Our Alienated Leaders

Governor Luis Fortuño recently said to a newspaper reporter that he doesn't follow the current news and that's why he always keeps his cool. Our new Women's Advocate said during an interview that she is not currently reading books because she doesn't have time to read.

It is curious, but I, too, sometimes avoid news programs and newspapers so I don't get even more depressed than what I normally am.

I am including a few examples of things you'll encounter in the Puerto Rico news:

• during the first ten days of year 2011, 33 people have been killed as a result of crime, accidents or homicides.
• a nine year old boy was brutally murdered 10 months ago, but the Department of Justice has not arrested anyone yet;
• a woman and her boyfriend sexually abused of their five children while allowing the neighbors to enjoy the "show"; 
• the students at the University of Puerto Rico have paralyzed the university system by what they call a student strike that has required the activation of the police anti-riot unit and the use of pepper spray against the students and whoever was standing nearby. 
• The Governor's Secretary said that the conflict on the Rio Piedras campus is led by a "group of pseudo professors that need to be kicked out of the university."
• a man chose a family holiday 

meeting taking place at a relative's house as the momentum to retaliate from a previous dispute with family members and set the house on fire, killing five people.

• a young mother of two was viciously killed by a thief while she was working at a fast food store drive thru.  
• five year old girl was run over by a drunk driver.
• unemployment rates keep rising
• crime rates keep rising

Hey, I am not a governor. I can CHOOSE not to read the news once in a while. But if I were a governor, I'd like to read about the chaos I should be trying to fix. I would need to know, so I can make decisions, do some strategic planning and take corrective measures. I wouldn't hide my head, in ostrich like fashion, from the reality that the common people face day to day. No wonder a guy, who threw an egg at the governor while speaking at an event, responded he wanted to be known as COMMON GUY  when he was requested his name by the press. If he were Muslim, he would probably had thrown his shoe at the governor.