state of emergency

The Philippines as of 1100 hours yesterday, February 24 (well actually that's when I found out) is in a state of emergency. I'm not one who avidly follows the political status of our country, because honestly I don't care so much. I'm too busy trying to scrape a living for myself and my daughter to pay attention to things like this (as do a majority of the Philippine population as it is).

Although I do admit that I may be wrong at not caring, because it can and will affect however quiet and oblivious to politics I would like to live my life. When I found out about it, I looked around and realized at that point that half the country's population do not know what just happened, why this just happened, and might not even give a care in the world.

Wikipedia defines State of Emergency as a government's declaration that

• may suspend certain normal functions of government
• may work to alert citizens to alter normal behaviors
• may order government agencies to implement emergency preparedness plans
• may also be used as a rationale to suspend civil liberties
  

As defined above, the country is but one step short of Martial Law (yet again).

Good luck to us.