I’ve been reading the posts in Pilipino, particularly the e-mails to renegade Capt. Nicanor Faeldon. I’m impressed by the expressions of support that he (and the other “righteous” soldiers) has been getting from Filipinos all over the world. But what caught my attention was the letter from a “high profile physician” and the statement issued by the Professionals for Genuine Change that he posted.
Although the statement clearly represents the sentiments of the professionals in the country, I believe it also articulates most Filipinos’ (especially the marginalized sector) aspirations for genuine reforms to enable themto have decent, less deprived lives.
The full text of the letter:
From: Professionals for Genuine Change
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:04 PM
To: capt.nicanor.faeldon@gmail.com
Subject: statement of support for you and our righteous soldiers
Dear Captain Faeldon,
I am a rather high profile physician who just formed a group of professionals who share your aspirations for a return of honor and dignity in our country, especially in our leaders. Although I have made my ideas and opinions known through my essays, I must remain anonymous for now as part of this group of professionals…. but I hope only for a short time more.
We call our group Professionals For Genuine Change. Below is our statement of support that I hope you can publish in your website. We tried to have it published in the Inquirer as an Ad but they gave us an unuually difficult time to do so. We had to pull out and will plan to publish in the Malaya instead.
We are ready to do our part.
IN SUPPORT OF THE ASPIRATIONS OF OUR RIGHTEOUS SOLDIERS
WE are a group of PROFESSIONALS committed to work for REAL and NECESSARY CHANGE in our country. Our lives are dedicated to caring for our sick, upholding justice, building our roads, teaching our youth, providing livelihood. We strive to make life better for other Filipinos through the honest and honorable practice of our professions. It is for this reason that we must now state the following:
WE refuse to continue to delude ourselves into thinking that true and lasting peace and progress can ever come out of the present administration.
WE are sick to the stomach of the lies and cover-ups we have been forced to swallow since the “GLORIA-GARCI” scandal first erupted.
WE are sick to the heart of the arrogance and the brazen “”gangster tactics”" displayed by Malacañang and our elected officials allied with the palace.
WE are sick to the soul of the damage inflicted by this shameless leadership on almost all our institutions, on our national pride, and on our dignity as a sovereign people.
WE wish to HEAL OUR COUNTY; and we know that this cannot be done through the deals and compromises being offered by this leadership. These deals cannot cure the deep rooted cancers that plague our nation. Neither can we heal through the return of discredited and discarded politicians. They too are symptoms of the disease.
WE recognize the need to cleanse our present system of so many ills that continue to hold us down- a COMELEC that has lost all credibility; a SUPREME COURT that has been reduced to a rubber stamp of the palace; a HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES where the “”rule of law”" has been mutilated beyond recognition and where the tyranny of numbers has robbed politics of morality and decency; a BIR where extortion has been institutionalized… the list is endless.
WE accept our collective responsibility for the present deplorable STATE OF OUR NATION and we heed the call of the times for an END TO APATHY.
WE support the aspirations of our RIGHTEOUS YOUNG SOLDIERS who can no longer keep their silence in the light of a prostituted military where deceit and dishonesty are rewarded, and integrity and honesty scorned. They are the TRUE PROTECTORS OF THE PEOPLE.
WE will do our share. We have made our choice.
PROFESSIONALS FOR GENUINE CHANGE
