Diminishing democratic space

Diminishing democratic space

With almost everybody, except perhaps to authoritarian regimes like Burma saying that human rights are being run roughshod in our beloved Pinas by the spate of extra-judicial killings and political persecution by the GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO Administration, our democratic space have been diminished to the minutest.

Economic opportunities are slacking and lacking. About twenty or thirty years ago, a hundred thousand Pinoys going out of the country for that proverbial green fields is already called a MASSIVE BRAIN DRAIN.

Now twenty seven years or so after Martial Law, we have a Justice Secretary who denies that the more than 800 lives and counting of political activists and journalists sumarily executed by hooded motorcycle-riding human beings are not summary execution by but are merely "unexplained murders or execution." Pray hell on high waters, this official is not denigrating into the abyss of his once brilliant mind that those responsible of killing fellow Filipinos for their political beliefs are aliens.

Our democratic space after Martial Law have been diminished largely due to one person's intent at self-preservation after serious allegation had been hurled forward about her winning legitimately as the president of beloved Pilipinas in 2007. Now she thinks that killing her political opponents is fair game. And anybody who thinks she did not win in the 2004 presidential election are targets like lameducks worth only an assasins bullet.