sick of the time 2

there are so many silliness going on in this country right now. i never had the chance to write about it since i had my hands filled with legal readings. now that i have been given this much needed break, i think its high time to vent some frustration or reaction, whichever way you might want to call it, on some reasons why we are asia's sickest nation.

leak on me

whoever said that cheating is good? stupid! when i was in high school, the current policy then was, whenever a leak in the examinations is discovered and proven, there are two option of actions to be undertaken: one, is for the responsible of the leakage and those who benefited from it to be reprimanded by a failing grade in that examination and other disciplinary sanctions, and two, in the event that the culprits are unknown and that the administration has no other way to positively pin point who they are, the whole class will suffer with a retake of the entire leaked examination.

if in the secondary level setting, the innocence of those who did not benefit from the leakage is dispensable, then why not in the nursing board setting, wherein the stakes are higher? those who oppose the retake of the entire examination on account of innocence are STUPID! first, there has been a leakage in nursing board exams but it cannot be ascertained who benefited from it because, hell, there are too many of them! who knows if each and every passers of that darn 2006 examination never really benefited from the leak? hey, no crook will never confess that he is such a crook. second, the stakes are high in this hullabaloo. they are going to be certified by the government. they are going to be the ones that the sick ones are going to entrust their lives on; they are going to be the ones who will forever carry the dignity of the nursing profession; and if ever they are bound to some other country, they are going to the be the ones who will carry the dignity of the Philippines, the Philippine nursing education, the Philippine nursing profession. with such doubt on their eligibility, it is but proper for them to undergo the retake. stupid! third, they cannot contend that they are fighting for their rights to be certified by the governement. just like in the legal profession, certification by the government is not a matter of right, but rather of privilege to those who are qualified (In re: Lanuevo). the problem is, who among those board passers did and did not benefit from such leak? nobody knows! they are not being deprived of the equal protection of the law since, they as a whole class of nursing examinees are being reprimanded! again, they cannot claim their right to be certified. in the constitution, people's rights are dispensable in a state's valid exercise of police power, and i think that the stigma of the leakage is enough to justify the action of curtailing such right until the doubts have been cleared.

they should not give litanies of grief in reviewing for another examinations because the government is not ready to dispense with the public welfare and interest over some people's miseries. if they really had passed the board examinations fair and square, what else can hinder them from passing it the second time around? it is that simple stupid!

by the power of a TRO

it has been my way to catch the night news after a days work, and when i got home one night, i saw makati mayor jejomar binay running towards the city hall building wearing an upper-garment of the Philippine army. he was trying to elude the suspension order levied against him by the DILG.

first of, i think its a bit fishy that the government is so hell bent on suspending local government officials. whether the government has basis to do so, i still cannot reconcile with the fact that only those local government officials who are part of the opposition, are the ones on the chopping board. oh c'mon, don't tell me that all of the officials coming from the ruling party are clean? you gotta be kidding my puny ass!

second, although the intention was doubtful, still i think, in the case of binay, the government has legal basis to do so! duh! he was being charged of having ghost employees in his watch and yet the binay group is telling that such suspension is totally unfair? yeah, the group is correct that the DILG does not have a more concrete evidence of such allegation, but it can never be said that they totally are powerless with such evidences. that is why mayor is being suspended preventively by the DILG, for the latter to be able to conduct investigation over the matter. that is the purpose of the preventive suspension levied against binay. it is not, in any way, a form of penalty, but rather, a way for the government to be able to investigate over the matter, without the local government meddling on their way. and whatever the DILG can come up with, such will be used to decide whether to impose penalty over binay.

i think that the preventive suspension order is lawful and has undergone the proper proceedings. in my opinion, it is the way of the law to clear som controversies that hounds the administration of binay. i find it quite stupid that the law is always being dispensed off with. no one is above the law (Lukban vs. Villavicencio), and i find it utterly disgusting that there are people who are fighting the present governement for breaking the law, and yet they cannot submit themselves into a proper proceeding enunciated in the law itself. oh c'mon you guys, the law is absolute and not relative!