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Feature: "OBLIGE" What most people dont know about the Knights of Rizal - an article by Sir Christoph Eberle KR Hamburg, Germany
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A controversial essay on Rizal by Renato Constantino:
"Veneration without Understanding"
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WELCOME The Order of the Knights of Rizal Scarborough Chapter is a proud member of a civic-oriented international brotherhood serving in various communities around the world. This website is intended to (a) inform the general public about this Chapter’s part as well as those of other Chapters' in promoting the ideals and cause of Dr. Jose Rizal, Philippines' national hero and "Pride of the Malay Race". It is also intended to (b) serve as a platform for progressive thoughts and ideas espoused by Rizal.
Lately, the brotherhood has been struggling with what may be described as "maturing pains" - it will be 96 years old this year (1911-2007). At the beginning of the new century the Order began to manifest itself as a truly international organization and as a consequence of present-day information and communications technology, a clash of cultures and mentalities among various chapters in different Continents became inevitable. And yet as history attests the Rizalian spirit will remain strong and, under an evolving new organizational structure will enable the true Rizalists to overcome its trials and take the illustrious fraternity to greater heights of glory ! (April 17.2007)
Reality check: the time to struggle ends, it is time to 're-structure'
There are some among the ranks of 'illustrious' members of the Order who have recently tried to pontificate about giving Acting Supreme Commander Esguerra and his Council the benefit of the doubt and joined him in his appeal for calmness and sobriety among warring 'knights'. After three weeks of non-action following what initially seemed like a noble effort on the part of Sir Esguerra, these people who for so long were in deep slumber and who were seemingly oblivious to the reality of the organization's slow self-destruction process should now be fully awakened to the utter hopelessness of Manila's ability to manage a multicultural fraternity.
If the Order of the Knights of Rizal were a business enterprise it would fit the description of a multinational corporation active in various countries around the world. But given the current state of the corporation it would be a failing venture as the losses and liabilities continue to dramatically grow. What profit there is would be padded and deceiving. Worse, it is now breaking apart in some places even without the threat of a hostile takeover. The people, the members themselves are taking over.
Once considered a positive impetus, even reforms such as originally advanced by the Knights of Rizal Reform Movement have also now become almost irrelevant because of that hopelessness. The Reformists themselves need to redirect their efforts. Just as Rizal's own reform agenda did not work out due to Spain's indifference and belligerence against the indigenous people of the Philippines, so is the attempt of the KRRM to restore honor and dignity to the Order after the 2002-2005 'war of attrition' among factions in Manila. Both the Supreme Council and the Council of Elders have proven to be not only grossly ignorant, they have also shamefully manifested callousness and arrogance. To the gallant 'defenders' of these honorable men note that the issue is not about anybody's personal honor. It is simply about their incompetence and indifference, as the facts attest.
Assuming there was an honest effort on the part of the leadership to recognize the need for true and meaningful changes, five years is long enough to wait for those to take place. To their discredit there was no such effort. They did not know what to do then and they do not know what to do now. The time therefore has come to face and recognize the reality for what it is - the reality that on its 96th year of existence the Order of the Knights of Rizal has simply outgrown itself and that international leadership for all practical intents and purposes can no longer be confined and limited to those who are in the Philippines. As it nears its centennial year, the time has come to restructure and move on to a new stage in its corporate life. The time is ripe to consider federalization.
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What Rizal died for: a view from a leader of Kababaihang Rizalista
Lady Resurreccion O. Repotente, MD, President, Kababaihang Rizalista, Hamburg Chapter, Germany
Notes On
Modern Times and the Living Past
A Commentary on Dr. Rudolf Virchow, “the ‘Naked Ape’, and the “Missing Link”
Sir Joe Luzadas, KGOR Scarborough Chapter
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