WHEN security men requested by DENR Sec. Lito Atienza whisked away Jun Lozada at the airport upon his arrival from Hongkong, they, including Lozada, had agreed that he should not attend the Senate hearing on ZTE/NBN as agenda. Even his not seeing his wife immediately on his return was a result of the agreement.

        Then a kidnap scenario was played up by him. It’s funny, a kidnap victim must not be tolerated at all cost to communicate on his own, otherwise, we’d be foolishly intrigued just as Gen. Avelino Razon who could no longer determine his left foot from his right, of course metaphorically, after getting exposed to what he termed theatrics of Lozada.

        In Harapan telecast between Abalos and Lozada, the former Comelec chair and lawyer Panelo covered their issue, against Lozada’s there was eminent danger on his life, precise of documentation. Nothing doing. The Malacanang boys on errand to discredit Lozada, Razon, the most, were not really bewildered by the antics of the erstwhile president of the Philippine Forest Corporation, heck, what was he doing there in the first place, planting narra? But unprepared they were. Their script from the Palasyo did not match. And Lozada increased his credibility among the callers of ABS/CBN.

        It’s Pacquiao beating Morales by a mile and the mob team, Lozada jokingly termed, knew they talked sense. What a way to savor a cure of their medicine in bad times.

        These people holding straw shield to thwart the anger of the elite, their own kind, had the verdict through Lozada: She’s evil. Such that, they don’t relate to Lozada as a person but a symbol of compounded indifference turning seriously into pent-up, traumatic oppression supposedly by way of the Machiavellian in power.

        I had this ignominy when I was investigated by no less than Col. Diego, a right hand of Marcos implicated in the Aquino-Galman murder case, for not airing the deposed President’s speech while in Legazpi campaigning for the KBL in the l980s.

        Marcos sent his Recom 5 commander, a general, to Catanduanes to harass me. I was that time assistant to Minister Kit Tatad to trouble-shoot as station manager of the government’s Radio Virac.

        Ordered to Malacañang, I faced Col. Tigas, a military aide at the Public Information Office, before Diego, a short man of strong physique and loud voice. Both did their assignments, I was a mental wreck of dissolved morale when I left the QA room. I was worse than a rat in the engulfing darkness edging to a bus to take me home at the Sta. Ana district.

        Much experience of this sort has been in the psyche of Filipinos since GMA. It’s waiting for connection.

        I know Lozada’s uncertainties, his pains. He would recover for sure shortly given his circle of supporters. That’s vital. I did that too in the past.

        Yet that would be in some time coming for GMAs unity cohorts are rubbing each others’ backs for the sake of interests. Yes, that which is of self rather than of the nation. Their holding to it as children do to candies. Half a century it was the same, not even People Power l in l986 made a dint in consigning compassion to the poor. History would bare on us that stupidity in a debacle.

        Today, the educated’s hullabaloo is characterized by a modicum of altruistic concern mostly in high-strung reference to cover their ugly tracks in falloff like De Venecia for the unfeeling poor. That’s how they get into involvement in development, ghosts. Take it on any side between contenders in the ZTE fiasco. So we see their actual absence in a critical moment we have to institute a change, the contented cannot do it alone, alteration is no leisure to be had at convenience. It should be the inconvenience that can galvanize transformation.

        It’s the dysfunction of the wheel we see due to our miscomprehension of it. GMA continues to overload it without recalibration and refurbishing and the result, it has to give up. Atrophy is a tendency of government. That it cannot serve the greatest number is waterloo.

        From Lozada, we see how systematically we are being robbed of our future, never mind if it comes from a once-bully himself, the point is we get to know the truth, even with a candle in midday. Pity for those who fight the light.