ODD HAILERS
By: Iris P. Concepcion

The Supreme Court's decision upholding the illegality of creating the Truth Commission is the first decision (perceived as a setback) that is hailed by a Congressman traditionally regarded as left of leaning. This made me ubiquitously suspect of the inherent release of this news motive immediately.

The President obviously was up-ended on this one as he was doing the groundbreaking ceremony of a Medical City facility and his Cabinet men were helping out typhoon victims recover from their lost properties and shattered lives.

A well-known and incisive writer told me that some quarters are building up the credibility of a pretender to the throne and discredit Aquino as he implements speedily the necessary reforms inside the government. They are afraid of the good publicity feedback it could get from the community, thus, weakening their leader of choice.

Watching the news is interpreting the news wisely. This is an administration that no longer gives in to cabalistic posturings and pressures of groups. It knows how to parry this time around.

Government people in the past had been helping much in weeding out the leeches inside the system: those who had sat pretty well on executive waterworks and electricity funds (diverted money). These likewise include funds coming in from foreign fundings that are aimed to help marginalized sectors but are instead used to useless wastage of travels abroad instead of genuine and true-blue implementation of projects. No, this ceased to be an issue of mere NBN-ZTE deal already. It is far larger than that. Visual communication and documentations are far better than rumor-mongering this time around.

There is likewise a legit news source that detailed out how these chaotic "kuligligs" ruin the city's traffic: they are just there to sow disorder, nothing more (the going rate I was told is P4,000 per tricycle unit). These people are being used to disrupt the good implementation of projects seen to benefit millions of pedestrians and the people in general.

I am sure the good men of the previous administration know exactly how to play against the old hats of defensive spinning this time around. Perceptive cognition of the true causes of this attempt to discredit Aquino comes from one group and I do hope these seemingly innocent powerplayers start policing their own junkyards of horribly kept perks and start writing the root cause as it is. If they want to be freed from the inquiries, they better start ploughing back these kept funds to where they truly belong: government coffers.

The Palace then issued a statement that persons transgressing the law attached to the previous administration can still be prosecuted in other venues. This is the right thing to do. The last publicized news conference of President Aquino was more telling and deeper than this surface scratch on what is really going on. This is a test of credibility and this includes the credibility of how media leaks sensitive news to the public too. Just research on how sites are slanted and you can see the huger picture.

One particular network site was quoting a politician over a football win that has nothing to do with anything except to land a second name on the news. I am wondering why this rush and frenzied capture for "governing" is adamant. They must be too eager to serve the people. It couldn't wait. If only they could translate this passion to actual work.

In less than four months, a lot of sound policy implementations headed their way into our public institutions due to Aquino's relentless pursuit of fixing the government house. This is bad news for groups who thrive on scandals, mistress-digging wars, spray-paintings and chaos for monetary bargainings least blackmail shall ensue.

Right now, people are more perceptive though. Trace the records of lawmakers who had the balls to question the processes from within, how they went about it and you shall get the clearer picture. Stay pertinently close to the services replete with national interest.

I was also told that less and less people are relying on broadsheets for news items. One columnist essayed this. I think we are at this juncture where underground bloggers and common citizens are challenging the methods of news being guarded by traditional gatekeepers. The credible items get linked. That is the thing going on right now.

And yes, this government I believe shall go after the REAL culprits this time around. And no, I do not think they could bring down Aquino on this one.

Ski boots and faulty misuse of unionized fundings:

Walk your talk this time around. Let us see how you fare in the productivity front.

In four months, what have YOU done? Show them to us.