What Happened to us?

What happened to us? 

Where is our sense of outrage? 

We cuss and we curse, send out the most vicious invectives at a supposed rape victim, defend an accused rapist just because they're celebrities but we can't find the sense of outrage for the number of children being raped everyday? They have no voice. They are not celebrities. They do not have a network of friends who can wear T-shirts of protest or support for them and yet we turn a blind eye to this.

A country that cannot even protect its weakest citizens is an inept nation, a nation of cowards, a nation of hypocrites, a nation of dense and numb people who cannot even find that moral outrage to set things straight and correct the wrongs that hound us day in and day out.

We have government agencies who molest and rape our natural environment and we do not say anything. We have government officials who steal from us face to face and yet they walk around scot-free. We have a total lack in public service and we take it knowing fully well these agencies will be unable to function without our taxes. When will we demand justice? When its too late to serve its purpose? We have a government office that is supposed to protect the human rights of VICTIMS yet it only speaks up when death threats are hurled at criminals or when criminals are dealt with the way they should be. They allow the human rights of victims and the families of victims to be victimized all over again due to their apathy towards victims but portray a truck load of empathy and sympathy for criminals.

And we keep quiet. We do not speak up. We've lost our sense of moral outrage. We only speak up when we choose to and we retreat to our comfortable corner under the sun unmindful of the fact that people are still living in tent cities, they need our help, they need to feel part of this country and not forgotten. We only speak up when we want to bash another person for their difference in opinion but fail to offer any proactive constructive ones. We speak up against brutality against celebrities but not towards the injustice and murder of innocent nameless ones. 

What happened to us? Where are "we"?