Here's the thing. I have heard of former UP President Francisco Nemenzo before. In fact , I knew him quite well. Talks in several volumes, eats a heartily breakfast, some such. Not that this guy is unknown in public circles, anyways. Much has been said about him in the news of late.
Trillanes ROCKS, by the way. The Magdalo should have shot down the Malacanang Palace back in 2003. Plus, the Nov. 29, 2007 standoff is something I'd wholeheartedly would have wanted to snowball rather well, if it ever went anywhere. Preferably, blood-splattered. Arrogant, rock-and-roll apathetic pricks would come up with the word ' abberation ' in their minds and usually point to this as an example. Nope, THEY are. Lie down with that knowledge, and stop blaming this on the activists again, instead of YOUR BULLSHIT TOLERANCE. Bet that wouldn't affect your daily opium dose of ' bar hopping gimmick ', huh, sucker ?
Just have to lay that all out there immediately before going completely off-tangent.
First, and perhaps the only time, I ever got to talk to our former UP President , it was for our Field Class. It had to do with an assignment on hand in which our group were seeking out a bunch of people for their one-two opinions regarding activism in the campus. He did say a lot of things pretty interesting in that respect, such as the predominance of evil Catholic forces in our student body at one time ( and perhaps their clandestine upwelling into the territory of late, leaking from the drainage in the form of the CBCP ). And so forth. Fears were also raised about the plunderous multinational hordes pushing their actions one step worse here and actually about to employ THEIR own workers from THEIR own country into our own shores, and the illegitimate politicos up there straddling towards finally making that a possibility in 2009. Just so you know. This , to him, will be the dealbreaker which will make activism rise within our walls once more. Obviously, NBN-ZTE is not much prescient back then.
But of all things said ( and sadly, such parts didn't make it on the camera, since this was a chat ) , one was the most pertinent. He has admitted to supporting the TOFI. In principle. He simply could not sit down and let some guy whose father owns an entire upper floor of ' Robinson's Mall ' paying a mere P 300 per unit sum. This is what he thinks is ' Marxism'.
I did not get the opportunity to rebut that , but to this, I will have to definitely say one thing only : like it's anyone's damn bussiness.
These facts have been repeated ad nauseaum, to the point that it is increasingly becoming a mantra to a lot of folks - which is primarily due to the fact that they WON'T listen ( rather like shouting at your fellow housemates to ' Go down the goddamn stairs ' , so much that in repetition it becomes noise. The tragic thing which is it being singularly taken more often as such ) , but University of the Philippines, like others of similar infrastructural nature , is a STATE UNIVERSITY. It is brought up, funded for, and sustained by the government, through taxes paid for by the public, and not just their own damn pockets. I think we should take note of such matters when squarely looking at this issue. People, should at least know who exactly to thank, or pau gratitudes towards, let alone serve. Meaning, it's a public property set there for a reason : to provide education for everybody else, into uplifting their lot beyond better labor quality. To build industries with and not subordinate such things. To serve the people and not be service industry fodder. You do NOT keep a public property from people because of their economic disposition; equal access and all that. And you do NOT demand payment from something they have ALREADY paid for; most especially for something where they do not even get to benefit, but could not even enter. The deal has always been about bashing impeding inequality and NOT punishing the rich of your damn fiction. Like the TOFI punished the rich. Because,from what I see now, with this scheme that these putrid eggheads have unilaterally, and disgracefully shoved down our throats, seems its only the people that have top floors of posh buildings all to themselves who are capable of enrolling.
Now, he's at it here again, talking even more volumes about how we ought to expound beyond the four walls of the classroom, and smash the fascist Arroyo regime, redeem ourselves and build a better nation, and how democracy has constantly failed to succeed at this. Pretty compelling panderings, but sorry , pal. You cannot create anything substantial out of this rot with a deprived flock of masses who could not even right or read, or get a diploma to work; and are made even worse off now in such regard. How can you expand beyond the four walls of the classroom when there isn't any classroom to begin with ?
In fairness to the man, he did say he was only considering it at the time, simply because he didn't have any guts to do it. An independent study he has commissioned saw that there was exactly no way this can be promulgated WITHOUT damaging the middle class. It was only Roman who had one. People like Emeldita Roman should not be congratulated in the least , especially for a policy that tricked down from this administration.
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Now when is someone going to shoot the President ?
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