Friday, October 06, 2006 Seares: PB muddles Sugbuak By Pachico A. Seares News Sense
THE resolution passed Monday by the Cebu Provincial Board was intended to support Gov. Gwen Garcia's anti-Sugbuak signature campaign.
It did not.
It was supposed to lend PB authority and moral force to a signature blitz against cutting up Cebu into four provinces. Nothing of the sort.
In final text, the resolution makes the Board look like it's still standing on its head, trying to compute.
The Board's sense in plain English: It strongly supports collecting signatures that gauge public sentiment, against or for Sugbuak.
PB used 45 words, mostly polysyllabic, to say that in the title.
One PB foot in
PB support is limited to polling. A cold neutral stand, which defiles the resolution's reason for being: shoot down Sugbuak.
The draft cited "detrimental" results and "destructive and permanent consequences" on Cebu. It extolled the campaign as "perfect method" to get the people's "vehement" objection.
Those lines were slashed and burned.
Clearly, despite dense thicket of language, one can see the PB doesn't bar or push Sugbuak.
The Board yielded to Gwen's order but dawdled on specs. One PB foot is in her house but the other foot is outside the door.
In law school, I learned the word obfuscation. But why obfuscate when you can muddle or confuse just as fabulously?
Yet this time, it fits. PB is obfuscating, outrageously.
