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On Target : A traitor is a traitor is a traitor

First posted 11:42pm (Mla time) July 13, 2005
By Ramon Tulfo
Inquirer News Service


OH, DINKY, how could you!

You were a spoiled brat in President Macapagal-Arroyo's administration
because she gave you everything you wanted, and yet now you tell people
your former boss is a no-good leader.

After breaking the heart of your former boss by resigning and calling for her resignation, you now tell the public you will reveal the "dark secrets" of the administration that you once served.

Oh, Dinky, how could you do that?

Upon your request, the President placed the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) at your disposal at the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).

In short, the enormous funds at the PCSO were at your disposal. No
President before Arroyo did that to the DSWD.

Ms Arroyo was very accommodating to you, too accommodating to a fault.

When she planned to replace you with newly-elected Vice President Noli
de Castro, you threw a temper tantrum and shed a river of tears.



President had to get back the position she offered to De Castro and
embarrassed herself doing that in order to please you and your colleagues in
the uncivil society. I say "uncivil" because most of you are spoiled
ingrates.

The unkindest cut of all was that days before you joined some people in calling for the President to resign, you were in Malaca¤ang with fellow Cabinet members serenading the President with the song, "Let's hold on together."

And yet, while singing that song of unity, you were already planning to stab your boss in the back.

"Et tu Brute (You, too, Brutus)?" were Julius Caesar's last words. You were like Brutus, Dinky.

If you think the President committed a grave sin by talking to Comelec Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano, you could just have resigned and shut up.

People would have admired you had you just kept quiet.

So, let's grant (but without admitting) the President erred in talking to Garcillano, must you join the mob in cutting the hand that once fed you, Dinky Soliman?

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Some people laugh at Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales for supposedly kowtowing to Ms Arroyo in this time of crisis. But that's what is expected of a subordinate-stand by his or her boss when the going gets rough.Which would you rather have for a subordinate, a Dinky or a Raul?

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In the early days of the Cory Aquino presidency, military officers who stood by deposed President Marcos up to the last hour were harassed no end by the victors who strutted like peacocks.

One such harassed and oppressed officer was Col. Arsenio Tecson (Philippine Military Academy Class 1970) who was a member of Marcos' Presidential Security Command (PSC).

Tecson told me once that the Aquino administration didn't know how to appreciate loyalty. Even if he and his fellow Marcos boys were on the other side, Tecson said, they should be admired because they stood by their boss to the very end.

"Look, Mon, those guys who betrayed their commander-in-chief Marcos might soon betray the present commander-in-chief (Cory Aquino)," Tecson said.

Tecson's words were prophetic. Weren't there six coup attempts against President Cory led by the same military officers who betrayed Marcos?

So, Dinky, who can trust you now and your fellow conspirators after what you did to your former boss?

If you could stab the President in the back, there's a big possibility you would do the same thing to your future boss.

A traitor is a traitor is a traitor.