Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Remembering Jun Lozada

By Zigfred Diaz

In my business forecast for 2008, I initially predicted that there will be no huge political mudslinging that will have an impact in the economy. I was wrong.

Here we go again ! Repeated calls for the Philippine President to step down has again escalated due to alleged corruption concerning the ZTE-NBN broadband deal.

The ZTE-NBN broadband deal controversy brought a new name to Philippine politics, the name "Jun Lozada" became so popular.

By now most webmasters and bloggers are exploiting the key word "Jun Lozada" considering it's being high-trend, low-dense keyword.

This is not an article on optimizing the "Jun Lozada" keyword. This article seeks to answers only this question that is, whether Jun Lozada is a Hero or a hypocrite.

Jun Lozada's own words and actions tells his tale on why he testified against the administration. The following are his reasons:

1.) Jun Lozada could not bear the burden anymore. He became guilty of being a party to the anomalous act that he helped facilitate. He repented of his sins and decided to testify. 2.) Somehow his deep love for his country reminded him of his responsibility to become patriotic.

The administration and other people on the other hand say that Jun Lozada is a hypocrite because of the following:

1.) Jun Lozada admitted that he helped commit the offense before he repented; 2.) Jun Lozada never had the intention to testify in the Senate. The fact that he went to Hongkong to evade Senate inquiry proves such. But because of the pressure that he has been receiving from the Senate, he decided to tell all. In short his testifying is not because he was guilt-stricken or because of his patriotism. He was only forced to do it because he was pressured to.

What do you think ? Is Jun Lozada a hero or a hypocrite?

When presented with two strong opposing theories or hypothesis scientist have a way of coming up with a simple conclusion. This simple logical principle is known as "Occam's razor." Wikipedia says that the principle of Occam's razor simply states that "the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory." In simple terms what it is saying is that "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best."

Using this simple principle, all things being equal, did Lozada testify because he was guilt stricken and moved with loved for his country or did he testify because of surmounting pressure? Take note, the simplest explanation is the best. Jun Lozada - Hero or hypocrite? Decide for yourself! - 16463

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