Same old, same old

Same old story by same old people…

I was looking at my old accounts and found a bold one entitled, “Kagabi.” I read through it and remembered everything, the feeling of being in Ayala one Friday evening, the look at my then BusinessWorld editor when I asked permission to leave for the rally, every single detail, crisp and clear.

I remember trying to psyche people to come and meddle with the affairs of the nation during the heat of the ZTE-NBN scandal. Unfortunately, all I got were colorful excuses and sudden commitments to what have you.

I was visibly frustrated and deeply saddened by the nonchalance of people. For God's sake, this is our once great country, which awed the world with a bloodless revolution in 1986, and you couldn't care any less?

I don't know what people need to feel, see and hear to arouse whatever little interest they have left in their hearts of hearts. What more is needed to ignite flames? Con-Ass? Changing one's title to prime minister from president just doesn't sit well with me.

Apart from the ZTE-NBN hullabaloo, the long list of this administration's sins includes the Hello Garci/2005 election rigging scandal, Proclamation 1017 (State of National Emergency), Calibrated Preemptive Response, so on and so forth.

With bigger and bigger controversies every year, I feel helpless, hopeless even because things are becoming (or is it have become?) too familiar, the sin-sorry-forgiveness routine I mean.

This administration overdid the hideous cycle of corrupting minds and bureaucracies, making it too obvious, predictable even, but somehow indestructible. I’m scared that it has become too ingrained that people are now oblivious to it.

They say, "Only the ones that installed you in your seat can wrestle it from you", but what if the incumbent wasn't installed by the public? What if it was her immense machinery; moreover, her deep-seated "friendships" that gave her the thrown? So we don't have a choice? I'd like to think not.

These questions are not new. How many times have they been raised since the legitimacy of this administration was first questioned? I've lost count of course, but it doesn't mean that everything went stale.

With Con-Ass (whatever you want to call it) threatening the 2010 National Elections, hopefully we did not forget the grave inadequacies of what’s here and now. It is not too late to rise again, it's never too late.

Tomorrow I am one with you as we proudly raise our fists in the air for the pursuit of truth and justice.

©Grace Ramos