The selling of our country AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo
The Philippine Star 2010-07-29
There are two ways Filipinos can sell their country. One way can result in an act of treason while the other can be a positive contribution.
It is treason when a Filipino, especially a high public official, sells the Philippine national interest to another country, resulting in harm or disadvantage. This could come in the form of detrimental trade and security agreements or the ceding of precious natural resources to an opportunistic powerful country.
Treason happens again and again because we are a benighted nation when it comes to the historical truth. The traitors got away with their high crimes and some are even strutting around as respectable Filipinos. The political heir of one of the biggest traitors in Philippine history postures as if integrity is his birth right. His grandfather gave our former colonizer one of the most demeaning and one sided treaties in Philippine history which was clearly prejudicial to our national interest.
However, when a Filipino sells his country in order to promote its national interest, as in the case of selling the Philippines as a tourist or as an investor paradise — then the selling job can be equated to an act of positive contribution, of heroism even. Selling our country as a tourist or as an investor paradise is something all Filipinos should undertake regardless of how big or small their contribution can be.
Filipinos should not think that only our Tourism and Trade Secretaries should concern themselves with the selling of our country as a tourist and investor paradise. The selling of the Philippines for our collective benefit is a national endeavor.
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Billy organized and headed the Cory Aquino Media Bureau during the 1986 Snap Elections and is seen here in Malacanang Palace with Cory in the first few days after Cory assumed the presidency.
Billy spearheads in this Malacanang Palace meeting the media campaign to ratify the 1987 Freedom Constitution.
Billy served as Assistant Secretary in the Local Government Department and as Director-General of the PIA (Philippine Information Agency) during the Cory Aquino Administration.
PIA (Philippine Information Agency) Director-General Billy M. Esposo conducts a staff meeting.
Billy was a well-received speaker at Universal Studios before Universal International Television Marketing executives and clients.