morons

The scheduled May 18 worldwide premiere of the movie The Da Vinci Code is creating a lot of noise in the Philippines. It is impossible to watch the news these days and not see some plump-faced pseudo-moralist jerk-off clamoring for its ban in local theaters. One congressman is even threatening to throw his weight on the MTRCB. He, along with other bleeding-heart Catholics in favor of the ban, found an ally in Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, who huffed and puffed on national TV yesterday claiming the Ron Howard religious thriller is "blasphemous" and "morally offensive" to the Filipino people. "I think we should do everything not to allow it to be shown," he was quoted as saying. And then he admitted that he is yet to read the book from which the movie is based.

Morally offensive, Mr. Ermita? Is the fact that your boss, that little lady in Malacañang, cheated her way into presidency not morally offensive to the Filipino people? And what right does a congressman have to tell us what we should watch and not watch? Jesus Christ! That's not even part of his job, which is to lie, cheat, and steal. A congressman talking about morality, his big fat jowls trembling in phony indignation. Can you think of something more loathsome than that?

I don't know about you, but every time some form of authority tells me what to read, watch, and listen to, I get offended. Why? Because it makes me feel like a dunce. The message is not, "We love you, we want you to be a good citizen, so we're protecting you from evil." No. The message is, "You're an idiot, you can't think for yourself, so we're doing all the thinking for you."