I receieved this email regarding Noynoy's medical records that came from Ateneo's Pyschology Department. I was not so surprised to see that there are several conditions Noynoy has since he looks retarded as it is.
Please, for the sake of our nation, have a look:
Of course, right from the moment this document was released and circulated, the Yellow Camp, notably LP campaign manager Butch Abad and LP bet Frank Drilon, called the issue 'bogus', as if it were just another black propaganda movement.
IT IS NOT 'BOGUS', IT IS NOT BLACK PROPAGANDA
It is this kind of news that the people should be informed of. These are the things we want to learn about the candidates!
Here is an article from The Daily Tribune's Ninez Cacho-Olivares about the said issue:
Very valid issue
04/12/2010
Black propaganda or not, the refusal of Noynoy Aquino to take up the challenge of Manny Villar for both of them to undergo psychiatric evaluation, after the bogus psych report on Aquino’s alleged mental disorder was made public, will do more harm to Aquino’s candidacy than it would Villar on the Liberal Party (LP)’s claim that this fake report was leaked out to ABS-CBN by the Nacionalista Party.
The reason is simple. Since Noynoy Aquino indicated his interest in running for the presidency, talk started about his alleged “autism” and of his being bi-polar.
While this was hardly brought to fore by the media, the fact is that the talk on this alleged mental and emotional disorders suffered by Aquino, kept coming. He has been called “abnoy” the street name for “abnormal,” and is still being called that by many, in political conversations and gabfests.
This being the case, for Noynoy and his LP to merely call the bogus psychological report black propaganda will hardly get the people to buy that, especially as he refuses to take up the challenge of undergoing a psychiatric test.
After all, as the argument goes, if he is psychologically fit and has no mental or emotional disorder, it should follow that he wouldn’t be afraid to take that test.
Like it or not, the mental health of a candidate for the presidency is a valid issue.
Besides, it is not unknown for people with some disorder or illness, to hide these things.
There is no question that a presidential candidate must be open about the state of his health, as he owes this to the people, whom he claims to want to serve.
Some years back, during the 2004 presidential election campaign, The Tribune published a report on then presidential candidate, Sen. Raul Roco, and quoted reliable medical sources saying that he was suffering from prostrate cancer.
This was denied by Roco and his camp, but in the end, there could no longer be any denial, and he had to admit that he was stricken with prostrate cancer. He died shortly afterwards.
But wasn’t that unfair of Roco, being a presidential candidate, to keep his state of health from the public?
While it is true that he had no chance of winning the presidency, what would have happened if he had won the presidency, only to die in office shortly?
Then too, the Aquinos have already proved earlier that they do keep health problems to themselves.
The prime example of this was their prevarication of the cancer stage of their mother, the late Corazon Aquino.
When the cancer state of Cory was announced, she was already on the fourth stage and was a terminal case. Yet none of the members of the Aquino family made this public, making it appear that the cancer was curable.
In much the same way, a denial does not necessarily mean that one who is perceived as having mental problems is not mentally challenged.
That the health and especially the mental health of a president is of great importance can be found in the Constitution as the Charter empowers the Cabinet (majority) to inform the legislature when it finds the president unfit or unable or incapacitated to discharge the presidential functions.
Not only does the Constitution mandate the Cabinet to evaluate the mental and physical health of the president, but it also empowers the Cabinet to stop the president from discharging his functions should the Cabinet members find that he is not equipped to handle such duties and functions.
This alone makes the state of health — mental or emotional — of a presidential candidate a very valid issue.
One who forays into politics must be able to take on the sling and arrows hurled at him, including his being perceived as suffering from autism or is bi-polar or anything else.
Demanding apologies from those he suspects to have leaked this report out doesn’t fly.
Neither does his denial of it.
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