WATCHING Philippine National Police (PNP) Director Bato clenching his fist as if ready to hit anyone and seething with anger in a newscast isn’t exactly an earth shaking sight for his foes.
But it was a warning to all and sundry, especially to his erring police who seems to be doing what it takes to bring him down, and perhaps, including the Duterte presidency, if we seriously take the summation of his critics.
The old politicos are already predicting a huge backlash against the Duterte administration following the kidnap-slay of the Korean businessman, and I suspect they are gloating over this recent happening.
It is incredulous that people seems to expect change to happen overnight. One glaring fact that many people simply ignore is the truth that even if there is a new president, the old system is still very much in place.
Not only that, the people running that old decaying system also persists to stay on, some even insolently hard-headed about sticking to their old place in the new administration that is already rejecting them.
Moreover, while we are not expecting a perfect “performance” from a fledgling administration to immediately deliver all that it promises to do, it is only right for citizens to remind and take to task our national leaders for the priorities it has set in the very beginning.
The public is ever vigilant especially after series of failed promises of previous administration had made the Filipino citizens skeptical and wary of promises “made to be broken.”
That is why, it is important that citizens take public servants to task, because once entrenched in power, some of these so-called public servants thought themselves as the masters of the people whom they have vowed to serve, and not the other way around.
Progressives call these people the ruling elite who for years and years have stuck on their offices like a leech, and like these despicable creatures, they will not budge until their bodies are bloated with the blood they suck from the citizens’ coffers.
When still they are not contented, they would resort to all forms of criminal acts just to satiate their greed for more money, money, money!!!
They say that when a leech latches on human skin, it cannot be disengaged unless burned or heated to make them cringe and let go.
It’s the blood-sucker’s very nature for survival, and not for greed, unlike its human counterpart in government service that would latch on “tooth and nail” to their positions, no matter if their corruption has been discovered and exposed.
Do we want change? Then, we, the people must embrace the sacrifices entailed so that genuine change will be upon us. If we want true change, we must be open to possibilities of doing our part, and not be fence-sitters who are content to only watch at the sides, and only passively react on the outcomes of the on-going work in place, going where the tide takes them like drift wood, having no roots, no purpose, no principle… Nature is froth with life examples of what genuine change embody.
A woman’s body when young and fresh looks good, demure and desirable. When she starts to conceive as her body is geared for motherhood as the human female is generally intended to be, her nature being a nurturer and carrier of the human species, her total humanity starts to adopt change in its essence.
From there on, things will never be the same for her. The moment she delivers a new human being, she undergoes bloody and sometimes painful changes in her body, but the thought of seeing her offspring would somehow deaden the pain and uncertainty.
It goes without saying that everything in this world needs this process, and for sure it would entail a life-changing course and not one that many among us probably hoped it would be, because if we really want genuine peace, we need to work for justice, and justice is not served on a silver platter but fought and struggled for, as our society is not the Shangri-la that we are still dreaming to see.