Schizophrenic

By Rolo B. Cena
The Gulf Files
Dumaguete Star Informer
18 September 2011

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – In his articulation for several days after NATO and National Transition Council (NTC) claimed victory over Tripoli, Moammar Gadhafi denied reports that he fled to Niger, a southern neighboring Islamic state. With the enunciation made by the Organization requesting neighboring countries to close their borders to the members of the fugitive’s regime, the former Libyan leader, now remaining at large, branded all the activities the allied forces have undertaken as “psychological warfare and lies” after his dominion was diffused.

What a paranoia of sort when the world-declared fugitive with whom the Marcoses, especially the former First Lady now Ilocos Representative Imelda Marcos have intimated and shared their own tricks and notes of greed-based supremacy, brandished his own portfolio of anarchy that almost venerated the near-satanic rites of Hitler.

Such was a blatant display of greed for power that is as enormous as the greed and voracity of the petite lady as evidenced by the worst of crimes as the Arroyo-backed killings or as gargantuan as the greed and voracity of the Ampatuans’.

When Gadhafi called the acts of the allied forces as “psych war and lies,” it’s by default a reflection of his own means of deceiving the entire world that he is still in control, that he is still harboring victories; an absolute lie as profane as the mental lapses of the petite lady on the one-million-vote edge over actor Poe, the only and absolute foe she had during the 2004 presidential elections.

When Gadhafi slammed the rumors that he was heading south of Libya with a strong armada, it was by definition a “psych war and lie” to deceive the entire world that his power still exists in the metropolis of Tripoli, a lie similar to the existence of congressional power of the petite lady to desperately protect herself from prosecution and persecution for greed and voracity she and her court mercilessly deliberated during her two anarchical terms.

Similarly, when the former dictator Ferdinand Marcos was lifted from Malacanang and transported to what was mistaken as Hawai instead of Paoay, all his men – relatives and cronies- fabricated all sorts of made-to-order antics in order to derail the transformation process undertaken by the Aquino administration, an activity that was as sadistic as annihilating the Jews during the second global war by the Nazis.

If I may put my two cents in, most leaders are schizophrenic, a post partum behavioral disorder governed by hunger for superfluous; post partum in the sense that it unveils after leaders get the power: Hitler, Mussolini, Marcos, Fidel Castro, Hosni Mubarak, Ben Ali, Bashar al-Saad, Moammar Gadhafi, Gloria Arroyo, et al.

Hitler and Mussolini’s annihilation of the world in an attempt to control the magnitude of creation, Marcos’ unequalled concoction of power and greed, Castro’s defiance to submit, Hosni Mubarak’s interminable military control behind bars, Ben Ali sibling’s political kleptomaniac, Bashar al-Saad’s do-or-die attachment to power, Moamma Gadhafi’s psychological warfare and lies, Gloria Arroyo’s lapses turned denials, and more. Yes, and many more when drilled down to the last of selections.

These leaders have utterly epitomized the commonest of all political fuel: Greed! Conversely, these leaders have epitomized the commonest of all political behavioral disorder: schizophrenia!

Greed is an overwhelming desire to have more of something. Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder with symptoms of emotional instability, detachment from reality, and withdrawal into self. It is a state of mind characterized by contradictory or conflicting attitudes, behavior or qualities.

Arguably though, these breed of assailants are living between the border of normalcy and schizophrenia, a state of mind where most narcissistic creatures often dismiss as reality sans the sugar coats and glossy superficial pelts of mental distortion; apparently, they need psychiatric overhauls to anchor them to reality and consequently allow them to survive.

Again if I may opine, behaviors like these muggers epitomize don’t deserve to exist, lest re-condition the mindsets of the youths otherwise the value of true democracy will wane beyond reason: a democracy founded on the principle of the people, by the people and for the people.

What more can the constituents do whenever such behavior persists in a state like ours?