IT IS NOT going to stop anytime soon, or end anytime soon, or halt anytime soon.
If at all, it may just slow down for a while then resume at full speed once again, but even this is a long shot.
Most probably, it will extend, expand, and explode into proportions never seen, or never heard, or never felt, before.
This is the vigorous, relentless and unyielding campaign against drugs and everybody who promotes the vice, peddles the goods and protects the trade.
There are, of course, tidbits of other news, but mostly everything is about drugs.
There are, obviously, conversations regarding other items, topics or matters, but mostly everything is about drugs.
There are, naturally, actions, events and activities related to other fields, but mostly everything is about drugs.
To be sure, the duty of the government is more than just solving the problem of drugs.
Without a doubt, the functions of our leaders include addressing economic issues like poverty, inflation, jobs, wages and the whole caboodle.
This, is, where, the most excitement lies.
When the public gets bored about all the killings, when the media gets exhausted about reporting the same story on a different day but every single passing day, and when these two situations happen at the same time, or one after the other, but they do happen, the public and the media will crave for something else.
If this time comes, when this time comes, this should be the opening for the other initiatives of the government to come out, shine bright and prove detractors wrong, especially those who accuse the administration of only dealing with drugs and neglecting, forgetting or abandoning everything else.
Hopefully, the other departments of the government are already preparing for this time, proud, too, of their respective accomplishments.
Hopefully, everybody will be made to realize that, or at least there is an equal or close or more overwhelming sense, that while drugs may have taken over the news, conversations, actions, events and activities these past months, the truth is that the administration is silently, if not secretly, working on all the other concerns besetting our country.
Hopefully, we will all be pleasantly surprised, and not terribly shocked, about the performance of our leaders behind the scenes, in the same way as when we discover the secret life of pets.
*****
Comments are most welcome. Please send them to taipan.millan@mmlaw.com.ph.