Murder most foul
NO, MARIANNET Amper did not commit suicide. She was murdered.
Hers were not the hands that tightened the noose around her neck. Hers was not the will that shoved her to hang herself.
For a 12-year old to even contemplate of taking her life is truly a rarity, a near impossibility. An “isolated instance” as a Malacanang factotum said.
But it happened. And it can, nay, will happen again. The elements that conspired in the murder of Mariannet free to inflict their heinous crime anew with the utmost impunity: a government that gives premium value to economic statistics as though people never mattered, a society that celebrates sosyal ostentation and numbs its senses to its social responsibility, a Church that preaches long but practices short its mission of “preferential option for the poor.”
Yes, dummy, the Church, the government and society make not just the usual suspects but the indicted murderers of Mariannet.
As Mariannet and her family scrimped to survive, where was society, especially that which tagged itself “civil” and purported to have all the answers to the nation’s ills? Where was the Church – in this bitter case of irony, the Church that consecrated herself to Mary utterly failing to care for this one “Little Child of Mary”? Ain’t that what Mariannet means, your Eminences and Excellencies?
And the government?
Ah, so busy in overachieving its targets for the nation’s prosperity. Why, the peso just surged to a seven-year high of 42.79 to the now not-so-almighty dollar. Exports grew 4.7% to $4.37B in September from a year ago, so the National Statistics Office trumpeted. Inflation? It’s been ages since we heard the word. Unemployment? Why, there’s a call center just around the corner, or a nursing home abroad.
Not even the increase in the pump price of petroleum products can outsoar the spirits of the Arroyo administration on the wings of its economic achievements.
Not even the botched national broadband network deal and the resultant bribery scandal, not even the Palace payola to Panlilio and some other politicos can mar the Arroyo administration’s feel-good-look-good image of itself.
Given then the prevailing prosperity in the land – according to the glorious gospel of GMA, that lonely death in Davao makes indeed an “isolated” case?
This administration has truly lost most miserably not only its sense of propriety but its humane sensitivity.
The death of Mariannet is a national tragedy that shows the emptiness of the peso valuation and all those economic indicators. Her holocaust in the most unholy altar of poverty is a national shame that bares the nothingness of this government’s trumpeted achievements.
Many, many more Mariannets will be thrown in as sacrifice to the great Moloch unless this government wakes up to reality, this society unclothes itself of its vanity, and this Church unfrocks itself of its hypocrisy?
Hers were not the hands that tightened the noose around her neck. Hers was not the will that shoved her to hang herself.
For a 12-year old to even contemplate of taking her life is truly a rarity, a near impossibility. An “isolated instance” as a Malacanang factotum said.
But it happened. And it can, nay, will happen again. The elements that conspired in the murder of Mariannet free to inflict their heinous crime anew with the utmost impunity: a government that gives premium value to economic statistics as though people never mattered, a society that celebrates sosyal ostentation and numbs its senses to its social responsibility, a Church that preaches long but practices short its mission of “preferential option for the poor.”
Yes, dummy, the Church, the government and society make not just the usual suspects but the indicted murderers of Mariannet.
As Mariannet and her family scrimped to survive, where was society, especially that which tagged itself “civil” and purported to have all the answers to the nation’s ills? Where was the Church – in this bitter case of irony, the Church that consecrated herself to Mary utterly failing to care for this one “Little Child of Mary”? Ain’t that what Mariannet means, your Eminences and Excellencies?
And the government?
Ah, so busy in overachieving its targets for the nation’s prosperity. Why, the peso just surged to a seven-year high of 42.79 to the now not-so-almighty dollar. Exports grew 4.7% to $4.37B in September from a year ago, so the National Statistics Office trumpeted. Inflation? It’s been ages since we heard the word. Unemployment? Why, there’s a call center just around the corner, or a nursing home abroad.
Not even the increase in the pump price of petroleum products can outsoar the spirits of the Arroyo administration on the wings of its economic achievements.
Not even the botched national broadband network deal and the resultant bribery scandal, not even the Palace payola to Panlilio and some other politicos can mar the Arroyo administration’s feel-good-look-good image of itself.
Given then the prevailing prosperity in the land – according to the glorious gospel of GMA, that lonely death in Davao makes indeed an “isolated” case?
This administration has truly lost most miserably not only its sense of propriety but its humane sensitivity.
The death of Mariannet is a national tragedy that shows the emptiness of the peso valuation and all those economic indicators. Her holocaust in the most unholy altar of poverty is a national shame that bares the nothingness of this government’s trumpeted achievements.
Many, many more Mariannets will be thrown in as sacrifice to the great Moloch unless this government wakes up to reality, this society unclothes itself of its vanity, and this Church unfrocks itself of its hypocrisy?
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