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A Diplomat's Undiplomatic Outburst (Romulo Salud)

Image via Wikipedia I was soaking myself in the twitter-verse when a twit from an organization for OFW caught my attention and it goes like this. “Listen to this. NO OFW SHOULD BE TREATED THIS WAY! Verbal abuse from RP Labor Attache to HK Romulo Salud” – KAKKAMPI At first I thought it was just one of the usual cases of abuses against Filipino Overseas Workers until I read the final part of the sentence. It has a link going to a Youtube video and so I watched it, My God! I was so struck with the video (How I wish I was star-struck like I do when I am watching Charice’s videos) according to the video (actually it’s more of an audio recording) which the up-loader captioned. In the recording you can hear two distinct voices, a woman with soft low voice explaining herself to this authoritative guy who is shouting and saying things in such a sarcastic way as "Anong karapatan? Wag mong gagamitin sa akin ang karapatan. Ako, me karapatan din ako. Wag mong gagamitin ang salitang karapa