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.

Ateneo professor resigns; says his ‘service to the Church and to ADMU no longer coincide’

MANILA, Dec. 29, 2012–“No one can serve two masters.”

An Ateneo de Manila theology professor has resigned, realizing that he could “no longer share the path” taken by the Jesuit-led university community that went all-out for the passage of the reproductive health (RH) law despite opposition from the Catholic Church.

Prof. Rafael Dy-Liacco, in a resignation letter, decried the “failure” of Ateneans to reject what he said was an alliance with a “spirit of disdain for the Church” that had worked for the RH bill’s passage.

“That spirit repudiates the Church’s holiness and, at the same time, attempts to assume it for itself (cf. 2 Thessalonians 2:4). It has manifested at an unusually high level of ferocity, even hatred. It has manifested in the wholesale denigration of the Church – of her teachings, of her bishops, of her catechists, and of her common lay faithful,” said the letter, addressed to the chair of the Ateneo’s theology department and the dean of humanities.

“Whatever material good Ateneans believe they have accomplished by supporting the passage of the Bill, their failure to reject alliance with that spirit, to truly seek counsel with the Church, and to make amends for and to repair whatever harm that their alliance with that spirit is doing and will do to the faith of believers in the Philippines, has not been right,” Dy-Liacco added.

The letter was written on Dec. 28, Feast of the Holy Innocents, the day on which the Church commemorates the massacre of children under King Herod and which resonates today amid the grim reality of abortion. It was on Dec. 28 that news first spread of the clandestine signing of the RH bill last Dec. 21 by President Benigno S. Aquino III, an Ateneo alumnus.

The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines had warned that a “contraceptive mentality” to be promoted by an RH law would lead to an “abortion mentality,” as what has happened in countries that had passed laws making contraception widespread.

In August this year, 192 Ateneo professors signed a statement of support for the RH bill, in open defiance of the shepherds of the Church and lay leaders. Ateneo professors, in a 2008 statement, had claimed Catholics could support the RH bill “in good conscience,” contradicting the papal encyclical Humanae Vitae which reiterated the Church’s ban on contraception.

The move by the 192 professors prompted the Ateneo president, Fr. Jett Villarin, SJ, to release a statement saying that Ateneo was officially against the bill. Villarin’s statement, however, was largely ignored as professors and students continued to call for the passage of the controversial measure, which calls for billions in taxpayers’ money for contraceptives and sterilization.

Detail from 'The giving of the keys to Saint Peter' by Pietro Perugino

Dy-Liacco and two other Ateneo theology professors released a statement on Aug. 28 calling out their colleagues for distorting the Church’s teachings on conscience.

In his resignation letter, Dy-Liacco said the “procreative love” between husband and wife as well as the bond between the mother and child from the point at which life begins in the womb are “spiritual realities.”

He said: “One does not need infallible pronouncements from the Magisterium in order to willingly assent to their truth, and to their implications for any path towards genuine human fulfillment.”

The theology professor, who has a Master of Arts in Religion from Yale Divinity School, said the teachings of the Church indeed “clash with the ideologies that rule this age, while her ministers and her teachers are all too human.”

“Often times it seems easier to give up believing that the Church is the Holy Spirit’s work. But the gospels tells us that believing in the Son of God when He became incarnate was not easy either (cf. John 1:11).”

Dy-Liacco maintained that there could be no compromise with the spirit of animosity against the Church, “much less collusion with it (cf. Revelation 18:4).”

“The Holy Spirit’s will and that spirit’s will are never the same (cf. CCC 676). It rejects God’s truth (cf. John 8:45). Moreover, when one becomes allied to it, one becomes like it (cf. John 8:44), he said. “Thus here the saying also holds: ‘No one can serve two masters. He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other’ (Matthew 6:24). Because of these realities, I believe that my service to the Church and my service to ADMU no longer coincide, and I believe that I can no longer share the path that ADMU has taken. Therefore I hereby resign both my teaching position and my tenure at ADMU Theology,” he said.

“Throughout my years teaching theology at ADMU, the Bible had increasingly become my primary teaching resource. I had found that the religious virtues, spiritual ideals, and array of theological perspectives on the human condition that are conveyed in the full range of Biblical narratives, from Genesis to Revelation, filled a lacuna that I had noticed in ADMU theology. It was a lacuna in the formation of character and conscience,” he said.

He said he would be judged in the way he had taught his students in grasping the truth. “I wish I had been a better teacher. I wish I had learned more quickly about hewing closely to the truth (cf. 2 Timothy 2:15). I wish I had learned sooner about not putting my own thoughts ahead of God’s teachings (cf. 1 Corinthians 1:20–25). I wish I had understood more deeply about avoiding self-promotion and not seeking praise (cf. 2 Corinthians 4:5). I know that I shall be held accountable for my students’ grasp of the truth (cf. 1 Corinthians 3:10–15).” (Dominic Francisco)

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RH bill: How to destroy our country’s future

FROM A DISTANCE By Carmen N. Pedrosa (The Philippine Star) | Updated December 16, 2012 - 12:00am

While in Toronto, we visited Bombardier Aerospace, a world leader in manufacturing aircraft. It has launched 30 aircraft programs around the world working with Canadair, Short Brothers, Learjet and de Havilland.

Because I was feeling cold with the subzero temperature, I wanted to stay in the bus and wait for the others to finish I very nearly missed the most important discovery of that morning’s visit. Anyway what is building airplanes all about?

But I changed my mind in the last minute and trudged with the rest of the group in the different warehouse looking construction sites.

I wondered if there were Filipinos working here? The Bombadier executive was not sure but, yes, there was one and off we went to talk to him. There were 400 of them the Filipino said in all kinds of jobs, mostly engineers. Some of them have been working with Bombadier for 40 years. They have made Toronto their home but they go home every now and then to the Philippines.

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What is the point of this story? That Filipinos are all over the world in sensitive jobs. The most written might be abused maids in the Middle East but what about Filipinos in the UN, in hospitals, as seamen manning ships worldwide, Filipino geologists in huge mining industries, Filipinos in Iraq, they go anywhere were work can be found.

n Toronto, it was said again, Filipinos are loved wherever they work. Their work ethic has become well known although little has been said about it. This experience in Toronto ties up with my column yesterday trying to find a reason why the Aquino administration should want to make sure there are less Filipinos.

The numbers of Filipinos working abroad has its downside but they also work at some of the most sensitive industries. Filipinos as workers, engineers, and geologists etc. around the world is the real asset of the Philippines. Indeed, if in the unlikely event that they get together and stopped working the world will be at  a standstill. Why should our own government want to destroy our country’s future? It would if the RH bill is passed.

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There is wailing and anguish that men and women who are supposed to represent us in Congress are working against our only asset as a nation.

Here are the names of the men and women who voted to depopulate the world of Filipinos:

Abad, Henedina R. (Batanes); Aglipay, Emmeline Y. (Diwa Party-list); Alcala, Irvin M. (Quezon, 2nd Dist.); Alvarez, Mercedes K. (Negros Occidental, 6th Dist.); Amante-Matba, Angelica M. (Agusan Del Norte, 2nd Dist.); Angara, Juan Edgardo M. (Aurora); Antonio, Patricio T. (Agbiag Party-list);

Arquiza, Godofredo V. (Senior Citizens Party-list); Avance-Fuentes, Daisy (South Cotabato, 2nd Dist.); Bag-ao, Kaka J. (Akbayan Party-list);

Balindong, Pangalian M. (Lanao Del Sur, 2nd Dist.); Banal, Jorge (Quezon City, 3rd Dist.) Barzaga, Elpidio Jr. F. (Dasmariñas City); Batocabe, Rodel M. (Ako Bicol Party-list); Bautista, Franklin P. (Davao Del Sur, 2nd Dist.) Bello, Walden F. (Akbayan Party-list); Belmonte, Feliciano Jr. R. (Quezon City, 4th Dist.); Belmonte, Vicente Jr. F. (Iligan City); Benaldo, Benjo A. (Cagayan De Oro, 1st Dist.); Benitez, Alfredo B. (Negros Occidental, 3rd Dist.) Bernos, Ma. Jocelyn V. (Abra) Biazon, Rodolfo G. (Muntinlupa) Binay, Mar-len Abigail S. (Makati City, 2nd Dist.) Biron, Ferjenel G. (Iloilo, 4th Dist.) Bondoc, Anna York P., M.D. (Pampanga, 4th Dist.); Brawner Baguilat, Teddy Jr. (Ifugao); Bulut-Begtang, Eleanor C. (Apayao);

Cajayon, Mary Mitzi L. (Caloocan City, 2nd Dist.); Calixto-Rubiano, Emi G. (Pasay); Casiño, Teddy A. (Bayan Muna Party-list); Castelo, Winston (Quezon City, 2nd Dist.); Catamco, Nancy A. (North Cotabato, 2nd Dist.); Celeste, Jesus ‘Boying’ F. (Pangasinan, 1st Dist.); Cerafica, Arnel M. (Taguig City, 1st Dist.); Chipeco, Justin Marc Sb. (Laguna, 2nd Dist.); Cojuangco, Kimi S. (Pangasinan, 5th Dist.); Colmenares, Neri J (Bayan Muna Party-list) Cosalan, Ronald M. (Benguet) Cruz-Gonzales, Cinchona (Cibac Party-list);

Datumanong, Simeon A. (Maguindanao, 2nd Dist.); De Jesus, Emmi A. (Gabriela Party-list); Defensor, Arthur Jr. R. (Iloilo, 3rd Dist.); Del Rosario, Anthony G. (Davao Del Norte, 1st Dist.); Del Rosario, Antonio A. (Capiz, 1st Dist.); Dimaporo, Imelda Quibranza (Lanao Del Norte, 1st Dist.); Duavit, Joel Roy (Rizal, 1st Dist.); Ebdane, Jun Omar C. (Zambales, 2nd Dist.); Eriguel, Eufranio C., M.D. (La Union, 2nd Dist.);

Espina, Rogelio J., M.D. (Biliran); Estrella, Robert Raymund M. (Abono Party-list); Flores, Florencio Jr. T. (Bukidnon, 2nd Dist.);

Garcia-Albano, Mylene J. (Davao City, 2nd Dist.); Garin, Janette L. (Iloilo, 1st Dist.); Garin, Sharon S. (Aambis-owa Party-list) Gatchalian, Rex (Valenzuela, 1st Dist.);

Gatchalian, Weslie T. (Alay Buhay Party-list); Go, Ana Cristina S. (Isabela, 2nd Dist.); Go, Arnulfo F. (Sultan Kudarat, 2nd Dist.); Gonzales, Neptali M. (Mandaluyong); Guanlao, Agapito H. (Butil Party-list); Haresco, Teodorico T. (Ang Kasangga Party-list); Hataman-salliman, Jim S. (Basilan); Herrera-Dy, Bernadette R. (Bagong Henerasyon Party-list);

Ilagan, Luzviminda C. (Gabriela Party-list);

Jalosjos, Cesar G. (Zamboanga Del Norte, 3rd Dist.); Jalosjos, Seth F. P. (Zamboanga Del Norte, 1st Dist.); Joson, Josefina M. (Nueva Ecija, 1st Dist.); Kho, David L. (Senior Citizens Party-list). (To be continued in my next column)…. Circle the name of your representative. Does he or she represent what you want or believe in? If not, write to them, spread the word that he or she is one of those who voted yes to depopulate the Filipino nation.

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Senators who voted yes in favor of RH Bill:

EdgardoAngara, Joker Arroyo, Allan Cayetano, Pia Cayetano, Miriam Santiago, Franklin Drilon, Chiz Escudero, Teofisto Guingona, Panfilo Lacson, Loren Legarda, Bongbong Marcos, Francis Pangilinan, Ralph Recto

Thought For The Day: Love

Fun Stuff

St. Francis and the Wolf

God's Discipline

Thought For The Day: Victory Over Satan

"Modern times are dominated by Satan and will be more so in the future. The conflict with hell cannot be engaged by men, even the most clever. 

The lmmaculata alone has from God the promise of victory over Satan. 

However, assumed into heaven, the Mother of God now requires our cooperation. She seeks souls who will consecrate themselves entirely to her, who will become in her hands effective instruments for the defeat of Satan and the spreading of God's kingdom upon earth."

-  St. Maximilian Kolbe~

On Friendship

Schedule for Relics of St. Therese

Thought For The Day: Catholic Church

“The Church never suits the particular mood of any age, because it was made for all ages. A Catholic knows that if the Church married the mood of any age in which it lived, it would be a widow in the next age. The mark of the true Church is that it will never get on well with the passing moods of the world” (I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you – John 15:19)

                                       - Archbishop Fulton Sheen (Love One Another)

The Truth About Health Care Bills

CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER HAS READ THE ENTIRE BILL

*The Truth About the Health Care Bills** - Michael Connelly, Ret. Constitutional Attorney *

*Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse than what I had heard or expected.*

*To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members of the medical profession.*

*The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out of business, and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats, and most of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled by the government.*

*However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been contemplated If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been destroyed.*

*The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama Administration authority in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people, and the businesses they own.*

*The irony is that the Congress doesn't have any authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin with! I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S. Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of Congress to regulate health care.***

*This legislation also provides for access, by the appointees of the Obama administration, of all of your personal healthcare direct violation of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the Constitution information, your personal financial information, and the information of your employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures. You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and 4th Amendments may provide...*

*If you decide not to have healthcare insurance, or if you have private insurance that is not deemed acceptable to the Health Choices Administrator appointed by Obama, there will be a tax imposed on you. It is called a tax instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment. However, that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is definitely depriving someone of property without the due process of law.*

*So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate so much, out the original ten in the Bill of Rights, that are effectively nullified by this law It doesn't stop there though.*

*The 9th Amendment that provides: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people;*

*The 10th Amendment states: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved to the States respectively, or to the people. Under the provisions of this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas that once were theirs to control.*

*I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing power and limiting rights... Article 6 of the Constitution requires the members of both houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution." If I was a member of Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything like it, without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or affirmation. If I voted for it anyway, I would hope the American people would hold me accountable.*

*For those who might doubt the nature of this threat, I suggest they consult the source, the US Constitution, and Bill of Rights. There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.*

*Michael Connelly*
*Retired attorney,*
*Constitutional Law Instructor*
*Carrollton , Texas **

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Flooding In Lourdes

• By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
• 10/21/2012
• Catholic Online (www.catholic.org)

British pilgrims ferried to safety after Biblical-style flood

British pilgrims gathering at the Roman Catholic shrine of Lourdes in France this weekend quickly tuned to prayers for their own safety as the area became inundated with floodwater. French meteorologists were adamant in declaring the flooding as the worst in the past 25 years. 

The Gave de Pau River which runs through Lourdes burst its banks following days of heavy rain, causing the widespread flooding. Meteorologists warn that the rain is set to continue until well into next week, meaning the situation could get even worse.

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LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Hundreds of the faithful were evacuated from the Roman Catholic shrine as muddy water rushed through the historic town in southwest France. It's believed that up to 1,000 have been left stranded, included the elderly and disabled. 

Among the areas heaviest hit is the grotto where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared before a local girl in 1858. The grotto is now covered by around three feet of water.

"The space in front of the grotto is entirely flooded, with the altar under water. There are torrents of mud. The damage will cost thousands," Thierry Castillo, the custodian of the Lourdes sanctuary says. 

"It's a very worrying situation - everybody has been told to evacuate and get on to higher ground," English tour guide Phil Lomas says. He noted that there were "numerous British parties on pilgrimage.

"They are getting out along with everyone else - there are real safety concerns here, especially for those in wheelchairs, or who are otherwise disabled," Lomas added.

"Hotels are all being cleared out, although some people are staying in higher floors because it's easy for them to wait up there. The police and other emergency services are leading the evacuation, along with priests and other clergy."

Lomas confirms that the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, the most revered building in Lourdes, remains undamaged.

Set on high ground, the Basilica towered above the ever-deepening water around it.

The Gave de Pau River which runs through Lourdes burst its banks following days of heavy rain, causing the widespread flooding.

Meteorologists warn that the rain is set to continue until well into next week, meaning the situation could get even worse.

The Lourdes sanctuary, which hosts 22 places of worship, was founded after 14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous claimed to have witnessed a series of visions of Mary in a cave.

People suffering illness or disability have since travelled there and claim to have been miraculously cured by the town's spring water.

Some six million people now visit Lourdes, which is in the foothill of the Pyrenees, every year - making it one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe.

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