On my way home yesterday, Schumey informed me via SMS that Gloria Arroyo has pardoned Joseph Estrada. Coincidentally, the bus was slowly cruising the Ortigas flyover, with EDSA Shrine at my right. Or maybe it was not a coincidence at all.

The only question that I would like to ask everyone, and specially those who went to EDSA 2 (specially the “masterminds”):

NOW WHAT?

Already, there are gnashing of teeths, most of them has-beens (pushed into nothingness and irrelevance by Arroyo herself), like Fidel Ramos and other do-gooders. That’s what you get from dancing with the devil. That’s what you get from hijacking the rule of law.

Since 2004, when this administration is no better than the last, we had all the chance of getting her out. Yet, badly burned by EDSA 2, we did nothing. Yet now, you all cry foul? Who knows, if she was ousted before 2005, Estrada would still be in house arrest or jailed. They say we cannot right a wrong with another wrong. What if that another wrong is actually right?

There’s nothing more that I can add. Everything that I wanted to say, I had posted in the previous post. Again I ask, NOW WHAT?

CORRUPTION IS STARING AT YOU, IN THE FACE, BUT WHERE ARE YOU LOOKING?

I remember chatting with someone via Twitter. That person was weary with politics. Everyone is, I said, but that should not deter you from keeping yourself informed and from holding our leaders accountable. Just think about your future. (As an aside, we Filipinos are really not long-term thinkers.) That’s the least you can do – for yourself and for your country. Unless, you are like others who chose to surrender, go abroad, and then snipe at everyone who chose to stay behind.