EDSA

You know when you keep repeating a word over and over again it loses its meaning? For me, this is what's happening to the spirit of EDSA People Power. Worse, it not only loses its meaning it is being twisted and made to justify the opposite of its essence.

The politicians have cried "wolf!" so many times that people just raise their heads for a while, look, and then return to their business. This practice of coups and rallies and calls for resignation has pushed us into a mode miscontrued as apathy when in fact we're just tired. The EDSA that my parents joined is so different from the EDSA that these groups want to recreate today. I can still recall the days when my parents went to join people power wearing bright yellow shirts. They only came home for about an hour or two in the night to change clothes. Back then it only took 1 call for the people to flock to EDSA and stay there for four days.



The coup and the palace proclamation yesterday diverted the attention from other important matters. The landslide in Leyte is overshadowed by these. Instead of the troops helping to recover a thousand missing bodies and rebuild the shattered community, they are here in Manila dispersing violent mobs.

The picture above is a view of the Shrine. While riding to work yesterday, I took a photo of it. Too bad I wasn't able to take a picture of the ground teeming with policemen.