Now, it’s the “Hoodlums in Uniforms”

 

WE have seen enough of our elected public officials stealing not a few thousands but millions of taxpayers’ money through the pork barrel and other similar funds but with different nomenclature, i.e., Development Funds, Barangay Social Fund, etc. that provided our elected officials a lot of discretion on the use of public funds without accountability. This, in addition to proclivity of corrupt officials to overprice costs of infrastructure projects. We know them too well as “Hoodlums in Barongs.”

Then corruption in the judiciary came to the fore. Complaints and reports of judicial decisions “for sale” had reached a scandalous level that much of the integrity of trial judges has seen an erosion never seen before. The moniker “Hoodlums in Robes” struck home.

Then, of late, reports of policemen leading commission of crimes, from kidnapping to extortion and guns-for-hire, have been hogging news headlines. The “Hoodlums in Uniforms” are beginning to rake it in. In Pangasinan, a policeman did not even have the least decency to shed his uniform before selling drugs in the streets, an activity that led to his arrest in a buy-bust operation by his own colleagues. If that was not enough, a belated effort to cover up for the arrested cop is believed to be behind the surprised finding of the police laboratory that the suspected shabu caught in his possession turned out to be a harmless tawas. Those behind the cover-up attempt are as guilty as the rotten cop they sought to protect. They should be exposed and arrested as well.

Between the “Hoodlums in Barong, the “Hoodlums in Robes” and now the “Hoodlums in Uniforms,” can the lowly Pinoy still have a chance to survive the onslaught of dishonesty and criminal mindset in government?

 

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Divine intervention

 

SUPERTYPHOON Yolanda claimed close to 10,000 lives on Nov. 8, 2013.  On Dec. 8 or thereabouts this year, Supertyphoon Ruby, predicted to pack winds of as fierce as 350kph, reaped no more than 30 fatalities.

Disaster-preparedness significantly, if not radically, had shut out death and destruction in spectacular fashion.  But then, one major reason for the miraculous result of the country absorbing the most minimum of casualties was the deluge of prayers that poured from all across the archipelago, imploring God’s mercy so that Ruby won’t do another Yolanda. Ruby had considerably weakened, as it was about to crush its intended target-paths.

We believe that even the not-so-pious in our midst would agree that divine intervention played a key role in substantially snuffing Ruby’s wrath.  God is good, indeed.

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