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extracted text: Vol. XIX TNI PNIUPPIM MAGAZINE OF GOOD HADING Entered as second class mail matter at the Manila Post Office on Dec. 7, 1956 MANILA, PHILIPPINES No. 9 FREEDOM AND INDIVIDUALITY *He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. * The mental and moral, like the muscular powers, are improved only by being used. * Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom. * The initiation of all wise or noble things comes and must come from individuals; generally at first from some one individual. * The despotism of custom is everywhere the stand ing hindrance to human advancement. * A general state education is a mere contrivance for molding people to be exactly like one another. {Not that Mill was opposed to government aid to education; he believed that education thrived on diversity.') — John Stuart Mill. ■ The President of the Philippines is being accused of violating the right of privacy. THE PRESIDENT'S BUGGING OFFICE President Marcos has re vealed that he has bugged his office and has been able to secure tape-recordings of confidential and compromis ing conversations with vi sitors. The revelation was made in Cebu at a public rally in which he presented the NP candidates for sen ator. We have heard of the Russians bugging American and other embassies in Mos cow for purposes of espio nage, but this is about the first time that the President of a free country has secretly tape-recorded his conversa tions with his visitors. In an official press release of Sept. 3, 1967, the Malacanang press office quoted the President as having said in his Cebu speech: "Don’t you know that ma ny of these supposed candi dates (presumably the LP senatorial candidates) fre quent my office in Malacanang asking for favors from me? I have tape-recordings of each and everyone of them. And if they are in terested to find out what they said, I will give them a copy of the tape-recordings. "Some of them can be a basis for criminal action like attempted bribery. So, if they really want proofs, they should come to me. "There is not a single one of them who has not gone to my office begging for favors. "I have refused them, some of them for appointments for high office. I think you know whom I am talking about. Some of them for concessions, some of them for contracts, the Manila Hotel; some of them for re parations items. "I repeat, if they want to hear the tape-recordings, I will accommodate them." There are several ways of looking at the startling pres 2 Panorama
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