By Mortz C. Ortigoza
The nerve
of these thick faced Filipino congressmen who decided to strike- off the crime
of plunder (P50 million above loots) as one of the offenses in the proposed
death punishment law that they would be voting by finality this coming March.
A
congressman with an annual half-a- billion pesos project for his district that
has more than 250 thousand population as constitutional standard could pocket
up to 20 percent of S.O.P (euphemism for
cut) or one hundred million pesos through his favorite supplier or contractor
say of medicines or infrastructures.
Deprived
by medicine or threatened by a substandard bridge or building because the
hundreds of millions of pesos budget was plundered by the solon could cause death to his constituents.
Because of
this gall, the thieving members of the House of Thieves, er, Representatives could be worse
than the murderer, kidnapper or narcotics seller because they could kill a few
while congressmen could murder a multitude because of their avarice.
Just look how
millions of marginalized and dying Filipino rice farmers are cursed to wallow
into morass of poverty in their once a year harvest while their counterparts in
Vietnam and Thailand enjoy twice or thrice a year harvest of palay because of
their ubiquitous water systems were generously given by their public
officials.
