ARE WE REALLY FREE?

EDITOR/COLUMNIST

By Caloy Bueno

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The recent 123rd celebration of the  Philippines Independence Day of my Motherland has raised eyebrows from defenders scattered around the globe. The social media is inundated with ONE VOICE: The Voice of Freedom. Each one asked including myself,  "are we really free? " The history itself is not even in harmony with time, facts and records of events. They're not the recordings of  the unlearned Insurrectus as our brave heroes were hurled by this insulting part of speech by the banyagas. One invader after the other,  oppression after oppression,  those who trampled our sacred shores beautifully known as The Pearl of the  Orient Sea became the masters of our forefathers who never knew the ways of taga Kanluran. Their subservience to the human gods with all their innocence made them vulnerable that for five centuries of being  plundered and their spoils were divided,  poor Motherland was stripped off  of its own crown and glory in that horrendous 377 years of slavery!  We were left nothing but debts... and desolation.  For until when my destitute Motherland will be done paying her debts, that she never enjoyed in its truest sense.  The VOICE said RISE Philippines! Freedom: Farce, Fiction? or Real? 

Here's Caloy Bueno's insights I'm very happy to share. Caloy has had good credits to his name as an Editorial News Broadcaster in his time and a former government public servant under  FVR administration. [Blog Admin.]

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#PagMayTime ~ Are we really free? 

 

When for a very long time many of our people are still poor, because our government cannot take upon itself the duty and responsibility to properly guide and effectively assist the poor to be able to help themselves, to overcome their inabilities and improve their own lot, then we are not free ~ we are in bondage to our wants. We do not have freedom from want.

 

When we are in fear of being wronged or even hurt by criminal elements, or by those other citizens who disregard law and order just because they can; and we see others who contemptuously do not conform to the rules because no one prevents them from doing only what they like, then we are not free ~ we are hobbled by our fears, and even tempted to also become reckless like others who are undisciplined, just because it makes them happy, which they even believe they ought to rightly assert. We do not have freedom from fear.

 

When our governance mechanisms and services are always undercut or rendered ineffective by the pointless political games played on the State, which are really needed to advance our capacity to pursue our own happiness and full development, then we are not free ~ we are still slaves of a system that promotes the rise of political masters with their own selfish agenda sabotaging and damaging our governance, which limits or curtails our own rights and freedoms, and disregards our needs. We are not free from exploitation.

 

The kind of democracy that we have is faulty and inefficient. It is egregiously skewed to favor only the powerful and influential, instead of being appropriately providential for the weak who have less in life. It prioritizes the wealthy, instead of looking out for the poor to be adequately afforded effective opportunities for self-improvement. The rights and freedoms it promotes and protects are those that, in truth, only the strong may take and use to their further advantage, leaving behind those who are incapable and weak, forsaken and forgotten. We are not free, because such a system uses our inadequacies to make us slaves to its unfairness, partiality and lack of compassion.

 

Therefore, we are not free. Only free to think and stupidly believe that we are. If we can only free ourselves from our stupid beliefs, then we might be able to think properly about how we can really become free.

 

But what is real freedom?

 

It is only when we realize that we need each other to be able to stand together that we can see the real meaning of freedom ~ it is the bonds we have between us enabling each one of us to be unafraid and more fully capable of becoming our own true selves, to fulfill our individual potentials ~ that ultimately redounds to the benefit of the whole.

 

The stronger those bonds, the freer we are, and the better the whole becomes ...

~ 'pag may time 👊🇵🇭👊

Source : FB/Caloy Bueno 

June 13, 2021