CULTURE OF COMPLAINT If there is anything most noticeable among the major suspects facing plunder charges in the P10-billion pork barrel scam, it is their general tendency and preoccupation to keep on complaining and demanding as if they are entitled to a privileged treatment. Whether it is Bong Revilla, or Jinggoy Estrada, or any of their obese and noisy relatives (their families and relatives are obese as shown by those TV video clips), or any of their obscure lawyers with forgettable names, the tendency is to raise every possible complaint and demand anything under the sun as if the suspects belong to sopme royalty. They have complained of heat and lack of ventilation, or lack of air coolers, or air-conditioning units, or the presence of cockroaches and rats in their detention centers, as if the suspects should be affordable some royal treatment usually given to people, who are on a summer holiday in some posh five-star hotels. But they have never taken recognition of the harsh condition of the thousands of prisoners, who wait for their trials, in those crowded, unsanitary jails. Many inmates suffer from skin diseases or respiratory ailments as a result of the extreme situation in their cells. Not to mention the boredom and mental torture they have are facing while awaiting for the court trial that hardly comes on time. When their lawyers have submitted petititons for bail for their clients, they have kept on complaining about the volumes of evidence, which the prosecution lawyers have been presenting to the court to ask for a denial of their petitions for bail for the accused. The defense lawyers feel they are are entitled to a shortened proceedings as if the court is on their beck and call, as if the justices in robes sitting on the elevated rostrum are their slaves and subalterns. Even Erap Estrada complained of Gigi Reyess condition, as if Gigi was entitled to a room in the plush Manila Hotel. Of course, Erap did not know the conditions of the inmates in the Manila City Jail, which is under his jurisdiction in his capacity as Manila mayor. Revilla’s lawyers are also capable of producing masterpieces of unparalleled idiocy. They are now asking for the President of the Republic of the Philippines to appear before the court. They are geniuses on the extreme side of the stupid and ridiculous. This is democracy at work. We hear the cacophony of voices because the 1987 Constitution does not only allow it; it compels everybody to listen to these various voices. Our recourse is only to exercise our power of choice. We choose what to listen. We choose who are worthwhile to listen. We close our ears to those people, who are only capable of creating noise that only annoys our souls.
Posted on: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 07:00:38 +0000
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