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Thursday, June 30, 2005
Editorial: Healing a wounded nation
This nation, our republic, has been gravely wounded in recent weeks.
But it has long suffered intermittent wounding and healing through the years, nay, even for decades. Sadly, not from the hands of its enemies, but from its sons and daughters, those it has favored with opportunities, those that have risen from among the mass to take the helm of its delicate governance.
Wanting to prolong their stay in power, they abuse public trust.
There is that morally humbling biblical notion that says there is no rest for the weary of limbs. It is as apt a description as ever today of the over-abused and exhausted Philippine republic.
Suddenly, the country finds itself fallen into the quicksand of the “times that try men’s soul.” And how it would extricate itself from a certain “demise” depends upon the men and women that now appear to glory over its agony.
It would seem that everyone has suddenly found their troubled conscience aching to seek redress of their nagging grievances against a national leadership that has long shown a typical bias in favor of personal politics as against the collective politics of national survival.
That the leader has even seen fit to go out of her way to do an unconstitutional act to ensure protection of her personal political interest is a clear betrayal of public trust.
And so, the nation meekly suffers the worsening pain of its wound that is made even rawer by the indifference of its average citizen.
The way its people continue to battle one another, to strike at anyone and anything they see offering opportunity to them to advance either group or individual interest, leaves the national welfare on the wayside, and the nation to languish and sink ever deeper in the quicksand.
The nation is wounded, and it needs to heal in order to survive.
The recent admission of guilt by the President that she has, indeed, committed a lapse in judgment, may not be enough to assuage the vindictive thirst of blood from her political detractors.
But it is not Gloria Macapagal Arroyo that is profusely bleeding. It is our nation that is wounded and hemorrhaging that is seeking to be rescued from the hellhole.
With the eyes of its suffering mass turned toward the collective national leadership, the republic begs for a time to heal. It looks at the President to stand by her word she uttered during her apology for a lapse in judgment.
She should do what is most appropriate to stop the bleeding and heal the wounds. We, the people, should give it chance to heal.
(June 30, 2005 issue)
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