Revelations.

Since President Aquino's SONA last week, there have been revelations of scandals day after day.

Yesterday, it was the overpricing of the folders used in the last election, some 300 plus pesos for a cardboard folder.  Four COMELEC officials have been charged regarding this illegal act.

The other day, it was the NFA who was caught in the red.  Apparently, and as the warehouses showed, the past NFA administration over imported rice dating back to 2008.  Now, thousands of sacks of rice are rotting in NFA warehouses.

Today, it is the MMDA which has been put in the hot seat.  It's been alleged by the new MMDA Chairman that "payola" was paid by bus companies/operators to MMDA enforcers, in order to avoid being harassed for traffic violations.  Of course, the former chairman Bayani Fernando denied the allegation.  

Day after the SONA, the minority leader in congress, Edcel Lagman denied the "facts" which President Aquino presented in his SONA. Lagman told Malacanang to check its numbers regarding the remaining national budget.  Likewise, minutes after the SONA, Dato Arroyo when interviewed by a TV station, denied that Pampanga was given so much emergency money out of the calamity fund.

Denials.  All those who were in charge of the past still think they're in the Arroyo administration who's been known as the ONE great denier.

Let the Truth Commission be formed right away. Let it do its work.  Let the truth be told.

The Filipino people are a forgiving lot.  Even FVR (ex President Ramos) could not hold his mouth and said before the SONA that Aquino should stop the blame game.

I say let's jail the offenders.  Aquino was right when he said there could be no reconciliation without justice.

It's only in exacting justice that the Filipino people will have faith again in the government. Marcos had been spared of jail time.  Look what we have now -  three Marcoses in high government posts.

Let's not forget the sins of the past.  If we continue on patching up the wounds, the scars would heal but the damage would still be felt like "ghost pain."

I remember being bullied when I was a freshman at a catholic parochial school.  My friend and I and another classmate were assigned to clean the hallway after classes, when the bully came near me and in an accusatory tone said, "is that how they teach you to clean in the public school?"

Yes, I graduated from a public elementary school, but I didn't know that there was a private and a pubic type of sweeping the floor. All I knew was that the public school system produced a lot of talented people, people who loved to read, people who wrote well and people who became good leaders.

My friend, who overheard the remark, immediately reported it to our teacher, who confronted the bully.  What did the bully say?  "It was said in a jest," the bully declared.  Denier.

This bully, during our four years in high school, was never seen smiling. The last time I saw this bully was somewhere in Boni Avenue inside a jeepney which was waiting to fill up with passengers. I was driving a Volkswagen that time and making a right on Boni from EDSA. 

Tomorrow, I await another revelation, another misdeed of the past.