PNoy Signs RH Bill Into Law: A Faux Victory for Little Tyrants

Poor people… they foolishly rejoice in their loss of rights and freedom.

• NOTE: Remember the people who naively supported the RH measure (their ludicrously jubilant faces and gestures, including their overjoyed Facebook/Twitter posts and comments). It’s very important to remember that a lot of good-intentioned people credulously, foolishly celebrated the surreptitious destruction of their rights and liberty.

It’s final, the controversial, anti-rights Reproductive Health bill is now part of the law in this impoverished, protectionist welfare state. This new measure, otherwise known as Republic Act No. 10354 or the “Responsible Parenthood and Reproductive Health Act of 2012, is obviously the Aquino regime’s post-Christmas gift for its millions of welfare constituents. President Aquino signed it “without fanfare”, according to media sources, on Friday, December 28.

According to the law’s proponents and supporters, the measure aims to provide universal access to RH care services and information. The law will provide its beneficiaries, as determined by the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), with “universal access to medically safe, non-abortifacient, effective, legal, affordable and quality reproductive health care services, methods, devices, supplies which do not prevent the implantation of a fertilized ovum.” It will also provide “age-and development-appropriate reproductive health education” for public school students between ages 10 to 19.

However, to achieve its goal, the law has to force doctors to render so-called “pro bono services” as well as conscientious, religious or non-religious healthcare providers to violate their freedom of conscience. It also compels employers and companies to provide said services to their employees or risk being fined or penalized with jail terms.

I am an unapologetic, strong opponent/critic of the bill (now a law) because of its perverted concept of rights and freedom of choice/conscience, it is against individual rights, and because welfare state is never a solution to poverty problem, poor access to contraceptives and even ‘overpopulation’. You may read my anti-RH law articles here.

For those who pathetically, naively, stupidly support this measure, I think– now mark my words– it will be another legislative disaster waiting to happen. Like many welfare laws passed in the past (e.g., the PhilHealth Law, Biofuels Act, Clean Air Act, anti-global warming laws, ect.), I strongly believe this RH measure will not be able to deliver its intended goals and will instead bankrupt this nation and cause more corruption in the near future.

But what if the RH bill is now a law? There’s absolutely nothing to celebrate. Instead, rational people and those who are still willing to think must mourn the continued destruction of their remaining rights and freedom.
Some fools must be asking: What loss of freedom are you talking about when the government simply guaranteed people’s access to contraceptives?

First, no one is deprived of his right ‘to buy’ condoms and contraceptives in these parts. Condoms and pills are available at almost all convenience and drug stores. The government does not currently provide us food, does this mean we’re also deprived of right right to food?

The problem is, a lot of Filipinos are blissfully unaware that a welfare government (a government that knows what is best for the people) is like a ticking bomb waiting to explode. The danger of this form of politics is that it appears beneficial to some people and that it appeals to the fools and to those whose poor judgment is instructed mainly by instinct and necessity.

Cicero warned the world of this deceptive form of government over 2000 years ago. This great Roman political philosopher and Aristotelian believed that Rome was not destroyed by Caesar, but by the people of the empire “who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and given him triumphal processions.”

Victory for women? *Facepalm* indeed… These women obviously don’t 

know what they’re doing. Give ‘em Pleasurable Sex Law, Pia Cayetano…

The educated/schooled Filipino should be the first to know that almost every dictatorship in the past century was blissfully supported by fools who thought they were fighting for a utopian society. Didn’t the early Russians rejoice when they formally erected the first Marxist society on earth in 1922? Didn’t the Chinese foolishly celebrate the death of their individuality when they established their great collective society?
As the old saying goes: The road to hell is paved with good intentions. The geniuses and visionaries of the old world had sufficiently warned us of the evil or danger of Big Government. Thomas Jefferson once said: “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have.”

With the shameless passage of this law that employs legal “force” against certain sectors to work for the “greater good” and to violate their freedom of conscience, it follows that the government may also be justified/authorized to pass similar welfare measures in the future like, say, Housing For All Act or Food for Everybody Act. If the government can force the so-called pharmaceutical cartel (primarily caused by our protectionism and welfare regulations) to sell medicines to Filipino consumers at a heavily government-discounted sales price, it can also use the same tyrannical power against other goods-producing, job-creating industries and companies.

What’s next? Pleasurable Sex Law for women? Give it to them, Pia “Pleasurable Sex” Cayetano!

Now, here’s what many economically, politically clueless Filipinos don’t understand: Somebody else has to pay for those “free” welfare services. To serve the welfare needs of the poor, the government has to steal from the productive and the successful.

The truth is: the government has no magical/supernatural power at all to create real wealth from nothing.

There is no such thing as a Santa Claus government. In the real world, Santa Claus doesn’t use force– he doesn’t steal– in order to make children happy. The message of Santa Claus is voluntary, uncoerced gift-giving. In this welfare state, the government has to employ legal force against employers and healthcare providers to provide RH services to those who need them. Indeed, what we have is an inverted Robinhood government that steals from the innocent to help the poor.
So, what is there to celebrate when:

• we still face higher unemployment and poverty rates?
• more and more foreign investors avoid the Philippines as if it’s a very dangerous place to invest?
• we have high budget deficit and higher public debt?
• we still have rampant corruption in the government sector and more ways and opportunities for our politicians and public officials to corrupt?
• politicians focus more on welfare spending than on job-creating reforms (including constitutional reform to guarantee economic freedom)?
• more and more Filipinos depend on the government for their daily survival?
• the RH bill would definitely open new ways for our scheming, corrupt public officials to steal?

There is no such thing as ‘free RH services’. Someone has to pay for them. To make these services accessible to the poor, the government has to employ legal force against doctors and employers. And to fund all its welfare services, the Aquino regime has to use the power of taxation.

To increase its revenue collection, first the Aquino regime came to tax the country’s sin industries and companies. It’s always safe to denounce the rich and the successful industries that destroy people’s health.
The government might target any of the following tax options next :

• Tax on telecommunication companies and their related services (e.g., texts, calls, etc.)
• Tax on blogging and other related social network activities.
• Tax on e-selling or any other money-making ventures or activities online.
• Tax on other internet ventures or activities.
• Tax on mining companies.
• Tax on government benefits and insurance.
• Tax on OFWs. Remember that tax is defined as “a fee charged (“levied”) by a government on a product, income, or activity.”
• More taxes on the industries companies run by oligarchs who support the system.
• Imposition of more or higher regulatory fees and payments. Any kinds of processing, permits, application fees, etc. that we pay to the government (e.g., NBI clearance, LTO permits, among many others).

Also as stated here:

If the government provides you contraceptives and family planning services you need, it would be justified and empowered to tell you how to plan your family and to take away your rights and the rights of others  (e.g., employers, doctors, etc.). 

If you want the government to pay for your medical and health care services, it would be empowered to police the food you eat, the kinds of beverages (their sizes, content, etc.) you drink, including your lifestyle and daily activities. Take the soda ban and other regulations imposed by limousine liberal Mayor Michael Bloomberg in New York. 

If you want the government to pay for your basic and college education, it would be justified to impose high taxes on industries and successful people and to tell you what to think. In France, socialist President Francois Hollande’s 75% tax on high income earners led to mass exodus of French millionaires and job creators.

So, you’re happy with the passage of the RH bill? Don’t be, stupid. Instead, brace yourselves for more destructive political measures to come…
You asked for it, brothers.

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Of all pro-RH celebratory gibberish online, this grand display of idiocy by the Filipino freefarters takes the cake:

*FACEPALM* How stupid can you get, Filipino freefarters?

This statement made above must be re-posted here to further educate the clueless:

In the real world, Santa Claus doesn’t use force– he doesn’t steal– in order to make children happy. The message of Santa Claus is voluntary, uncoerced gift-giving. In this welfare state, the government has to employ legal force against employers and healthcare providers to provide RH services to those who need them. Indeed, what we have is an inverted Robinhood government that steals from the innocent to help the poor.

With their brain-deadness and hopeless idiocy, it’s very much possible the freefarters might support a proposal that would give homeless Filipinos “free” housing or “free” food. Unfortunately, these flips are giving a bad name to atheism.

Also, the little tyrants of this pro-RH Facebook page feel so empowered (***):

What a bunch of pitiful creatures… Seriously, what is there to celebrate?

Aquino’s moral-political cliff

By Francisco S. Tatad | Posted on Dec. 28, 2012 at 12:01am | 

While America teeters on the edge of a “fiscal cliff”, a collection of tax increases and spending cuts scheduled for the beginning of next year,  Philippine president Benigno Aquino III appears to have dragged himself to the precipice of a moral and political cliff,  by his naked misuse of presidential power to impose the will of foreign population controllers on outraged Filipinos, mostly Catholics.

To the completely unnecessary problems created by his decision to ram through Congress the patently unconstitutional and highly divisive reproductive health bill,   Aquino’s Liberal Party has now added its own completely avoidable problems, by making the country’s two biggest vote-rich provinces—-Pangasinan and Cebu—the battle zones of premature partisan fighting before the May 2013 elections.

Having earlier tried to destabilize  Pangasinan’s reelectionist Governor Amado Espino to create some partisan space for his LP gubernatorial challenger, Aquino has now trained his guns on three-term Governor Gwen Garcia of Cebu whose congressman-father, Deputy Speaker Pablo Garcia, was among the most eloquent opponents of the infamous RH  bill and whose political family has served the province of Cebu long and well.

By slapping a six-month suspension order on Garcia for alleged “abuse of power,” a charge that could have been more fittingly directed at  Aquino himself, Malacañang apparently expected to render the governorship vacant to allow the LP  to have a free hand running her office during the campaign period for the May 2013 elections.

To Aquino’s chagrin,  Garcia’s supporters, instead of abandoning her for fear of Malacañang reprisal,  closed ranks behind her, and the top three stalwarts of the United Nationalist Alliance –Vice President Jejomar C. Binay, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and former President Joseph Ejercito Estrada, who otherwise habitually support Aquino on many issues—have weighed in, in her defense.

Malacañang’s offensive was seen to be coming directly from the camp of Department of Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas, the LP president “on leave” who ran  unsuccessfully as Aquino’s  vice presidential candidate in 2010, but seems to be preparing early for his presidential bid  in 2016. This has turned Cebu into a veritable flash point. This is not unwelcome to other forces, who could exploit the opportunity to turn Cebu into a center of  the opposition that is building up against Aquino following his perceived sellout to foreign population controllers on the RH bill.

In particular the archdiocese of Cebu could become the staging point.  The Archdiocese of Manila used to exercise this role under the late  Jaime Cardinal Sin,  who once mobilized a crowd of one million people to oppose the anti-life agenda of the Cairo international conference on population and development in 1994, and played a decisive role in the 1986 EDSA uprising which ousted Marcos and made Cory Aquino, PNoy’s late mother, revolutionary president.

But Manila’s new archbishop, Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle, has taken a relatively low profile with respect to the measure while both Ricardo Cardinal Vidal, archbishop emeritus of Cebu, and the incumbent archbishop, Most Reverend Jose Palma, who is also the president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), have been at the frontline in opposing the bill.

Vidal was the CBCP president who issued the famous CBCP statement on the Feb. 7, 1986 election, which said that because of its shabby conduct, Ferdinand Marcos had lost the moral authority to remain in power.  That provided the “moral basis” for the EDSA revolt.  Although now retired, the cardinal remains  in good health and humor and is the acknowledged leader of the country’s pro-life and pro-family movement.

Governor Garcia and her followers may not necessarily want to convert the  moral and religious groundswell against Aquino into a partisan weapon in their current fight against the LP forces.  But nothing prevents them from pointing out to the Cebuano electorate that the last thing they need would be a governor who would not mind being inside Aquino’s pocket.  Cebu has a proud history: it is where Magellan met his  doom after circumnavigating the globe; it is also where Cory Aquino sought temporary refuge while the 1986 EDSA uprising raged.  The militants could appeal to that history to mount a national anti-Aquino movement.

Many Filipinos mind it very much  that Aquino’s attack on the sanctity of human life and the Filipino family, through the railroading of the RH bill, came on the eve of Christmas, on the third month of  the Year of Faith, as declared by Pope Benedict XVI, and after the canonization of the nation’s second saint, St.  Pedro Calungsod, a 17th century teenage lay catechist from Cebu who died for his faith. But many Cebuanos take it as a personal offense, and feel they have a personal score to settle with Aquino, because of their ethnic affinity with Calungsod.

Such sentiment may have been reinforced even more this season when Pope Benedict XVI  in his Christmas message challenged  Christians (which would include Filipinos) not to bow to any false gods (like an RH bill?) being proposed by some demagogues (like Aquino?) who would like to play God and replace man’s  vision of his own destiny with some diabolical construct.