Think about it
The art of lying
By Jun Velasco
“I had rather my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me,” Beatrice in Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
SOME people did not want the President’s Thursday visit here a total success in terms of a vast red carpet welcome from every Pangasinense, extending a warm hand.
It’s good that Governor Amado Espino Jr., was able to hand glad His Excellency, but most of his party mates and followers were not allowed to come closer to the President.
The welcome would have been a vast outpouring of love for well-loved son. The province was second only to Cebu that gave Noynoy the biggest number of votes in the last presidential elections.
We have here a case of one brimming with love for someone who was hysterically being shielded by a small fanatical group for bizarre reasons.
The sad scene was one reason we hate elections. It could bring out the worst in people.
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Thank you, Prof. Bobby Tuazon of the Center for People Empowerment in Governance (CENPEG) for your scholarly talk on political dynasties.
“Dynasty” reminds us of a popular television series featuring the beautiful people living amoral and immoral lives in the US.
Why is dynasty hot these days?
Because, says Bobby in his talk at the DCNHS Abong na Alumni, 73 percent of Filipinos are still ruled by dynasties. And part of the 73 percent are many candidates for senator, congressman, governor, mayor, vice mayor and councilor nationwide. Most of them are expected to win because as oligarchs, they have the resources.
Before some of you would rise in defence of dynastic families, we are chewing this nut to buttress the fact that the nation can’t move forward enough if our leaders are dynastic.
It’s the few oligarchs – and not we –who dictate what life we should live. We can’t fight the moneyed and the powerful, can we? Only Fernando Poe can do that.
No, Bobby did not spill the beans on local dynasties? Are there? Maybe, mini dynasties.
We are examining dynasties in light of what they have done or undone to our country.
The damage is terrible. But the dynasts have a way of concealing their crime because they control the media. If it’s true that there is a constitutional ban on dynasties, why are they still around? Maybe our Comelec can’t find the resolve, interest and the mass support to implement it.
At least, we can promote awareness of dynasties. That’s what Bobby Tuazon and his fellow 65’ers of DCNHS have just done. We need not win the campaign overnight. But win it we must.
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Politicians and especially their minions should take a cue from Atty. Victor Llamas’ book “To Catch A Liar” particularly in the chapter “Why People Love to Be Lied To.”
Don’t frown. But this smart former RTC judge hits the nail on the head.
He says we don’t want others to lie to us, and yet “very often we lie to ourselves.”
We go the extra mile to experience the bliss of living in a world of lies and achieve “a self-induced orgasm.”
No wonder, we love to flatter and praise those we want to manipulate. The problem is we get used to it and may not realize that the lie we live with is simply that, a lie.
It may be impossible to make you realize it.
Your lie is your truth.
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Did Kim Lokin’s – or her hubby lawyer Luis Lokin’s—file a disqualification case against Rep. Pol Bataoil and his brother Councilor Ramon Bataoil for vote buying and kidnapping?
These are the times for political intrigues.
On the other hand, we received a copy of a BIR complaint against Luis Lokin “for evading or defeating payment of income taxes from 2003 to 2007 totaling Php. 12,472,899.07 .”
The case against Lokin, according to BIR’s news bulletin “Media Release,” is the 35th filed under the Run After Tax Evades (RATE) program under the leadership of Commissioner Kim S. Jacinto-Henares.
The heat is on!
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NOTES: Beware of the heat wave. Latest victim, our friend Min Gomez was rushed to the Nazareth Hospital due to stroke while watching the Kalutan with Diony Galvan and Alvin Ochotorena … Personal animosities fired up by politics are foolish; avoid them … Most of the LP belts for the Dagupan City council are expected to win. Happy Birthday, Ed Maramba last Thursday, May 2. His bash at his fishpond resort was a gastronomic feast, says Alfred Dawana….
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