Nothing Goes If You Hesitate

The Influential and Injustice At their Hand

I remember the sweaty air when we came home. My eyeglasses covered with dust and I couldn’t have a good visual.  I was uneasy on a seat and it’s hard to clearly steer away from my ride inside the tight room of a tricycle.

A feeling swathe all over with only the sense when we can quickly rest and be recharged as we finally reached home.

It was not what you know later towards being received in a proper ambiance coming home.  How displeasing also awful because the tormentor rescinded our legal rights to go freely into our own  permanent home.

 My youngest son and I stood in a confused daze. The man gate locked with a solid chain. The preposterous scheme of the influential  :  does a harmful  injury be allowed, while rights to good access /free passage into your own home and freedom denied to you?

We couldn’t enter our own home. A hostile measure by fellow Catholics in our neighborhood---repeats of threats, harassment and orchestrated “injurious acts” which my family and other pedestrian neighbors have suffered.

My mind remembered   those gloomy times a number of us got the harsh intimidation and abuse from the control of the influential rich group where the administrator was also part and she got the instant position after disowning the previous good leader. She put in a lengthy term from 2005 till present.  

We objected the extended permanency of office of the autocratic officer out of delicadeza that reign over undemocratic power & authority! Even the President of the land has a fixed term of office or the High Justice of the SC now convicted.

I heard the easy vote was lacking of a proper quorum. The officer is being backed by an influential political family.

 I was puzzled the notable profile of most residents with stature as doctors, engineers, CPA’s, high business leaders couldn’t give a filial service for the community.  We need healthy-bodied, law-abiding and right men with good sense of moral right and wrong to commit in the security and support for our community.

The political Administrator is also not doing her job capably because she resides every weekdays, Mondays thru Fridays in Quezon City. She visits our community on Satudays & Sundays.

Leadership is a matter of quality of performance that should take care auspiciously, acquire or know the daily pressing duties: garbage and waste scattered within the vicinity, filth of animals/pets of homeowners who let them loose, crowded parking of cars congesting a narrow street that will be a danger in fire emergencies, water service and power interruption, squabbling of other neighbors, disaster-control due to emerging risks, security coordination with mother association etc.

Every loud grievance from voice of well-meaning pedestrian -neighbors was not heeded.

Many successive harassment followed at the same time the worst circumstances like no warnings given in changing keys and padlocks. The whole East gate was permanently closed and repaired by welding the contraption. I was bewildered that the national government resonated a Fire Code Law

Under existing laws which were ignored/ violated are expressed in bold through the Constitution described laws such as PD 1216 , PD 1185. It’s sticking to the law & principles of human right.

We have been unfairly treated being pedestrians mostly students,  working commuters,  sufferers of health emergencies, house helpers plus Eastside homeowners who got an offensive  treatment from the cruelty  that we became prey to arrogance --- disrespecting our individual liberties  and have been distressed with unlawful actions by the officers.

Likewise,  Batas Pambansa 344, otherwise known as the "Accessibility Law". Sec.  25. Barrier-Free Environment since our society gives rights to the handicapped and the elderly. I suffered a tibia fracture, knee injury and some homeowners have poor eyesight and afflicted with asthma as well as age-related deceases (memory gaps or absent-mindedness, fatigue and body weakness.)

That access is a road basic to students and commuting pedestrians in a rush daily and the family living near treating it as “fastest health emergency-fire-exit and our “Attendant passage” in our regular day-to-day life”

We are apprised also there are public institutions that should be accessible to plain citizens (public health center nearby, public police station, public barangay, school institutions and public tricycles  while on the other secured road there’s a public church or a safe road to use during floods)

 Are we backsliding the values of our democracy and laws when only the privileged members can enjoy the upper hand and control every individual freedom?

The gate and “key” is wholly a “form of human bondage” as my appeal is a simple journey when my own rights and those of others are safeguarded.  My education, my government and religion wired these teachings to avoid the frivolities when people are unfair to others. 

 I am pained they coerced less privileged members to weather the extreme threat of harsh climate as we lock and unlock the gate. Lately the circumstance on my health, simple freedom to enjoy the best of my “tomorrows” in spite of health issues failing eyesight and absent-mindedness in locating the key.

The spread of diseases from hand contact as we use the keys, padlock and touch the gate can put us to more health risks especially HiNi, meningococcemia, flu, colds and other contagious viruses. People agonized through their malicious action to put this harsh climate and offend our rights in these “gate and key / coercive climate.”

The privileged section in our street have the conveniences of high fences, several hired helpers, trained watch dogs, well-lighted community friendship lamp posts, DAY-GUARD detailed  in the west area and homes with CCTV ---these couldn’t still appease their paranoia and fear. They rather lived in enclosed tower and put a dysfunctional society without living together with the lowly /ordinary social class since they feel untouchables distancing from the hardworking low economic status in a society.  Don’t they regard natural calamities are more threatening than grubby street urchins.

We need a NIGHT GUARD very critical compared to a DAY GUARD that is enjoyed by administrator, her own circle of following.

 East gate problems have been seen according to officers as hotspot of intruders/strangers however a missing piece is there’s no assignment of a guard which the administrator claim this Eastside has a blackish image as a  crime spot. 

East Gate is the thoroughfare of pedestrian residents then a glut coming from passersby in nearby communities and plying tricycles of our village. 

The past experience of my  youngest son on July this year going on an errand to the store along (omitted place)drive Dulo, a crime almost killed his life but he kept running it’s good the gate was  open , if that was  closed the criminal could corner him at the gate.

The very dark Dulo-Drive road needs Meralco lighting as it becomes a hotspot for crimes. I wish the political leaders take cognizance police visibility and putting augmented security can resolve this perennial security risk.

If anyone can wonder (“care”an applicable word) that there’s more than ten inside a Christian community whose conditions and welfare are being offended/forsaken, would you selfishly walk away to disconnect and distance yourselves because you’re confined to your glass tower?

 How can anyone fail to see we ought to blend with everyone in a society (no social barrier) and set our sights human right for meaningful/sense of probity extends in our actions?

 Simple hardworking poor (the village magtataho,ice cream vendor, small-time vendors, service utility men (mail man etc) and poverty-stricken malnourished young scavengers are struggling and also need not be discriminated.

What I believe about injustice, the oppressor is willful to always put you in misery?  What I

believe in a good leader, he listens, he serves in humility? What I believe in competent police and

Municipal leaders, they should be protectors and be attuned to our needs?

SO I pray fervently everyone can be ablaze with grander life values when there’s equality and every right is respected. I wish it for my community

NEIGHBORHOOD UNITY –it’s a bright outlook.   All numbers/each & everyone are part of the solution in our security endeavors.

 This Philippine Independence day 2012, another threat landed during the eve when the Administrator sent a neighbor to inform three homes would be extracted out and the gate placed away from our homes. This would be a present and clear danger when high floods like Ondoy, Sendong and continues LPA affected us so our lives would come at risk since the gate is closed for fleeing to safe higher grounds.

 The influential need to listen: No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without finding the other end fastened about his own neck.  ~Frederick Douglas.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.  ~Abraham Lincoln .

In God’s own instruction:   "Tell those who are rich in this world's goods not to be proud, and not to rely on so uncertain a thing as wealth" (1 Tm 6:17).

Every Christian is to live simply. "Those things I used to consider gain I have now reappraised as loss in the light of Christ" (Phil 3:7). We have been chosen out of this world (Jn 15:19). Although we still live in the midst of plenty, we don't hold on to it.

Jesus warned “store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal” (Matt. 6:19).  Rather, we should store up treasure in heaven, “for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matt. 6:21)”

Would we waste human freedom and rights under our governing system mindless to  uphold every democratic laws?....injustice moves backward a society to inhuman discrimination and neo-sadism. A population in the low hierarchy gets the abuse of the influential…the bigots stained our system of human values.