CHANGE FOR THE BETTER

By Bayawanon

Change is good if it is for the better. Now, does the changes that are happening in the countryside for the better? Does the killings in connection to the obliteration of drugs for the better of the majority? Does the killings form part of DISCIPLINE which the people actually need nowadays?

Of course KILLING is not a form of DISCIPLINE, for how can a bad man change if he's already dead? How can a dead man change for the better? I hope the state would make some steps in reforming the society by not resorting to violence and I hope further that the government would respect human rights, since according to former Senator Jose Wright Diokno he said and I quote that "human rights are legal concepts, deny them and you deny man's humanity".

The state must also observe the constitutional rights of every Filipino citizen which is embodied in the BILL OF RIGHTS of the Philippine Constitution and respect the same, for we are living in a government of laws and not of men, thus I expect to have a more humane and law leaning change that would happen in the next months or years to come in our fair motherland.

There is no problem with change if it is done in consonance with the existing laws, public morals, public health and public policy. Much more that there is no problem with it if we are building and not destroying communities out of it, since we don't have to destroy in order to build.

Changing the society for goodness sake by way of killing the drug addicts and drug pushers is not a genuine change, for one cannot solve a problem by doing another problem. The true change that we are expecting is that change that effects reforms by way of peace, compassion, camaraderie and team role playing. Change by way of violence would not make any good as we would all learn from history.

The people should and must have a role for the genuine change that we are looking for. That can be possible by being vigilant against crime, corruption and human rights violation. The people must stop cheering the state in its so-called purging against the people who are involved in the drug trade, since the same is a synonym of mass killings and condoning the same would make one accountable on the judgment day.

In connection to this, the government must reconsider it's WAR ON DRUGS which is coupled with executions outside of legal avenues, revise the same and inculcate discipline to all so that CHANGE can be had in its true sense.