Keptquisling’s Weblog

Whilst I was thinking that memorizing articles 1 to 20 of our country’s revised penal code would be extremely difficult, our professor has taken it up on himself to add 10 more articles onto our to do list. Article 14 takes up 2 pages on its own, and now we have Articles 1 to 30 to work on. Every comma, period, and number, has to be enumerated EXACTLY or else it’d be a one point deduction. Imagine forgetting an entire article and that’s 50 to 100 words already.

Surprisingly, I seem to be coping, and I have done well so far. Looking forward to our trips to the senate and congress, places once populated by some of the brightest people in the country, now filled with ex-basketball players, rebels, murderers, and first class crooks. How can these people make laws if they’ve never set foot in a law school? Americans complain about Obama’s rock star image and how that got him to the office, but really, he is a highly educated hard working man, who works 12 hours a day. In our country, our congressmen and senators have time to leave the country just to watch Pacquiao’s fight, gamble in Casinos, and come out in TV shows, while much-needed laws rot-away in obscurity. When was the anti-wire tapping law last amended? Doesn’t anyone else in the senate realize that this is in dire need of updating? When was the last time anyone actually ever USED wires and tape recorders to listen into conversations? The only recent examples of such incidents were clearly setups used by a well-known senator using his outdated under-handed techniques to get publicity.

Seriously, the more one realizes how deeply-rooted this country’s problems are, everything start’s to look so much bleaker. Is there really any hope here? Are people ever going to wake up and stop voting airheaded actors and altruists into office? The government should be populated by the country’s best people, and right now, it’s a pothole for the country’s worst. The bigger crook your are, the more votes you can buy, anyone with the simplest message that the “masa” gets, wins the popularity contest. The world isn’t black and white, its not you’re either against us or with us, every issue has different shades of gray, none of the country’s problems can be solved by just flipping a “yes or no” switch. Our problems are much more complicated than that.