A signature campaign that allows people in parishes, schools, and other Church institutions to affix their signatures. This has the following advantages:
- Each signature is a potential vote. This is the language politicians understands.
- Each signature recognizes the dignity of the petitioner. He or she is not just a nameless, faceless, and anonymous member of the crowd.
- The issue(s) being addressed is (are) specific and focused.
- They are addressed to specific public servants whom we want to influence in a particular way.
- The campaign signifies an educational effort towards the formation of conscience.
The current crisis sparked by the testimony of Mr. Jun Lozada and other whistleblower runs the risk of being personality oriented. Focus should be on the issue of massive and systematic corruption in our political system, although our public servants do not have a monopoly on this social malaise. We are all in this together, as part of the problem and part of the solution. This is not to say that whistleblowers should just be left to their own devices.
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