July 22, 2005
Manila Standard Today
Dear Editor:
The truth hurts. Is it any wonder political lies have been pleasant, and religious lies have been even more pleasant?
I ask: why is it that politics in cahoots with religion have nothing to do with the truth?
In the Philippines, however, in order to find the truth behind government lies and deception and corruption – a “Truth Commission” must first be established with the inspired proposal from the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.
In the meantime, if there were only one plain truth so glaringly obvious in our sick society, it is that as products of our schools, colleges, and universities we do not love our flowers and plants and trees. We do not love our creeks and rivers and lakes. We do not love our mountains and forests and islands. As a matter of fact, we do not love our country. We do not even love fellow-Filipinos. We only love God up there by hating one another down here.
For my part, as a Filipino born in the Philippines, I love the truth that I was expelled out of high school in De La Salle University. Indeed, I vehemently refused to continue to believe my silly teachers who were far more in love with what’s useless and divine up there than what is useful and human down here.
Sincerely,
Poch Suzara
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