It will stop at Pagasa, the meteorological services of this government.

Instead of cursing Sulpicio Lines, our esteemed legislators vented their anger against Pagasa officials. What happened to billions of pesos worth of meteorological equipment they said? And why was Pagasa officials unable to inform those ships that the storm would be passing that way and not this way. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah.

And what do you expect? Forty percent of the country’s passenger capacity are being serviced by Sulpicio. Government is helpless. They can’t shut down Sulpicio Lines because it’s owned by a very influential person. This early, the owner is lobbying for his life before government magistrates and higher ups. Notice how light government is treating Sulpicio Lines. And even the traditional media is being massaged. Compare the amount of stories generated before and compare them now.

Like any other injustices wrought by big men to small people, this incident will go down in the history books as just another sea tragedy where people died without getting justice. They’ll just get 200,000 pesos and that’s it.

In this society, when little men are oppressed, it hugs the headlines for just two weeks. Look at how we react on the kidnapping of four people in Basilan and compare it with how we treated Ces Drilon’s abduction. Tomorrow, the bandits will try to kill their hostages. And even government is not doing anything to help them.

Where’s Loren Legarda when you need her?

I am proposing, as a blogger, a blogswarm to put an end to Sulpicio Lines. A Blogswarm to Stop Sulpicio Lines. This blogswarm is for the closure of Sulpicio Lines, the proper compensation of the victims and their families (not just a measly P200k), the imprisonment of those responsible, including the officials of Sulpicio Lines. We must stop this company!

A BLOGSWARM is where bloggers comment and write on one topic at the same time, in order to bring the topic or news to a broader awareness and discussion.

The blogswarm will be July 4-5. On both days, we would like all bloggers to write a post or an article declaring their support for the closure of SULPICIO LINES for the major role that this company had in the Ferry Tragedy that has cost us hundreds of lives. Please leave a comment if you are going to participate.

I would like to offer the following image for the blogswarm, but you are welcome to create and share your own image.

This madness must stop, their insensitivity to the families as they try to deflect the blame on everyone else except themselves is just too much.

When a company has racked up the deaths of thousands of innocent Filipinos, the time must come when they should start paying for their actions.

This is a start my dear friends, more to come, but let us take a stand on this.

JULY 4 TO JULY 5 (FRIDAY AND SATURDAY) make a post about stopping Sulpicio Lines, put up the banner above or create your own, and let us take a stand for the victims who can no longer speak.

Leave a comment here so we can link to those who will participate.

SUBMITTED IMAGES

PARTICIPATING BLOGGERS
Benign0 – Sea of Skulls
RJ Marmol – Sulpicio Lines Must Pay, And I Don’t Mean Monetary
Dean – Stop Sulpicio Lines
ADB of Manila Bay Watch – Stop Sulpicio Lines
CVJ – Stop Sulpicio Lines
Jenny Llarena – Blogswarm: Stop Sulpicio Lines
Lee Angelo – Stop Sulpicio Lines
Manuel Quezon III – No Ifs and Buts About It
Butch – Shut Down Sulpicio Lines
[Splice] Herson Juego – Stop Go