Thursday, November 15, 2007 Seares: Lethal bomb, sick joke By Pachico A. Seares News Sense
A MORBID joke that has come out after the bombing of the Batasang Pambansa complex shows public distaste of our legislators.
"Want to kill a politician? Send him to the Batasan," said a text message circulated the morning after an explosion, believed to be a car bomb, rocked Tuesday night the House of Representatives building in Quezon City. A congressman was killed and two other lawmakers were among the nine wounded.
Previous digs at House members ranged from feeding them to "their cousin crocodiles," or loading them on a sinking ship, to lacing their cognac with cyanide.
Cruel and unfair to many legislators who are genuinely concerned about their constituents and are not robbing the country blind.
Yet, that's how several people regard elected representatives, a sentiment reflected anew in the totally sick joke spawned by the Batasan bombing.
Target, intent
But against whom was the attack directed? One or two House members or the entire legislature?
Too soon to tell, but not to Speaker Jose de Venecia who that very night said the target was the House itself and the intent was to prevent it from doing its job.
The public has been pushing the legislature to work and here are these "terrorists and anarchists" trying to stop the lawmakers. Killjoys.
JDV is not the only theory giver. Critics of the President have come up with the absurd idea that the Palace did it to derail the impeachment attempt against her. If bundles of cash couldn't do the trick, a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device or VBIED would.
People can accept the grim humor but not the terrorism, the violence.
