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WINDSOR JOHNGENOVA
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Taxpayers smellblood after allegedNapoles-Congresspork barrel racketturns P10 billion
fund for farming,livelihood andcalamity aid intokickbacks; wantheads to roll
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Ten billion pesos worth of taxes juicedfrom the hard-earned salaries of workingFilipinos since 2003 allegedly endedup in the pockets of congressmen inthe pork barrel racket orchestrated byJanet Lim-Napoles through her fake
non-government organizations (NGOs).No wonder everyone is fuming mad forbeing robbed over the years withoutthem knowing it. Not even the surrenderof Napoles on Aug. 28 to face charges ofdetaining relatives who blew the whistle
on the scam can appease the duped. Allvictims want the arrest, prosecution andpunishment of people who conspired
with Napoles.The collective anger was vented during
the Facebook-fanned Million PeopleMarch protest rally against the scam andpork barrel in Luneta on Aug. 26. Lessthan a hundred thousand people heeded
the call and assembled on NationalHeroes Day but it was a quorum andconsensus against corruption. Ordinarycitizens, who are relatives, friends andstrangers to each other, were there.Families, students, clerics, activistsand leftists, lovers, gays and lesbians,transgenders, actors and actresses,singers, bikers or riders, and others whoare aware of the issue cried, Abolishthe pork barrel! They also called on
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While Luneta was the epicenter of a people power cry toabolish the corruption-plagued pork barrel on Aug. 26, theclamor reverberated overseas and in the provinces that same
day. Even the smallFilipino community inFinland staged theirhumble but serious
version of the protestagainst the pork barrelscam dubbed PiknikMartsa (pork rally)at the Kansalaistori,a public square inHelsinki. Among theorganizers were LydiaPadilla-Rinne and herrelatives (shown in phototaken by her brotherEvelio). They raisedplacards indicating their
Anger breeds artistry. creative side of the Million Pprotest at the Luneta on Augbarrel protesters crafted wsymbols that almost turned a costume party.
Protesters wore pig heashow their distaste not fo
or menudo but for the porkthose who appropriate it to
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From Luneta...OINK...
The FAT...
NO DINUGUANNo blood spilled at Mendiola when militants alsomarched towards Malacaang to protest against thepresidential pork barrel. The protesters held a shortprogram and left at 4 p.m. while riot police just stoodguard behind barbed wire barricades and a steel gate.
President Benigno Aquino III to abolishhis presidential pork barrel, the spendingof which is solely under his discretion. Bythe way, Aquino also has gotten the ireof his bosses, the masses, for suggesting
earlier not to abolish the pork barrel andinstead subject its use to tight scrutiny.Ambulant vendors, kibitzers, netizens
taking photos for posting online, thosewho just wanted to be seen, and otherswho think that pork barrel is food anddont know what stance to take joined theevent. Police ofcers were present, readyto quell hooliganism. Medical workerswere there to attend to any emergencyor injury. Reporters, TV cameramen andbloggers covered the event.
The pork barrel scam is as foul asthe smell of all piggeries in the countrycombined. Napoles, congressmen andgovernment ofcials allegedly divide
among themselves the pork barrel calledPriority Development Assistance Fundamounting from P70 million to P200million annually. The whistleblowersled by Benhur and Arthur Luy, Napolesrelatives and former employees at herJLN Corp., explained that agriculturaland livelihood assistance projects to
benet poor farmers and families in thecountryside are invented and endorsed bycongressmen to concerned governmentagencies for implementation by theirchoice NGOs, which are controlled byNapoles. The Department of Budgetand Management then releases thelawmakers PDAF money for the specicghost project to the NGO. Once depositedto the NGOs bank account, Napoles splitsthe money with the legislator, the localmayor or governor, and other facilitators.No projects are actually implemented.
The National Bureau of Investigationand other government agencies continueto investigate the extent of the scam,
which could have divertedP10 billion in tax money frbeneciaries.
The Bureau of Internal Refor Receipt sign posted oestablishments says taxeto the government will bthe development of the But with the Commissionndings supporting the clawhistleblowers, that is not rhappening. Now, who wouldn
solidarity with the demonstrators inLuneta and opposition to corruption inthe Philippines. Some Finnish friendsjoined them in the rally. The group alsosang song and ate together in the smallgrassy spot at the square.
OFWs in Saudi Arabia, Italy, Taiwan,Hong Kong and the United Arab Emiratesheld their own mini rallies. Filipinocrane and forklift operators at a desert
work site in Saudi Arabia took photosof themselves holding placards with thewords Abolish PDAF and Napoles,senators mga buwaya.
Members of the OFW group Migrantein Italy gathered in Rome and collected5,000 signatures for a petition to abolishthe pork barrel. Members of the TagalogFellowship in Taipei held posters withthe phrases No to pork barrel andSobra na ang korupsyon! according toGMA News. The protesters called for theprosecution of corrupt public ofcialsand transparency in the use of publicfunds.
In Hong Kong, several Filipinos ralliedin front of the Philippine Embassy inQueensway.
Filipinos in Los Angeles, California,USA picketed outside the posh Ritz-Carlton Residences, where Jeane Napoles,daughter of the alleged mastermind ofthe P10 billion pork barrel scam, JanetLim-Napoles, owns a unit reportedlyworth P80 million.
Members of the National Alliancefor Filipino Concerns and BAYAN-USAprotested in front of the PhilippineConsulate in New York.
A mixed crowd of 3,000 turnedup at Plaza Independenciain Cebu City. InNegros Occidental, themulti-sectoral groupNegrosanons KontraKorapsyon organized theTipon Tipon sa Lagoonin front of the provincialCapitol building. TheCollege Editors Guild ofthe Philippines andBayan picketed atthe CrossingBanga inKalibo,Aklan.
The militant activists displayed theirusual provocative papier mache efgies
to strongly communicate theirdemands. But an outsize onewas cute that seles used it as amascot background.
A man simply covered hisnose with a small ice cream cupusing a rubber band to hold itaround his face. He was pig-alike
enough.A group of men carried arounda chair with the Pork Barrel King
efgy sitting on it. It was nota dead ringer for PNoy but
they had a backup, whichactually looks like him
but covered with abarrel with the
words abolishpork painted on
it.Theenterprisingsoldt-shirtswith pigsymbolsandpolitical
message.
The odd-men-out woreGuy Fawkes
masks, the
favorite image of hackers of A
Luneta was a visual esta wcolorful and distorted props. costume at the park remainmatikas guards of the Rizal
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Celebrities join anti-pork barrel protest
Actors and actresses are among the biggesttaxpayers victimized by the pork barrel scam.That explains the presence of VJ-model GeorginaWilson and TV host Raymond Gutierrez (above).
Tado Jimenez, with his bikerfriends, is against the pork barrel.
Rallies will not be complete without entertainment. Organizers of theMillion People March know this too well so singing was on the anti-pork barrel protest menu at the Rizal Park on Aug. 26.
Comedian-singer Jograd dela Torre warmed up the crowd in themorning with his spoof song Kawatan sang to the tune of Britishsinger Jessie Js chart-topping Price Tag. More than its funny lyrics,Jograds song ttingly serves as the rallys anthem. Just check thelyrics on the right side.
Actors and actresses turned out at the rally. As among the heavilytaxed taxpayers in the country (because of their fat paychecks), theyfelt victimized and related well with other cheated taxpayers.
Apo Hiking Societys Jimmy Paredes was seen with Noli Trinidad, LeoMartinez and Jun Urbano.
Robin Padilla and wife Mariel Rodriguez, TV host Bianca Gonzales,Rommel Padilla, Willie Revillame, Gloria Diaz, Isabelle Daza, GeorginaWilson, Raymond Guitierrez, Martine Cajucom, Irma Adlawan, Pen
Medina, Arnel Ignacio, Mylene Dizon and director Jose Javier Reyeswere there.Comedian Tado Jimenez was with his biker friends. When interviewed
by a TV reporter, he thanked Janet Napoles saying, Kung hindi dahilsa yo, wala kami dito.
Actress and satirist Juana Change was in a Miss Piggy costume.Korina Sanchez was there to report the event for the evening news
program TV Patrol.Ironically, celebrities-turned-politicians are being linked to the pork
barrel scam. Sens. Bong Revilla and Jinggoy Estrada are reportedly incahoots with Napoles, the alleged architect of the scam, for allocatingportions of their pork barrel to ghost projects. The senators denied theaccusations.
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