Justice - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

Justice - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

'... the point is not just to release all those who ought to be released, it is to jail all those who ought to be jailed. It is not just to reward the innocent, it is to punish the guilty. Then and now, there has only been one key to lasting peace.'

Damaso - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

Damaso - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos

Celdran hasn’t just guided people through the Walled City, he has guided this nation through the walls of its forgetfulness back to the time of Rizal and the fight against religious obscurantism. Indeed, in this case, he hasn’t just reminded this nation of its past, he has reminded it of its present, showing that the past is never really past, history is never really history, it flows into the present, it reappears in the present, it lives in the present. Still indeed he hasn’t just shown the past and present, he has breathed life into them by impersonating or conjuring or manifesting Rizal in all his desperate fury, shouting a name that like “Judas” carries with it a world of vituperation: “Damaso!”