De-Lapidation
“DILAPIDATED PAMPANGA has been so successfully de-Lapidated and now they are given an opportunity to dilapidate the nation.”
Furious were two civil society members over the reported appointment by the President of former Gov. Mark Lapid as head of the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA). The two are the last of their kind that have maintained cordial links with me despite my potshots – howitzers, they claimed – at their revered icon, the Reverend Governor Eddie T. Panlilio.
So, over cups of espresso at Fiorgelato’s in SM Pampanga, they took turns sniping at the Lapids with me as a sort of a foil.
GMA is sending the worst message to the Filipino people and inflicting the worst insult on the Capampangan, said Medes, named – by me, after the goddess Medea – for his wisdom.
How is that so?
The Lapids have been thoroughly rejected by the Capampangan in the most spectacular way that was the miracle of Among Ed’s election. Now, GMA is inflicting the Capampangan’s vomit on the Filipino people.
Well, trash to one is treasure to another, as it is often said by garbage collectors.
You don’t get the point. By appointing Lapid, GMA has condoned all the corruption that choked Pampanga during the father-son reign at the capitol. That is tantamount to telling the Filipinos that crime pays and the bigger the crime, the bigger the pay. The appointment of Lapid is a total negation of GMA’s very own policy of good governance and transparency.
Careful now, Bro – I call him so because he’s an ex-seminarian like me – but the least semblance of some wrongdoings the Lapids could be latched to are those cobwebbed cases with the Ombudsman and the archived congressional inquiry on the quarry operations, which were all Vice Gov. Yeng Guiao’s initiatives.
Bro, it needs no court of law to determine the crimes of the Lapid against the people of Pampanga. The court of public opinion has decided on that based on the incontrovertible proof provided by the quarry collections under Among Ed. With the same givens of number of trucks, volumes of sand hauled, P150 quarry tax and P150 administrative fee, the P1 million daily take today ranged against the P20,000-plus daily average at the time of Mark Lapid amounts to voluminous evidence of graft and corruption. The amount involved is many times over that set for the crime of plunder.
Didn’t you make a point of this yourself in a recent column when you compared the recent six-month share of Porac town from the quarry earnings, P16 million as over P5 million more than the entire provincial collection for 2004? Butted in Sandy, once part of the quarry study group. Instead of an appointment to a government post, Lapid deserved a day in court.
So why not tell your Reverend Governor to file a case against his predecessor? He has a moral obligation to do so, if only to show the people that he has his heart where his mouth is. It is not enough to raise the quarry collections to their actual levels. It is imperative that justice be served on those deprived of the benefits of the actual collections, to show that crime does not pay. That is good governance.
That is never far from the mind of Among Ed. It’s just too bad that the legal mind he respected most suddenly resigned her post.
You mean the governor had the most respect for Atty. Maria Elissa Velez? More than what he invests in the mind of Atty. Vivian Dabu?
Now, you’re into your game of sowing intrigues again.
So what do you think is the reason for GMA to appoint Lapid at PTA?
It’s not really so much a payback for the Lapid support she enjoys as a spite to Among Ed for all his perceived actuations against the President, from the P500,000 bundles of money to his allowing Running Priest Robert Reyes to rant against GMA right on the provincial capitol of her home province.
GMA is spiteful?
They gave me that we-are-with-stupid look.
Furious were two civil society members over the reported appointment by the President of former Gov. Mark Lapid as head of the Philippine Tourism Authority (PTA). The two are the last of their kind that have maintained cordial links with me despite my potshots – howitzers, they claimed – at their revered icon, the Reverend Governor Eddie T. Panlilio.
So, over cups of espresso at Fiorgelato’s in SM Pampanga, they took turns sniping at the Lapids with me as a sort of a foil.
GMA is sending the worst message to the Filipino people and inflicting the worst insult on the Capampangan, said Medes, named – by me, after the goddess Medea – for his wisdom.
How is that so?
The Lapids have been thoroughly rejected by the Capampangan in the most spectacular way that was the miracle of Among Ed’s election. Now, GMA is inflicting the Capampangan’s vomit on the Filipino people.
Well, trash to one is treasure to another, as it is often said by garbage collectors.
You don’t get the point. By appointing Lapid, GMA has condoned all the corruption that choked Pampanga during the father-son reign at the capitol. That is tantamount to telling the Filipinos that crime pays and the bigger the crime, the bigger the pay. The appointment of Lapid is a total negation of GMA’s very own policy of good governance and transparency.
Careful now, Bro – I call him so because he’s an ex-seminarian like me – but the least semblance of some wrongdoings the Lapids could be latched to are those cobwebbed cases with the Ombudsman and the archived congressional inquiry on the quarry operations, which were all Vice Gov. Yeng Guiao’s initiatives.
Bro, it needs no court of law to determine the crimes of the Lapid against the people of Pampanga. The court of public opinion has decided on that based on the incontrovertible proof provided by the quarry collections under Among Ed. With the same givens of number of trucks, volumes of sand hauled, P150 quarry tax and P150 administrative fee, the P1 million daily take today ranged against the P20,000-plus daily average at the time of Mark Lapid amounts to voluminous evidence of graft and corruption. The amount involved is many times over that set for the crime of plunder.
Didn’t you make a point of this yourself in a recent column when you compared the recent six-month share of Porac town from the quarry earnings, P16 million as over P5 million more than the entire provincial collection for 2004? Butted in Sandy, once part of the quarry study group. Instead of an appointment to a government post, Lapid deserved a day in court.
So why not tell your Reverend Governor to file a case against his predecessor? He has a moral obligation to do so, if only to show the people that he has his heart where his mouth is. It is not enough to raise the quarry collections to their actual levels. It is imperative that justice be served on those deprived of the benefits of the actual collections, to show that crime does not pay. That is good governance.
That is never far from the mind of Among Ed. It’s just too bad that the legal mind he respected most suddenly resigned her post.
You mean the governor had the most respect for Atty. Maria Elissa Velez? More than what he invests in the mind of Atty. Vivian Dabu?
Now, you’re into your game of sowing intrigues again.
So what do you think is the reason for GMA to appoint Lapid at PTA?
It’s not really so much a payback for the Lapid support she enjoys as a spite to Among Ed for all his perceived actuations against the President, from the P500,000 bundles of money to his allowing Running Priest Robert Reyes to rant against GMA right on the provincial capitol of her home province.
GMA is spiteful?
They gave me that we-are-with-stupid look.
posted by A.Caesar Z. Lacson at 9:36 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home