Marlen V Ronquillo – I Agree With You, “In A Prostrate Sector, Vileness Does Not Rest”
You say right away:
The
time of the virus is, in the ideal world, the time to end the assault on the
country’s small farmers. Small farmers in the country are the country’s wretched:
invisible to government, prey to repressive laws like the Rice Tariffication
Law, avoided like a plague by the banking mainstream — and voiceless and cowed.
Mr Ronquillo, those first 54 words from you are
in their combined sense hyperbole –
exaggerated and/or without proof given. It is also a logical fallacy called argumentum ad misericordiam, or appeal
to pity, not appeal to reason. I
studied those in Western Thought, UP
Los Baños.
We must always appeal to reason. Now, “A
man always has two reasons for doing anything,” says JP Morgan, “a good reason
and the real reason.” Let’s see!
You say:
The
Department of Agriculture (DA) is so engrossed with propaganda and image
building that it totally jettisoned its legal and moral mandate to help the
small farmers.
Hasty generalization. You have not been reading, Mr Ronquillo.
You know, I came to know well William
Dollente Dar, now PH Secretary of Agriculture, when he was still Director
General, DG, of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid
Tropics, ICRISAT; he was DG from 2000 to 2014. ICRISAT was/is based in India; if
the Indians sensed anything anomalous in ICRISAT transactions in those 15
years, they could have thrown the DG out the window!
A question of money? When William Dar
retired from ICRISAT, its net asset was US$ 34,500,000.
ICRISAT hugged William Dar as DG for 15 years, because the Indians knew
an honest man when they saw one!
ICRISAT, sister agency of the International
Rice Research Institute, was dead last, kulelat,
when William Dar came in; when he exited, ICRISAT was already #1 among the 15 international
agricultural research centers under the umbrella of the CGIAR. William Dar, Phenomenal
Team Captain!
You say:
A
resolution filed by members of the Makabayan bloc in the House of Representatives
tells a heart-rending story. And the tragic thing is that the DA, the agency
with the legal and moral mandate to help the small farmers, allegedly is behind
a massive fertilizer overprice.
Read my lips, Makabayan Bloc, and Mr Ronquillo!
“PH
Fertilizer Purchase: “We Saved P2.2
Billion” – Secretary Of Agriculture William Dar[2]”
That’s my own calculation from the data;
that article I blogged 15 June 2020 (THiNK
Journalism, Digital). No, gentlemen, the DA under William Dar did not engage in any fertilizer overprice
deal – on the contrary, they engaged in a transaction that saved the PH
Treasury some P2.2 Billion! If you
gathered the facts first, you would not have written that column. William Dar
knows his arithmetic even if we don’t know ours!
Look again, Mr Ronquillo – where is the vileness coming from?!@517
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