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Multilateralism Matters
 

If I were to commit a crime, I know where I’d go…

I'd go home to Manila of course.

President Macapagal-Arroyo pardoned ousted president Joseph Estrada of all his crimes (stealing billions of pesos, you know nothing major).

What the hell. Not only have I been holed up in Library L for the past few months writing why our government can't address terrorism, but now I have this little facet to add to my thesis: we are going to be stuck in this pit of idiocracy until someone realizes that stealing money from a country's citizens is not comparable to merely pissing in public then getting a ticket. Not even sure if Estrada got a ticket, but I know he be chilling in his mansion in a sad state of house arrest.

Political commentator, singer, and the man that makes my grandmothers swoon, Jim Paredes, wrote his own blog on this issue here.

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