An Open Letter

For all of you out there outside the ocean that frames my country, CNN has probably broadcasted the sensationalized version of things – brought to us by the network giant I was talking about in my last post.

Now here’s something from the inside, from someone who lives a stone throw away from the palace.

This blog is apolitical. APOLITICAL dammit! So will you politicians please for the love of your own souls please quit the grandstanding! Everyone in the country has enough troubles already for you to muddle waters with your ulterior motives. The majority mind you, is not with you, regardless of how you cry to the heavens. If you really had wanted the best of our people, if you really had the heart – we should have seen you over at Leyte, helping and comforting the victims of the landslide. But noooo, you just could not pass up the chance to use the People Power anniversary as a cover to stage your plans. Maybe you forgot in your pride that it was the common people who EDSA belonged to, not you. Yes you reaped power and glory, but it was the masses that turned it around. Why need to go to Fort Bonifacio to pray? Pray somewhere where there are no cameras and maybe God will hear you and make things better for us. Besides, it’s an open secret that politicians in power get rich from illegal logging. Why go there eh?

Perhaps you were expecting the EVAT law to be a backbreaking burden? Well it is. Then again our economy is growing stronger by the day, and so is our peso. Afraid of what happens if the country has a miraculous turn around? You ought to be, all of you have been in power at intervals after Pres. Marcos was deposed. You weren’t able to do a damned thing except grandstand. The country does not believe you anymore. Please accept that so we all can move on with our lives. If you really want what is best for us, work within the framework. Fight the battles in the House of Congress, show us your passion, not just of being correct, but of wanting what’s best for the country. Allow us to believe again. Allow us to hope for the better, not by your bickering, but by your galvanized actions in an understandable platform. Work like you obey the rules and find a solution without throwing tantrums like a spoiled child when you hit a corner.

Aren’t you wondering why the people with jobs, the dreaming, the hoping, the ones fighting silently for a better tomorrow through an honest life, the family building Filipinos are not out in the streets? Why the millions you keep insisting that are with you do not show up? It is simply because we do not want to. Granted that Pres Arroyo may not be manna from heaven, we have chosen you before and you have dismally failed. What else do you want? You are a self righteous and conceited rabble. We know by now how you change bed partners by necessity. The nation is not stupid you know. So please give up the game. If you really want to help us – THEN HELP US. Not yourselves.