Moving on

“LET us move on.”
So the Honorable Johnny ‘JQ’ Quiambao was quoted as saying after the brouhaha over one Jun Castro reportedly intervening in the case of a Mabalacat barangay chair lodged with the Sangguniang Panlalawigan member’s justice committee.
“His (Castro’s) apology has been accepted. All’s well that ends well,” the news report continued, quoting JQ. I admire – truly – JQ’s fidelity to Christian teachings: Forgive your erring brother seventy times seven, so the Good Book says.
But it does not “end well” there. It does not even end there. What about this Castro? What about the whole Sangguniang Panlalawigan?
That he did not deny the “intervention” and even apologized to JQ confirmed that something wrong was indeed committed. Imagine a mere factotum of the governor – whom he even reportedly disowned subsequently – questioning in effect the authority of a duly elected official! What gall! What arrogance! What insolence! That is an in-your-face dirty finger at the whole Sangguniang Panlalawigan. Not only on JQ.
That is at the least an encroachment of the executive into the realm of the legislative, an utter disrespect of the co-equality of the branches of the provincial government.
At the very least then, sanctions should have been imposed on this Castro. To put him in his rightful cubbyhole. Rat hole would be more apt, said someone who looked like Provincial Engineer Jay Macatuno.
L’affaire Castro reminded me of the proverbial fly who, perched at the back of a carabao, thought he was the bigger and more powerful animal.
Which in turn reminds me of a similar incident at the time of the senior Lapid when Vice Governor Mikey Macapagal Arroyo verbally Baygoned the provincial attorney, the now departed Benjie Galang, as a “langaw.”
A case of lightning striking the Lapid Capitol twice?
Come to think of it, what is it with the Lapids that draw these “langaws” around them? So what attracts flies, dummy? Food, yes. And filth too. Draw your own conclusions.
Back to this Castro. Is he the same character who figured in a gun-drawing incident in Dau, Mabalacat sometime in 2004 to get a Lapid sibling out of a mess of his own making? Baka naman gusto lang umekstra nito sa pelikulang koboy ni Leon Guerrero?
Is this Castro the same character who reportedly blew his top when an NLEx toll barrier failed to open for his car, then insisted in talking to MNTC President Ping de Jesus himself to register his angry complaint?
Is this Castro the same character whose name appears in just about every posted notice of some government project underway in Mabalacat? Who is he, what is his official position to merit a billing that is at times even bigger than Mayor Boking’s?
There is an emerging tyrant here. And he is not even a public official – elected or appointed. Swat this fly fast before it spreads diseases.
So, let us move on eh, JQ?
The trouble with moving on is in forgetting where we came from. Hence, we move in circles and end up trapped in a deep rut of a vicious cycle.