TRILLANES GOES HOME, NAGA RESCUERS BECOME RETRIEVERS. MOST OF US CONTINUE TO COPE WITH HIGHER COST OF LIVING.
No happy endings, not yet.
Not for Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV who left the Senate last Saturday, Sept. 29, ending his 25-day free lodging there and suspending his alleged play-acting as martyr and victim from the "death of democracy." Just a letup from immediate threat of arrest but not from what he calls persecution by the Duterte government.
Not for families of at least 11 missing people buried in soil and debris by the Tina-an, City of Naga landslide that killed 72 and injured 18 others. From search and rescue, the operation was officially shifted to search and retrieval. But survivors must still grapple with the problem of resettlement and resumption of wage earning. Families of the dead and injured still have to seek redress from whose reckless negligence caused or contributed to the disaster.
Inflation
How about the rest of us who might not be affected by Trillanes's "misadventure" and the threat on people's right to dissent?
Not many of us can say we're much better off. There's still the increasing inflation, which in July started jacking up prices of goods in a new five-year high, in August caught economic managers by surprise," shooting up to its fastest clip in almost a decade" and, as September ended, going into October, showed no sign yet of letting up.
And the President publicly worries not about the economy but of "Red October," an alleged communist and LP plot to overthrow him, protesting he has “no sin” except the extrajudicial killings. The killings, the killings.
Even as Duterte's nears his mid-term, the issue of illegal executions continues to haunt the nation. Even as some people wondered, not too irrationally, if being gunned down on the street would be quicker relief than suffering from extreme poverty.