Mga side comments ko na LOWDOWN

Naykupo! blog ko nasa column ni Jojo Robles
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=jojoRobles_sept2_2008

wow! salamat po Jojo Robles at yung iba pang bloggers
http://kurkeh.wordpress.com/
http://pindutinmoto.blogspot.com/
http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/

thanks din sa flickr.com, google.com, yahoo.com, at picasaweb.com. kung wala sila hindi ko mahahanap si bayani. hahaha



ito na side comments ko.


Who will stop Bayani?

Jojo Robles
Manila Standard
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=jojoRobles_sept2_2008

One of my favorite blogs these days is something called “Mga Side Comments Ko” on Blogspot. The site has a map which shows where probably the most thick-faced official of this government has been lately, under the heading “Where in the Philippines is Bayani Fernando?”

Yes!

Clicking on the face of the Metro Kwago (as another blogger calls the owlish-looking chairman of the Metro Manila Development Authority and early-bird presidential candidate) will lead a visitor to the map—which is supported by photographs of places around the country where Fernando has been.

kilala ko yung blogger na yon ah

Bayani’s itinerary has been backbreaking: Ilocos, Zambales, Bulacan, Quezon, Aklan, Iloilo and Davao are some of the locations where the supposed chief traffic aide of the metropolis has been recently. In the photographs, Bayani is shown glad-handing the locals, dancing during their town fiestas, distributing relief goods and generally spreading his luridly pink-and-baby blue largesse throughout the country.

hindi lang photo may video pa hahaha

In nearly all the photographs, Bayani is escorted by official vehicles of the MMDA sporting red government plates —giving the lie to the MMDA chairman’s claim that he is using his own resources to campaign (illegally, it must be added, since he still has not resigned) for the presidency two years before the elections. Even assuming that he is, as he claims, using his own money for the plywood boards and other stuff that he’s donating all over, what about the cranes, trucks and various other vehicles that he’s been using to deliver them?

Amen

Does Bayani own all these vehicles, as well? And does Bayani think that just because he’s doing all these things outside Metro Manila, no one will notice?

Baka naman akala ni BF na 1800's pa at ang takbo ng balita eh kasing bilis ng asong hindi matae. hoy bayani may Internet na po. kitang kita ka na. may video phones pa. so wala kang lusot.

The abuses committed by Bayani Fernando boggle the mind, and yet the man thinks he is being persecuted. To the House of Representatives, for instance, he has replied that he will not appear at a congressional investigation of his activities because the lawmakers who are accusing him of wrongdoing are “politically motivated.”

This is just the latest of Bayani’s transgressions, that of ignoring a Congress summons without even the benefit of an executive gag order from his boss, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Where most government officials would quake in fear of appearing before a congressional investigation, Bayani actually thinks he can get away with this cavalier dismissal of the House invitation on the grounds that his interrogators have a political motive.

kapal talaga. sabi pa ni bayani hindi naman daw nya congressmen yung mga nagpapatawag sa kanya? ano ibigsabihin nya doon? hindi nya ka distrito yung mga congressmen, hindi nya kapartido, hindi nya hawak?

And I guess plastering your sleepy-eyed mug all over the country is not politically motivated—if not outright criminal on so many levels that it would make anyone’s head spin? Who will stop Bayani Fernando from violating nearly every law in the land before he’s through?

Who? si Jojo Robles! Mabuhay! hahaha =) peace tayo ah. hehehe pwede ring Jojo Binay. hahaha

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One of Bayani’s most treasured myths about himself is that he is all about discipline. And yet, given the many and repeated transgressions of the MMDA chairman, you have to wonder who will discipline him.

Bayani has run afoul of the law so many times and yet he is allowed to thumb his nose at anyone who dares cross his path. He can even go on a television talent show and claim that he wants to win because he is raising funds for his election campaign in 2010—and no one even asks anymore if this blatant fund-raising by a sitting government official is illegal or not.

WTF! talaga sinabi nya yon!?! sorry hindi na ako nanonood ng local TV programs. Naiinis lang ako.

He has crossed swords with an entire Cabinet’s worth of government agencies and nearly all of the mayors of Metro Manila (who supposedly are his bosses and funders), and yet he goes on his merry way—disregarding laws, ordinances, human rights and simple courtesy as he barrels his way through with his pink-and-blue army of traffic terrorists, mulcters and bus-jackers, sidewalk-vendor scourges, squatter demolishers and sticker-and-tarpaulin plasterers.

Jojo Robles, ano sa palagay mo at bakit gustong tumakbo ni BF as president of the Republic of the Philippines? Power, pera, attention, para ba maabswelto sa mga kaso?

No one has asked Bayani to present an audit of his expenses, to show which funds are his and not his to spend, and which was spent where and how much. No one has filed charges against Bayani for ordering the illegal confiscation of property in the form of the buses his men take over or the wares of the sidewalk vendors that they grab and never return.

Even the usually quick-on-the-draw human rights groups have not taken up the case of Bayani’s lightning demolition of squatter shanties, nor have they challenged his explanation that it’s not his job to relocate squatters, only to demolish them. No real opposition has been encountered by the government employees who do nothing but put up his tarpaulins and stick his stickers—even if the taxpayers cough up the money for their wages. No official inquiries have been made about his questionable infrastructure projects like the abominable elevated U-turn on C-5 Road or his dangerous (and BF Corp.-fabricated) railings, pedestrian overpasses and the absolutely free gift of a on-off ramp that he gave to the owner of a mall in his home turf of Marikina.

Nobody in authority has really asked why he can declare for the presidency and yet not resign.

Unfortunately, the undeniable effect of letting Bayani do whatever he wants and not forcing him to account for his actions afterward is the breakdown of order, respect for the law and common decency. Ironically for the man who prides himself with a genius for instilling discipline and restoring order, all he’s been doing lately is to show that if you’ve got the power, you can actually get away with anything.

Of course, government officials have been running afoul of the law probably for as long as there’s been a government. But no one in memory has so cavalierly declared himself to be so high above mere legal questions as Bayani Fernando. And the saddest part of it all is, he still has his job.

Maybe, just maybe, somebody will remedy that soon.