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 23rd, 2007 at 11:18 pm
So rare indeed are these leaders that they won’t be put before us to elect.
When one steals and get pardoned and allowed to keep all or part of his loot, I cannot be optimistic even if I tried.
September 23rd, 2007 at 10:13 pm
How can we be labelled as stupid when the authority treats us like one? It’s very hard to tell.
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:21 pm
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September 23rd, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Pardon for Erap? Are we Filipinos going crazy or what? To hell with those people who are asking to pardon this thief. F##k you all!!!!
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Tim, i think the writer just derived the title of his blog from the last sentence written.
Its short, but a very brief. Yes, we are really unforgiving coz we keep on doing the same thing over and over again.