MANILA, Philippines Malacañang is turning out to be the country's biggest troublemaker in the light of fighting between government troops and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a senior bishop said.
Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Oscar Cruz said the Palace has a track record of thriving on problems it regularly creates and disputes it initiates.
"'Troublemaker in the national level' seems to be the best way of describing and calling Malacañang. There are marked indications that it finds it hard to act right or to behave well. This is because Malacañang appears to enjoy and thrive on problems as it regularly creates big troubles and initiates great disputes.
There is even the assumption that it feels uneasy when there is justice and truth in the land, when the country is heading for development and progress," Cruz said in his Web log (ovc.blogspot.com).
Worse, he said Malacañang is "certainly not inclined to honesty and integrity and desirous of peace and harmony."
He noted the Palace has had an anti-social mind frame, with dangerous syndromes of deceitfulness, falsity, aggressiveness and recklessness.
The Palace has also shown a lack of remorse of conscience and inability to learn from disgraceful experience and shameful conduct, he said.
"In other words, it is not suited for social responsibility precisely because it does not recognize leadership accountability," he noted.
Secondly, Cruz said Malacañang could have had wrong advisers who were chosen on account of transactional policies instead of professional competence.
Thus, he said Malacañang is the one at fault in choosing non-qualified counselors, tutors and mentors.
"The advisers could be saying what they deem acceptable but not necessarily right on the ground," he said.
A third point is that Malacañang could have allies who are egoistic and avaricious, dishonorable as well as dishonest.
Cruz said the Palace's troubles started as early as in 2001 when someone said something about a well considered political decision only to do exactly the opposite a little later.
"The fundamental question is how long can Malacañang get away with its apparently ingrained disposition and customer actuation as in effect the biggest troublemaker in the land?" he said.
"Are the citizens of this continuously impoverished and depressed Country already accustomed to poverty and misery that they look at their socio-political gross misfortune as their irremediable destiny?" he added. - GMANews.TV