Sa isang malayong bayan sa Ifugao, tinawag ng isang Fiscal o
Prosecutor ang isang lola na nasa loob ng court room ng judge.
“Lola, kilala ninyo ba
ako?”
“Siyempre kilala kita.
Kahit noong tutoy ka pa kilala na kita. Sa totoo lang nakakahiya ka,
sinungaling, babaero, at naninira ng dangal ng mga kaibigan pag nakatalikod sila,”
ani ng lola.
Muntik ng mahulog sa platform ang fiscal sa taranta at
biglang napasambulat:
“Lola, kilala ninyo ba iyong defense lawyer ng akusado na naka upo?”
“Siyempre kilala ko
rin! Katulad mo lasenggo, laos, at babaero rin iyan. Isa sa mga kabit niyan si
misis mo!” ani ng lola.
Muntik ng mahulog sa kanyang kina-uupu-an ang defense
lawyer.
Tinawag ng mahinahon ng judge ang dalawang nagtutungaling
abugado, at matigas na binalaan ang dalawa:
“Oras na isa sa inyo
ang magtanong sa lola kung kilala niya ako, ipapabit-bit ko kaagad kayo sa
police sa labas para i-diretso na kayo sa Muntinlupa para ma electric chair!”
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Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted recently ambivalent presidential aspirant and Davao City Mayor Rod Duterte who opined on our country's military position with Mainland China: "Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said the government committed a “blunder” when it bought two used F-16 fighter jets because these would not be of much help in securing the country against aggressors like China.
“The decision to buy two F-16s is really a blunder. How would it help?” he said.
My retort: It's not the government that committed a blunder here, it was Mayor Rod Duterte's faux pas. PH bought a squadron of brand new South Korean Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) F/A 50 jets which can also be used as a Lead-In Fighter Trainer (LIFT). Two of the jets would be delivered on December this year. The mayor, to avoid this media blunder, should consult first an expert on military aviation before he opines on Air Force firepowers. The FA-50 is made by the South Korea’s “Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI)”, and is a smaller, license-built version of the F-16 Fighter aircraft. It entered the South Korean Air Force service in 2014.
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Philippine Daily Inquirer quoted recently ambivalent presidential aspirant and Davao City Mayor Rod Duterte who opined on our country's military position with Mainland China: "Mayor Rodrigo Duterte said the government committed a “blunder” when it bought two used F-16 fighter jets because these would not be of much help in securing the country against aggressors like China.
“The decision to buy two F-16s is really a blunder. How would it help?” he said.
My retort: It's not the government that committed a blunder here, it was Mayor Rod Duterte's faux pas. PH bought a squadron of brand new South Korean Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) F/A 50 jets which can also be used as a Lead-In Fighter Trainer (LIFT). Two of the jets would be delivered on December this year. The mayor, to avoid this media blunder, should consult first an expert on military aviation before he opines on Air Force firepowers. The FA-50 is made by the South Korea’s “Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI)”, and is a smaller, license-built version of the F-16 Fighter aircraft. It entered the South Korean Air Force service in 2014.
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Here was an arrogant supervisor of the security guards of Bessang Pass at
the Hall of Justice in Lingayen, Pangasinan telling media men last Monday that
they were not allowed to cover fellow media woman, Lina Cervantes of DWPR, who filed
her counter affidavits on the libel cases filed by Pangasinan Governor Amado T.
Espino, Jr.
“Iyan ang utos sa amin
ni executive judge, bawal ang coverage ng media,” the security supervisor
named Vallo, who is a dead ringer of movie side kick Bentong, sternly
told me.
“Paano naging bawal,
hinde naman korte ang iko-cover ko sa office ng fiscal naman ang pupuntahan
ko,? I calmly posed.
“Lahat dito hawak ng
executive judge,” he hissed.
“Sa buong Pilipinas
ngayon lang ako nakakita na ang media bawal pumasok sa office ng fiscal, under
sa Department of Justice iyan hinde sa sala ng judge o sa Supreme Court. Noong na libel ako, may
dala rin akong national TV (GMA-7) network dito” I protested.
When I insisted that I have to cover it, the watch men’s
boss, who is 5’ 2” feet, stood up and held my right wrist as if he was
preventing a 5’9” feet athletic but hard headed high school student to escape
the school lecture.
“Sige, hawakan mo iyan
at ide-demanda kita!” I vigorously warned him instead of hitting him with
my left flush hook for a knock-out on his inviting jaw.
He immediately released my hand and dared me that I file a
case.
When I registered my name on the logbook tended by his two
white clad guards who were armed with their side pistols, one of the guards
insisted I could not scribble my name.
“Hinde na ako mag-ko
cover, manu-nood na lang ako,” I told them.
