Everyone’s angry at the Filipino right now. Even Filipinos are angry at themselves. And who can blame them, really.

The whole thing is a clusterfuck of ugliness and incompetence, with a generous amount of insensitivity on the side. I fear it’ll forever be a stain on the name of the Pinoy.

In the same way that we were a model of how to stage a bloodless revolution, we’ll now be held as a dark example of how wrong law enforcers and the media can be; how easily common sense and simple decency can be tossed aside in favor of big ratings and souvenir pictures.

It’s really a sad and very messy situation. Now I even hear conspiracy theories sprouting up, mostly to the tune of discrediting the current administration. Whether they are true or not remains to be seen. But if past experience of living in this country has taught me anything, it’s that justice is slow and oftentimes painful.

The people responsible must be held culpable, of course, but as Bob Ong put it, the most important thing right now is to move forward. It would be a big mistake to be sucked into the trap of self-flagellation for too long while awaiting the results of all the investigations ongoing.

We can only say sorry so many times.