AFTER our experience with the Marcoses, I thought we (Filipinos) should’ve grown up, a lot.
But here we are once more. We just had an ex-president convicted of plunder in a court of law and talks of pardon are quickly laid out and most embarassing of all, a good number of us think that it is the right thing to do.
Stupid. The only thing that comes to mind for lack of a stronger word to put sense in this.
Why are we like that? Is it because we have been raised like that? To have the right amount of stupidity to put compassion above justice and to be less caring about that person’s self-serving actions in the past? Simply because he was perceived as helper of a handful of poor folks who simply don’t understand that the reason they are in that situation is because of people like him.
So are we really a forgiving nation? No. We are in fact the opposite because we continue to do it over and over again.
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September 22nd, 2007 at 11:53 pm
We never learn our lesson. So, i guess we will never move forward. I wonder who will get all the money once they are retrieved from erap? We surely hope back to the government. though not much, it will surely help a lot.
In one of the subjects I enrolled in MBA back there in the Phils, one of my classmates asked our professor “how will our country ever solve its problems?”. Qur professor repiled “only when we elect leaders that are nationalistic”. A simple answer but as years passed by and i ponder over it, its the only answer indeed. Only when our leaders loved their country so much that they think of its welfare first before their personal aspirations. But i guess these kind of leaders are rare.