Magrereklamo lang ako
This country is trapped in a freaking time loop. I’ve been reading old documents and books documenting the economic and political situation in the Philippines in the late 70s and early 90s and I’m developing trichotillimania over how the awful, terrible things that happened then continue to happen now only now things are happening much faster, being reported faster, being debated upon more quickly, but the chances of issues being resolved (justice laid down against big time criminals and crooks in the government and the military; pro-people economic reforms imposed; and political remedies implemented) have grown much, much slimmer. Think hair strand-thin.
It’s nuts. There can be no genuine progress in this country because we can’t even move past the most basic requirements: peace and justice. The first cannot exist without the second, and the second has been missing since God knows when. Because of this, the Philippines will continue to wallow in the depths of turmoil for decades and maybe another century. The news reports that came out when I was in kindergarten are shockingly alike the news reports now. Just change the names and the dates but the circumstances are the same.Okay, so maybe don’t change all the names…
It’s like no one has learned anything. Doesn’t all of this make you sick?!
The Macapagal-Arroyo will never admit to anything connected to corruption, to electoral fraud, to the direct involvement of the Armed Forces of the Philippines in the over 840 extrajudicial killings and the abduction of hundreds of political activists and members of grassroots organizations. There will never be justice under Macapagal-Arroyo, and though in real time it’s only been six years that she’s been in power, damn if hasn’t seemed a century.
On Monday, May 14 I will be voting with anger and frustration in my heart. I am appalled at how nothing ever changes in this country, how so many chances for the Philippines to be a peaceful country where people can live (and not just exist from one day to the next) and develop and improve and evolve and be happy.
Magkakaroon ng dayaan, tataas ang bilang ng mga pinaslang (there’s over a hundred deaths now in election-related incidences of violence), tapos mahahalal ang mga kampon ng gobyerno na wala namang gagawin kundi tiyaking presidente pa rin si Arroyo hanggang 2010. Tapos, pagsisikapan nilang amyendahan ang Konstitusyon para tumagal ang kanyang panunungkulan at maging prime minister. And on and on and the tragedies of the Filipino people will continue and the measure of misery will equal the number of stars in the mapped but as yet untraveled gallaxy.
Bakit ba hindi na lang ipamigay ang lahat ng lupain sa lahat ng magsasaka? Bakit hindi itaas ang sahod ng lahat ng manggagawa at ipantay sa halagang kailangan upang sila at ang kanilang pamilya ay mabuhay? Bakit nga ba sobrang taas ng presyo ng tubig, kuryente at langis? Sino ba ang nagsabing talagang hindi pantay-pantay ang mga tao at ordinaryong kaganapan may mga nagpapabundat sa paglamon habang milyon-milyon ang namamatay ng dilat sa gutom? Paano’ng nagyari’t napapaos na ang sambayanan kakasigaw para sa saklolo, para sa katarungan, para sa paghinto ng pang-aabuso at karahasan, pero walang pagbabagong nangyayari?
Paano nangyari na naging katanggap-tanggap ang lahat ng ito at ang mga nagsasabi ng taliwas dito ay pinatatahimik at pinapaslang?
Silly me for asking these questions when I already know the answers; but this is precisely what makes me angrier: alam na nga ang kasagutan, bakit hindi pa rin nagagawan ng solusyon?
It starts with the letter ‘R.’
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Or maybe I just need to exercise. My system is so flooded with negative feelings. Everyday I visit Ka Bel at the Philippine Heart Center and we talk about issues and then we work on our project and there is no end to how…appalled and angered I am that someone like him has been denied his freedom while the likes of Jovito Palparan continues to strut around free at thumb his nose at his accusers.
I’d like to do a research paper on what happiness really means –what happiness is to different people, and what they would consider to be the hindrances to their getting it.
Right now am thinking that happiness is knowing that everybody else is unthreatened by poverty, disease and hunger. Tingin ko para sa mga aktibista, tutoo ito. Kahit madalas mapabayaan ang pamilya at ang sarili, tuloy lang sa paggampan sa tungkulin. Because the thought of being useful, of contributing, of embracing a larger dream even at the expense of own’s own is enough to cause a warm feeling of, well, happiness. Pero yun nga, surrounded by so much injustice…
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Enough whining for the day. Bukas naman ulit.
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Yehey!
Quezon CityJudge Elmo Alameda of the
Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 has allowed Anakpawis Representative and
political detainee Crispin Beltran temporary release on Monday, May 14 election
day . Rep. Beltran will be able to cast his vote for Anakpawis party-list and
the senatorial as well as local candidates supported and endorsed by the said
group he represents as chairman, incumbent congressional representative and
first nominee. He will cast his vote in one of the polling precincts in Gao,
Commonwealth, where he has been a resident since the late 70s.
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Siguro dapat talaga magreklamo ako nang magreklamo para may magandang mangyari!
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