If there was any reason why I once wanted the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) abolished -- it's because of Etta Rosales' bad performance. But right now, the REAL problem is not the CHR itself but having useless people such as herself, Leila De Lima and currently Chito Gascon run it. It's a waste of taxpayers' money when government agencies don't do their job. Just right now -- I feel the need to lambast Rosales' stupidity and selective justice. True, if Imelda Romualdez-Marcos is really guilty of the seven out of ten graft cases where one uses political positions for personal gains then so be it. Unfortunately, has Rosales ever considered OTHER human rights violations?
The problem of the whole Aquino vs. Marcos narrative (and false dichotomy) is hiding the atrocities done by both sides. I don't want to deny that some martial law victims are indeed martial law victims. Yet, I was thinking that some people have learned to move on rather than to victimize the whole family for what they didn't do. Unfortunately, Rosales as she's a member of the Akbayan or Anak Ng Bayan activist group -- a pseudo-nationalist, pseudo-democracy communist group that has long plagued the country with stupidity similar to that of Bayan Muna.
How can Rosales be guilty of partisan politics and selective justice? Why is she too obsessed with the Marcoses? Shouldn't personal feelings be put aside in one's work regardless of what happened? True, if she were a martial law victim -- she has the right to talk about it. However, she seems to be enjoying her victim status rather than wanting to overcome it. Is it me or is she one of the biggest poster people in the Philippines for the victim card mentality? The whole obsession with Marcos has even her discriminating Marcoses and the Romualdezes because of their relations to both Ferdinand E. Marcos Sr. and Imelda Marcos. Rather than get over her victim status -- she somehow chooses to wallow in it. She's already 80 years old yet she still hasn't grown any wiser in her old age!
If you're going to talk about upholding human rights then it should be non-partisan. True, the Marcos years human rights can't be denied but that doesn't make your status as a human rights victim an excuse to be pathetic and stupid. There are also two types of victims -- one victim who chooses to remain a victim or a victim who chooses to be a victor. The situation of some Marcos years victims who have moved on don't deny that it happened -- but they don't let it affect them! On the other hand, Rosales is just like those poor people who choose to be victims or wallow in their misery. It's just like those poor people who choose to remain poor so they can continue to enjoy whatever "privileges" there are rather than work hard so they can get over their victim status.
After all, isn't sourgraping and victim mentality another reason why young people join communist groups in the Philippines? I guess that's why Rosales joined the Akbayan Partylist to start with. Isn't it the aim of communist idiots to have a welfare state in asking for the impossible. People like her have kept the Philippines backwards because of idiotic fantasies such as national self-industrialization, the dream of ending labor export without opening the Philippines to foreign investment or their impossible desire to lower prices while increasing salaries because production costs also include salaries. Besides, she did deserve her arrest during martial law. The only people who should have been released from jail are those who were wrongfully jailed -- not people like her and the members of activist troublemaking groups.
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