A few hours ago, I left a comment on the website of one of the aspiring partylist groups. It’s still under moderation and I doubt if it will get approved. In any case, here’s what I wrote:
I just want to call your attention to the fact that some of your campaigners have resorted to vandalizing public property. While the campaigners of other groups make use of streamers and posters, yours have resorted to using paint. What’s up with that? I just saw your slogan “No to tuition fee hike! Iboto ang Kabataang Partylist” painted on the post of one of the newly painted footbridges along Quezon Avenue and again on one of the center islands in the area.
While this violation is nothing compared to the bigger problems besetting our country, it is a violation nonetheless. Why must you allow your people to vandalize? if you’re gonna fight the evils of this world you should at least be better in your deeds. Being a vandal is not being better.
Call it nitpicking or whatever, but I think a group that wants to get into Congress presumably to create laws shouldn’t be breaking any. In fairness to Kabataan Partylist, they’re not the only ones among our candidates who are guilty of vandalism. Just look around and you’ll see how messed up our surroundings are right now because of all the campaign materials posted all over the place. What puts Kabataan Partylist on a different level though is the fact that its campaign material will require a fresh coat of paint to remove.
If I weren’t a believer of the “broken window” theory I probably wouldn’t make a big deal out of this. There’s also too much irony here that I can’t help but point it out. Check out the following gem from the Kabataan Partylist website:
Our Common Vision
KABATAAN Party-list believes that the youth should devote its intellect, energy and courage to building a new society devoid of corruption, inequality and social injustice.
And here’s another one under its so called Program of Action:
3. Assert the youth’s right to decent living, equal opportunities and humane living conditions.
Humane living conditions? I think this bunch of youth activists should aim for more modest goals. I would suggest something like ensuring our communities are free from graffiti.
Just saw your comment at the kabataan partylist website. I couldn’t agree more. With their rampant vandalism and what they did to the CHED office (where they destroyed the steel gate and threw paintbombs at the lobby) and in PUP (where they encouraged the destruction of armchairs and tables), hindi tama at walang sense.
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I saw your comment in Mong Palatino’s blog.
I so agree to your post. I also some vandalism done on the bridge in Marikina. And then I thought that their representative was so intelligent and truthfully represents the youth.
They thought they could abuse their right of free expression by doing. The youth should show the world that they are intelligent and that they are better than these. Kung ganito rin lang ang iaasal ng kabataan, pag-asa pa ba sila ng bayan?
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i admit that the members of the student organization in PUP are part of the Kabataang Makabayan. What they did in PUP is just a freedom of expression and an expression of freedom. It must be an example that is supposed to be suceeded by the filipino youths in other schools and universities nationwide. The means of expressing freedom through a seeming violent means is just comensurate to the abuses that most schools in the country are doing to the poor youths. therefore it is but right for the weak filipino youth to practice freedom of expression in it’s utmost means by spreading the attitude of resisting any abuses by any institution, government or private, by all means. We are the filipino youths, and we will fight for a better future. MABUHAY ANG KABATAANG MAKABAYAN!!
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bp Reply:
June 1st, 2010 at 12:36 pm
milehpen,
yeah right. it’s still vandalism. and don’t even try to justify that campaign graffiti your group has been using to dirty up the place.
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sign up pls..
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bp Reply:
August 20th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
sign up for what?
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