Amigo: Unlucky Aquino admin ‘mascot’

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

RONALD McDonald, the mascot of McDonald’s, is living up to expectations as the fastfood chain’s lucky charm per literal meaning of the word “mascot.”

Unluckily, however, our friend in presidential adviser Ronald Llamas is proving otherwise for the palace.

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Now he again had to publicly utter the not-so-lucky line “I’m sorry…” as what happened to then PGMA in relation to Sec. Llamas’ alleged pirated DVD buying booboo.

His AK-47 episode is well, still very much fresh in the minds of the public, or to P-Noy Admin watchers.

We are, of course, praying Sec. Ronald do not suffer the same fate that befell PGMA on her “Hello Garci…” episode that well ended up to her nasty hospital arrest that followed after serving nine straight years as President of the land.

Well, a lot of sectors are actually asking for Sec. Ronald’s resignation, saying he has became a harbinger of bad luck or embarrassment to President Noy’s administration especially at time when they are at it, in the thick of things waging a nasty legal and legislative war with Chief Justice Renato Corona otherwise known as impeachment.

Actually, at first we felt this was a diversionary tactic but on second thought, we dropped it as there was nothing critical yet to divert the attention of the masses.

And, you may say, it also came at a time when P-Noy’s admin is waging a no-nonsense drive versus intellectual property pirates, those DVDs included per se in his “Daang Matuwid” political program.

No please, Sec. Ronald, at this point in time, can’t afford a third “unlucky” episode of such petty “crimes.”

That would be costly. Otherwise, we could be singing Bob Dylan’s “Bye, bye, American pie” early on.

But seriously, had the good secretary returned my SMS, I may give him an unsolicited advice of going against apologizing publicly on what the media has painted on his name courtesy of that Dona Policar shoot-of-a-lifetime that allegedly caught the Secretary buying DVDs on a mall in Congressional Ave. in QC.

Spin is the name of the game. Apology is good if we have to follow the lines of “The truth will set you free” but it too, has its own negative connotations or implications or price to pay.

Saying so, automatically means someone has indeed committed, caught red handed or caught flatly dipping his hands on a cookie jar so to speak.

So with it, the cat is out now that the good secretary has indeed bought stacks of pirated DVDs and if pursued to the letter, this may translate as an outright infringement of Anti-Fencing Law.

Aside from that, it will go down in history the good secretary patronizes on a commercial item that was supposedly “unpatronizable” especially for a public official of high stature rampant as they may be throughout the land.

And rampant, could have been the key word of an offensive spin.

The good secretary could have spoken as if he were only “checking” personally whether his government is indeed blazing the trail pursuing pirates of DVDs as well as computer installers that are similarly being sold vis-à-vis CDs, DVDs of all shapes and sizes.

The good Secretary could have dismissed the same Dona Policar stolen shot as nothing but a candid lucky shoot while he was officially buying copies so as to have a deeper grip on his personal probe on rampant selling of fake copies of those.

The good Secretary could have issued a press statement the following day the lucky shots came out on paper saying “Yes, I believe, we have to step up some more on our drive against piracy” and that “we will be discussing this with Optical Media Board chair Ronnie Ricketts soon how this will be done because I have with me strong evidence, yes I bought them with my own money, as they seem to be playing only with our own efforts to stamp them out.”

That way, OMB chair’s efforts to eradicate media piracy would indirectly be commended instead or supplanted not bamboozled.

Bottomline: applause. Wow, the Secretary is working hard people would say. Case closed.

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