Think about it
Ampatuan-like mentality
By Jun Velasco
ERMIN Garcia was for saying that kabayan Bebot Villar who is doing a great job as head of the Presidential Anti Smuggling Group should have been designated Dangerous Drugs Board chairman earlier.
We should have started much earlier in giving peace a chance in this our beleaguered nation.
Our kabayan, Bebot, is a genius in getting things, including the seemingly impossible.
It’s known to the general public that the breakdown of law anywhere is mostly due to the Ampatuan-like mentality among our people caused by illicit drugs.
Equally known, too, is the fact that many government officials especially those charged to enforce the law — the police especially -are, instead of curbing the crime, are encouraging it.
Having proven his mettle in anti smuggling work, which has effectively checked government’s continuous losses in billions of pesos to smugglers, Bebot is some kind of “savior” of the economy.
Let’s wish him well and pray he’d get over an overstaying pneumonia. His first act as DDB chair is a stern warning to drug lords that their days are numbered.
As our friend Roger Pascua correctly suggested, the first agenda of any leader is to keep the people out of harm’s way. The drug menace can frustrate any development efforts of the government.
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Dagupeños and Pangasinenses are upbeat at prestigious pollsters surveys that youthful businessman Joey de Venecia is about to hit the single digit scorecard.
It won’t be long when he would get into the Magic l0. That would be the time, we guess, when Papa Joe will release the much awaited campaign logistics.
Fact is Joey is doing a “relax-lang” campaign and yet, he has beaten most of the veterans in acceptability ratings. Pangasinenses should give him a united Iglesia ni Kristo-type of support.
By the way, we got wind of reports that a senatorial candidate with the name of Jun Lozada is not the same one who fought with Joey de Venecia the onerous NBN-ZTE contract. This Lozada was a former congressman in the Visayas.
We’re afraid this clarification would affect his popularity ratings, but the truth, whatever the cost, should be out. But good luck to senate bet Apolinario Lozada Jr., who was himself an exemplary official.
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Our friend Perry Callanta (a fellow Rotary Club president of District 3780) is proposing to Guv’nor Amado “Spines” Espino Jr. to make public his stand. Is he supporting fellow mistah and party mate in Lakas-Kami Sixth District congressional bet Jun Esperon?
Perry, a well-known political analyst, is biting his nail why reports of Spines waltzing with his former vice Marlyn Agabas are persistent.
A beer-mate of Gary Olivar, Perry was Hermo’s high school classmate at the Philippine Science High School on Agham Road in Quezon City. He is the son of our comrade Porfirio Callanta of Alaminos City.
If we known Spines, he is a man of discipline, which should also go for party discipline, we think.
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We were gifted by Perry Callanta with two brilliantly written two editions of “How to Win an Election.”
Written by hard-boiled journalists who have covered Philippine elections, their election tips were the result of extensive interviews with experts.
We advise candidates to get a copy of the book, which costs only P400.
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