When the plaza becomes a ploy
Posted on June 28, 2007 - Filed Under Punch Forum |
Eduardo Pontaoe
28 June 2007
Mr. Jevie "Jebong" de Guzman:
I heard you loud and clear. Understood your sentiments like any Malasiquinian would do.
We do have a public plaza, too, in Santa Barbara where they hold homecomings for balikbayans, dances during town fiestas, hold political mumbo jumbos and during those periods in the old days, where we used to spread raw rice grains to dry. It was that “historical”.
Your claim that plazas of any given town falls under Republic Act 7586, I absolutely disagree. Plazas are not a part of what this Act describes and enforced.
Assuming that it was so is a great disservice on your part to readers of the Forum and all those who understand the implications on what you’re trying to justify. Let me put this way, Mr. de Guzman . . . you can’t make a mountain out of a molehill.
You and Ms. Josie Tamondong questioned the Malasiqui Police Station as a lawless integral part of the plaza. We do have that in Santa Barbara.
The reason why the police built inside the plaza land because where would they go? As part of municipal set-up including the municipio and the church, that station should be accessible in the town proper.
In Santa Barbara, the plaza is a showcase; a place to behold . . . it became a ploy, an act, a curtain to hide the rotten deals. It was a show fitting the Wallendas, a high wire act of corruption. If it can happen in Santa Barbara, it can happen anywhere.
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