Tags: Elections
By Marjorie Gorospe
QUEZON CITY, METRO MANILA — After Dear Noynoy, it was only a matter of time before somebody created a Dear Gloria page on Facebook.
If you want to say something to outgoing president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, you’re among more than 4,000 people who might find the Dear Gloria(letters to an outgoing President) fan page an outlet for your ranting.
Members are free to criticize the incumbent President and leave a message of advice before she leaves Malacanang on June 30. Arroyo’s nine-year term appears to have the most recorded number of extrajudicial killings and violence next only to the late president Ferdinand Marcos.
“Take your election as Congresswoman an opportunity to redeem yourself. File the following bills in Congress: anti-dynasty bill; midnight appointment ban bill; no second or re-election of any kind to an outgoing Prez bill (or the Presidential Retirement Act; truth in public service bill; limits on foreign travel of the prez bill,” Tim Gabuna wrote.
Philip Matel wrote “Dear Gloria, since you are going to be a Congresswoman, can you enact or create a bill that provides “special treatments” to Filipinos which are the same in height and build like you? Like free plane tickets and discounts at restaurants in New York and Washington?
Others have harsh words to say, like Bran Clark who wrote: “Dear Gloria, I would’ve hurled invectives at you for morally straining your people. But no, i would not stoop to your level, no pun intended. Though corruption has long been part of our culture, never had this become so rampant and blatant than under your reign. You made political survival a merchandise; you fed your minions like a farmer would tend his pigs to make them fatter and greedier”
The page was put up earlier this week by Rock Ed Philippines, the same group that created the Dear Noynoy(suggestions to a new president) page on Facebook, which indirectly spawned Facebook pages on Noynoy’s sister, Kris . Spot.ph also came out with “10 Things We’ll Miss About GMA”.
Bottomline, Facebook pages like these are becoming a barometer of Filipino’s sentiments, political or otherwise.
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