Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Corruption at its finest

Our everyday news never fail to disgust me, it’s like a never ending list of stories intended to either make you hate and/or curse everyone that it talks about. Headlines usually are murders, theft, accidents, rape and political corruption to name a few. What’s the latest? Murderers walking in and out of prison and the world’s worst media killers pleading not guilty for being accused of murdering 57 political opponents and journalists. For convicts, this country is at top of their list, like a hotel with the best accommodations one could get. That’s how the justice system works here, or rather, there is no justice system here if you can pay. Here is where we have another term for money,” justice”.
They say that money is the root of all evil, if that’s the case then I guess our country must have a very rich soil for harboring corruption. Were having an up growth here and most probably we could have taken care of these political weeds crawling over our nation if we still have our “corrupted” fertilizer funds. Money feeds the Philippine jurisprudence. What is justice, politics and power without money? Ask a Filipino and one would answer “Nothing…” They caught one who went in and out of Bilibid and now one after the other, they keep on finding out that this happened before and it still keeps on happening till today, why? Because money is power thus you have justice by your side and if you have justice by your side, you have freedom to do anything.
The BuCor must mean Bull$#!+ and Corrupt if this case keeps on happening, I don’t see any reason for special treatment inside the correctional facility to take place if its not because of money. Justice system is not "just" if the people’s minds around it is being corrupted and are left to indulge themselves on luxury. That’s why Filipinos are good at criticizing because that’s the only thing that we can do, criticize. Why? Because we can’t do anything on what is about to happen even if we know how it will end up. All we can do is talk and ask about what they’re doing and watch. I’d even bet that the Ampatuan massacre case will be dismissed or the accused found not guilty after a few years. They will always find a way to prolong the case. I’m sure that the Ampatuans are getting well acquainted with delaying tactics and motion for reconsideration as of this moment. Most probably witnesses will be killed and evidences will disappear without a trace. You know how it goes…
What could you expect? Our country has more lawyers that our law and what do they do? They argue, debate and reason out with each other, by all means, the will use every tactic they know to win the case, they will try to mislead and confuse you to get the information they want to hear from your mouth but what happens next? After the case, you will see those two lawyers who battled is out on the court hanging out with each other, playing golf, sipping coffee and all those things. This is what passes for justice in the Philippines, if you don’t have money and power, result is; the victim becomes the guilty and the guilty, the victim. Even if the most obvious of crimes has been committed, it’s easy to play dumb, blind and deaf once you get paid well for it. The best evidence that would surely win a case is money. In the Philippines, this is the law. Money is the law.

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