What is happening in our country?
AS A columnist, I have to read all current newspapers to be able to collect ideas worth mentioning with a critical view in my column. This particular time, I tell you, it left me bewitched, bothered, and bewildered.
In the political front, the situation is worse due to the endless bickerings of the Dutertards and the Yellow tards or the Liberals. Pros and cons fight it out. Rumored paid mongers abound posting scandalous news about political enemies. Mud-slinging and character assassination are the orders of day in the daily news. Who are telling the truths? Who are telling lies?
It is rumored that even before elections there are paid willing persons to spread malicious news of the president’s opponents. Then there is the scandal about the cheating made by the PCOS machines, particularly in the Vice Presidential counting of votes. President Duterte said he should have an even higher number of votes than the 16 million he has.
Right now, many question the way President Duterte is ruling the country. He has the makings of a dictator, the way he treats anyone acting against his pronouncements. He handpicked his own cabinet members and they are expected to agree with him. Some call it rubber stamped reactions. Those openly opposing him are facing replacements. The president’s promised programs to fight drugs and corruption are far from being accomplished. He, himself, admitted that he cannot solve the drug problem possibly up to the end of his term. Corruption in government seems unstoppable.
What happens to us, peaceful citizens in these situations?
The most questioned manner of ruling with a culture of killings and atmosphere of violence is alarming. Those suspected of drug crimes are killed and to date hundreds have been killed by the military officers. Everyone knows extrajudicial killing is in itself against the law. The cases of Kian and the two other similar cases are being investigated by the PAO. Police officers are suspected of erring in the performance of their duties. We are given the investigations by the military and the one by PAO. They release their findings and all of us are convinced with the veracity of the PAO conclusion. President Duterte said he will not tolerate erring police officers and they should be prosecuted if proven guilty.
replicated by the government of today, when all they really want is to destroy the government of today and don’t really care much about what happened in the past, except as memories that they can make us shiver from.
While we’re at it, let us look at a pressing problem that is a reality to millions of Filipinos: children growing up well-provided for but without the guidance of parents. These same children are our future, and allowing them to live a life of resentment and hate can only bring them much closer to crime, and we cannot allow the criminal society we already have now to prosper any further.— Sunnex