STUPID is knowing the truth, seeing the truth, but still believing the lies. And that’s what we’re going to be talking about, stupidity at its best and here we go…
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The Ramon Q. Avanceña Hall of Justice or more popularly known as the “Iloilo Hall of Justice” has been closed down since Thursday last week for disinfection and will open today, Monday, because a certain lawyer who is COVID-19 positive attended a court hearing.
You would have thought that as a lawyer he would have the common sense to observe and practice the basic protocols, i.e. wear facemask, face shield, and disinfect/wash his hands and social distancing.
I suppose being a lawyer is no excuse to being stupid.
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And then we have this priest, Lipa Archbishop Emeritus Ramon Arguelles, who said in his homily that “Filipinos need not protect themselves from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by wearing facemasks and shields and practice social distancing because God’s love is all they need.”
Indeed, if Filipinos do not protect themselves from the virus COVID-19 as what the “good” bishop is saying, then in no time at all they will be either with God or the devil, of course subject to how they have lived their earthly lives and not necessarily how much they donated to the church prior to being stricken down and dying from COVID-19.
Just because you’re a priest or a bishop does not exempt you from being stupid.
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Maria Ressa and her Rappletes have been saying – and as expected echoed by the Frappuccino-infused trendy social-climbing millennials a.k.a. wokes that getting crushed dolomites (particularly the ones in Manila Bay) into your eyes, ingesting and inhaling them are harmful to your health and sometimes fatal.
Which brings this question: Why, when these idiots go to the beach, do they rub the crushed dolomite into their eyes, eat them or perhaps snort them? Because if you do that, then definitely it will get into your eyes, your stomach and your lungs.
Quite a far cry from normal people when they go to the beach, they usually admire the “white sand” , walk around and take pictures, you know, the boring stuff regular people do. So the chances of them getting it into their eyes, inhaling and ingesting the “white sand” or crushed dolomite is almost nil.
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This one, however, really takes the cake. Excerpts from an article on the Sept. 23, 2020 issue of the Manila Bulletin:
A museum and memorial dedicated to honoring the victims of state violence and oppression during the 14-year period of martial law under President Ferdinand Marcos is the flagship project of the Human Rights Violations Victims’ Memorial Commission (HRVVMC).
The Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013 apportioned P500 million for the museum and memorial. The implementation of the Act comes from a P10-billion fund, which is primarily drawn from the ill-gotten wealth of President Marcos and his family that was transferred to the Philippine government by virtue of the Dec. 10, 1997 decision of the Swiss Federal Supreme Court.
Using the perverted logic of the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” and other idiots including Leni Robredo, P500 million will buy a lot of rice…bigas at hindi museum, let me take it a bit further. That money can buy a lot of laptops for the Department of Education’s online schooling program. And why build a museum during a pandemic? The money can buy a lot of PPEs, build a COVID-19 testing center and quarantine centers.
These “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” are nothing but a third-rate copycat. Their “martial law” museum is a poor imitation of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The temerity of implying that martial law in the Philippines has any resemblance to the holocaust that happened in Europe during World War 2 wherein six million Jews were slaughtered by Adolf Hitler’s Nazi regime is stretching it a bit too far, there is no resemblance whatsoever.
For instance, Adolf Hitler was supported by the Pope and the Vatican; there were no cattle trains, not even buses, that transported the so-called martial law victims to concentration camps to be slaughtered in gas chambers.
That museum is the only flagship project of the Commission on Human Rights, a most useless government agency that from its inception has only espoused and promoted the politics of the Aquino family and the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon”.
That museum is testament to this because the centerpiece exhibit is devoted entirely to the made-up hero of the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon”, that Malaysian and certain Marcial Bonifacio who was shot at the airport now bearing his pseudonym “Ninoy Aquino”.
If martial law is so intrinsically evil, then why it is still in the 1987 so-called Cory constitution? In fact, martial law is just a legal instrument of the State to defend itself.
What would do justice to the natives of these islands is to build alongside the martial law museum a museum to showcase the atrocities, killings and abuses of the New People’s Army, bearing in mind that it was the main reason martial law was declared in the first place./PN
