Adelle Chua always says the words for me. Yes, this is good faith and this is bad faith. Read and understand. The President is supposed to address the nation today about the DAP. We look forward to hearing what he has to say. We hope he won’t take the path taken by his spokespersons in the past few days. We need a President who is resolute and headstrong, but also humble and open to constructive advice if necessary. Nobody is perfect —we never expected him to be. Good faith is a nebulous concept that can be invoked by anyone. There is no scientific way to prove or disprove it, like the way you would use DNA evidence to link a suspect to a crime. Good faith works because it assumes every person is inherently good and not evil. But the claim of good faith will stand or fail depending on the person who makes it. What do his previous and subsequent actions say? What don’t they? * * * There should be no issue with providing detainees all the medical attention they need. We are, after all, a humane society. A person’s detention does not strip him or her of the right to health. But these hospitalization issues strike an angry chord among our people because we see and we know that such basic right is not made available to all other detainees. Thus, it becomes a class thing—those who are rich and powerful get by, while those who are not suffer in silence. There was for instance a woman who was arrested while pregnant and was denied pre-natal care while in jail. Right before giving birth, she started experiencing pregnancy-related problems but was not brought to the hospital soon enough. Her baby lived only a few days—her photo holding the small corpse was just too heartbreaking. She was also only given a few hours to attend the baby’s wake. But that was Andrea Rosal, the daughter of New People’s Army spokesman “Ka Roger” Rosal. (Kidnapping and murder charges against her had since been dismissed by a Pasig Court.) At least we got to know her story. What about thousands of others who may have died or seen their illnesses worsen just because they don’t have any clout at all to ask for medical attention? Others who live and get sick and die without anybody knowing about how they suffered, whose stories we don’t even hear? It’s the inequality here that screams “bad faith.”
Posted on: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 08:57:32 +0000
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