What crisis?
Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 09 Oct 2019 16:15:28 +0000
THE people in Malacañang, the Palace of the People, don’t consider it a “transportation crisis” that fewer LRT trains are running and passengers find themselves squeezing into buses and jeepneys like sardines with legs, or that MRT trains bog down as a matter of habit. Or that jeepney operators can “successfully” call a nationwide strike to punish riders.
Maybe it’s not a transport crisis; maybe it’s worse.
A crisis of faith.
When policemen raid a mountain of gold and discover tons of drugs, when their superiors promote them for ingeniously making the drugs disappear while a fleet of SUVs appears, when cops are more greedy and evil than drug lords, whom can we trust?
Just when you thought crooked cops could not get any crookeder, another respected uniform appears, tainted. When Star City and the DZRH building caught fire, how could the network’s star broadcaster, Deo Macalma, lose his Rolex watch, a gold bracelet, and P60,000 in cash if his office was spared by the flames? Who crashed into his office, who opened the drawers of his desk? When you doubt the bravery and integrity of firemen who are conventionally portrayed as heroes, whom can you trust?
When billions of Health-y pesos are lost to insurance fraud, enough to make you sick at heart, can you afford to continue to trust the system? When the whistleblowers are arrested, does the news restore your faith in justice?
When a healthy, handsome young man is mauled and beaten to death by “upperclass”
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