The Lonely Vampire Chronicles

My heart bleeds for those who camped at Oakwood. They have a lost cause, and whatever path they will choose they will be damned. Their means of expression might be wrong, but their ideas are not.
And yet the government chooses to muddle the issue, dismissing flatly the allegations instead of somehow looking at them. They have only proven the Magdalo right.
The Magdalo group claimed they did it because it's their last resort, that no one would listen and they would be dismissed. The President heard them yet decided not to act. Officials of the government insists they are open to dialogue; but listen to them speak how they dismiss the charges off-hand, without battiing an eyelash. So they resort to muddling the issue. Maybe they are hiding something. Just thinking.
The way our officials speak make me nauseous. Take what Teddy Locsin Jr. told the press at the Palace earlier: "I find the charges (that the AFP is selling weapons to the rebels) preposterous because, I was a newsman before, and I found no evidence of such, and never heard of these before." Dismissing the issue just because he never heard or found no evidence? And he is not even a policeman!
Take what Karen Davila said when she interviewed Lt. Senior Grade Trillanes (the spokesman of the Magdalo). The Magdalo insists on its action because it was the only way. "Bakit di kayo lumapit sa media?" "After your scoop, what would happen to us? Can you protect us? After your scoop, we would be gone, court-martialed, but would there be any positive results?" Ms. Davila failed to counter that. By trying to force her opinion, she only made herself ridiculous.
So there. Three of the pillars of the society - the government, the media, and the "religious" groups - have already dismissed the Magdalo's issues. And the Magdalo is right. They are dismissed.
I urge the people not only to listen, but also to listen WHAT IS NOT BEING TOLD. We are so easy to be diverted we forget the real issue at hand.
Points:

• We had set a bad precedent in EDSA II, one reporter told Senator Drilon. He retorted that it was the people who started it, and the military support just came in. Precisely the point. If the military and the police stayed behind Estrada's back, Gloria Arroyo is not the President of this country. So their support was crucial.
  So she had no choice but to accommodate them.
  
• We should have not short-circuited the system by going to the streets asking Erap to resign. We set a bad precedent, so now we suffer.
  
• Haven't you noticed that both women presidents had attempted coups on their terms? Both of them were installed due to popular uprisings. My conclusion: if you grabbed power via extra-constitutional means, di ka matatahimik. Har har.
  

More of this soon.