& if the Philippines government has a lurker on these forums - as they should have. Guys you have a problem.

I really would like to think that they did have but I know I am whistling in the wind.

Having lived in Spain 20 years I know how difficult it is for one culture to understand another, or even begin to realise that other cultures exist.

It would take someone with real influence and power to take the Phil Gov to an International Tribunal on the distgusting way they treat their citizens, and even then they may not comprehend that they might be wrong.

My apologies to Filipinos, this is not directed at you but at the Gov who fail to afford you your basic rights, freedom of travel being just one.