TRUTH, TRANSPARENCY DIED WITH FOI BILL!

The ‘death’ of the Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill is not as simple as anyone might think.

TRANSPARENCY AND TRUTH died with it, while MIND-CONDITIONING efforts of PNoy’s government received a major boost.

With the archiving of the FOI Bill, we ordinary mortals have just lost a major weapon to find out the truth about government transactions or projects as well as pronouncements of supposed achievements.

For the simple reason that without FOI, we can’t just ask for whatever facts or figures about anything suspicious in government which we want to verify or investigate for ourselves.

All that the concerned agency has to say is it’s confidential and we need a court order or any other document which would allow us to freely find out what we want.

So TRUTH WILL ONLY BE what the government will tell us, or the media.

If we want to find out anything sensitive – like whatever happened to the HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF PESOS IN UNLIQUIDATED conditional cash transfer program (CCT) monies -- we’re on our own.

If the government boasts that millions of jobs have been created without naming  even one company which hired workers or one person who got a job, or millions of CCT beneficiaries without naming even one and citing where’s that person from –- then we can’t do anything about it.

Simply because there’s NO LAW which compels any government agency to reveal details of its public pronouncements to anybody at any given time.

And since it would be TOUGHER THAN TOUGH TO DIG DEEPER into any suspicious government project or transaction we stumble upon, it would be their version which would be hammered into our minds by their propagandists

Until hopefully, they get to brainwash even a few of us into believing they’re doing good, and deserve our support for their candidates, especially their senatorial bets, in the May elections.

So before anyone falls into this CHEAP AND AMATEURISH gimmick of PNoy’s government, answer this question first, TRUTHFULLY:

UMASENSO na ba ang buhay n’yo mula nang maging Presidente si PNoy? 30