What if institutions are undermined and no longer works?
Some people keep on harping that we should let institutions run as they were, as if they were not undermined and co-opted by this regime. Heck, some of them blamed the people for electing such buffoons as leaders. While this is a reality that we should face, the fact that some of these people who play the blame game did not vote anyway, so their finger-pointing smacks of hypocrisy. Besides, that is not enough a reason to blame others when clearly someone manipulated these institutions to submission.
One such institution is the so-called Philippine National Police, now being derisively called Palpak na Police. It is on a roll nowadays. The PNP, led by the intellectually-dishonest Avelino Razon, has shown how it is being undermined. Just take these examples:
* A day before the interfaith rally at Makati (held last Friday), the PNP has deployed checkpoints along the routes where participants from provinces would traverse. The pretext was security, but it was obvious that the reason was to delay if not stop participants from joining. Here we can see Razon being dishonest. On the day of the rally itself, there were complaints that the participants were being stopped. Razon admits ordering checkpoints to stop these rallyist, but only for inspection. His dishonesty is shown by the experience by De la Salle-Dasma student Jhay Rocas.
* Then there’s the no-fly zone order by the same, dishonest Razon. And again, the claim was security. Yeah, but for whom? The no-fly-zone order was from 5PM-9PM, the time given for the rally. How convenient.
* And there’s the arrest of 4 Trillanes Senate staff members for dubious reasons. According to Ellen Tordesillas, these 4 were arrested immediately after the rally because someone complained that the 4 were claiming to be policemen. At the Southern Police District, the story was different: they were caught laying spikes along the road. When asked for evidence, the police couldn’t produce evidence. The 4 were released without being charged.
This is just the PNP. What more about the other institutions?
Institutions that are undermined will continue to be undermined because of people like this one, who choose to blame others instead of the one undermining the said institutions:
(Placard reads: GLORIA, URS S D SILENT MAJORITY)
Gloria is the first one to undermine not only the legal system of this country but also the entire Constitution…
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Some people chose to look the other way, though, refusing to see the problem as it is.
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Sad but true. However, with the recent turn of events and the immediate future, I believe things will change and the tide would soon be turned.
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“undermined institutions will continue as such”…
not if we can help it.
it’s really up to us. remember camus? “what is a rebel? a man who says no.”
let’s refuse to be cowed by them, to be manipulated by them, to be fleeced by them — that will be the start of their downfall.
let’s finish what we start by keeping watch and being vigilant, once the day of judgment has passed and we rebuild.
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Gloria lives in a make-believe world where everyone else is a moron, all institutions work because of – and only for – her own good, and everything else she does is perfect and that she won’t need to be answerable for them, even before God.
If she can’t be removed due to impeachable offenses, by all means, remove her due to insanity!
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Tell that to that guy carrying that placard!
Seriously, that will be hard, specially when faced with the armed forces and the police. Some of them are willing to kill, based on Jhay’s account of what they had gone through. I can’t blame people if they are afraid.
But I do blame those who keep a blind eye on all of this. Especially those bishops. Yesterday’s gospel reading don’t even move them.
You wish! The two institutions that can remove her won’t do that, even if she is obviously insane.
Jhay, your optimism is noted. Until that guy with the placard remains as such, I will still wait for that tide.
Thanks!