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Showing posts with label community. Show all posts

Sunday, October 24, 2021

Early campaigning mudslinging - do they comply with community standards. ?

It is more fun criticizing


                                                      Uncalled for; early anti campaigning


After several of my pages were taken down on alleged violation of community standards, this post has been keenly aware of what is allowed and not allowed to be posted.

However some virulent posts attacking candidates have been appearing and this post wonders if the  watchmen of the platform are going to take down the posts.   Maybe they can campaign for their candidates but to attack the personality of certain candidates without conviction from the courts is out of line and goes beyond ethics of publication and may be even a crime/illegal

About this division of people due to politics or our own candidates,-  this is temporary.  After the election we go back to normal lives.   Our lives will not be altered by whoever wins the election.  It will remain the same if we do not change our attitudes, mindset and the way we behave.  Many nations have progressed inspite of the so "called leaders"  We carve our own destiny, not the so "called leaders" These prophets can be of doom and as Joker Arroyo has put it, it simply a battle among"\ Commissioners"  Kasi to the victor
belongs the spoils

The virus will control the outcome of our health problems; not the new leaders.  So let us save our anger and energy hitting hurting our friends and relatives about the election.  

Tuesday, April 20, 2021

Regulation of free community pantries

It is more fun criticizing

Rizal Philippines
4.20.21













                                                             Meron din sa US



Free community food pantries sprout as govt aid is delayed

News just flashed in tv news broadcast that a community pantry is being supervised by barangay staff, that this will be subject to permits according to Usec Dino so that the health of the beneficiaries are supervised, and that proper health protocols are observed.  

What is a community pantry?   It is a spot where residents can take whatever they want and others can donate.  It would seem to be seamless unsupervised social enterprise where residents help one one another.  From one in Quezon City, the phenomenon has inspired about 200 others including one in Boracay, to augment the needs of people who have lost jobs, or simply have nothing to eat. 

Others say, this reflects the lack of initiative and concern by local and national govt to address this need.

So why the regulations?  Why the hullabaloo.?   Who will register if this is just an outpouring of generosity by the community.?

Thats what is hindering our progress -   power play.  The  authorities simply love to throw their weight around and project their power.  

P.S

There are newsfeeds of:

1.   There were pictures of progressive group advancing their agenda  hence the red tagging.
2.    The sponsors of such free community pantries stopping their operations due to the red tagging.
3.    Sec Roque and DILG are ambivalent towards their treatment of such pantries.
4.    There are citizens abusing the free pantries and who appear to be greedy, destroying the spirit of free community pantries -  it is give and take.  Not take and take only,   or free free for me me me only