Eduardo Pontaoe
14 June 2007

 

Mr. Edwin Farias… my…my…my! I don’t know what you were doing. . .thinking. . . when you wrote up your post on the 9th, missing the inconsistencies.

This is not facetious and you know it.

You are a poster at the Forum long enough – to know - you would be crucified if you make avoidable mistakes. But to you it seems has that in mind, the vociferous disregard for the truth, the rectitude which every one of us must adhere to.

Come now, your post on the 13th admitting compunction, is again, a hodgepodge of outrageous fallacies. Thinking of Obama instead of Jefferson? You knew damned well Obama has never been accused of wrongdoing.

Let me tell you Mr. Farias, forget this futility . . . come down from your perch and be human again. Assumptions on the unattainable - is hazardous to your mental health.

Jess Delfin
14 June 2007

 

On the Magsaysay project:

There should be no compromise in circumventing the standards already in place prior to the start of the construction. Rules are made to ensure orderly transactions, and to hold people to standards of conduct.

I don’t understand why some people are so insistent in overlooking the obvious: The Magsaysay project is clouded in deception and corruption. Why can’t the city government provide all the documents: the city council resolution, the bidding process that ultimately awarded the contract to build, and the contract document between Lim and MetroState?

As the “contract” involves millions of pesos, I could only think that is drawn by legal experts and duly notarized. If these documents exist, is it not just a matter of taking it out of the filing cabinet and showing it to interested parties? I am beginning to think that these documents were written on toilet paper and had been flushed away.

This project should be reviewed in its entirety and if anyone is caught in any wrongdoing, be penalized. Anything less will only lead to more corruption and cover ups.

Any one with COMMON SENSE will know that anything that results from actions done under false pretenses is ILLEGAL. Excusing any illegal activity will only result in more illegal activities, that’s common sense.

My suggestion for the Magsaysay project: Stop the construction NOW. Correct everything that is wrong before resuming the construction. To all who are concerned, that is CORRECTING, not falsifying anything or covering up any illegal activity.

Lastly, if everything else fails, leave the unfinished project as it stands right now and make it a monument to Benjie Lim’s and his Onor-onor councilors’ ineptitude, arrogance, and corruption.

May I suggest to the Punch to print an article with the time line of events and the names of the people involved from the passing of the now non-existent resolution up to the present time? It should answer the people’s question: “Who did what when?”

William Loquias
14 June 2007

 

You are completely missing the point- the issue is not whether the Filipino people are in favor of charter change. The issue is whether the Filipino people trust JdV, GMA, and the rest of the administration lawmakers to enact the rightful, correct, and moral changes to our constitution.

Simple lang yan- make JdV and GMA sign a covenant that they will not gun for the prime ministership, I am sure that will make charter change more palatable to the people.

Remember, the people at large distrust JdV, and rightfully so. Tayo lang naman sa fourth district ang nagpapaloko. GMA and JdV have no chance of winning a presidential contest if elections were held today. Walang nagtitiwala sa kanila.

So what’s the fastest way to charter change? Simple lang. Remove JdV and GMA from the picture.