As We Step Into the Ruins

I am not saying that to rally on the streets is against the law or that it is a bad practice of Filipinos. I understand that healthy democracy allows people to run naked on the streets to show their cause. I understand clearly that without the voice from the citizens like Rizal, Bonifacio and Aquino, freedom will never be achived by the republic. Their courageous moves are heroic for our people. In fact, their very blood runs on our very veins.
I am not saying as well that justice no longer wins in this country. Nor that there remain a small chance of getting up once we hit ground zero.

My argument is simple. When the people so willingly entrusted their right to suffrage to all the wrong people, we let the country down. When the public officials swore oath in the Constitution to build a “regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace”, but went the opposite way, they annihilated the truth passed on to us by our predecessors and shook the foundation where this country stand. Both have faults. The government and people. Lozada may now be a living saint to most. And I must say that the poor guy has done his job well on bringing out the “truth”. But then I must think ahead of time. After this war is won over by the people yet again, what will happen afterwards? What happened to Chavit Singson after he exposed Estrada’s fraud? The country was devastated overnight and Chavit’s cause to this day was a battle never won. The rendezvous of our leaders seems to be an unending cycle that only God can put a stop on. Indeed it is sad. I have nothing against Lozada, but I am afraid of the things he might suffer and what this country has to suffer and what my children will have to suffer after their fathers and mothers committed the wrong move to save the country with all the wrong moves.

I am not teaching you to be coward and to tolerate corruption. But if we stand side by side, fueled by the power of our indisputable love for our country, equipped with the fear of God, this nation can be great again.

Tomorrow I hope the Filipino people has found itself. Tomorrow I hope this nation is back on its feet running towards progress for the sake of today’s 80 million and for those that are yet to come.

God be with us.