Some Filipinos are getting tired of loving their country, which they claim has fallen into a disturbing moral decay. Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas expressed this sentiment in an open letter on Saturday to Sen. Leila de Lima, who in several days will mark her first year in detention on drug charges. “There are some of us who are beginning to feel a fatigue for loving our country,” the prelate said in his missive to the embattled lawmaker. He stressed that he was also against illegal drugs and all forms of crime, and that he would defend the country against Filipinos who oppress their own and foreigners who threaten the country’s independence. ADVERTISEMENTThe prelate called De Lima’s imprisonment “the biggest symbol of what is wrong with our country.”

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 17, 2018 23:03 UTC