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By Anthony Vargas, Reporter
THE Catholic Bishops Conference of the
Philippines (CBCP) now believes that the nation is facing a
‘political winter’ as the Arroyo administration continues to be
hounded by a string of scandals.
It is its harshest assessment of the Arroyo
government to date, posted as an editorial on its website (www.cbcpnews.com).
The CBCP said the situation under the Arroyo
administration is deteriorating, with corruption scandals being
exposed to the public, one after the other.
“This can be worse, if differences of the day
are motivated by hefty financial favors and political comfort
because such are devoid of ethics and conviction,” the CBCP said
on its editorial.
“Cabinet members and high-ranking government
officials of the past and present administrations have banded
together, crossing political lines and (joining) the fray in search
for the ‘truth’ or better still in search for a political
solution to the present hitch,” the CBCP said.
The editorial added that with the scandals and
controversies faced by the Arroyo administration still unresolved,
students, urban youths are now gearing up for a ‘quarter storm’.
“After martial law, they preferred to be
computer geeks rather than street parliamentarians. But this time,
they look geared up for a quarter storm,” the CBCP editorial said.
“The country is in political winter. It looks
a little short of frightening if one would give a free reign to a
scenario where power blocks are trailblazing uncharted schemes to
set or unset the central power that slugs on an uneasy chair,” it
added.
The CBCP editorial issued a slight warning that
the past EDSA revolt proved Filipinos can be non-violent, but even
“fence sitters are being awakened by the foul reek of the ZTE-NBN
mess, the equally stinking Spratly island deals in the offing.”
“They were mere fence sitters and guilty
bystanders, like most of us in the first wave of anomalies
surrounding the Macapagal Highway, the Fertilizer scam, the Hello
Garci tapes and the Northrail Project,” the editorial added.
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