It has been a perpetual theme: sacrifice is the greatest act of love and loyalty that anyone can do.
With this in mind, I can’t help but ask myself how much love these two “good dogs” have for their bosses; how loyal they are to the god who feeds their mouths (as well as their bellies).
Can you just imagine a PNP general, once feared by his subordinates, accepting the entire fault? What’s more amusing is his "heroic act" of accepting all the tomatoes, stones, and everything pelted upon him, his wife, and the rest of the Euro generals. How noble. But if he thinks his act would lead him to be buried in the Libingan ng mga Bayani in Taguig, he’s dead wrong. Soon, we would see dela Paz buried under his poorly constructed lies and alibis.
An even more “classic” type of martyrdom is Bolante’s, which could even outlast that of the GOMBURZA or the Trece Martirez—at least in the eyes of his boss, the one who led him to the road to perdition.
I can’t imagine where he got such nerves to act as if he’s as innocent as a child—where in fact, his acting and dialogue are poorly rehearsed. Nobody was happy and nobody believed his claims about his innocence. More importantly, nobody believed that his boss has nothing to do with it.
Somehow, I also pity these two people, because it’s also possible that they would like to expose the people behind it, but they just can’t make themselves and their families the target of their boss’s bounty hunters.
Technically speaking, they may think that they are winning this game, but later on, they’ll realize (if they still have a conscience) how wrong it is to steal the money of the republic; how evil it is to use the supposed funds for projects beneficial to the Filipino people, in favor of their personal motives.
In Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky espouses that the mind of the criminal would eventually torment him, and that is the greatest punishment anyone could receive.
This is the way to the truth: the hard way.
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