April 27, 1985
Dear Editor:

The tragedy of our country is that for some two decades, we have been ruled by a government which treats every citizen as a saling-pusa in our country’s economic and political life.

Chato Olivas, a classic example of this brand of political conditioning, apparently feels that there is nothing wrong about this situation. She casually dismisses anyone who has written a letter to the editor on the Aquino-Galman murder case as just another saling-pusa (Chato says, April 22-29).

The irony of it all is that the people whom Chato (dis)regards as saling-pusas are the fast-diminishing group of persons who believe that our present leadership, for all its faults, is still sensitive enough to public opinion to make such letter-writing worth the time and effort.

According to the Chato collolary to the New Society’s saling-pusa theory of citizenship, these citizens who have kept faith with the administration are wrong.
 

AVELINO SILVERIO