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Søren Kierkegaard, the Danish philosopher who once defended faith precisely because it is absurd, would totally appreciate the actions of the current administration by GMA. In fact, the basic premise of Absurdism, that the efforts of humanity to find meaning in the universe will ultimately fail because no such meaning exists (at least in relation to humanity), applies perfectly to what GMA and her dogs at the Department of “Justice” are doing, because it is nothing if not the purest form of the absurd.

Take the Inciting to Sedition charges leveled against Tribune publisher and editor-in-chief, Ninez Cacho-Olivares, Ike Señeres and Herman Tiu Laurel as a f’rinstance: it’s been an issue since before last year, particularly when GMA issued Decree… err… Proclamation 1017. Hell, they even had the gall to raid the Tribune offices. It’s absurd because we still call our government a democracy, and that we once prided ourselves on the fact that our Press was the free-est in Asia. It’s absurd, because the articles Cacho-Olivares wrote that were supposed to be inciting the people to sedition are dated 2005 and 2006. It’s absurd, because, if the Tribune chief was inciting anything, how come, two effin’ years later, she’s still in Malacañang? The absurdity is best illustrated by Cacho-Olivares herself:

Why indeed. Precisely because it is absurd.

More absurdity

Malacañang has refused to furnish the European Union and the United Nations Commission on Human Rights’ special rapporteur a copy of the findings of the Melo Commission, insisting that the report on extrajudicial killings was still incomplete. Retired Supreme Court Justice Jose Melo says otherwise. It was GMA who made a big show of calling upon the good graces of the EU and UN to investigate the killings. That they are now blocking UN Special Rapporteur Philip Alston from doing his job seems almost to go beyond absurd: it’s diabolical.

I wonder what Mr. Alston is thinking right about now. He’s being looked upon as a savior of sorts by many of the victims’ families, a dispenser of justice from on high. And that’s just absurd. Or it would be, if we had a decent and just administration. And it pisses me off that we once again have to call upon the kindness of strangers to sort out our mess for us, not unlike the little brother “making sumbong” to his parents because the big brother is a bully, which is precisely what GMA is. Mommy o, si Gloria.

Yet even more absurdity

Our “Justice” Secretary is Raul Gonzales. Now that’s absurd. Ladies and gentlemen, the country under GMA. Precisely because it is absurd.

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