Again, it’s all about Gloria. Why am I not surprised. But the late Secretary Reyes jumped the gun (and used it too) on the investigations, even when Trillanes (and Jinggoy) were still en route to unraveling their premise—that all roads should lead to Gloria.
I am flabbergasted that we continue to allow a Trillanes, a man so trying hard, but always falling short, so feeling, but always lacking, to demonize and bastardize further an already demonized and bastardized Senate. A call to decency he has refused to respond to, and why should he? Can you even expect him to be decent and civilized at all? I don’t.
Let us not forget, this is a man who has cost us a lot by waging his failed mutiny. Surely, there is no comparison between the results of Gloria’s hard work for the economy (corruption allegations and patronage politics notwithstanding) and whatever it is his messianic mind believes he has done for the country. As far as I know, there was only damage done to the economy, our image, a disruption in our daily lives, nothing more, nothing less.
Perhaps he thinks of himself a hero. Ah, baloney! He is not a hero and judging from his actions in the Senate, he is light years away from being one. To me, he is the villain, a modern villain in the millennia-long fight between the decent and indecent, the honest and the fake, the real and the feeler.
In aid of legislation? How can our senators keep on fooling the public with this default justification when it is darn obvious that this is all being done in aid of humiliation? They have used the Senate (and the regular exposure they get on TV) as a platform for pogi points and to demolish their political enemies, never mind if it’s all in bad taste.
“Your honor, if I may,” “No, you may not!” Trillanes, quickly shuts General Reyes out. “….You have no reputation to protect!”
Oh—my—gosh! Who, in the name of everything that is holy, does Trillanes think he is? Watching him berate someone, a private citizen and his former head at the AFP, just like that makes me want, for even a brief moment, to trade my longstanding wish for world peace with the opportunity to slap him silly.
In aid of legislation would’ve figured out the loopholes of the current AFP setup and correspondingly, recommend laws that would address them, all done in an intelligent and sober manner, where mutual respect is a prerequisite. In aid of humiliation, on the other hand, is exactly what they’re doing in the Senate, led by the renegade ex-soldier with nothing else to offer but dishonorable character, disrespectful statements, and anti-Gloria platitudes.
And now, just a couple of days after Reyes’s suicide, he links Gloria to everything with “it is not far-fetched.” Makapamalikas kog taman sa ginhawa! A man has already taken his life, but Trillanes goes on and will stop at nothing just to drag Gloria into the mess, more so to name her mastermind (which is where this is all headed, if Trillanes and Jinggoy have their way). It is the height of irresponsibility to implicate people on mere speculation, especially after the twisted turn of events of the last week.
In aid of legislation sticks to facts—you gather facts so you can address the sad facts and make things better. Engaging in dangerous speculation does nothing for the cause of fact-finding and meaningful legislating, as it is obviously the recourse of vendetta and malicious intent.
With all of this fixation towards Gloria, my colorful imagination is hijacked by meaningless what-ifs, in line with the Senate’s meaningless investigations. Here’s one: Trillanes might have had a big crush on Gloria but she turned him down, said no to his boy-next-door-turned-rebel good looks and still chose chubby-squeaky-voiced Mike, and here he is, cannot take the rejection. First, he took to the streets with a battalion of soldiers, now, years later and out of jail, he does everything in his power to make her pay.
Thin line between love and hate. Whatcha think?
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Tonight on The Bottomline with Boy Abunda: In Memoriam—A replay of our March 2010 episode with the late AFP Chief of Staff and Defense, Interior, Environment, and Energy Secretary, Angelo “Angie” Reyes.
Watch it after Banana Split on ABS-CBN. Encore telecast on the ABS-CBN News Channel (ANC), Sunday, 1:00 pm.
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