Miriam’s another paranoia towards genuine help to Ondoy’s victims

Miriam’s another paranoia towards genuine help to Ondoy’s victims

With the gloomy devastation brought by the onslaught of typhoon Ondoy, Filipinos are welcoming every help they can receive from individuals and institutions, both Filipino and foreign. Ondoy’s victims are not left alone as sincere help continue to pour in from everyone around the globe. All Filipinos are overwhelming with appreciation. All, except one. Yes, she is Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago, whose paranoia overrules her compassion for the victims and appreciation to those who genuinely help.

It’s the worst thing that a Filipino politician can do. While she is in the comfort of her home and office, Miriam is again casting motive where there is none, finding ghosts and shadows where there is only unalloyed humanitarian gesture.

Miriam sees dark conspiracies around her and views the VFA with strings attached, People see humanitarian gestures, pure motives, unsullied gestures.

According to accounts, members of the 3rd US Marine Expeditionary Force are on a medical mission in the Ondoy-ravaged areas. In Marikina City alone, some 100 GIs or American soldiers are attending to about 1,000 patients a day.

Two more US military units–31st Marine Expeditionary Unit and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, both stationed in Okinawa, Japan–will have arrived by this time, bringing with them heavy equipment to help in the cleanup of the disaster areas. Such equipment include a bulldozer, five cargo trucks, five heavy transport vehicles and two heavy-lift helicopters.

Only somebody with a twisted mind will shout to the world that there is a vicious motive behind the US’ gesture of help because it is, to her, a springboard for the American troops who will help in the relief and rehabilitation work to stay in the Philippines for good.

To Miriam, the real motive behind the humanitarian mission of these US troops is so they could possibly go to Mindanao on the sly and mount an assault on the Abu Sayyaf to avenge the deaths of two American soldiers who were killed in a rebel-orchestrated bomb explosion in Sulu.

No one casts motive on the help and assistance rendered by do-gooders, even if they are foreigners or politicians. At this point, Ondoy victims need all the help they can get.

The only one grating voice, seemingly unmoved by the great human tragedy around her, is Miriam.

What is happening to this Senator? Has she been lately drinking a number of liquors that her mind and right senses cannot anymore contain resulting to her irrationality, delusion and persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat?

The upcoming 2010 elections will dictate Miriam’s fate in the world of politics. The election will hopefully serve as Miriam’s day of reckoning. She has inflicted so much harm to innocent people and institutions. The voters in May should say “Enough” to her very destructive antics.

Much of the poison well in the country’s political discussions has been the work of Miriam. There should be a collective, conscious effort to reject her Senate run in 2010.