THE SCREW THREAD KNOT FITTED TO THE BOLT OF CORRUPTION

On almost every other issue we have to be concerned, the Filipinos have different points of view; but on this one where nobody is afraid anymore to go into the extremes even to kill or be killed just to survive, they’re two of a kind.

I mean, with all the ramifications that brought a lot of pain, hardships, and danger to everyone due to corruption, the worst that some enterprising individuals have thought about as their creative license to survive is MURDER FOR A FEE-- the proliferation of hired killers known as ‘Riding in tandem’. Killing somebody is now a lucrative business and the ones engaged into it had even the temerity to advertise themselves as specializing in fast work and affordable prices. This is a hideous feeling like seeing a cobra crawling at sight.

This is how horrendous the situation for YOU and ME appears. These hired killers are going to make our lives a living hell for a fee every single day. That’s the bottom line.

The root cause of all these is the corruption by the public officials caught in the grip of avarice to the extent of ignoring the inner moral compass in favor of amassing more and more wealth that brought most of the Filipinos into penury. The country has now come down where big fish eat small fish, small fish eat mud.

Corruption has now become a tradition and culture in our country that as public officials; it is natural for them to claim the privilege to corrupt without regard to the tears and sufferings to most of the citizens. The Filipinos are now among the scrub at the lowest level to the standard of living in the world. Our dreams in life were somewhere way off in the distance.

I only sympathize with PRRD of his effort and dedication to stop corruption. But not until PRRD discovers the formula where the problem and the solution will find each other like a screw thread knot fitted into a bolt, not an ocean of tears, neither the friendship of China, nor all the guns in the world can transform those public officials from evil into Saint for our country to survive tomorrow.