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A new superhero has just arrived! It's no less than presidentiable Mar Roxas who came up with his own comics, protecting crying civilians in its cover. [Katrina Stuart Santiago's post via Facebook] (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10209224763554808&set=a.1688736936925.2096675.1192753399&type=3&fref=nf) made quite a statement and captioned it with this:
I don't know where the gall and temerity, the kabastusan of this matuwid-na-daan comes from, but apparently none of the things we know about Typhoon Haiyan, none of the stories of those who survived, none of the reports that talked about the inefficiency and insensitivity and lack of compassion of this government, none of that matters.
Because now Mar Roxas is a hero in his own comics, which is so obviously about the strongest storm to ever make landfall, and so obviously NOT about how he and his government messed up rescue, relief, and rehabilitation efforts in Samar and Leyte. Ito na marahil ang pinaka-nakakasulasok sa lahat ng nakita kong lumabas sa eleksyon na ito.
Galit na galit kayo kay Bongbong, eh kayo rin naman ang hilig ninyong mag-rewrite ng history.
Image via Katrina Stuart-Santiago's Facebook post
Netizens are apparently NOT amused
Santiago added in her comment, statement from her former article from [Manila Times] (http://www.manilatimes.net/mar-roxas-presidential-candidate/207774/) way back August 8, 2015.
"The worst storm to ever make landfall in the world happened in Eastern Samar in November 2013. Typhooon Haiyan (Yolanda) was a storm that government had prepared for: the President told people to evacuate because of storm surges, the Department of Social Work and Development (DSWD) was in Tacloban with relief goods, and then Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Roxas was also in Tacloban beforehand.
"Which begs the question: Why were they as unprepared as the rest of the province they were supposed to help?
"The excuse has been that no government would've been ready for Typhoon Haiyan and the death and destruction it left behind. That's well and good. But why did it take days before help was extended to those who had survived? Why did it take days before the dead were removed from the streets?
"Why was there no plan for the dead? Why did survivors need to see their dead where the flood waters had left them, and why did they have to see their dead dropped in mass graves a week after the storm? Why did so many have to suffer the injustice of not knowing where the bodies of their loved ones were?"
For Mar Roxas, the post-Typhoon Yolanda rehabilitation effort was a tough job — yet he did it anyway.
Former Interior Secretary and Liberal Party standard bearer Manuel "Mar" Roxas II on Monday said he did what needed to be done during the onslaught of Typhoon Yolanda in the country two years ago.
"Isa lang masasabi ko: bago pa dumating si Yolanda tinaya ko na ang buhay ko at nandoon na ako para magbigay babala sa ating mga kababayan," Roxas said in a discussion with the reporters and columnists of The Philippine STAR.
Typhoon Yolanda marked its second anniversary on November 8.
"Ang punto ko ay ginampanan ko ang tungkulin ko nung ako po ay may tungkulin [sa] DILG at [magbigay] babala sa local government units," he added.
Roxas recalled that he stayed in Yolanda-hit areas for two weeks to help those affected and not just visit there to have a photo opportunity. – Philippine Star
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Here's the actual video from the Yolanda briefing with Hon. Alfred S. Romualdez
"Bahala kayo sa buhay nyo, You are a Romualdez, and the President is an Aquino…" (Quoted from the actual video)
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