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The deployment of thousands of national guards along the Mexican border is not militarization,  according to President George W. Bush but  what? The problem with this president is his constant play with words and expressions. In some cases, one has to do some hermeneutical dissection in order to comprehend his thoughts and ideas. The idea of sending the national guards is not the solution to the border problem. A comprehensive immigration reform, recruitment of more border patrol officers and fencing of the strategic places (where there is an easy access) are more effective measures to the problem. I know the fencing could be a little costly but think about it, compared to what we are spending in Iraq and Afghanistan and the foreign aids that this country is carrying in her shoulders. I may sound like a Republican with my conservative thought of foreign and war spending but this country has to think and fix first her own problems before those of others.

I cannot believe that even Cardinal Ricardo Vidal together with Bishop Angel Lagdameo, President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) would go down to the level of worldly and political affairs by joining in a (prayer) rally of the Silent Majority Movement. Whatever is their intention, it would have been prudent on their part not to “add insult to injury” to the eroding image of the Philippines in the international community.