Threat to National Security: The People

The police and the military are now fully mobilized to shield the very politicians accused of monumental corruption. As citizens prepare to protest this betrayal of public trust, the state refuses to respond with dialogue or reform, choosing intimidation instead.

And yet, where are the voices that once cried “fascism” at every turn? Where are the leftist groups who, under a previous administration, freely staged rallies, burned effigies, and denounced tyranny without fear of reprisal? Back then, Duterte allowed them to humiliate him, and their dissent was not only tolerated, it was granted space, amplified, even romanticized with the constant participation of the liberal senators and the noisy leftist politicians. Oh, yes, they're back again. But instead of rallying against the current corrupt Congress, they are still ferociously barking at the former government that doesn't exist anymore. Ridiculous, but true. For cinematic effect, they stage a mild rumble with the police that doesn't really amount to anything, because they are all in this jigsaw puzzle together.

It seems that the gathering of angry people who have had enough of corruption is the threat to national security, and not the politicians who steal trillions from the national budget.

Why the sudden amnesia of those who once claimed to speak for justice? Has the machinery of suppression grown so vast that even rebels, police, religious sects, and soldiers now march in lockstep to defend the powerful from the powerless?