There is turmoil out thereUPDATE:
Carnage! rambling!
What is to do but dig
Dig bones out of earth
Mudgraves! Timber!
Morbid trenches!
-- earth intruders, Bjork
4 died including Representative from Basilan, Wahib Akbar;
9 were reportedly injured which includes 2 Representatives.
The police authorities have zeroed in on Akbar as the likely target; And of course the familiar oppositionists didn't let an opportunity to blame all these to Malacañang.
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As i shift sleepily on an almost empty bus for my routinary 52km ride to and fro from school/work, an old man interrupted my woolgathering to ask if the TV already flashed an update? I asked and made him repeat his question twice, and have answered No, that the bus was playing a B movie ever since it left the terminal. And then he cut me saying in an animated grandpa voice that Batasan Pambansa was bombed.
I was shocked, myriad thoughts entered my mind --- some good, most were bad. The very first thing I deed at home was to change the channel to ANC. And in full color while the camera focuses and zooms in on target, just like a scene from action/horror flick flashed in the screen: the collapsed lobby ceiling , a victim whose burnt face in close-up, a doctor in the emergency room giving a cpr and JDV making statements to whatever effect.
El Fili comes in to my mind. Blowing up the house where the Who's-Who of colonial Manila gathers for the wedding reception of Paulita and Juanito Pelaez (?). If not for the telenovela-mushy mentality of Isagani, who wanted to save his Paulita did the unthinkable then all those prayle's and meztizos, and peninsulares, would have been blown out into smithereens and into oblivion. Of course there will be those innocent casualties, but then again the end woul justify the means.... very Machivellian.
That, lingers. And yes at some point I was thinking batasan was bombed, hmm, no more de venecia, no more villanueva et al. No more grand standing politicians. The void will be filled by new breed of individuals who have genuine vision for this country to legislate bills that would move us forward. New breed of leaders that would unite this nation once and for all. And for all the innocent victims? Their number surely pales in comparison with the rest of the 87 Million Filipinos.
The problem with this theory is... What if those who'll assume power next is the same or even worst than the De Venecias of today?
