Sat 25 Feb 2006
Twisted Times
Posted by mitams under Philippine Politics
Twisted times…these are the times we live in…
Just think about this…for years everyone has been saying that the Spirit of EDSA is dead and gone. Every February, when People’s Power anniversary came, EDSA was virtually empty, save for a few souls. It always reminded me of a WW2 veterans reunion…there were less and less people showing up each year.
But this year, all of a sudden people wanted to celebrate and were going to break the law to celebrate it. Why?
Frankly, EDSA has become an embarrassment because we haven’t learned anything. 80 Million people and 20 years later and here we still are. When will we learn to value what we already have and just work to make it better? We didn’t learn the lessons we should have learned then - is that cause for celebration? Do we even hear the word reconciliation now?
If it’s just an adrenaline rush we need to have every so many years, let’s learn to rock climb or something for goodness’ sake…
I don’t want anyone messing with my country’s future. I don’t want martial law all over again. Let’s get our shit together and move forward together…that’s an option too…why don’t we take it seriously? Everyone will have his turn and some already had their turn (and failed miserably)…let’s get the institutions working first because they are not working. And no one is raising a howl about something as basic as that.
February 26th, 2006 at 6:52 am
Very well said. Just imagine if the Energies of Bayan Muna, Anak Pawis, and others are channelled to things like ensuring that all stores in the country issue BIR receipts and pay proper taxes, rally to denounce the proliferation of pirated DVD’s and CD’s everywhere so that the legitimate producers are compensated and the government get the correct taxes..,, ensure that tax evaders are persecuted,, rally the people living along the esteros not to pollute the pasig river??? ACtually there are many concrete things to do that are more People Power-like than protesting in the streets.
February 26th, 2006 at 8:33 am
True mascarinas…there are peole who profit kasi from all these illegal dealings. I remember my foreign boss told me once, “Oh, I like it when the government is corrupt that means I can get away with more things and make more money.”
My big thing is to see government institutions working as they should be. No matter who was president, we always said things were rotten and hopeless - but what have we done about it?