Aliens exposing weaknesses in our government agencies

These aliens, who are making a mockery of our legal system, have unwittingly exposed how easy it is in the Philippines for foreigners with a lot of money to violate our laws, trample on our justice system, and desecrate the sanctity of our laws. And yet, the government is too unforgiving and lacking in compassion when the suspected violators are poor Filipinos. This compartmentalized justice system is becoming too obnoxious and even exceedingly exasperating.

The series of shenanigans exposed by congressional committees have surfaced the facts that make our law enforcers look subservient to the importuning and manipulations by aliens who apparently corrupt our bureaucracies with money and malice. The first weakness is our highly questionable and openly controversial late registration system. There is logic leading many concerned and conscientious Filipinos to believe that probably some personnel in the Philippine Statistics Authority or some remoted and outlying towns' the civil registrars in remote local government units have been obviously manipulated or even corrupted by unscrupulous and undesirable aliens like the ousted mayor of Bamban and their cohorts.

Second, there seems to be some basis of the reasonable doubts that the provincial governments of Tarlac, where Bamban is located and of Pampanga, to which Porac belongs, were either too inept and too negligent in their oversight functions or some of their people were given incentives to look in other directions. How could the two governors of these two great provinces have not detected that there were unusually heavy volumes of Chinese visitors coming and going regularly and even permanently residing near a mushrooming Pogo hub? By the principle of command responsibility, how can you be a governor of a province and be clueless of the gambling operations in territories under your jurisdiction?

Third, how can the police and the military in Region 3, where both Tarlac and Pampanga belong, and also how come the NBI, and other law enforcement authorities, who are supposed to be vigilant in their watch for the safety, security and well-being of the people, not have known that right under their watch, serious crimes like illegal gambling, alleged kidnapping of aliens and locals, supposed physical tortures and physical, emotional and psychological abuses of human beings under reported arbitrary detentions ? How could all such despicable and reprehensible crimes and offenses be allowed to proliferate without raids, arrest, much less prosecution and imprisonment?

Fourth, how could the brilliant lawyers of the Comelec be outsmarted by an alien who had no birth certificate until age 17, and how could they accept the certificate of candidacy of this foreigner without exercising due diligence? They are not robots in the Comelec who would just accept the filing of any candidate without even checking the background of people who have the temerity to run for mayor. Many Filipinos have been disqualified by the Comelec because they lack the required residence or other less important qualifications compared to citizenship. I can smell a rat somewhere and I have my strong suspicion without having to say it explicitly. The readers know the reasons for all these seeming conspiracies of ineptitude.

Fifth and many more, what was the BIR doing and how come taxes were not collected on multi-million transactions just exposed before the Senate and House committee investigations? How about the DAR and the land authority, the register of deeds and other offices, how come thousands of hectares of agricultural lands fell into the hands of aliens, after dislocating long tenured tenants? How many more acts or omissions could be attributed to government agencies and their officials who, by their suspected dishonesty or plain laziness, if not outright stupidity, have allowed all these abominable travesties to happen.

I can really smell a rat, in fact, a multitude of rats. And the smell is becoming obnoxiously intolerable. All you these should not lull yourselves into delusion that everything is just okay. Our country is not okay.