Taking Us for a Fool
How did I take the news that former president Joseph Estrada has been granted a full pardon (with strings attached kuno) by Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo?
I was definitely not overjoyed (even before). All I could think of was that if given a chance to talk one-on-one with both of them, I’d probably have hurled curse words their way. The television in the hospital room my grandmother stayed in got a beating from me while news about the whole process was being aired. I almost cried with frustration.
As soon as I got home, I wrote a piece entitled Taking Us for a Fool expressing my thoughts about the matter. The article can be read on Ang Tinig ng Bagong Salinlahi.
Thanks, Ederic!
And oh, thanks to the well-wishers! My grandmother has been discharged from the hospital today! 
yes, it’s quite a slap on the face. especially to those who rallied on EDSA II. I was there, I saw… thousands of people wanting justice… I didn’t really know what was happening at that time, I was a freshie in college, but all I know it was for a good cause, that’s all that mattered. I still believe that Estrada should be punished, but politics is too dirty of a game to play.
nagsayang pa sila ng 6 years kung ganyan din lang. naman!
I’m glad to hear that your grandmother’s doing well!
Issai, I was there too. Kaya naiiyak ako just thinking that if I, who was just 13 years old that time, was hurt, ashamed, and enraged about the pardon, what more pa kaya karamihan ng tao dun? GMA just erased People Power 2 from the Philippine history.
Many know firsthand how much of a charisma-challenged turd our president is and then she goes on rambling how we should all forget and put things behind us. Since when did she perfect empathy, pray tell? If this joke becomes precedent to all other presidential pardons, all politicians might as well do plunder and eventually get absolved! Including Joey Marquez and his “walis” controversy.
It can’t be helped that people had been losing faith in finding at least a glimmer to start them in their search for nationalism because frankly there isn’t much to be proud of here. What little hope we sometimes can take hold of easily get snatched from us when we hear mediocre national-concern news, thanks to our so-called leaders.
I’ve shared my opinion about that. Ah basta, whatever explanations - I’d still stick to “what i know”.
heyhopeurlolasdoinggoodna..tc…nicemeetingucyah!
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- Shari
SRSLY, that was a crapload of dead semen. this effin government’s getting worse day by day.