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Escudero speaks at the 1st RP-Euro Confab
May 26, 2009
Following is a transcript of Senator Escudero's speech during the 1st Philippine-Europe Conference, 13th Ambassador Club Philippines National Meeting last May 26, 2009.
Dignitaries at the presidential table, distinguished guests, chapter presidents and members, more particularly our visitors in Europe , a pleasant morning to you all.
Allow me to deliver, do you want a long or short one? I can do either this morning. Allow me to deliver a short speech sharing to you my experiences as a public officer and as a public employee here in the Philippines , and perhaps highlighting the importance of the first Philippine-Euro conference that we are taking at present.
One of the most valuable lessons on human dignity, on protecting, serving, and embracing humanity, I actually learned from a foreigner in one such similar visits and which I saw on TV. On TV, one of the foreigners, a European if I remember it correctly, was visiting one of our slum areas, one of the poorer districts of our country, under a bridge in fact, and he was looking at the living conditions of some of our people under a bridge, living on a 6 square-meter house.
There were about 8 people who were trying to squeeze in at that small space. When asked what they were doing there and what they thought, the foreign guest said, "I cannot and do not understand why your government is allowing this to you."
In the Philippines in the past or in the present, we usually evict informal settlers because they don't look good, that's a first. We usually evict informal settlers because they cause flashfloods and traffic. We usually evict informal settlers simply because they don't smell good and they don't look good.
Dignitaries at the presidential table, distinguished guests, chapter presidents and members, more particularly our visitors in Europe , a pleasant morning to you all.
Allow me to deliver, do you want a long or short one? I can do either this morning. Allow me to deliver a short speech sharing to you my experiences as a public officer and as a public employee here in the Philippines , and perhaps highlighting the importance of the first Philippine-Euro conference that we are taking at present.
One of the most valuable lessons on human dignity, on protecting, serving, and embracing humanity, I actually learned from a foreigner in one such similar visits and which I saw on TV. On TV, one of the foreigners, a European if I remember it correctly, was visiting one of our slum areas, one of the poorer districts of our country, under a bridge in fact, and he was looking at the living conditions of some of our people under a bridge, living on a 6 square-meter house.
There were about 8 people who were trying to squeeze in at that small space. When asked what they were doing there and what they thought, the foreign guest said, "I cannot and do not understand why your government is allowing this to you."
In the Philippines in the past or in the present, we usually evict informal settlers because they don't look good, that's a first. We usually evict informal settlers because they cause flashfloods and traffic. We usually evict informal settlers simply because they don't smell good and they don't look good.
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