Towering Babel
Noynoy’s government, more specifically, his administration is a big, big joke but one that doesn’t make Filipinos laugh.
There doesn’t seem to be any coordination or even communications among the officials of his government — including Noynoy and his spokesmen, as clearly, Malacañang and its aides have turned itself into a virtual Tower of Babel, where everyone talks but nobody seems to understand what the other is saying, or has said.
If one still remembers the biblical account taken from the Book of Genesis, following the Great Flood, generations upon generations spoke only one language which was naturally understood by all — until they decided to build a tower reaching the heavens, but God saw what they did and went down to earth to confound their speech, scattering the people and confused their languages, leaving Babel because God confounded the language of all the Earth.
The difference of course is that even as Malacañang and Noynoy are supposed to speak the same language, Noy and his officials prefer to cling to babbling Babel, confusing and confounding the Filipino people and even other peoples of the world.
Just what kind of government do the Filipinos have under Noynoy Aquino that it doesn’t seem to get anything right — including the so-called intelligence reports from several intelligence agencies, both police and the military, along with the civilian intelligence agencies, as well as the Malacañang intelligence agency — and to think that tens of billions of pesos are poured into the government coffers for intelligence work.
Does anyone in his administration ever even get to brief Noynoy with accurate reports, or is it a question of his wanting not to be bothered by officials who give him the bad news, that the same officials have to come up with tall tales that make things more embarrassing, as Noynoy has that penchant for quickly coming up with conclusions without any basis at all?
But it really has become much too embarrassing before the world that the Noynoy government officials, all attached to Malacañang and Noynoy, cannot even get their stories right.
Take the big blunder of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) that claimed the Chinese government has pulled out all its boats from inside and outside of the lagoon, following an “understanding” with the China. That was announced on a Monday by the DFA.
Tuesday, the Philippine military announced that there were still some 28 Chinese vessels, in and out of the lagoon at Scarborough Shoal — which is a direct contradiction of what the DFA claimed.
In an obvious bid for the DFA to save face, its spokesman claimed that the Chinese ships must have returned, when in fact the ships never left the shoal at all.
Now Malacañang says it will be sending Philippine boats to the shoal to show that the shoal is Philippine territory.
The point really is, if there were continuous communications between bureaus and departments, as well as communications among intelligence agencies, such an embarrassing blunder would not even have occurred. But apparently, the DFA wants to give Filipinos and the know nothing president the impression that things have been fixed up between China and the Philippines over the issues of the standoff and sovereignty.
But isn’t that just too dumb, considering the fact that such statements can be checked out for their veracity and then found to be a lie?
Naturally, the DFA will stick to its story of the Chinese ships having returned. Yet if the DFA’s tall tale of there being an understanding and commitment between China and the Philippines to withdraw all the vessels from the shoal, why then did the Chinese vessels even “return,” if the DFA claim has any basis at all?
The country is really looking stupid with department officials contradicting each other to the point where government credibility is clearly losing out — and fast.
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