Lotto, best proof of the absence of peace and order

By Al S. Mendoza

AN American couple recently won $126 million in lotto play in Oklahoma.

Before that, a Filipino from the Visayas reportedly won P98 million in lotto play in the Philippines about a month or so ago.

I can believe about lotto winners in America.

But alas, not here.

I don’t know.  I have this sneaky feeling we have no real lotto jackpot winners here. 

Have you seen one lotto winner in the Philippines already?

If so, please tell me where the winner lives, what has become of him/her.

In America, they have a Lotto Millionaires Club, whose members are lotto winners only.

In the Philippines, no such club exists. 

That’s because lotto winners here-granting that such animals exist-are being kept away from the public eye.  By force, mind you.

Who hides them from us but none other than our own government officials that run the lotto business?

That is bull, if you ask me.

Why hide their identities at all?

In America, the faces of lotto winners are practically splashed in the front pages of major newspapers all across the USA.

What other proof would you need to validate the truth that, indeed, lotto play is genuine in America other than that?

Over here, not one valid proof is shown that a person has won the lotto jackpot.  Except for the place where the sale of the lotto ticket allegedly happened, nothing more is known about the details of the lotto ticket buyer that won the jackpot.

Nameless. Faceless.  Incognito.

Now tell me, do you honestly believe that we have already produced a jackpot winner in the Philippines?

I have seen several who have won minor lotto prizes.  But never the jackpot winner who allegedly took home millions of pesos.

Ask me one reason why there’s no peace and order in this country and I’ll tell you what: Lotto play.

They hide the identity of a lotto jackpot winner here for fear the lucky person might fall victim to the kidnap-for-ransom syndicate.

The lotto winner might be held up, his winnings stolen.

If such country such as ours cannot protect its lotto winners, why maintain the lotto business at all?

Hide the jackpot winner, make the lotto play profitable that seems to be their main slogan.  Baloney.

If you ask me, the lotto play is the best indictment against our police force. 

You can’t protect the lotto winner, then, by golly, you also cannot protect the citizenry from the evil-doers in our midst.

The lotto play latches on to a person’s dream of quick money.  Yet, years after its birth, we have yet to see the face of one jackpot winner.

If this isn’t another legalized racket, what is?

Ah, never mind. I do buy lotto tickets to prove one thing: Once I hit the jackpot, I’ll tell the whole world I did.  I’ll buy newspaper pages to announce my jackpot victory.

To hell with my safety. 

With my winnings, I can build myself a resort farm in Mangatarem, at the slopes of the mountain ranges, away from the madding crowd.  I will surround myself with a private army-most of them preferably former policemen.

What do you think?

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