continue to refuse to acknowledge the fact that he was wrong on DAP. They continue to insist it is the Supreme Court that is wrong and he is right. They lie brazenly that he needs funds to do his job urgently and immediately.
We have to resurrect noynoying because Noynoy cannot be someone that his character is not. Even his very first act in office, which was to do away with wang-wang ostensibly as a sign of humility and oneness with the people, already suggested, if inadvertently, a lack of urgency.
So please, to Noynoy's apologists, try to find a more credible justification for hijacking public funds. But never ever try to project him as someone that he is not. Noynoy is simply not someone who is on the go. Instead, he is someone who, for reasons known only to him, suddenly disappears from view for days on end.
But then again, who can really blame the apologists when they are only taking after their boss. If they lie about their reasons for the DAP, it is only because their boss personally sets the example about lying. If he is allergic to lying, he would not have lent himself as a model for a DOH anti-smoking campaign.
Lying appears to be an unwritten policy in the Noynoy presidency. Remember when he publicly called on his supporters to wear yellow ribbons? You should remember because he made the call on tv. Well, no yellow ribbons materialized because yellow is now the color of shame and a symbol of betrayal and broken promises.
But guess how the apologists of Noynoy reacted to the failure of yellow ribbons to emerge -- they said Noynoy was only joking! If you lie like that to the Filipino people, you only insult their intelligence. So better be prepared for the backlash. It can come sooner than anyone expected.
Another lie being peddled to justify the DAP is that P10 billion out of the P150 billion in public funds that Noynoy hijacked has been spent on the relocation efforts of government to bring people living in danger zones away from disaster-prone areas.
If there is any actual relocation effort going on anywhere in this country, it must exist only in the imagination of Noynoy's apologists. Surely, P10 billion being such a huge amount, a hint of something going on by way of relocation ought to be evident somehow by now.
But there is nothing of the sort going on in Cebu as far as I know. And nothing of the sort is evident in Leyte. I read in the papers that even Senator Alan Peter Cayetano said so himself when he paid Ormoc City a visit a few days ago. For a funding of P10 billion, relocation efforts indeed seem so very hard to come by.
If Noynoy needed the DAP to hijack public funds to, as the bare-faced lie goes, urgently and immediately address problems that could not wait to be addressed tomorrow, it is certainly taking a very long time for any signs of activity toward this end to even slowly and painstakingly emerge.
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