The true deserve truly only truthful allies

By Al S. Mendoza

ONE city, four towns.

Your PUNCH said on July 18 that Alaminos City is jueteng-free for six years now.  Same with Bani, Burgos and Sison.

They are the only ones where jueteng, the illegal numbers game, is dead.  That’s according to the Krusadang Bayan Laban sa Jueteng of Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz.

Bishop Cruz is my idol.  It will always be that way till the grasses cease to be perennial.

He could be our own Mahatma Gandhi, if not Nelson Mandela:  So consistently pro-people so that he is as worshipped as the sun.

So, who said jueteng can’t be licked?

Don’t tell that to the mayors of Alaminos (Nani Braganza), Bani, Burgos and Sison. (Sorry, I didn’t catch the names of the mayors of Bani, Burgos and Sison.)

But whoever you are, fellas, I raise a glass.  You and Nani are heroes when heroes in this country have become as scarce as gurgling brooks cascading down our hills and valleys.

You personify the true meaning of politicians: Noble in thought and in deed, protective of the true welfare of the people.

When is gambling ever considered right?

Said my father:  “Son, if gambling is good for the people, then all of our people will do nothing but gamble.”

Nani & Co., never waver.  No vacillation.  Aside from Bishop Cruz, the enemies of wrong support you tirelessly.

You fight and they will fight with you, like the folk that fought alongside Tita Cory in Edsa when Edsa was still the true Edsa.

“To fight for the right” is to fight for the people, to fight the evils of society—jueteng being one of them.

Aside from being jueteng-free, Bani, according to your PUNCH (again, of July 18 issue), is also leading the way in advancing “green energy.”

Because its windmill and biomass projects are truly innovative and pro-people, the town government has drawn for the windmills a P90-million package from the Japan International Cooperation Agency.

The windmills are expected to produce 500 kilowatts of power and will likewise complement the construction of an ice-making plant for the town’s fish ports.

Truly admirable.

And the biomass plant has also attracted a Spanish group to finance it.

Isn’t that huge, a small town of 50,000, drawing attention from beyond borders?

Nothing’s impossible, especially if it’s an honest-to-goodness project we foist on our people.

And then we go to Sual, the fourth town I mention with awe because of its shipping port that finally begins construction, reportedly, this month.

If the multi-million Sual International Shipping Port isn’t a worthy undertaking, why, the Department of Transportation and Communication, the Philippine Ports Authority and Guv Spines’ administration would not have thrown their hefty financial support behind it.

Only the true deserve truthful allies.

So, what can I say?

Here’s a glass, too, to Sual mayor John Rodney Arcinue.

I don’t know you from Adam—but I can feel you mean well.

May God help you and finish the project—with flourish.

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