[Multi-awarded Filipino filmmaker] Direk Peque Gallaga rages against Philippine President Benigno Aquino over alleged slow relief efforts. ― Kinumpirma ng isang malapit kay Peque Gallaga na ang direktor nga ang tunay na may-akda ng artikulong lumabas sa social media. Sa artikulong ito ay nagpahayag ng kanyang pagkadismaya ang 70-year-old film director sa aniya'y mabagal na pagtulong ng pamahalaan sa mga biktima ng super typhoon Yolanda. Matitindi ang mga salitang pinakawalan ni Peque laban kay President Noynoy Aquino. May patutsada rin ang direktor sa iba pang mga personalidad, gaya ni Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, at broadcasters na sina Ted Failon at Korina Sanchez. Ayon sa direktor, ang mga lider ng ating bansa at hindi ang bagyong si Yolanda ang tunay na kalaban ng mga Pilipino. Si Peque ang direktor ng mga sumusunod na critically-acclaimed films: Oro, Plata, Mata (1982), Scorpio Nights (1985), Unfaithful Wife (1986), Once Upon A Time (1986), at Isang Araw Walang Diyos (1989). Narito ang kabuuang pahayag ni Peque: "Not since Marcos have we as a people been so polarized. "As far as our hearts and minds are concerned, it's like we're in the edge of a civil war. "We are forced to take a hard look at ourselves and what we value. "Because of this, we are fighting friends in coffee houses, on the telephone, and on Facebook. "We are a people whose lives have been upended. "We don't know what to do to get things done right and right away. We lash out. "We insult our leaders trying to get them to do a lot more than to pose for photo ops—of giving out relief goods on a one-by-one basis. "We cry desperately for demonstrable government response—we get almost next to nothing. "It is increasingly apparent that local media goes hand in hand with self-servicing Malacañang press releases, which are more concerned with their showbiz image than confronting, accepting, and dealing with the problem. "What our leaders tell us is contradicted by the reports from international commentators, who are understandably more objective and growing less dispassionate as they witness the horrors around them. "What our leaders tell us is also contradicted by the victims in these areas who are slowly able to give us the true picture of the realities of the situation. "And the reality is that people are starving. "The dead still lie on the streets even five days after the event. "There are anguished souls scavenging for whatever they can to survive, as well as professional looters ambushing the helpless and relief caravans. "It's a war zone out there. "This disaster has affected, not only the islands in the path of Yolanda, but all of us as a nation. We have all been judged and found wanting. "But more worrisome, is that we take a long hard look at our leaders and we judge and we find them wanting. "It is worrisome because we have chosen them and are paying them to serve the needs of our nation and it seems that they can't deliver. "I don't think that anybody, even the most criminal politician, can be that hard-hearted and close his eyes to this calamity, so I can only surmise that they don't know what to do. "That they are impotent and incompetent. "I am 70 years old and I don't know what to do, but then again, I didn't run for office promising the voters that I would take care of national concerns. "I am a private citizen and like most of my fellow citizens, have given of what I have to the relief effort. I have given to the point of hurting. "I am 70 years old and have been stupid a lot of times for seven decades. "I want to think that I can be a little less stupid now. "This time, I want to make sure that my hard-earned money will reach its intended goal. "I am sick and tired of throwing away my money; of making our politicians wealthy because of my unconcern and my inattention. "I am sick and tired of my stupidity. "So I very much care now where all this help is going. "I read Marvin Xanth Geronimo who was there when Yolanda struck: that TV personalities and politicians like Mar Roxas and Ted Failon going to Tacloban for the photo op. "They never helped; endless tracking video shots of flattened towns with people walking clutching a plastic bottle of water with no government presence whatsoever; Korina Sanchez calling Anderson Cooper "misinformed." "Cooper was in Tacloban. Korina was not; the US landing 5 planes full of goods and not allowing any politicians to touch any of it. "How much more do we need for us to realize that the enemy was not Yolanda? Yolanda was just a force of nature. "The enemy is our leaders. And the leader of our leaders is the President. Continue reading: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/335510/showbiz/direk-peque-gallaga-rages-against-president-aquino-over-alleged-slow-relief-efforts

• published: 17 Nov 2013
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