STUPIDITY of the Highest Officials in

August 16, 2007

STUPIDITY of the Highest Officials in

GOVERNMENT.


The Philippines not only has a PRESIDENT Who KISSED the ASS of a Stupid LIAR, EXTORTIONIST Media Man
RAMON TULFO.

The Philippines also has Officials in the Highest Echelons of Government Who are
Plain, Plain STUPID of the HIGHEST ORDER.

FILIPINOS should not be surprised of this STUPIDITY of the HIGHEST ORDER among High PHILIPPINE Government Officials
Because the FILIPINOS have a PRESIDENT who KISSED the ASS of a Stupid LIAR-EXTORTIONIST Media Man,
RAMON TULFO


(A Custom-based media man-columnist informed me that RAMON TULFO maintains – or maintained through his son PATRICK, the TULFO recently CAUGHT EXTORTING P1,000,000.00 from a Makati-based American Investor) in PALAWAN a Car Exchange selling SMUGGLED cars from SUBIC. Ramon TULFO, instead of being investigated, EXTORTS HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF PESOS from CUSTOMS OFFICIALS!!!!)

What is the Reasoning behind the decision to destroy several smuggled and abandoned vehicles valued at over P10.0 million pesos? To “send a message to smugglers?” What message?

Secretary of Finance Margarito Teves (as quoted in the August 17, 2007 issue of Philippine Daily Inquirer) rationalizing the destruction of the cars shows

HOW STUPID some of PRESIDENT ARROYO’S CABINET MEMBERS ARE!!!!

The only message smugglers would RESPECT is that they are apprehended and IMPRISONED. With the action of the government to destroy the cars, these smugglers must be LAUGHING in DERISION at the VERY STUPID Customs officials who recommended the decision and the VERY STUPID Top Official or Officials (TEVES, then the PRESIDENT?)who approved the decision to DESTROY CARS VALUED at SEVERAL TENS OF MILLIONS of PESOS.

It is to be kept in mind that these CARS were Either Government Property or Private Property. In either case, it is AGAINST the LAW for non-owners of the goods (like the Customs or other High Officials) TO DESTROY PROPERTIES that have VALUES and are NOT PROHIBITED to be EXCHANGED or USED.

In 1992-1998, when Guillermo L. Parayno Jr. was Customs Commissioner, he disposed, by Public Auction, over 900 smuggled, seized and abandoned vehicles (including a P7.4 million brand new Mercedes Benz and several Porsches carnapped in the Streets of San Francisco and shipped by smugglers to Manila Ports), enriching the Filipino People by hundreds of millions of pesos from the auction proceeds. To carry out the Public Auction, and to protect the interests of local car manufacturers, Parayno sought the assistance of the Association of Car Manufacturers in the Philippines (CAMPI) and the then Philippine Motor Association (now Automobile Association of the Philippines).

Even totally dilapidated cars left abandoned at the piers for over a decade added some income (THEY WERE SOLD AT SCRAP VALUE!!!) for the Bureau through these Public Auctions!!!

That is why the decision to DESTROY CARS that could EASILY FETCH SEVERAL TENS of MILLIONS of PESOS (estimated by Secretary of Finance at P40.0 million) at PUBLIC AUCTION is a decision arrived at by VERY, VERY STUPID CUSTOMS and OTHER HIGH PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS!!!

If the smuggled goods are harmful substances or prohibited Drugs like SHABU, there are Standard Procedures and Rituals to carry out their Destruction, certainly not the VERY CRUDE and PRIMITVE method of crushing them as were done on the cars.

If the Government is to be consistent, why not destroy ALL SMUGGLED GOODS?!!!!

If the government seizes a shipload of smuggled rice or sugar or used clothes, why not just throw the shipload of rice or sugar into the sea or burn the smuggled (by REY LANGIT!!!) used clothes?

If the Philippine authorities seize a tanker load of smuggled oil, why not BURN the WHOLE SHIPMENT? And also sink the tanker into the sea, “To send a Message” to the Smugglers and their Collaborators?!!!

If the government seizes canned goods STILL EDIBLE, why not FEED them to the PIGS?

On second thought, why not destroy ALL THE SMUGGLED CARS now at ALL the ports so that the FILIPINO PEOPLE will have MORE PROOFS that those Customs Officials and Other Top Officials (like Finance Secretary TEVES) who Approved and Carried out the Destruction of the Smuggled Cars (and not selling them through Public Auction) are Plain, Plain STUPID of the HIGHEST ORDER?!!!

O Tempora! O mores! Ubinam gentium sumus? In qua civitate vivimus? Quam rem publicam habemus?


Ning Santos
46 Simoun Street, Sta. Mesa Heights , Quezon City