Currently wasting my life in Southeast Asia's City of Angels, I cannot but fathom how come the rallying can keep going on even after blood has been spilled. Does the value of the human lives mean so little? Is it more important to be uphold what you think is a noble cause for greater good of a nation, than keeping steady and safe environment for the people?
The clashes between the Reds and the Authorities are really getting out of hand. I am stuck here, penning unwanted shallow thoughts, simply because it's not easy getting around this city if you rely on the public transportation system. The last time I went out, which was last night, a number of their train stations remain close.
It's bewildering. The places I went to while all these commotions are taking place, were just like normal. Everyone was shopping or promoting or chatting around. Roadside stalls were there, the customers were there. The taxis were there. The O-jets were there. The tuk-tuks were there. The traffic was there. If I had been so ignorant of the happenings, I would even laughed if someone told me that bloodshed happened just two nights ago.
The subtle indication that I witnessed when I was out and about last weekend was when I was a little too close to the shopping haven district. Then too, I only saw a handful of Reds passing by on bikes, trucks, or cars, some with flags, and some shouting some propagandas, I supposed.
Unfortunately, they left me with a very negative impression. It was a scene unlike back home, when sometimes, in the late night, you might see a group of intoxicated motorcyclist who don't have anything better to do than to roam the streets and act out, instilling unnecessary fear into other motorists and endangering others with their thoughtless antics as they treat the highways as their personal playground.
While it is not for me to decide, I really do hope that they would just back down, both sides. Agree on a truce. Whatever it is that they can come up with, I don't really care. How the lives were lost doesn't not matter to me. What matters is they were lost already. Your fight is irrelevant.
I don't feel sympathetic for both sides. The Reds for being so stubborn and allowing things to escalate until this level. The Authorities for not dealing a strong, firm hand and allowing things to escalate until this level. I just want to read other, more interesting things.
The Reds may believe that they are pushing for a path towards a greater democratic future for their people, but until they can learn how to tolerate and sit down and discuss on a round table, even if they gain power, this cycle would always be repeating, with each quarter accusing each other of being unfair taking the reins of power. We have, after all, the Yellows and the Pinks already. What's going to stop them from creating the Blues, or perhaps even the Greens or the Blacks?
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