TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

By Bayawanon

Bad karma strikes stronger than lightning, so be good. Do not fabricate evidences against your enemies, do not protect the wolves who are hiding in sheep's clothing. and stop bullying the defenseless because if the earthly justice cannot be effected ... DIVINE JUSTICE is inevitable and that would be the greatest misfortune that would ever hit you.

Stop fooling the people who almost believe that you are one of the gods and goddesses of Mt. Olympus in the fold of Zeus, Apollo, Athena, Aphrodite and others, and cease acting like a royal who espoused the Divine Rights Theory for you are not a KING.

You must have a total turnaround from your bad ways for your age which is three scores and eleven years is almost in the sunset of your life, bear in mind that you are a mortal hence you must take care of your soul for it may dwell in HADES for your undoing by exterminating the innocents, your critics and your rivals while you are still the leader of your land.

You may own the land or probably the whole world but you may lose your own soul by doing things that are against the will of the CREATOR. Always think sanely that GOD made us for a reason and that is to please him. In connection to this be a subject of him, be his servant and follow him 'til your last breath and 'til the last drop of your blood for HIS and his KINGDOM'S greater glory.

You must remember that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon who used to be the strongest man on Earth met karma by losing himself for not following the will of GOD. Will you be like him? If your answer would be in the negative ...then reform and be the CHANGE that you want to be for TRUE CHANGE starts from within.

How can you effect CHANGE when you yourself cannot even change? GOD made us in his own image for us to please him. Will the bullyings, fabrication of evidences against your enemies and the execution of the weak that you have done please GOD? Will such disparaging acts of yours give honor and glory to the creator? If your answer would be in the negative then CHANGE and CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.

CONFIRM GINA LOPEZ AS PHILIPPINE ENVIRONMENT CHIEF

By Bayawanon

Regina "Gina" La'o Lopez belongs to the one of the most illustrious, affluent and respected families of the Philippines, the Lopez family being a business and political family of the country. Her family is the owner of many companies in the Philippines like the ABS-CBN, Maynilad, Meralco, University of Iloilo to name a few. Despite her being a part of a very affluent family she had chosen to serve the community and humanity for free.

She went to Africa to serve the poor people there as a part of her social responsibility. She came back to the Philippines to extend her advocacy to a wider extent by becoming an environmentalist by way of heading the cleaning of the Pasig River through the Save the Pasig River Project, by leading the preservation of the last watershed of Metro Manila through the Save the La Mesa Dam Program and by espousing opposition to irresponsible mining in the paradise island of Palawan via the Save Palawan Movement.

These social responsibilities and environmental advocacies of Gina Lopez are so commendable and I believe that she deserves a Magsaysay or a Nobel Award for environmental advocacy for her dedication to balance environment with modernism, not to mention the fact that she was doing such super tasks for free.

Gina Lopez would have dedicated herself in their family businesses and earn hundreds of millions instead of serving the society for free. Her perks and income at the Department of Environment and Natural Resources as of the moment are just minute or so small compared to what she would have earned on possible corporate gains she may have had she decided to stay in the corporate world.

She would not have made numerous opponents because of her opposition to irresponsible mining and she would have enjoyed a blissful and peaceful life had she not accepted the environment portfolio from the president of the republic. Secretary Lopez would have enough privacy and would have not have problems regarding public office had she chose to be a private person and not the other way around. Such selfless acts are considered as patriotism and the same deserves a retribution from the state.

By virtue of the foregoing rationales, it is but normal and fitting for the Commission on Appointments of both the Senate and the House to confirm Secretary Gina La'o Lopez since she is a gem that the Filipino people and the Philippine Republic can seldom see and discover for their betterment as a people and as a country.

CHANGE FOR THE BETTER

By Bayawanon

Change is good if it is for the better. Now, does the changes that are happening in the countryside for the better? Does the killings in connection to the obliteration of drugs for the better of the majority? Does the killings form part of DISCIPLINE which the people actually need nowadays?

Of course KILLING is not a form of DISCIPLINE, for how can a bad man change if he's already dead? How can a dead man change for the better? I hope the state would make some steps in reforming the society by not resorting to violence and I hope further that the government would respect human rights, since according to former Senator Jose Wright Diokno he said and I quote that "human rights are legal concepts, deny them and you deny man's humanity".

The state must also observe the constitutional rights of every Filipino citizen which is embodied in the BILL OF RIGHTS of the Philippine Constitution and respect the same, for we are living in a government of laws and not of men, thus I expect to have a more humane and law leaning change that would happen in the next months or years to come in our fair motherland.

There is no problem with change if it is done in consonance with the existing laws, public morals, public health and public policy. Much more that there is no problem with it if we are building and not destroying communities out of it, since we don't have to destroy in order to build.

Changing the society for goodness sake by way of killing the drug addicts and drug pushers is not a genuine change, for one cannot solve a problem by doing another problem. The true change that we are expecting is that change that effects reforms by way of peace, compassion, camaraderie and team role playing. Change by way of violence would not make any good as we would all learn from history.

The people should and must have a role for the genuine change that we are looking for. That can be possible by being vigilant against crime, corruption and human rights violation. The people must stop cheering the state in its so-called purging against the people who are involved in the drug trade, since the same is a synonym of mass killings and condoning the same would make one accountable on the judgment day.

In connection to this, the government must reconsider it's WAR ON DRUGS which is coupled with executions outside of legal avenues, revise the same and inculcate discipline to all so that CHANGE can be had in its true sense.