Bolante deportation looms

Hoohuummm!!!

Persecution is the medium of the strong to torment the weak. Undersecretary Bolante hardly belongs to the weak class if the accusation is true that he manipulated the fertilizer’s fund and funnel it to GMA’s election fund.

I just hope that the people wanting him so bad in the Philippines so he can answer for his fund diversion are doing it for noble cause and not for the highly desired sound bytes and mileage that can sustain them to the 2010 elections.

Alecks, I referred to Undersecretary Bolante as a he because of the photo in the post. I just hope that he is really a he despite the name Jocelyn.

Jock-jock may explain the root of rice crisis in the Philippines…tsk tsk tsk.

Naalala ko tuloy ang mga sinabi ng father ko…harapin mo ang consequences ng mga kalokohan mo, ginawa mo yan, kaya dapat panagutan mo…pero kung nasa tama ka, di kita pababayaan.

see GMANews.TV below…wala nang patawad…education, fertilizer, etc…ngayon naman…wow ha…ober na ober na yan…different case but similar…Jock-Jock was a President of Rotary Club and at the same time Agriculture Undersecretary…then Samie Lim, a PCCI President and at the same time as appointed private sector Tourism Chief…both came from a very influential business organizations, and appointed by Malacanang…i hope that their appointment was just based on their knowledge and experiences that will help our Govt to achieve a strong Republic and not for the personal interest of the sitting President. tsk tsk tsk

GMANews.TV - Wednesday, June 4

MANILA, Philippines- An influential business group wants the government to privatize a handful of the country’s major tourist spots, a move that they said will ensure the preservation of the areas.

Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry president and appointed tourism private sector chief Samie Lim said the Philippine Tourism Authority should sell some of its major assets which have the potential to become even more attractive to both foreign and local visitors.

Among those spots that should be privatized are the Banaue Rice Terraces, Picnic Grove and Palace in the Sky in Tagaytay City, and Burnham Park in Baguio City.

Another tourist spot that could be privatized, Lim said, is a beach resort in La Union that is not being managed well.

Lim said that by having private groups to manage the destinations, the country could have a better chance of attaining its goal of hitting some 10 million tourists arrivals by 2010.

Department of Tourism (DOT) data showed the country accommodates an average of 3 million tourists annually.

Apart from this proposal, Lim is also raising the posibility of privatizing all the government-controlled duty-free shops.

?These shops could even earn more if placed under a private management,” he said. - GMANews.TV

Yes, jcc, he is male with a feminine name. But that, as you can see, is not the bigger anomaly here.

Alecks,

Thanks for clearing this one up. But speaking of a greater anomaly, you would be amazed to find that:

In French, particularly in Québec,the spelling “Jocelyn” is exclusively male. The female counterpart is spelled “Jocelyne”.

Undersecrtary Bolante, I might add, have a better chance in seeking political asylum in France

Who is Jocjoc Bolante?

He was an undersecreatary in the Department of Agriculture during and before the 2004 presidential elections. A rotarian and a congressman wanabe.

What is the Jocjoc Bolante Case?

He was instrumental in using the people’s money (supposed to be for use in buying fertilizers to be given to farmers). It was alledged that the funds were diverted to Gloria Arroyo’s campaign kitty. During the senate hearing it was more or less established that some things were fishy.

Before he could be made to answer, he fled the country. Now he’s in an American jail pending deportation. He’s applied for a visa to stay in the US. So far he’s been denied.

What is the government doing with the case?

The senate has investigated the case and the findings were forwarded to the Ombudsman. The Ombudsman (The First Gentleman’s classmate, has been sitting on the case for a long time.

Additional Information from Newsbreak

An ongoing saga first exposed during the 2004 campaign period and which resurfaced at the height of the impeachment attempt against the President, the fertilizer scam has crossed the Pacific with the arrest of its supposed main architect, former agriculture undersecretary Jocelyn “Joc-Joc” Bolante.

Arrested at the Los Angeles International Airport in July last year for a canceled visa, Bolante is now fighting deportation proceedings in a US court, even as he seeks political asylum there, claiming that the opponents of the President wanted him dead. His court troubles began when he snubbed repeated Senate subpoenas for him to shed light on the P728-million fertilizer fund allegedly distributed to Arroyo’s allies during the 2004 election.

A member of the Makati Rotary Club like the First Gentleman, Bolante was Arroyo’s first appointee to the agriculture department, which she headed for a time after she assumed the Presidency in 2001.

It was Bolante who distributed the fertilizer fund to local allies of the President, supposedly to subsidize farmers. But a Senate investigation showed that the funds were misused for political purposes. The Senate has recommended the filing of plunder charges against Bolante, as well as former Agriculture Secretary Luis Lorenzo.

Farmers have claimed that not one centavo trickled down to them. “The farm inputs and implements program is a premeditated, systematic and grand agricultural theft. In the words of farmers and taxpayers, the fertilizer scam is the rape of the nation,” the Senate finding said.

Reference: http://arroyocorruption.pbwiki.com/Joc+Joc+Bolante+Case

Rotary Club, another name for MAFIA.

jcc, is that a fact or just your opinion?

jr_lad

where protectionism and spoils distribution are made on the basis of membership in the organization (FG a rotarian, Bolante another rotarian apppointed as Agriculture Secretary) the orgnization’s legitimacy becomes suspect. if you are are an honorable member of that organization, it is my opinion that you bail out from the organization unless like others, you might be waiting for the spoils too.

To be fair, there were some officers and members of the Rotary Club who did issue critical open letters back in 2006, urging Bolante to come out and tell the truth behind the fertilizer funds scam. One letter-writer, Harvey Keh, even questioned the Rotary Club’s silence on the issue.

See this post.

Alecks, jr_lad;

Rotary, is a big business/professional club. To promote its business or profession it has to act as an effective lobby group to promote its members’ careers and/or business. The best way to do it is to align itself with the dispensers of power, the government, and other big businesses. The government or big businesses have to look for a stable allies in the laps of these professional groups, of which Rotary club is one and whose membership are the moneyed group of the society. Assured of unabashed loyalty from these professional groups, the government preference to distribute the spoils and other government largesse, is quite predictable.

That as an association, the Rotary had kept silence about the Joc-Joc scandal is understandable, because as a club, it has to look for greater benefit of its membership and not the benefit of the greater majority of the people as epitomized in its objectives and goals:

“the development of fellowship and understanding among its members; the promotion of community endeavors; the maintenance of high standards in business and professional practices”.

So the emphasis is development x xx of members, x x x high standards in business professional practices, which is another way of saying “making more money for its members”.

That Rotarian Mr. Harvey Keh, had expressed his disgust over the silence of the Rotary Club over the Joc-Joc affair should not be seen as a vindication of the club’s professionalism, but as an indictment of the club’s of decay as seen by one of its honest member.

jcc, correct me if i’m wrong, they way i understand it, the rotary club is composed of different groups just like the toastmaster’s club. my wife was able to attend an all women’s group lately. you’re right, the group members are highly educated and into business. the group of mike A. & joc-joc B. must be one powerful group among rotarians.

That as an association, the Rotary had kept silence about the Joc-Joc scandal is understandable, because as a club, it has to look for greater benefit of its membership and not the benefit of the greater majority of the people as epitomized in its objectives and goals… jcc

i think you’re right on this one jcc. they have their own agenda the reason for the group’s silence on bolante.

thanks jr_lad. i just hope that whatever views we have here, will not be considered as “voices in the wilderness”, but as indicators that certain sectors of our society are awake and willing to put their message across without fear or favor.

jcc, jr_lad…just like the masonry…though they knew there was a mistake done by one of their member as long as the mistake is outside their brotherhood…is not a mistake…instead they will protect their brother from harm. a part of their doctrine…brotherhood is second to God…while Family, Relatives or Friends, etc…is below their brotherhood.

nosi_balasi;

well-put and incisive as well.

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