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Davide Contradicts Himself by Having Experience as a UN DIPLOMAT While Supporting the Filipino First Policy


October is United Nations Month. I would like to bring up the issue of Atty. Hilario G. Davide Jr., the favorite source and echo chamber of the anti-constitutional reform groups. I wrote an earlier post where I asked to whom Filipinos should listen to between Kishore Mahbubani and Davide, that Davide was actually a former UN diplomat, until such time of his honorable resignation. I Googled "Hilario Davide Jr. United Nations" and discovered Davide actually studied in SOKA University, during the time he was a UN diplomat! I would even want to share these words written by Davide, 50 years after Soka University was founded.
In just fifty years from its founding on April 2, 1971, our SOKA University has more than fully proven itself as the "highest seat of learning for humanistic education; cradle of a new culture; and a fortress of peace for mankind." It has gone beyond the borders of a great nation through various units in other parts of the world and its comprehensive system of international exchange. Thus, it is producing both national and global citizens whose lives are nourished by and lived with the principles and wisdom of its visionary and global leader Dr. Daisaku Ikeda. Without him, there would have been no SOKA University.

Through its conferment on me on 15 March 2002 with the degree of Doctor, Honoris Causa, I have become a proud alumnus of our beloved SOKA University, to which I returned to its hallowed grounds as a speaker at its Commencement Exercises on March 18, 2015.

On this celebration of its 50th anniversary on April 2, 2021, SOKA University can stand proudest in humility, with authentic golden harvests of men and women who hold high the beacon light of humanistic education and a new culture of love, justice, unity, and peace for a troubled world which now faces the worst pandemic.

Despite everything, the best are yet to come. Our SOKA University will be at the forefront to realize these in the next fifty years and beyond.

All hail to our beloved SOKA University! More power to Dr. Daisaku Ikeda, the University and its officials and personnel, and the alumni.

Years later, Davide shows that may have learned nothing as a UN diplomat 

Davide, a man who had spent much time at the UN, should already know how FDI works. However, this statement, last 2018, would still be treated as "divine revelation" (presumably because former Catholic Bishops of the Philippines' former president, Archbishop Socrates Villegas, probably "blessed it") is pure cringe, given it came from someone who was once a UN diplomat, and had an honorable dismissal, not termination:

Foreign control 
According to Davide, opening the country’s education system to foreigners could make schools vulnerable to foreign control.

“The proposal [RB6] opens to foreign control and dominance, our basic education, which is the most crucial to the development of our young,” he said.

Citing the 1987 Constitution, Davide said that having foreign leaders in the Philippines’ basic education system would undermine the “noble patriotic and nationalistic virtues,” which are constitutionally mandated to be part of the curricula of all educational institutions. 

He explained that Article 14, Section 3 of the Charter provides for schools to teach patriotism and nationalism, among others, to young Filipinos.

“Can we expect foreigners at the helm or control of the educational system to seriously and healthily obey this state policy on education?” asked Davide.

As for foreign ownership of public utilities and advertising, Davide warned that it would be “extremely dangerous” if the country were to leave Congress the extent of Filipino ownership requirement in businesses in the two sectors.

“The day will not be far when public utilities and advertising industries will be under control or even under the full ownership of aliens,” he said. 

This is funny because with Davide as a UN diplomat, he would've most likely met other UN diplomats, who are now grandfathers like him. For example, I mentioned Mahbubani, an Indian Singaporean, whose pragmatism is something I consider to be worth emulating. Mahbubani didn't just speak words. Mahbubani had spoken words that Filipinos should listen to today! I don't care if the advice comes from a Filipino or a foreigner, as long as it can help the Philippines! For example, I would've preferred to listen to Singapore or Taiwan with COVID-19 relief vs. the so-called "know-it-alls" in the Philippines or from the USA. One must ask what's Davide's rationale as a UN diplomat and say what he just said about FDI?!

Even funnier, last year, Davide even gave this warning about opening the Philippines' education system 

Foreign control 
According to Davide, opening the country’s education system to foreigners could make schools vulnerable to foreign control.

“The proposal [RB6] opens to foreign control and dominance, our basic education, which is the most crucial to the development of our young,” he said.

Citing the 1987 Constitution, Davide said that having foreign leaders in the Philippines’ basic education system would undermine the “noble patriotic and nationalistic virtues,” which are constitutionally mandated to be part of the curricula of all educational institutions. 

He explained that Article 14, Section 3 of the Charter provides for schools to teach patriotism and nationalism, among others, to young Filipinos.

“Can we expect foreigners at the helm or control of the educational system to seriously and healthily obey this state policy on education?” asked Davide.

As for foreign ownership of public utilities and advertising, Davide warned that it would be “extremely dangerous” if the country were to leave Congress the extent of Filipino ownership requirement in businesses in the two sectors.

“The day will not be far when public utilities and advertising industries will be under control or even under the full ownership of aliens,” he said. 

I could only say, "What in the world, Davide?" It's because, as I mentioned earlier, Davide actually studied at SOKA University at some point in his career, again, as a UN diplomat. The contradiction is glaring (and I would like to emphasize hypocrisy) because Davide studied in Soka University (in Japan, not the Philippines) and because, for the nth time, he was a UN diplomat for some time. 

Just reading those words, that's why I ask, "Does Davide even have the slightest clue on how to make the Philippines rise up in this Asian Century?"

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