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Saturday, July 29, 2006
Roperos: Bits of information
By Godofredo M. Roperos
Politics Also
These are information tidbits we get from people in the course of our day. Or during moments when we just sit around waiting for our appointment in coffee shops, or in bus stations. Sometimes we get them as e-mailed messages.
Tidbits are not really significant enough yet, to our mind, to write a whole column about, like this bit about the Kapatiran that surfaces now and then as events occur. Many moons ago, a friend from Manila brought the political movement to our attention.
Then there are those bits about the V-hire drivers’ lament on the city’s traffic enforcers not allowing them to unload passengers outside their terminal. If passengers would like to get off, say in Lahug, why should they be brought down to the Citilink terminal? That, it seems is not public service.
And then, of course, there was the great chase involving town police and civilian support volunteers a few nights ago.
It seemed that a wanted man from Talisay City, who had reportedly committed crimes from rape to killing, had made his way to Balamban. He contacted a friend and, when his presence became known, the police went after him. He supposedly hid in the bushy area behind our house. The police and the civilian volunteers surrounded the place through the night but could not find him.
And then there is the talk about the radio and TV personality who appeared to have violated broadcast ethics. He was able to interview the President during her recent visit here and talked about it in his radio broadcast, even mentioning things about her that many think should not have been talked about for ethical reasons.
For me, these bits of information are not enough to merit a full column but they are interesting enough to write about anyway.
The Kapatiran, for instance, was mentioned because my compadre, Nandy Pacheco, joined the “political movement for the common good.” He used to be the late vice president Emmanuel Pelaez’s PR legman and has obviously absorbed some of that great man’s political idealism.
It looks like the group has realized that our republic truly needs a political outlook different from what we have now if we are to survive as a dynamic nation. It may be quixotic, but it is truly worth striving for.
A pamphlet I got from the group issued a plea to the skeptics, the defeatists, and the cynics “to please give us a chance—and surprise yourselves. Get aboard and join the faith journey. Every faith journey is a work of grace and grace means God will do for us what we cannot do alone.”
Then there is the puzzling issuance by Citom of traffic violation tickets to V-hire vehicles plying the Transcentral Highway route to Cebu City from my hometown in Balamban if they unload passengers at the Petron station across the street from JY Square. Unloading in the gas station premises and even way down to the city does not obstruct traffic.
There are moments really when the little bits of information that you come upon would drive you to do something immediately but is unable to because of certain constraints, and then they lose immediacy afterwards, overtaken by time.
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