Some insights from ZTE-National Broadband controversies

1. Corruption is negotiable, can be bloated and greed can be moderately tempered.

2. Corruption in the Philippines is not by peso but by dollars.

3. Corruption is a standard operation procedure in the government.

4. A Comelec official with functions for election, referendum and plebiscite can also become a supplier of a National Broadband deal.

5. A Comelec official should be "malapit sa Malacanang, malapit sa intelligence, can curse and then, can deny it.

6. If a whistle blower on corruption talks publicly about it, then an intelligent woman could research about his insurance.

7. A whistle blower on corruption, if given public interest, can have joy-ride with strangers to Las Binas Laguna and Dasmarinas.

8. New phrase to learn: "dysfunctional procurement."

9. Wireless phone is wiretapped ; text messaging can be intercepted by kidnappers and the mobile phone of a kidnap victim can be triangulated.

10. Kidnappers can condone victim to send text messaging to his family and demand from him to write a note that he is requesting security.

11. To survive, all whistle blower on corruption must have a network of spiritual directors from religious groups/leaders.

12. A man can divulge issues on corruption to retain his remaining integrity, "to honor his father" and to restore the country back.

13.There are many national leaders whose best advise is "be silent about corruption; be silent about kidnapping."

14. A neophyte senator Chiz Escudero can best make an executive summary: "kidnapping, coercion, violation of anti-wiretapping law, violation of RPC 143 & 144 that obstruct or attempted to sabotage the processes of the investigation made by the Senate."

15. The death of Bobby Dacer did not end there; it lingers on Joey Lozada's mind when he reached Dasmarinas.

16. A PNP Official can be forced by media to tell a lie. Lozada, the kidnap victim, is so sorry about it.

17. To talk about multi-million dollars corruption is "pagmamalinis." Mea Culpa!

18. Synonym of corruption or commission: "bukol".

19. A national official can advise a kidnap victim to tell his wife not to be hysterical about his disappearance or abduction.

20. In the Philippines, reducing a national project's commission from $150 M to $ 70 M is "moderation of greed."