There is an injustice in our justice system and it hurts me that an innocent child has lost his chance for life. Anti-terror bill is anti-poor. It shows no compassion to the people who seeks justice for the betterment of our nation. Speaking up doesn't make you a terrorist.
Courtrooms filled with different types of people with different backgrounds are something that we do not witness in our daily lives, unless, we are players laying our cards on the court. Behind every case that takes place in there are back stories of an offender, an eye witness, the defendant, the attorneys and the Judge who is the most powerful person inside the room.
Innocent until proven guilty—This is a basic principle of Law and for some reason, the basic Accountancy mantra rings in my head: Never assume unless otherwise stated. When you accuse someone guilty when in fact, he is not guilty is wrong in so many ways. When you act based on pure assumptions is a mess waiting to happen. You see, the thing about basic principles is most of the time, they are not that easy to apply in real life to begin with. Admit it or not, we are all guilty of being judgemental and impulsive and these two combined together is a dangerous case. Drugs, murders, felony and every cases that involves influential families always lead to collateral damage of the unfavored families who are just in the wrong place and at the wrong time. When Oppression disguised as Legal proceedings take place, a lot of powerless people will be the sacrificial lambs to satisfy the hunger of those unjust yet powerful wolves that destroy everything that goes in their way.
The poor needs the wealthy, and the wealthy needs the poor. A simple message of the class theory that eats up my hope for our justice system because from the way I see it, the justice system in the Philippines is not that just after all. This is a case to case basis but ultimately, the poor class is subject to oppression while the privileged just gets away from their wrongdoings.
They say money is the root of all evil, but for me, it starts from a person's attitude. Just by looking someone with your lustful eyes is already a sin and that doesn't require money but the choice to treat someone without respect and violate their rights. Attitude drives our goals, and our goals drive our actions. Dirty money is just the easiest way to come clean.
During this administration, you are lucky if you belong to the top pinnacle of the society. Must be nice to have an eye to eye contact with the powerful lawbreakers disguised as lawmakers. The defendant without proper knowledge about law and enough resources to afford their own lawyers is easily accused to be guilty with unreasonable doubt. The reality slaps us that it is really 'guilty until proven innocent' for most of us being looked down by those on the top. No matter how hard we try to hope that equality is not just a fantasy, we can never change the fact that the Justice favors those who ignite the fire that burns the poor and gives warmth to the privileged.
Those unjust people with silver spoons in their mouth don't easily admit how rusty their attitude is. Those considered deprived of sparkling spoon receive the punishment for the crumbs of others and sometimes, what happens is that the justices they are fighting for are swept under the rug because they will never be the priority. This is the reality of our country. As our mind only selects important memories and informations, same goes with our justice system, they only remember what they are paid to remember. They are easily persuaded by the authority and elite who can afford to jumble the witness' words, make up a new story and provide fake evidences just to get rid of the possibility of them being jailed as they should be.
No matter what happens, my faith and hope only lies to our Just God. He is the judge who will listen to the oppressed and provide the justice and favor as we cry out to Him. We can only rest our case to the Most Powerful One who will never let us suffer from injustices we do not deserve.
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