Hostage Taking in Manila and The Chinese Cry for Justice in the Philippines
Sometime ago in Manila, at the Quirino grandstand where our new President Noynoy
Aquino took his oath of office, a police officer took as hostages several Chinese tourists and killed them all at will. The event was not just a minor and isolated disaster as many perceive it to be. It was actually a boil whose term has come.
As usual we Filipinos will be talking about this tragedy for days on end until eventually the pain eases out , the wound starts to heal, and everything is forgotten as if nothing really happened. Right now, we still blame each other except ourselves. Although a few days ago, our President took responsibility for everything. Probably he saw the blame coming.
For a people that has been enslaved too much too long in their history, accepting a fault is not a wise option. A servant does not have this kind of luxury. Only masters who are sure of themselves would dare accept a fault as if it was something to even brag about.
But if all men are created equal in dignity then isn't debasing oneself in one's own land the worse kind of injustice ? Now, even our Chinese neighbors shout for justice. What the Chinese didn't know was that the scoundrel who killed their own kind also shouted for the same thing: JUSTICE.
Unfortunately his call was not heard. As with millions of other Filipinos who live a life of silent desperation and bear his share of injustice with a smile. Our good President smiled after the tragedy. Unfortunately, he was criticized for doing so. We have a "damn if you do and damn if you don't" kind of a situation here . Modern management principles talk about a "win-win" solution. In my beloved country, you win none and you lose all, if your just an ordinary tax payer.
Is there something wrong with our national destiny?
Because in almost all countries , heroes liberate the people and they live happily ever after.
In our country, probably 90% of our best and brightest were killed by enemies coming from the despotic tandem of state and ecclesiastical personnel who operated alongside Judases who betrayed noble causes for silver. And our people lived in the same state of despair ever after.
Sadly, even until these very days. We Filipinos easily forget the past and unknowingly accept the condemnation of repeating the mistakes it bears. All these confusions are not foreign to a breed of people who seem to have forgotten how to care for themselves, for their country. Perhaps, a double major result of a long and malingering influence that was wreaked upon us by foreign rule since the advent of modern age way back in the16th century.
Because unknown to many Filipinos , and probably including our good President who shares the burden of many in the land, the Philippines is still living in medieval times wherein church and state still scratch each others back. And if you do not belong to either one of these two powerful, closely connected, and well entrenched institutions, you are nothing but muck in the moat that surrounds their well fortified institutional castle.
Our heroes knew about the roots of all these injustices long before the closing days of 19th century Philippines, where politicians and priests wielded absolute powers that corrupted both the temporal and spiritual spheres.
Unfortunately we Filipinos easily forget, for reasons only the angels and saints found inside our big and holy churches, will probably know.
Hostage Taking in Manila and The Chinese Cry for Justice in the Philippines
By: augustus caesar guarin
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