a yellow thread of woes
Victims and martyred Filipinos have proved no-fail and fatal fodder for countless local campaigns — political and religious, personal or accidental. Any cause justifies trotting out this penultimate card, the sacrificial lamb.
That’s what hundreds of years of colonization and the Catholic Church have bestowed on its loyal subjects — martyrs, martyrdom, martyrology. A future heavenly promise of a better afterlife to trump the current hellacious reality of an oppressive down trodden existence.
Providing a growing menu consisting of enthusiastic descriptions and ghoulish persecutions as various and horrid as can be invented by the human mind, inspired by a herd of raging demons. Or devilishly devised by Duterte driven trolls and minions, as we have today.
A despotic wanna-be dictatorship styled and inspired by their idol Ferdinand Marcos. Long dead yet kept palpably alive in pungent perpetuity by his widow Imelda and their spawn of ridiculous names and voracious ambitions.
That’s what we get for letting them back into the country and allowing them to keep what they pillaged from the Filipino people — a living hell.
Now everyone is an expert at exploiting issues and cases of persecution and victimization. Daily horrors once considered ludicrous are stoked and fed with each loss and death — building blocks that turn victim to martyr, martyr to hero.
A freak flag waving in revolt against intolerable injustice and unjust entitlement for the powers that be or the heftiest purse. Loss of freedom or dignity for an individual and the nation.
Too many lives lost in futile attempts to topple broken systems that fuel and drive the way this country operates. What a crying shame.
Originally published at http://changewarrior.blogspot.com.
