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.