To serve and protect the people is the exclusive mandate that the PNP is given, or at least according to Razon. It's a mandate that time and again has been distorted in all shapes and sizes in order to fit the needs of several politicians in the land. Today, we commemorate the EDSA revolution 22 years ago that toppled a dictator. And though to this day we hear faint echoes of a dictatorship hiding beneath sheep's skin, we still wonder what exactly it is that the PNP is trying to tell the people. With the plan of staging a "unity walk" on the day the nation grinds to halt in order to look back at history, the PNP must be commemorating something else. Although much of the dreams born during the barbs and haywires of EDSA remain elusive but are still worth clamoring for, it's one thing to storm to EDSA by the flock of thousands, even millions, of Filipinos with the hunger for a systemic change more than two decades ago. It's entirely another to unitedly walk from EDSA and return to the barracks with the lingering thought and confidence that, perhaps, a "unity walk" is the best way to manifest the mandate of serving and protecting the people.

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