Flag issues
Thank you, Dick Gordon, for providing me an easier topic to write about. I’ve been attempting to return to active blogging for quite some time now but most of the issues I consider worthy of doing so are also quite… sensitive. I couldn’t even begin writing for fear – yes, fear – of being called at the outset by Noynoy’s fanboys that I’m either a “pakawala” of the Palace or downright Evil, since de Quiros has basically declared Cory’s Only Son as the embodiment of Good and everyone else not behind him as Satan’s little imps.

An eloquent defiance to Terror
Terror as a policy tool is meant to destroy its target as much from the inside as from outside. The deaths, the horror at lives lost or much reduced (in the case of those who survived but are horribly maimed, emotionally as well as physically), may have been the “immediate” target but Terror is as much strategic in its goals as it is tactical in its targeting. A battle done on an open field between contending armies can shatter morale, at best, of a whole armed force, even a nation, but morale is something that can be recovered; Dunkirk and its aftermath showed us that. Terror, on the other hand, seeks to drive a dolorous blow to the very soul of the society