Truth can wait — but not forever VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 06/10/2010

Truth can wait — but not forever

VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 06/10/2010 Objective truth has some features that liars and thieves, frauds grafters and similarly other vicious and odious characters, will do well to remember — knowing fully well that their corrupt and corrupting legacy adversely affects not only themselves but their descendants as well. In fact, even if they are six feet below the ground, their gross and scandalous misdeeds, continue to haunt them still. This is no movie but reality, not mere moral gymnastics but historical certainty. In other words, truth can wait — but not forever. The rather well-known big crooks and villains in the present Philippines society, especially those supposedly occupying high and sensitive offices in government but instead prove to be callous and obnoxious, so-called “public officials” can be, and are being exonerated one by one from their heinous sins against the good and welfare of the Filipinos in general. The more powerful and influential they have been in the past decade or so, the more covetous and greedy they became, and more above the law they remain to this writing. The overall result of the above compound and complex decadent governance is already nauseous to listen to and disgusting to think about: Poverty and misery. Discrimination and criminality. Ignorance and despair. And the sorrowful litany goes on and on.  But over and above all these social ills are the lamentable phenomenon of the much eroded dignity of the human person — together with the consequent depreciation of basic human rights, which is one big bad piece of news! But again, it would be a huge folly for those concerned in the socio-political and pursuant economic degradation of the country to even but think that they could get away with it all — now and ever. Whether they subscribe to it or not, sooner or later, their distorted value system and consequent sick behavior pattern will eventually face and succumb to the fearsome force of truth, and thereby bow down to the imperative of justice. No! This is not necessarily about the hereafter and beyond — but even in the here and now.... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100610com5.html

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