BULL’S HIT

A demolition tactic/
Incompetent PRC execs
Rudy Garcia

Is it a joke or not? For the nth time, there seems to be another demolition tactic against this writer. Well, as expected, this is the price I have to pay for exposing irregularities, anomalies, abuses, illegal activities and other unwanted activities affecting services to the people.

Of course I cannot please people who may have been hit by my writing but I bet, these people are really guilty so, they developed hatred and became my silent enemies ready to attack me anytime though any means.

Worst, some colleagues in media whom I guess are getting grease money from these underground activities have become partners of these unsavory characters who are trying to destroy me as a straight forward and courageous media man, modesty aside.

The recent text messages sent to several media men in Baguio City accusing a bodybuilder who is a media man and said to be demanding protection money from a bingo operator in Hilltop, Baguio were a dirty joke, a hoax.

It was deceptive and meant to harass and destroy my very person. True, the text messages did not name the subject but the fact that it reached one of the publishers and the OIC (not this paper) where my column is printed is below the belt. These text messages said I was some sort of a dirty media man. These were false information.

What irked me more was when I read the true or false section of a Baguio newspaper, issue of May 6, which read “A muscled media man approached a bingo operator and demanded protection money claiming he was representing all media organizations in Baguio .”

Well, well, well, this is not true. These hypocrites know how to hit below the belt those who are not on the take but are only doing their job of reporting illegal activities in the city. It is a wonder why these so-called mediamen cannot do this to their own kind who are known as AC – DC or attack and collect or destroy and collect media men.

Ha! Ha! Ha! Funny, but to these media detractors of mine, next time, please make sure you hit it right. Anyway, I need not explain but as a straightforward person I want to set the record straight.

The husband of the bingo operator in hilltop is my distant relative from Pangasinan and Nueva Ecija. Being their relative, I often visit them in Hilltop considering that I live only a few meters away. I even introduce my daughter and son as their nephew and niece.

However, there is a wall that divides us as relatives and my responsibility as a media practitioner. Nothing personal. The fact that I even made my surveillance beforehand on their kind of business is one proof. And good, I found no gambling not even pusoy, otherwise they will be among those I could be exposing in my column. I did not intervene in their operation nor helped them in the facilitation of their permits and clearances.

They are operating legally. So, what’s the protection money they are saving? And for me extorting my own relatives is unbelievable and funny. Nakakatawa. I don’t need to beg since we still eat three times a day and my family lives a decent life. My family owns a family enterprise called the “Mothers Restaurant and catering business” in the city of Baguio so if I want, I could just sell my rights as part owner and not the other way around prostituting my profession.

Hindi barya, barya lang. This is not to brag but you can ask any Baguio folk who knows our family. Now, whoever is behind this dirty truck, I’m sure, is desperate, crazy and a coward hiding his identity under a woman’s skirt making his cell phone a deadly weapon of mass disinformation.

This “pikon” from those underworld characters and their protectors, I happened to expose in my columns. And to my colleagues in media, I hope you are not the bobo or tanga types deceived by this kind of dirty trick. Why not go after those illegal activities and not those people who are going after them.

Finally, I would like to challenge all the concerned especially my detractors and accusers that we go personally to the bingo operator to know the real truth so that this issue will put to rest. once and for all.
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The pitiful sight of applicants for the board exam at the local Professional Regulation Commission in Baguio only shows how incompetent the local PRC officials are. Instead of letting the applicants line up for several days before letting them get their application forms, those in charge should have applied a numbering scheme system to avoid inconvenience on the part of the applicants.

Imagine these poor applicants especially those from the far provinces sleeping and eating at the line just so, they will not be out from their lines? And how about their body necessities? How I wish these people from PRC local office in Baguio would exercise more prudence and concern in administering their functions. Hoy Gising!