Saturday, January 17, 2009

Filipino lives are cheap.

I was reading some of my older posts and am interested in exploring an observation that crystallized thanks to the Sulpicio tragedy. Filipino lives are cheap. Victims of accidents or disasters are treated shockingly disrespectfully. Burdened with poverty and injustice in life, most Filipinos cannot even afford to be treated with dignity in death. I remember watching another video of another fire, The Station club fire, in Rhode Island. Firemen retrieving the bodies made sure that their grisly operation was shielded from public eyes with blankets held high by some of their peers. With the Ozone fire meantime, rescuers simply carried the bodies away in full view of relatives and spectators, practically parading the charred remains of the victims for all to see and gasp at.

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