My previous post about piracy and protecting the ships from pirates mentioned what an insider stressed in a forum that I attended about a
month ago. There is a need to provide human security personnel to safeguard the
huge and expensive vessels from fast crafts being operated by pirates. Since Filipinos
are known to be the greatest provider of seafarers, it is probably high time
for it to also become a source of armed and well trained security personnel. In
the Philippines, the military, with its combat experience, can provide training
that can possibly be used by private shipping companies.
One of the most moving speeches that I've read. During grade school, this was the most often recited elocution piece in my school. Here it is, the text of Raul Manglapus' Land of Bondage, Land of the Free. Land of Bondage, Land of the Free By Raul Manglapus And yet, ladies and gentlemen, the tao is constitutionally free! No wonder, then, that the tao being a slave has acquired the habits of a slave. No wonder that after three centuries in chains, without freedom, without hope, he should lose the erect and fearless posture of a freeman, and become the bent, misshapen, indolent, vicious, pitiful thing that he is! Who dares accuse him now? Who dares rise up in judgement against this man, reduced to this subhuman level by three centuries of oppession? Ladies and gentlemen the tao does not come here tonight to be judged -- but to judge! Hear then his accusation and his sentence: I indict the Spanish encomendero for inventing taxes impossible to pay! I indict the usurer for s...
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