Basic contradiction De Leon binalaan ang mga PDs.CDs at COPs na sisibakin?
Isang babala ang ipinahayag ni Brig. Gen. Valeriano De Leon, Police Regional Office-3 (PRO3) sa mga chiefs of police at city police chiefs sa lalawigan ng Nueva Ecija.
Ito’y nang bumisita noon Lunes (Oct. 19) si De Leon sa Nueva Ecija Police Provincial Director na kung saan kanyang inatasan ang 27 chiefs of police at city police chiefs sa lalawigan na lalong pagigihan ang kanilang kampanya laban sa pinagbabawal na gamot sa kani-kanilang area of responsibility.
Sinabihan din ni De Leon ang lahat ng mga hepe na lalong ipatupad ang mahigpit na kampanya laban sa krimen.
“Kailangan gawin natin ang trabaho natin (PNP) para maging tahimik ang iyong area of responsibility,’pahayag pa ni De Leon.
Sa pakikipagugnayan sa mga Barangay Anti-Drug Abuse Councils (BADACs) lalo na ninyong mapag-iigihan ang inyong kampanya laban sa droga, ayon pa kay PRO3 director.
Sinabihan pa ni De Leon ang mga Provincial at City police director maging ang lahat ng hepe sa Nueva Ecija na lumabas sa kani-kanilang mga tanggapan at hindi iyon nandoon lamang at naka-airconditioned pa.
Lumabas kayo sa inyong mga tanggapan at magtrabaho, pahayag pa ni De Leon.
Hindi umano magdadalawang isip si PRO3 director na sibakin ang mga police chiefs sa kanilang puwesto kung hindi maka-perform o walang “accomplishments sa illegal drugs maging sa krimen.
Binalaan din ni De Leon ang lahat ng mga Provincial at City police directors na gampanan ang kanilang trabaho lalo na sa kampanya sa droga kung gusto pa nila manatili sa kani-kanilang mga puwesto.
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Bagong staff officers ng PRO3 ....
Bagong talagang PRO3 Deputy Regional Director for Administration si Brig. Gen. Leo Francisco.
Pinalitan niya si Brig. Gen. Rex Dela Rosa.
Si Col. Pedro Soliba ang bagong PRO3 Deputy Regional Director for Operations (DRDO) siya pumalit sa puwesto ni Col. Eric Noble.
Dati naka-assigned si Soliba sa Maritime.
Lt. Col. Amado Mendoza ang bagong chief ng PRO3 Regional Logistics and Research Development Division (R4).Si Col. Randy Arceo ang kanyang pinalitan sa puwesto.
Si Lt. Col. Soledad Elefanio ang bagong PRO3 Public Information Office chief. Siya ay naka-assigned dati sa PNP National Headquaters sa Camp Crame.
Samantala si Lt. Col. Andrew Aguirre ang bagong talagang Highway Patrol Unit-3 director.
Pinalitan niya si Lt. Col. Carlito Narag.
Sa mga bagong talaga sa PRO3, congrats sirs!
In 2021 the Philippine Catholic Church is scheduled to celebrate 500 years of Christianity. Past and present realities, however, viewed through a secular sociological lens puts a celebration’s fit in serious doubt.
The basic contradiction in Philippine society is our simultaneous celebration of the battle of Mactan and Magellan’s cross. We extol Lapulapu as a hero for repulsing a foreign invader yet we also welcome our colonization by Spain simply because it planted (our faith in) Christ’s cross in our land.
Church and state were one in that age. Friars were equally functionaries as soldiers and other officials of the colonial government. Friars administered territories assigned to them like any Spanish feudal lord did in that era, cruelly. But the natives submitted because, given the choice of either perishing by the sword or being “meek and humble of heart” like Christ, they chose the latter.
Friars were Spain’s first line of defense against native revolt. A friar informed civil officials of the planned revolution by the Katipunan, violating the seal of confession in the process. Jose Rizal’s execution was the handiwork of friars he bitterly criticized in Noli and Fili. The faith of the Gomburza priests did not save them from execution for treason. That’s how much the interest of the King trumped that of the faith or cross.
I am not taking away from the friars and their modernday successors the good they have done. I am not making a moral judgment either. I am only adverting to the sociological fact that the Catholic Church was Spain’s principal tool of conquest and domination, more so than the sword or musket.
Today, the only Christian country in the region is the most corrupt and, as a result, has the worst incidence of pover t y.
This is mainly though not solely because today’s Philippine Catholic Church is preaching the same brand of submissive Christianity as that of the Spanish friars. Unwittingly it blesses the status quo as God’s will that a good Christian must bear and gladly join to Christ’s suffering on the cross for “the reward is great in heaven.”
This brand of Christianity is heavy on ritual but light on actions to help suffering humanity. It assumes all suffering, regardless of cause, is God’s will that Christians must bear with Christ-like equanimi t y.
To celebrate, gloat on, 500 years of this Christianity is to justify more of the same suffering for the poor. But Pope Francis, in Fratelli Tutti, is calling on all peoples to dismantle and replace unjust social structures that are causing massive poverty worldwide. 2021, therefore, should rather mark the beginning of a new Christianity that is light on ritual but heavy on actions for justice and peace.