Wrong protest venue

Ateneo de Manila students, together with their peers from nearby schools, made a total mess of the already nightmarish traffic along Katipunan Avenue, Quezon City, last Nov. 18. It took us more than two hours to navigate the route from Blue Ridge to UP Town and around that dreadful U-turn.

It was definitely the wrong venue for such protest against the Supreme Court’s decision to allow a “hero’s burial” to the most crooked and extremely hated president this country ever had the misfortune of having.

They should have stormed instead the Olympian gates of the Supreme Court at Padre Faura Street, Manila, where three ignominious justices (Ateneo College of Law alumni Arturo Brion, Mariano del Castillo and Estela Perlas-Bernabe) joined their six unprincipled colleagues in sacrificing truth and justice on the altar of expediency. We would have cheered them on if those justices were the ones inconvenienced like hell!

The votes of those Atenean justices tilted the balance heavily in favor of the Marcoses—9 to 5—and virtually made that decision beyond reconsideration and rectification. Theirs were the final nails (pun intended) to the coffin in which decency also got buried. For shame!

CARMELA N. NOBLEJAS, cnn_wuzzup@yahoo.com