A retrospection of our worship with a False god, a Devious Prophet

No fists raised. No candles lit. No flags unfurled. No voices raised in defiance against the creeping darkness. Only whispers. Only Facebook rants, Twitters aglow with spite, Comment pages fired up, fueled with poisonous verbosities. No one marching. No one leaving a house to go to the streets and shouting their lungs out. No one.

Killings and violence abound. During Marcos' time,  it happened legally. Worse now, these killings of fellow Filipinos are happening under a supposed liberal democratic environment.

Convince me no more, I am. Sometimes, you need a war to eventually be at peace. But it's stupid for a former Prosecutor to even think that crimes would eventually fade away once the killings happen. The prescription does not cure the disease---it tends to worsen it.

It's a tired mind working, in a tired world, with other tired people getting more and more tired of everything. "Someday there'll be retribution," says Duterte, the effects of the Fentanyl slowing down. As if by cue, the black shadows swooped down on the innocents, killing several whom Mr. Duterte even vowed to protect with his life.

Such a tragedy. And many are shrugging their shoulders. Shit happens. But, how many more young men will be killed before the altar of Order? Ten more? A hundred? Several thousand? A million?

When you give power to the dim witted, this happens. No explanations needed. You expect that from a man who believes and adheres to the idea of retributive justice without law? Stupid. Omit the "Lex" from "Taliones", maybe. Even under a law of retribution, there's a process, tanga. Otherwise, you are dishing out rubbish before a public who listens to you just out of axiomatic respect, gago.

Or course, how would you expect such a man to understand this? He confessed to getting dismal grades while he was at school. And just because he barely passed the bar and became a lawyer and through his connections and social status, he became a prosecutor, we then assume that his interpretations of the law are always correct? We are expecting too much from a man with the basest of standards.

Men created laws for order. Why do we need order? For men to live peaceful lives. Yes, laws do wrest a right for authorities to get rid of some men for the sake of the many. However, you just don't simply kill men outright.

Feeling powerful, are you? That you have the power to order other people to just snuff out life like you are just crushing cockroaches under your boots. Such powers are God's. Of course, you and your ilk feel like you are Gods. And you expect nothing than obedience to those who are under you.

Your power is an illusion. Those supposed 16 million votes do not show themselves before you. Some even said that's a statistical anomaly. This, however, does not mean that those 16 million agreed with you killing thousands for the sake of 101 million.

Like that demon, the pied piper, you lured those pitiful minds under a delicious spell, promising to rid the stench of crime in six months, cure the defects of the capitalist system by abolishing end of contracts, giving the poor more food on the table, and even boasting of knowing more about Mindanao affairs than others. All of those you boasted never happened.

The country is burning with silent spite against you. But of course, those paid surveys will never give you the true picture. You think you are still the darling of the mob. You think you are leading an army. And you definitely believe in your power.

Yet, it does not give you carte blanche authority to oppress those who did not vote for you. Who are you in the first place? A maniac with an unquenchable blood lust? You probably felt a sense of peace when you heard of 50 people dead in just two days of police operations.

No one among the self-proclaimed leaders of this land even dares stand against you---and obviously, they care only for their share of the treasures you hold. These bastards deserve not just our collective spite but our people's smite.

There is a God, I believe that. And the blood of the innocents are bubbling up from the ground. Eventually, they would clot and turn into an army. Yes, there is justice, and that justice is coming very soon.