Pacquiao arrives in Manila, thanks Filipino supporters

I have a little knowledge about Singson being a gambling lord. I thought he was just the bagman of Estrada.

It seems that Filipinos hate Singson but not Estrada.

Is it a weakness or fault in character?

To me, this misplaced or misguided sense of righteous indignation was highlighted as far back as 2 decades ago. Lolit Solis switched a name in the film acting awards. Instead of her, Medved, Concepcion and Barreto were nailed to cross, shunned by the Filipinos as if they were the conspirators in the cheating.

Now it is worse. Morally upright and no-nonsense politicians lose to mistresses of immoral political honchos. So many seem to like to be associated with the notorious and manipulative ones. Look at the Corona affair, Arroyo’s mis-governance and the people’s reaction to Miriam Santiago’s antics at the impeachment court.

Unless the Filipinos put their act together, they cannot expect respect or even a sympathy and justice. Even Burma did not give support to our case in the Panatag Shoal imbroglio. The Americans are ambivalent to take our side openly.

Why? Because the Filipinos do not seem to deserve even a token of respect.

Example:
Marcos was forced to escape but the loyalists were free terrorizing the public places. A cigarette vendor in Rizal Park was mauled to death just because he was wearing a faded, worn-out yellow shirt. I wonder where is Alona Alegre, et al now. Did Gloria Arroyo pardon her?

Renato Corona was tried and found to be unscrupulous. But as of this writing, there are a lot of indignant hacks who are doing rear guard action, attacking the government and doing squid tactics.

The worst kind was Miriam Santiago. It is not expected of her to lump all the people and government officials to be corrupt but when Corona was declared undesirable, she became ballistic and without any self-restraint, labeled all senator-judges (except Bongbong and Joker) as corrupt and foolish., “ang gagago naman”, not once but 3 times. She continued in her unabated spewing of venom, by re-announcing her impending departure from this graft-ridden land of the ours. And many people who posses misguided sense of righteous indignation clapped and stand in ovation. Indeed, it was a pathetic sight.

How many hate the victim of injustice rather than perpetrator and the beneficiary of that injustice? Quite too many. I felt sick in the stomach when so many attacked and insulted Manny Pacquiao after that Las Vegas fight?

Pardon me for blabbering, let me go back to Chavit Singson. This man and his father suffered during the heydays of the Crisologos in Ilocos Sur. People forgot that Vincent Crisologo was a monster who led the burning of not 1 but 2 sitios just because his father lost in the elections in those localities. He shot a man to death. It took a long process to prosecute and incarcerate him. What prodded Marcos to pardon Vincent was beyond me. I heard that Vincent is now a congressman or is it a councilor in a Metro Manila city.

Chavit Singson vowed that there will be no more abusive Crisologo to kick the Singsons around. Little by little he gained wealth and political power. Then Estrada came and entrusted him the Estrada Jueteng Enterprises. But knowing tooo much is an invitation to be rubbed out. Chavit sang, and like Gretchen, he is hated more than Estrada. In fact Estrada has 8 million idolizing voters in the country.

Is this the nation worth dying for? My answer is yes and no. There are still who want to have a peaceful, progressive Philippines. There is a time and a season for everything, and when the right time comes, we will be able to get rid of these termites. I hold a bated breath, I hope it will be sooner than later, when will this mutant termite queen go and leave us a respite from her poisoned, forked tongue