KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.SYNDICATED, ENGLISH. 20 JUNE 2013 Judiciary in a scandalized guessing game LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… `You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor’…” (Exodus 20:17, the Holy Bible). -ooo- JUDICIARY IN A SCANDALIZED GUESSING GAME: Deo Macalma’s “Espesyal na Balita” program at DZRH, 666 khz., for its June 19 and 20, 2013 episodes, has thrown the entire Philippine judiciary in a scandalized guessing game. The reason? For those two days, Macalma, currently the station manager of DZRH and one of its prized broadcasters, had been featuring a supposed “lady justice” who, he said, is maintaining an illicit love affair with a member of President Aquino’s Presidential Security Group. Of course, Macalma was careful enough not to name the supposed “lady justice” nor the court where she belongs, but in a banter with Joe Taruc, he made it clear that lady justices could be found only in the country’s collegiate courts---the Sandiganbayan, the Court of Tax Appeals, the Court of Appeals and, of course, the Supreme Court. Macalma, in his episode on June 20, 2013, claimed that the colleagues of the “lady justice” are starting to be scandalized by her apparent “flaunting” of her love affair with Aquino’s PSG officer, where one incident allegedly took place during a conference of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP), in which the “lady justice” and the PSG officer took a dip together in a swimming pool at the conference venue, in full view of many people. My question is: is this even true? Should not the Supreme Court step into this issue now? -ooo- CONGRATULATIONS, NEIL OCAMPO: And speaking of DZRH, I would like to congratulate a broadcaster-friend of mine of long ago, Neil Ocampo, who is now having a daily program at the radio station at its 6 to 7 in the morning time slot. I chanced upon him in the morning of June 20, 2013, while I was traveling in my car en route to the Olongapo City Regional Trial Court. Neil came from two major broadcast stations before he joined DZRH. Neil became famous not only for his good style of anchoring his program and his fearless analysis of events, but more for his talent to speak in different voices, which gives out the impression that he has with him in the program several personalities whose speaking styles he is mimicking with much flair and credibility. I am sure DZRH made a good choice of Neil. -ooo- WB’s SKEWED PLANS FOR GLOBAL WARMING: The World Bank initiative to help countries that are projected to bear the brunt of the destructive effects of global warming and climate change in the days to come shows its skewed perspective on natural calamities which will only result in more wastage of precious dollars, in billions and billions yet. Why is this so? Principally because of the World Bank’s perception that it must help mitigate the death and destruction arising from global warming and climate change to ensure that countries affected by it do not plunge into greater poverty and miserable life. It said, through one of its officers: "At the World Bank Group, we are concerned that unless the world takes bold action now, a disastrously warming planet threatens to put prosperity out of reach of millions and roll back decades of development…" Clearly, that kind of a stand shows that the World Bank’s priority is business and prosperity, rather than the safety and preservation of life among the people whose countries are in the path of death and destruction because of global warming and climate change. With this priority, it is clear that the World Bank will be more concerned about finding ways to prevent business loses, rather than to prevent losses of lives. -ooo- QUESTIONS ON FLOOD CONTROL PROGRAMS: “Government to fix flooding in Metro by year end”---headline. What? We will have to wait for another six months before the flooding in the metropolis is even touched? Why should our people be made to wait for a longer period? Can we not do anything now? And what has the government been doing for the last three years about floods? Nothing? Indeed, may God have mercy on us all. -ooo- REACTIONS? Please call me at 0917 984 24 68, 0918 574 0193, 0922 833 43 96. Email: batasmauricio@yahoo, mmauriciojr111@gmail. -30-
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 22:46:22 +0000
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