TRUTH is a partisan.
That has been realistically, if painfully, displayed by senators in the ongoing hearing on the alleged Davao Death Squad with a recanted version of SP03 Arturo Lascanas.
For all its claim to being an independent body, the Senate, which should drop its description as being august, is more of a political arena where the players seek and promote their own political agenda along partisan lines.
Sometimes, the Senate also obviously serves as a convenient theatre where the senators try to outdo each other not as legislators or statesmen but as masters of philosophy, spirituality, morality , psychology and law.
The intermittent hearings sufficiently qualify as day-time drama and entertainment.
In the meantime, the search for truth can wait.
All that, of course, is understandable. The Senate is not about truth but about politics. So anything they do is basically imbued with political interest, theirs, their patrons and their party.
This is not to say that, in the process, the search for truth is not at all served. It is, but is only incidental and secondary to their political objective.
In this context, it may not be incorrect to say that politics is not the path to truth. Firstly, because it is a perilous route and secondly, because it is power-seeking.
So what happens now to the DDS hearing in the Senate? Zero sum.
Unless a major moral and spiritual awakening happens there, the rest of us who pine for truth can only hope for the best.
Perhaps, given our perpetual search for it, a permanent truth body should be established bereft of any political character at all, if possible. Those who feel they have a hotline with God or appear to feel they are god themselves should be turned away.
In the meantime, let’s just enjoy watching the senators with their acting, antics and all that jazz and see if they deserve to be there again the next time around.
And don’t forget, we deserve what we choose – to our grief.