What’s Ping Lacson’s game plan

By Gonzalo Duque

FOR coming out with his latest anti Erap antics, Sen. Ping Lacson is being pilloried and also praised.

But come to think of it. Is he for real? Or he has a deeper agenda?

He was anti jueteng, true, but why did he not prosecute his predecessor in the PNP Bobby Lastimoso?

Is Ping really going the way of authentic opposition stalwart? Or is he just kicking out his former boss, Erap, to oblivion so that he will be the remaining champion opposition leader and be ranked on the level of President Gloria? This is my thesis, and I have yet to hear a deeper analysis of the man.

In his recent column, Jarius Bondoc of the Philippine Star said: “Sen. Panfilo Lacson, yakking on the very day his ex-boss Joseph Estrada testified in self defense against plunder, proved it once again.

Lacson said he knew all along that Estrada’s Muslim Youth Foundation was being funded by jueteng. As PNP chief in l999 he even advised the then-President to reconsider using illegal money to educate the Muslim scholars.”

Bondoc quoted lawyer Rene Saguisag. If what he said is true, then on principle he should have resigned and denounced the supposed graft.

But Lacson did no such thing, and perhaps in debt of gratitude – in practice sila-sila.

Jarius’ analysis is plain putdown on politicians we have these days who connive and promote each other’s selfish agenda.

In my own view, I give Lacson the benefit of a leader worth his salt. He is presidentiable, don’t you know?  But he is of the shallow and hollow kind. He has moorings as a protector of the masa which makes him unpresidentiable.

I don’t know with Ermin but Ping Lacson is not better than a typical politician who is hayok  of power.

With his actuations, I predict a complete collapse of the opposition if they don’t shop for someone with a harder stuff.

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We are in the throes of another war against CHED because of its despotic, arbitrary whimsical and abusive officials.

In our last encounter, we fought tooth and nail side by side with University of Luzon president Macky Samson when its college of accountancy was  about to phase out. We won that war.

This time, our College of Nursing is CHED’s target. They will not have their way just like that. The Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities, of which I am the first vice president, has taken up the cudgels for aggrieved parties like us.

In my very honest opinion, the CHED should go if we are to save the young and future of the nation.

Read a news story about this in the other pages of this issue.

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We mourn the demise of a good, great man, education leader Dr. Luis F. Samson, who died a few days ago.

I have yet to hear a derogatory word about him. He was a rarity in the sense that throughout his life he exemplified a true Christian’s qualities. I hope some people I know with pretensions for goodness can copy his tall credentials.

Rest in peace, Kuya Luis.

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