Mourning the grand thief perpetrated by the Marcoses against the Filipino people ...AGAIN... made possible by a government that have so far brought only grief, restlessness, and uncertainties to the majority of its populace.
This government only heralded the dark times ahead...
... ennobling murders and ejks
... dignifying a dictator and a criminal despite majority's opinion
... stumping on the established due process and law & order
... spitting on international laws and other world leaders
... people bowing/cowering at the president's every whim
... maligning opposition and fabricating evidences in order to scare others into submission
... ennobling murders and ejks
... dignifying a dictator and a criminal despite majority's opinion
... stumping on the established due process and law & order
... spitting on international laws and other world leaders
... people bowing/cowering at the president's every whim
... maligning opposition and fabricating evidences in order to scare others into submission
More and more we have become a rogue nation. A nation where no established global organization can police and hold the government accountable.
We are in a clear path towards a totalitarian government where the voice of the president becomes the only sound that matters. His dictates carried without much opposition. His words becomes law--even those said in jest.
Worst, everything thats been done were shamelessly cloaked in the guise of public concern. Of paving the way for a better future.
The phoenix rises after death, yes; and we had that phase during the Marcos era. Or so I thought.
In the hands of the Marcoses we burned; but like the phoenix we gathered our ashes and slowly rise again. Rebirth was a painful process but we have came through the hardest phases. In a few more years we could have completed our rebirth and rose higher and greater than we ever had been.
But, Duterte and his minions happened. And so we again head towards dark times, darker times than we ever had been.
However, I cannot entirely blame Duterte, for he like all public personalities, are but instruments of a society's journey towards becoming.
What we are is a society of impatient people. A people that's been blinded by our present discomfort, enraged by imperfections of the earlier admins and fueled and blinded by the battlecry of change.
An Fb post of my nephew aptly sums it, "The world is willing to gamble on the unpredictable because of the desire for CHANGE."
Yeah, change. The only word in the English dictionary that has been proven to mobilize large number of people throughout history.
And so we are here now... with the changes that we clamor.
• daily murders (of the poor) on the street with unsolved cases still piling up
• orphans increasing in numbers
• police officers apprehended as riding in tandem vigilantes
• corrupt govt officials like GMA freed up
• murders in prison cells
• still slow and inadequate emergency response on disaster
• traffic's still getting worse by the day
• drug lords turned state witnesses
• peso devaluation
• rude, crass and downright abominable social media behavior
• a president that behaves like a common tambay
• a cabinet that always scramble and fumble in explaining the pronouncements of the president
• hopelessness in our rightful claim of the west philippine despite winning the case in an international court
• despite claims to the contrary, tanim bala is still in play
• daily murders (of the poor) on the street with unsolved cases still piling up
• orphans increasing in numbers
• police officers apprehended as riding in tandem vigilantes
• corrupt govt officials like GMA freed up
• murders in prison cells
• still slow and inadequate emergency response on disaster
• traffic's still getting worse by the day
• drug lords turned state witnesses
• peso devaluation
• rude, crass and downright abominable social media behavior
• a president that behaves like a common tambay
• a cabinet that always scramble and fumble in explaining the pronouncements of the president
• hopelessness in our rightful claim of the west philippine despite winning the case in an international court
• despite claims to the contrary, tanim bala is still in play
These are but a few of what is happening today. Now, are these scenarios what we truly envision when we decided to vote for change?
If only we have been more patient. If the tolerance and permissions that we afforded the president and his government today were similarly given to the administrations after Marcos. If only we have not prematurely took out our casts. We could have continued to heal safely and successfully. We were almost there.
Now, we have to start over. We need to again undergo the burning and the re-stitching. And because we are working on an old would, expect that the healing process will be a lot more painful this time. Hope we all can survive this. If not, I hope those who will survive will know how to look back and learn from us.
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