Are we a nation of fools?

The people in government must think we are a nation of fools. 

            For one, we have our honorable (shudder!) governors telling us the money-giving event in Malacañang wasn’t a massive bribery event.  It does not matter that they put the monies in paper bags, led the ‘beneficiaries’ in empty rooms to hand over the ‘gifts’, did not ask for vouchers, and initially denied the monies came from the League of Governors only to swallow their spit 10 days later.  They also said the funds were given to neophyte governors to assist them in their community projects.  The Eastern Samar governor giving large sums to the governors of Bulacan and Pampanga?  Talaga?  A governor from a hard-luck province with a few paved roads giving funds to governors of provinces crisscrossed by expressways?

            Secondly, the police are tripping all over themselves trying to explain the blast at Glorietta was just an accident and not a gruesome product of a terror crime.  They now say the explosion was caused by a combination of diesel fumes and methane gas from a faulty sewerage system.  There were no flames and there was only white smoke yet they tell us this?  Diesel needs great compression to ignite.  Plus it would need a great volume of methane gas (such as we get when all members of Congress fart at the same time in a very enclosed space) to produce that kind of explosion.  Still, we need a catalyst, a spark (like when gloria again blows her top) to create such a blast.  A freak accident, they say?  Looks more like a freakish police force conjuring fairy tales from thin air to me.

            Throughout all these, the sanest statement given to and reported by the media was the plaintive cry from the father of one of the explosion’s victims: “Justice! Hustisya!”

            Come of think of it, the government may be right in thinking we are a nation of fools.  Look at who we allow to govern us.  Look at how we fail to drive these assholes—from the president down—from their cushioned chairs and out our lives.