> Year of
the Dog
Chances of a clear and clean resolution of the explosive issues of
2005 now seem distant and dim as the Catholic Bishops Conference
of the Philippines has repeated its call to pursue the TRUTH
behind the Garci Illegal Wiretapping Controversy, among other
things. As if the Impeachment move by the polarized Opposition vs.
La Presidenta Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was not enough, these men of
the Cloth seem to have decided that everyone should continue
pursuing the Truth wherever it takes them, maybe, even six feet
below!
Well, of course, I personally have nothing against trying to pin
down the Truth, no matter how ugly, and no matter who gets hurt,
but starting the year on this note gives the impression that these
Bishops are not yet contented with a cessation of all the street
demos and are even INDIRECTLY asking the Majority to continue to
agitate for the Truth! Sosmaryosep! Have they not seen all those
almost tragic and near fatal street demos of the past? How will
they rationalize the unexpected lives that might be sacrificed in
their recommendation to dig farther for the Truth? Even if they
put in the “through legal means” clause, the Leftists and all the
other Opposition sectors will see a window of opportunity to
launch another round of traffic-stopping and maybe even violent
street rallies which just might end up in a bloody, senseless,
Rainbow Coup!
Indeed, the Year of the Dog promises to be a colorful one! A
Rainbow Coup just could be what will happen, given the various
sectors hankering for P.G.M.A.’s hot seat! Ramos and Cory, Lacson
and Estrada, Honasan and the ‘Magdalos’, the legitimate Opposition
and the Poe supporters, just might find themselves in the middle
of a free-for-all for the right to stay in Malacanang! So there
could really be a series of Coups until the last man or woman
standing is able to enter the Palace, unopposed! Don’t believe in
the oft peddled crap about a civilian-military Junta. The Military
guys, who have the guns, will ultimately ease out or eliminate all
these politicos who have been the bane of the nation in the very
first place!
The C.B.C.P. will, of course, try to see to it that a Military
Dictatorship doesn’t take place, but it will really be the people
who hold the guns who will have the last say, and woe to them who
think that they will still be as free as the Rev. Oscar Cruz to
criticize the Dictatorship once it has gained a foothold on the
Palace! So these Bishops just don’t know that they just might’ve
opened Pandora’s Tinder Box and set the time bomb ticking once
more! Sosmaryosep! The year indeed promises to be a colorful one
with BLOOD RED as the predominant color!
Come to think of it, where was the C.B.C.P. when the Conjugal
Dictators run roughshod over the land for almost 2 decades?
Several rigged elections went by with not even a whimper from
them! Madre mia! Now they tell us to ‘relentlessly pursue the
Truth’, sounding more and more like the Pharisees of old! Give me
a break! As Jack Nicholson’s unforgettable quote in “A Few Good
Men” goes: “you want to know the Truth? But you can’t handle the
Truth!” How’s that for a brutally frank retort?
So there you have it. We have a politically zealous C.B.C.P. that
has appointed itself Arbiter of the Truth in and outside of the
government. It has such good intentions, no doubt, but it has
failed miserably to broaden its horizons and foresee the negative
possibilities and effects that their Pastoral Letter would have on
the easily swayed Majority, and consequently, on our just
revving-up Economy! Por Dios y por Santo! The good, old, Bishops
should’ve just let sleeping Dogs lie, rather than wag the Dog and
let it bite its own tail! After stating that the search for the
Truth in the allegations of electoral fraud be pursued, it
ambivalently concludes that P.G.M.A. is “trying her best to regain
her credibility, but she needs to do more”, like, perhaps, jump
from the frying pan, into the fire? I really won’t be surprised if
things really grow from bad to worse PARTLY because of this
C.B.C.P. statement! Furthermore, if damage control is foolhardily
ignored, 2006 could long be remembered as the year when we shall
have all gone to the Dogs! Kung Hei Fat Choi!!!
