Even kings are pelted with mud, why not pelt our leaders, too?

Our former colonizer Spain has its share of Flooding and Royal-Shaming. The event draws parallel with the recent flooding in the Philippines. It also was a sort of a reminder that the weather has no sacred cows, and all can be affected by its gruesome claws, including Conquistadores and Indios, alike.

Valencia, Espana was flooded in the recent rains and more than 250 people were killed by the onslaught. Last November 3, 2024, King Filipe and Queen Letizia were showered with stones and Mud as the Royals visited the flooded area.The anger was understandable, seeing people with loved ones killed, the behavior can be beyond the usual.

The events unfolding in Valencia is somehow the result of the Butterfly Effect from the floods of Bicolandia, perhaps the tormented souls’ victims of the Conquistadors had pushed the winds unto Europe and the Tropical and Equatorial had channeled the calamitous wind to the Temperate Europe, the result was a disaster perhaps unimaginable by the Spaniards which causes their blood to boil.

Thus, when Queen Letizia and King Felipe (namesake of the Patron of the Expedition of Roy Lopez de Villalobos) came to have an ocular and condole with the people ravaged by the Flood, stones and mud hit their faces from all directions.

The mudslinging in the literal sense is new and surprising. But the same can be seen as precedent. We can actually throw muds to our leaders. If that is possible on a former colonizer it can be possible in ours as its former colony.

The leaders in this part of the world who sucked our resources away from flood control projects in a very substandard fashion and the roods that needs repair months after it was made even if the same was designed for years of use, they may be pelted and slinged with mud. They deserve to, I think. Stones and muds can be the personification of the hate which is perhaps righteous owing to the clear corruption of some.

In these times where Kings and Queens can be stoned , why not our public officials who are remised and corrupt.