For the past month(s), election fraud scandals swept our country. The Philippine President was supposedly caught on an illegally wiretapped conversation ordering an underling to tamper with the election results. Whether it is true or not isn't significant in my opinion. The Philippine Constitution states that wiretapping is illegal unless they are authorized by a court order. It also states that illegally acquired evidences are inadmissible in any court.

You know your country has hit rock bottom when your own legislators vote on whether they should break the law or not. I sat there and listened as 213 congressmen/women voted "Yes the tape is admissable as evidence even though it was illegally acquired" because "the people are demanding for the truth."

The Constitution has been reduced to nothing but mere toilet paper. For the sake of public interest, of course. Apparently, the demands of the masses and popularity points are more important than protecting our Constitution. Even more apparent is that Congressmen can break the laws they made themselves whenever they want to pander to the greatest common, and often ignorant, denominator.

How disheartening it is to have the fact that lawbreakers and criminals are ruling this nation rubbed against your face so very thoroughly.

I thought that no matter how bad things get, I'll always be proud to be a Pilipino. I was wrong. Right now, I am ASHAMED to be a Pilipino. Ashamed of this country and its people. I have always looked at the Philippine flag with pride and thought the Americans are extremely stupid for wanting to have the right to burn their own flag. Now, I can't even bear to look at it.

At the end of the day though, everyone but members of the Communist Party of the Philippines should be giddy with joy. The Philippines has finally achieved true democracy: the rule of the majority unhindered by law.