Are we angry enough?

Drum rolls. Everyday we hear about young people going to the streets, even going out of their classrooms to protest against these oil prices hikes. Ibon Foundation just found out that we're being schemed at by giant oil companies, charging 12 pesos per liter more than they should.

Of course we know that. And it's being done to us almost everyday by this government since it started its illegal occupation of Malacanang.

The thing that I would like to point today is this--are we angry enough?

I say this because, unlike other controversy, this one hits right straight in our faces. Every week, we're being punched in the nose by giant oil companies reportedly wanting to recover their losses. Yet, we see those television ads running by the millions each day. Yet, we find this quite normal.

We sit as coach potatoes, listening to all those stuff being ranted about by militants and we find ourselves watching those ads which we actually pay for by our hard-earned monies. Hey, are we being masochists?

We get angry when cab drivers don't give us exact change but we never even bother to ask why government is getting at least 300 or 400 pesos everytime we fill up those gas tanks. I mean, come on, are we that stupid?

Government is scheming all over us yet we seem so helpless, so lame, so like sheep waiting to be slaughtered. Are we getting our money's worth for government services which seem so distant, so discordant and so overpriced?

Why are we putting those helmets when we hear those shouts of protest? Why are we going around about when there seems to be very serious problems waiting for solutions?

Are we waiting for heaven's fire to consume us first before we even rise up and start rehearsing those vocal cords?