DEMOCRATIC ERA: Telling Truth or Questioned Truth?

                     

                                       Philippines is in a democratic form of government that influenced by the American colonials, which colonized us from 1898-1946. The democratic concept was introduced through the Constitutional Commonwealth or known for its 1935 Philippine Constitution by the Americans because of these colonizers, we learned how to lead our mother country. But based on the people who believed this, Democracy is the symbol of our being independent from the chain of all scenarios in politics. Speaking of independence, why bad people try to kill the key of truth? Because they want to be free from the law?

                                    November 23, 2009, one of the incredible scenes in the Philippine history, over 34 journalist were killed in the Maguindanao Massacre in the night of Monday, after a certain person filed a Certificate of Candidacy (COC) for the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao or ARMM elections, some hoodlums blocked the convoy that this person was riding and hoodlums did their thing. One cause for this was the political conflict between Mangudadatu and Ampatuan. Politics was the main of extra-judicial killings in the Philippines. So, we can usually conclude that politics is the root of all evil or maybe politics plus money will equal to dirty tactics. Why do I say that politics is the root of evil? Simply because without money and power liberated you can’t do what you want, this is because of us being under the democratic government. Without politics, all of the people are in the state of war. The money is used to threat and to kill. Sometimes in real life, when we do sins, we are afraid to punish ourselves, so the witness or the person who will see you as give money, so that the witness would not revealed the truth. But journalist, I could say that we are not interested in money for we journalist have a righteous principles and we have the dedication to do our job responsibly and responsively. But in our society now, journalists were killed under the hand of some politician guns. Why do they have to do this crime? Because when they do these scandalous and controversial things, this person would do what anything happened even against the rights of his/her people, so that the people would forget, in the of the power.

                                  Our country is being liberated from the foreign ancestors and those lovers of power. But, from our freedom of speech, how would we say the real truth? How would be free from the chains of lies without hearing the truth? Stop killing journalists because they are the key to real liberated country. Our sin will only be cleaned by our responsibility and not by the money. #