Honoring a dishonorable person. Lol.
This article came from www.philippinecollegian.org. It's all about President NoyNoy Aquino's commencement exercise in the University of the Philippines and he was conferred with the highest academic honor as an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree. You may read the whole article and you'll decide if our Dear President deserved this kind of honor(by the way, he's a dishonorable person. Lol.).
Editoryal: See no evil, hear no evil
For the 100th commencement exercises, the UP administration chose President Benigno Aquino III as the commencement speaker and conferred on him the university’s highest academic honor: an honorary Doctorate of Laws degree. It was one of the biggest insults to the academe.
What is an insult? It is when the school administration honors a person that all sectors in the university – faculty, students, employees – have condemned for his incompetence and broken promises. The administration, however, seemed to believe that Aquino still has a spotless performance, awarding him the honorary degree for “providing leadership in rallying the people to stomp out corruption,” and promoting the rule of law and respect for people’s constitutional rights.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Nothing could be more absurd.
The see-no-evil, hear-no-evil administration has forgotten that Aquino was the same person who claimed that the historically massive cut on the UP budget was only just. He was the same person who insisted that UP already had its own means of generating funds, thus, the billion-peso cut on the budget would do no harm. Aquino, the president who does not understand that the budget cut could lead to tuition hikes for the state universities to sustain their operations. Aquino, who does not understand the meaning of a state university, the only hope of the impoverished to send their children to college.
This was also the same person who had done nothing in the recent spate of fare, commodity and oil price hikes. His administration claimed that it cannot do anything with the oil price hikes because prices in the global market were steadily increasing. But this could only be either of two things: a failure to see that it has the capacity to control the price hikes, or a lie to cover up for its negligence.
For instance, Aquino’s government refuses to scrap the Oil Deregulation Law (ODL), which has long allowed oil companies to dictate prices in the country with the removal of government intervention. It aimed to prevent oil price hikes by encouraging competition among the private players. After 13 years of implementation, it does not take a genius to see that the ODL has defeated its own purpose.
These actions are in no way a form of respect for people’s constitutional rights, such as the right to education, contrary to what the UP administration claims.
The administration, likewise, believes that Aquino is a model of exemplary leadership in the campaign against corruption. But what has Aquino really done in holding accountable those who committed the greatest forms of corruption? It was already a year after he was elected, but no Gloria Arroyo has been convicted. He repeatedly promised that he was different from his predecessor and he would hold her and her cohorts accountable for their string of offenses against the people. But even the impeachment of Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, one of Arroyo’s staunches allies, took months to be finally discussed in the plenary – no thanks to his non-existent initiatives.
If the slow pace of justice does not cancel out the praise for Aquino’s anti-corruption campaign, then the administration’s sense of exemplary leadership is nothing less skewed. To say that Aquino should receive an award because he “promotes the rule of law” is in itself an injustice, for no justice has been served for the many victims of extrajudicial killings and other forms of human rights violations during Arroyo’s term. In fact, his administration has not taken any decisive action against human rights violations, as the death toll climbed to 40 during his first 10 months in power.
More important, in awarding Aquino for his anti-corruption campaign, the UP administration agrees with the president’s shallow understanding of poverty and other social dilemmas. For a university that fosters critical thinking, there is no reason to acknowledge a person who reduces the structural problem of poverty to moral bankruptcy in the government.
Aquino’s poor understanding of the social conditions reflects how he has isolated himself from the people he promised to serve. He is unfamiliar with the plight of the majority because he does not attempt to get out of the comforts of his wealth and executive power to truly examine the dilemmas that burden the impoverished. As a result, his administration has only prescribed ineffective and half-baked solutions to long-standing social problems.
By the same token, the UP administration is isolating itself from its constituents in awarding the highest academic honor to Aquino. It sends a clear message to the more than 4,000 graduates: Aquino is an example for them to look up to. This is an offense to a university whose primary purpose is to provide service to the people.
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PS:Just who in the blue hell gave our Dear President this kind of honor? It's a big insult to the institution. Since his first day in the office until now, he dragged us into a quagmire. And yet, his loyal followers(Yellow Army) are raising hell if the concerned citizens are criticizing him. You'll better clean up your act Mr. President! You may not like the worse case scenario to happen. We might end up fighting and killing each other. Just know your damn role, do your job and shut the hell up! Lol.
The University of the Philippines is now a big disappointment. They use to produced some of the finest and brightest Filipinos. But now, the school itself is a breeding ground for commies, anarchists, atheists, sociopaths and psychopaths. The UP graduates and students was used to be called "Mga Iskolar ng Bayan", because the national government gives them the largest budgets among the state universities and schools. It is now slowly becoming a school for the elite and snobbish freaks. There are only few students who came from the ordinary and poor families. If you're visiting the UP campus grounds, you'll see the finest and the most elegant cars parked in the university parking lots. Good thing that I've never enrolled to that school! I'm not here to insult the university and its graduates, I'm just here to tell the painful truth.
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