BANISH INJUSTICE!

WHEN someone trips in front of us, we usually say, oh I'm sorry. Or when someone calls out a person not by his or her name, we say "sorry."

You see, Folks, there are many ways we say, "Sorry." We apologize when we hurt someone, physically, emotionally, psychologically without our meaning to. Actually, the Filipino people apologize a lot -- we apologize when we cannot offer greater food at home to visitors. We do when we are not dressed properly at an event. We text sorry when we cannot come to an event. 

It is one of those things that make us connect with other people, making them feel that we could also feel what they feel.

IN the bigger scheme of things though, we can drown in the matter of procedures that happen and forget to whom we should apologize for the big failure to secure a clean elections.

When Miriam lost in the 1992 presidential elections, we were not able to apologize to her that we failed to secure the elections, to make it clean and safe from miscounting. 

Now, we are seeing the same in the US. The woman candidate who lost because of Russian hacking is being sidelined from all the discussions, as if she does not exist. All talks now revolve around the inauguration, the guests to the event, the downplaying of the hacking. I think that Putin is laughing behind their backs because he was able to pull the rug from under the Democrats, catching them by surprise. 

I think that we are in this world because we prefer goodness to evil. We prefer being humane rather than devilish. We prefer a chaste life, than one that smacks of crude opportunism. 

We should not rest on the many tricks being employed to make empty all the ideals that we have built through our lifetime and the many centuries when our ancestors fought for all kinds of liberation. 

We should not stop at the sleek ways and be trapped into the web of deceit that is being thrown around in order to legitimize what is otherwise a very illegitimate act of assuming a highly coveted position that is looked up to worldwide. 

Soiling the act of assuming a position is surrendering one's value systems honored by humanity and sinning in the eyes of God. 

Yes, we can invoke the name of God already because every day that steps are made to concretize the assumption of the position spells doom to all talks about democracy, about people's rights, about women's rights. 

Let the truth come out. Banish injustice. Stamp out evil acts.