Loyalty
July 9th, 2005 at 11:23 am (General, National Politics)
DENR Sec. Mike Defensor has labelled the 10 former cabinet members who resigend as being disloyal to the president. According to him, the power of the cabinet members emanate from the president who appointed them to office. Which begs the question: Is loyalty to the president of highest regard?
What Sec. Defensor has probably forgotten is that the president is not the highest power in this country. The power of the president comes from the people who elected her. And although it is the president who appoints the cabinets member, and it is the president under which they directly serve, it is not the president that they actually serve. Sec. Defensor and the rest of the cabinet were chosen and hired by the president not to serve the president herself, but the Filipino people.
Thus, the resignation of the former cabinet members should not be judged according to whether it is disloyal to the president. Rather, the resignation whould be judged as being a disservice to the Filipino people or not. This, we cannot answer right now. But for sure, we now know that Sec. Defensor’s loyalty is not for the Filipino people. And that we should be wary of.
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