More Bark Than Bite

I’ve been watching the drama unfold in the Senate regarding Manny Villar’s ethics case and it got me wandering that all these people do is blab about the issue without taking any action at all. Not only that, these people often try to discredit each other by relieving their pasts and getting side tracked from the actual issue.

Take for example Sen. Pres. Enrile and Sen. Pimentel, both were at each other’s throats that they often reminisce each other’s past during Martial Law that they forgot the reason why they were there in the first place. It has already been months since Jamby Madrigal complained about the C5 road extension project and until now they were just starting with the preliminary investigation. These senate investigations are taking more time because these people often try to be the lead characters of a teleserye that after a while, it gets irritating.

If I was one of those in the spotlight of the investigation, I would’ve been able to fabricate my defense and get away with it because these people do is talk and talk nonsense.

Looking at their past investigations, I don’t think that any of these people are really sincere with their work. We often see them conduct their investigation on major issues like the NBN-ZTE Deal and the Fertilizer Fund Scam, the media arrests in the Mania Peninsula siege, and many more investigations that we often see on TV and talk about----- but out of all their hearings and investigations on the issues, how many people do you think have been prosecuted?

Without focusing on one issue, they often jump to the next issue without closing the first one, and all you get is these partial revelations that you would doubt if it were true or not.

As we have often seen on TV lately, the famous Hayden Kho sex scandal has been the center of attention this past week. Instead of continuing with the debate on Villar, they will open another investigation on this case. Then if another issue pops up, they will conduct another hearing with that issue. What happens to the other cases currently being investigated? Are they stored back in the archives until a new “evidence” pops up?

While we’re on the Hayden Kho issue, I would like to make a point about the sex scandal. Why is it that the congress are more concerned with this issue than more important once like the CARP extension?

I’ve been hearing a lot about the plights of these farmers and how they were treated with water cannons yesterday. I sympathize with these farmers because they only want to benefit from the land they’ve toiled in for years. But to be treated like that because the congress does not mind them is rather harsh.

I know that the senators were saying about these women being scandalized by the sex videos, but we know better that they were only there para makisakay and not really to protect women’s rights. If they really care about the issue then they should’ve done that a long, long time ago when it first became known to people.

I remember the debate a few weeks ago in Ateneo where only a few presidentiables attended the debate, the others who did not attend were interviewed by the media and said that that debate was a good thing and that it should be repeated again to let the public know who they were voting for. These people who were interviewed were the very same people who nakisakay with the Hayden Kho Scandal! They did not really cared about the issue; they just said that to gain publicity.

It feels like they are all bark and no bite. I only wish that there are people who would be serious enough to investigate and to prosecute these corrupt people in order to clean the government of its century old sickness.