Or when Political Correctness Disgraces Christianity
From the PDI 07/06/14 :
[Presidential spokesperson Abigail] “Valte, however, agreed with Senate President Franklin Drilon’s request to the Sandiganbayan not to arrest the senators inside the Senate, as a matter of courtesy to the institution. “All of us recognize and respect the Senate as an institution,” she said.”
A kind of unique mentality undergird our susceptibility and penchant for corruption which at first glance indicate have nothing to do with it. Political correctness dominates its complex ingredients. This unique mentality even discolors our colonial kind of Christianity. The Senate President came out with the request to Sandiganbayan not to arrest the three senators charged with plunder inside the Senate Hall as courtesy to and as a sign of respect to the institution.
Are not the police (PNP) officers the ones entrusted to make the arrest and not the Sandiganbayan? Does the senate as a disgrace and damaged institution still deserve such respect? Spokeperson Valte said: “All of us recognize and respect the Senate as an institution.” So, why then some Senators can not show a common citizen’s respect to their very own institution by behaving above suspicion of criminal behaviour?
In other countries persons charged with a felony can be arrested anywhere, some even while they hide in toilets or washrooms. The Senate is not a toilet good for a hiding place. To be accused of plunder, a heinous crime not against a person or property but against a society of 100 million people is the most degrading and shameful of all—an indelible human infraction too gruesome to restitute even by committing Japanese seppuku.
The Senate President is a senator too and logically knows too well why in heaven’s name will the three senators will prefer or wait to be arrested in the Senate premises—to disrespect the Senate?
Those high in the government who value shame and Christian compassion for the high in society over and above violations of the law are retards retarding efforts to reform Philippine society. If they did so in the past, how have our government before assiduously prepared and spend taxpayers money to welcome the thousands of prisoners now languishing in our jails since they are preparing bedrooms not jail cells and ensuring now the safety and comfort of the three senators? Whether they can or can’t do the same Christian thing, what will be their excuses when the 200 or more alleged felons and plunderers in the Congress and Executive departments are charged and arrested? Shall we be proud of our Christian treatment of alleged crooks? Of corrupting even the humane tenets of Christianity? Innocent until proven guilty? Jesus Christ was crucified and died on the cross even before he probably heard that refuge maxims of scoundrels.
Why then the readers might ask, should the Philippine Senate President be called its wings of honor or rock of downfall, in short its albatross? In another country in the north or in the same hemisphere as the Philippines , say like SOKOR or Japan, the USA, UK or even Canada, in the august halls of their Congress or Parliaments, the arrests of crooked members attending sessions or hiding there will happen without a whimper from other members and officers, to be carried out in deadly and deafening silence as if the institution is in mourning in sadness and in shame. Improbable probably in the Philippines for some political mouths constantly are ready to open to be in the news the next day.
To lower the blood pressure of readers reaching this far of the article and raise them subsequently, I like to write later on how our collected taxes are rape sans mercy by those elected to be the guardians. The metaphor is faulty, it’s really the annual budget that consummate the rape. As I have wished to do, I already have completed the piece on “Relentless Men as Albatross to Their People” Jesuit trained they are; most of this world’s relentless men.
