A Few Good Men

“Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.” – Larry Flynt

U.S. Marine Lance Corporal Daniel Smith was convicted to reclusion perpetua last week in a Philippine court. He’ll be locked up in a cell a maximum of 40 years. Whether here in tropical Pinas or cool climate USA is still a big question mark. He reminds me of Private First Class Louden Downey portrayed by James Marshal in the 1992 hit movie A Few Good Men. He is one of the co-accused and being defended by Lt. Daniel Kaffee played by Tom Cruise.

Anyway, I though of the title because of the circus that I watched on TV in the lower house the past 3 days. It was a virtual show of force for the administration congressmen. They controlled the session in a manner similar to an aquarium filled with starved piranhas with just a guppy to share or a formula one race with a beat up Volkwagen Beetle entry (even if Michael Schumacher was driving it). The item being tackled is the con ass whose output should be the shift to the parliamentary form of government. My thoughts about this is that it won’t change a thing, graft and corruption will still continue. To borrow a famous adage, what we need is not a change of men, but a change in men.