A country by any other law

National integrity and prosperity through Charter Change is a myth, a trace of the powerful's superstition or rather, desperation to (how ironically) remain in the status quo than forward the nation into a change in all aspects. Furthermore, should Gloria be removed from Malacañan and the office be occupied by another, it does not either follow that it is high time for the reintroduction of Cha-cha. Why is this?

Corruption is a plague. Once a virus infects a lymph, a people with as weak a resistance to let us say power would easily yield to its infection just like any leader else. How I have witnessed Filipinos in their most inexcusably crooked ways, from student groups to businesses and other organizations, to party lists and NGOs and politicians. Almost everyone of them are infected with the ambitions of power and wealth, and this has convinced me how our problem turned out to be; that we lack not of a moral leader, but of a moral people. For where does vicious, immoral and predatory presidents and congressmen come from? Where else but of course, from a vicious, immoral and predatory people.

A corrupt nation by any other law is still a corrupt nation, just as a thief in any other coat remains a thief. It doesn't change anything if the character remains the same. If children are taught to bully and to brag, if students are trained to boost their high selfish ambitions instead of training them to be just and offer a hand to their fellows; the makings of future tyrants are done.

We must work from below all the way to the top. We must not rally in the streets yelling for change while leaving out our responsibility to our children and our families, escaping from our obligation to teach them to become honest followers of the law and good implementors of public will. Our efforts only incite violence.

The honor and dignity brought by human integrity is superior to everything else, and have I failed in this, my most preferrable answer to myself is death.#