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Deja vu
FRONTLINE
Ninez Cacho-Olivares07/03/2010
Like it's always said: The more things change, the more they remain the same - especially when it comes to Malacañang.
On the Aquino administration's first official day, a Memorandum Circular Number 1 (MC-1) declared all non-career executive positions vacant as of June 30. This caused immediate confusion, with resignations handed left and right, which could have caused the collapse of the bureaucracy.
That it was a major blunder could hardly be hidden, and quickly, another MC, also No. 1, dated on the same day, June 30, was issued, correcting the first MC-1.
It was a major blooper, but the presidential spokesman, Edwin Lacierda, insisted that it was not a boo-boo at all, as the first MC issued was merely a "draft" and that the second MC1 issue is the same one and that the official one, had been "fined-tuned" as the first one had a "lapse in language." This was the Palace explanation, despite the fact that these were two differently worded MCs that moreover were clearly antedated by Malacañang.
Quite frankly, it almost seemed to be a repeat action by the new presidential spokesman of the then Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye holding up two "Hello Garci" discs - one genuine and one fake - passing off the genuine as fake, and the fake as genuine.
Another bit of deja vu occurred, this time with Lacierda claiming a "lapse of language" in the first MC1, which the altered MC1 had "fine-tuned."
Remember Gloria Arroyo's "lapse of judgment" in her I-am-sorry-spiel? She refused to acknowledge the truth of her talking to Garci about rigging the vote, and instead said it was a lapse of judgment on her part to have spoken with an unnamed poll commissioner.
Similarly, the new Palace occupants refused to admit and acknowledge the truth behind the blooper of the first MC1 issued - in that these Palace newbies, especially Noynoy Aquino, just wanted something dramatic for media purposes, such as ordering all those officers of agencies and bureaus to vacate, even when Aquino does not have any replacements of his choice ready to take on these offices, apart from the fact that they were clueless about the rules governing career executive service officials but went on ahead with that order kicking out people.
But even more importantly is that such an explanation for two different MCs being passed on as one and the same, is not only a big fib, but that this can mean that the new Palace occupants can issue an official MC, then have it replaced and passed on as the original MC, even when it was clearly amended.
Hello, one shouldn't fool around with such MCs. or Executive Orders or Administrative Orders just like that, because this can mean that changes in any of the MCs, EOs or AOs can always be substituted using the same date, the official numbers and time and date receipts, as documents are officially received in Malacañang's document-receiving office. This also means that cover-ups in the Palace can be made easier.
But didn't Aquino and his yellows claim that theirs would be a clean and honest government?
So why, so early in his administration, are lies being resorted to, with claims of lapses in language, and that the first MC was a draft when it was not, while the second is the official one?
What is wrong with admitting that a mistake was made; that they are new in the game and that this had to be amended and should not have been antedated? Why insist that it was not a blunder? Isn't this what was pledged by Aquino and his cohorts? Truth and transparency?
How can there be transparency, when this early, the Palace newbies insist on hiding the truth behind the MC? How can there be transparency when there is no admission of a big mistake?
But, as it is always being said: The more things change, the more they remain the same.
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Ayaw mag sorry? Baka mawala yung HOLY IMAGE? Matulad kay GMA?
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