Comments on: Congress Watch: It’s Your Money, Folks http://igorotblogger.com/2007/06/congress-watch-its-your-money-folks.html A news and information blog on the Igorots/iCordilleras Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: NATS http://igorotblogger.com/2007/06/congress-watch-its-your-money-folks.html#comment-2815 NATS Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:25:00 +0000 http://igorotblogger.com/?p=252#comment-2815 the bottomline is "WE ARE CHOOSING PEOPLE TO SPEND OUR MONEY^^ hehehe the bottomline is “WE ARE CHOOSING PEOPLE TO SPEND OUR MONEY^^ hehehe

]]> By: Bill Bilig http://igorotblogger.com/2007/06/congress-watch-its-your-money-folks.html#comment-989 Bill Bilig Sat, 09 Jun 2007 03:05:00 +0000 http://igorotblogger.com/?p=252#comment-989 Hi Dan,<br/>Aba, medyo marami din pala ang supporters ni Chiz among us ha. Agree with you that we should give him a chance. Thanks.<br/><br/>Hi Trublue,<br/>We really should pursue that autonomy thing pero dapat talagang autonomy unlike the previous proposals which were rejected by voters partly because they didn't present autonomy at all. I'm not sure if I want the ARMM model because it's also not autonomy. Biro mo ba naman the ARMM is under the office of the President. What a joke. Thanks.<br/><br/>Hi Frustrated,<br/>Nice name :-) You kind of captured many peoples feelings about this autonomy thing. And I tend to agree that CEB was ineffective in advancing the cause of autonomy. <br/><br/>Hehehe. Let's join our Mindanao siblings in the South and become separatists. Thanks for dropping by and we hope you continue to join us. Hi Dan,
Aba, medyo marami din pala ang supporters ni Chiz among us ha. Agree with you that we should give him a chance. Thanks.

Hi Trublue,
We really should pursue that autonomy thing pero dapat talagang autonomy unlike the previous proposals which were rejected by voters partly because they didn’t present autonomy at all. I’m not sure if I want the ARMM model because it’s also not autonomy. Biro mo ba naman the ARMM is under the office of the President. What a joke. Thanks.

Hi Frustrated,
Nice name :-) You kind of captured many peoples feelings about this autonomy thing. And I tend to agree that CEB was ineffective in advancing the cause of autonomy.

Hehehe. Let’s join our Mindanao siblings in the South and become separatists. Thanks for dropping by and we hope you continue to join us.

]]> By: Frustrated! http://igorotblogger.com/2007/06/congress-watch-its-your-money-folks.html#comment-987 Frustrated! Fri, 08 Jun 2007 10:43:00 +0000 http://igorotblogger.com/?p=252#comment-987 Trublue, I became a director of the Cordillera Executive Board which was created to prepare the Cordillera region for autonomy. It was so frustrating for me especially since I was then in my early 20's. Instead of serving as the mouth of the Cordillera IPs to make Imperial Manila know and respect their aspirations, CEB became an inutile agency as it was used to ram down policies of the national government into the collective throat of the Cordillera peoples. What a shame. We had been clamoring for autonomy because of the irreconcilable conflict between national laws and our customary laws. In the process of preparing the Cordi people for autonomy, the CEB was reinforcing the very system from which we wanted to break free. Inayan pay sa? Was it the fault of the CEB? I would say it was of the national government that engineered the CEB to be inutile.<br/><br/>So what autonomy are we talking about? It can only happen in our dreams. While we think that it is for the national government to grant and not for us to assert, we will fail. The right to self-determination is a human right. Nobody grants it. But we must assert it for it to be real. <br/><br/>Hah! I am agreeing with you. Are we ready for a revolution? Trublue, I became a director of the Cordillera Executive Board which was created to prepare the Cordillera region for autonomy. It was so frustrating for me especially since I was then in my early 20′s. Instead of serving as the mouth of the Cordillera IPs to make Imperial Manila know and respect their aspirations, CEB became an inutile agency as it was used to ram down policies of the national government into the collective throat of the Cordillera peoples. What a shame. We had been clamoring for autonomy because of the irreconcilable conflict between national laws and our customary laws. In the process of preparing the Cordi people for autonomy, the CEB was reinforcing the very system from which we wanted to break free. Inayan pay sa? Was it the fault of the CEB? I would say it was of the national government that engineered the CEB to be inutile.

So what autonomy are we talking about? It can only happen in our dreams. While we think that it is for the national government to grant and not for us to assert, we will fail. The right to self-determination is a human right. Nobody grants it. But we must assert it for it to be real.

Hah! I am agreeing with you. Are we ready for a revolution?

]]> By: TruBlue http://igorotblogger.com/2007/06/congress-watch-its-your-money-folks.html#comment-986 TruBlue Fri, 08 Jun 2007 08:51:00 +0000 http://igorotblogger.com/?p=252#comment-986 Anonymous 7:10/12:27 - no matter how we enunciate the "pocketing" of porkbarrel, won't succeed in Pinas. It's a general practice, they're like doctors, general practitioneers, not all, MOST of them. <br/>Since we resisted the Spaniards, maybe it's time to bear arms again, er, crusade for our own AUTONOMOUS CORDILERRA REGION (ARC)!!! If the Muslims created the ARMM, the ARC can also be a reality. And once this DREAM materializes, then we can build a fortress ala walls of China juxtaposing thru all the CAR provinces. The Igorot Kingdom...<br/>Anonymous 7:10/12:27, you can hide by the name "Diver" if you so desire..hahaha... Cheers. Anonymous 7:10/12:27 – no matter how we enunciate the “pocketing” of porkbarrel, won’t succeed in Pinas. It’s a general practice, they’re like doctors, general practitioneers, not all, MOST of them.
Since we resisted the Spaniards, maybe it’s time to bear arms again, er, crusade for our own AUTONOMOUS CORDILERRA REGION (ARC)!!! If the Muslims created the ARMM, the ARC can also be a reality. And once this DREAM materializes, then we can build a fortress ala walls of China juxtaposing thru all the CAR provinces. The Igorot Kingdom…
Anonymous 7:10/12:27, you can hide by the name “Diver” if you so desire..hahaha… Cheers.

]]> By: Anonymous http://igorotblogger.com/2007/06/congress-watch-its-your-money-folks.html#comment-985 Anonymous Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:57:00 +0000 http://igorotblogger.com/?p=252#comment-985 I'm another proud Igorot rooting for Chiz. Let's give him a chance to prove his mettle. <br/><br/>Dan I’m another proud Igorot rooting for Chiz. Let’s give him a chance to prove his mettle.

Dan

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