Dear Gloria

(This was the Dear Gloria letter I tried to post in the Dear Gloria page in FB. Turned out to be too long so this became an entry here).

Dear Gloria,

I was one of the students during EDSA 2 pressing for Prez Estrada to resign, we believe then he betrayed the country with his corruption and excesses and we believe then that you would do good since you’re an economist and a presidential daughter. I thought you would carry on the legacy of your father. Why Not? We were also supporting a just constitutional succession in lieue of the sitting prez’s corruption…

I look back after 10 years in disbelief, yes disbelief but not shame.

It was the right thing to do then. But the disbelief came in when I found out you’re a thousand times worse than you’re predecessor. You cheated with impunity, you killed people with impunity, you LIED with impunity. IMPUNITY is the definitive word for you despite your PUNY stature.

If there was one thing that you may have succeeded in doing is to create a lot of people like me in my generation CYNICAL of the government.

I am now therefore afraid of old age. How would I be like after 30 years? Look at Gary Olivar now. I’ve read he was a contemporary of the likes of Edgar Jopson during the Marcos’ Martial Law rule and that he was a fiery and an idealistic activist. How come he now works as a spin master and a puppet for you, ass wiping the scandals of you’re ass-wipe rule remains a mystery.

Dear Gloria, Goodbye but not Good riddance yet. You’re back again as a lawmaker. I hope history judge you fairly and squarely. I also hope you choke on your next meal.

With Love and Squalor,

Erick

Appalled

My usual morning habit is to watch the morning news. This morning was strange.

On punto por punto, the topic was the never-ending Marcos wealth and Human Rights violations of that deplorable area.

Topic as well was how the PCGG Commissioner dances with the enemies and how they’re trying to forge a SETTLEMENT.

Now settling is a bad idea. That means we get a portion, even if sizeable, of the Ill gotten wealth but the criminal aspect will be dropped.

What will the world say? That we waited all this long only to say there were no human rights violations? So what about the torture victims and the desaparecidos? Figment of imagination?

With all due respect Mr. PCGG ‘Consumisyon’ Abcede, quit the talk. You are the Government Lawyer so act like one and not like a Don King or Bob Arum.

And Mr. Taberna, you are correct, settling may be good as the country needs the money now for food. But we don’t live on food alone. We have waited a long time, we still can wait. But if we settle then we are condemned as a country without a past. And a country that will sail on without a future.