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| Inday Sara Duterte--my kinda girl |
It was raunchy, it was violent but hell knows no masters, except of course, Inday Sara Duterte.
Sara is not your ordinary mean buster. I mean, she's a lawyer. She knows the law, just like Atty. Theodore Te who commented that Inday Sara could be cited for contempt for assaulting Sheriff Abe Andres.
Andres, says Te, was just doing his duty. And his duty was specific---clear the area from illegal settlers.
But, that is NOT the issue. Inday Duterte recognizes that the sheriff was there to enforce the law. She was not questioning the demolition order. She was asking for leniency so that she can enforce order.
The issue is simple---the mayor of the city requested for two more hours. Inday Sara wants to coordinate with the illegal settlers to avoid a confrontation with the police, who were hired to enforce the law.
No, says Andres. Let's begin demolition. Mayhem ensued shortly right after. That really pissed my Inday. And what ensued after was really a classic.
That's the kind of leadership we all want---a leadership that understands the plight of the people and ready to protect the people at all times.
Duterte exemplifies a kind of leadership that is exactly the opposite of what we all see every single day in Malacanang.
Ask me why graft and corrupt practices remain and festering in Malacanang? Because there is no leader that holds the fort as strong as what the Dutertes do in Davao. If a Duterte occupies the palace right now, such nincoompoops like Alvarez, etal would have gotten what Andres got.
Hate to say it, but the Duterte style of leadership is not just strongman style---there's compassion you see there. There is total appreciation of the soundness and the equality of rights under the law.
I smacked the sheriff, that's right, and I'm proud of it. :-) Inday Sara is my complete woman.
i hate other people especially those from other places called it dumb, i think its the best way to say it when you ask for some little respect. punch the guy para matauhan. kongting respeto lang sa leader natin and you may continue with your work sheriff polpol. go inday do it your way, we davaoeños if not all supports you. Sec. Robredo punta ka dito Davao para ikaw masapak, tapos ipaanod ka namin sa Flash Flood.
ReplyDeleteThe end does not justify the means though. No one should be hit just because he/she was doing his job. Absent a TRO, the sheriff had no choice but to implement the court order which is, to my understanding, is "immediate and executory." The sheriff had no choice. There is no law in the Philippine Constitution that grants Mayors the power to delay an execution of a court order. People may say, it's only "two hours." Well, why not 3 hours? or 4? or make it 3000 hours. That is the problem of "relaxing" the law--where do we draw the line?
ReplyDeleteI do recognize that she (Duterte) meant well though. She wanted the best situation in a worst possible scenario. She could have just chastised the Sheriff later on. But to punch him? Can you imagine if every Mayor starts doing that? Anarchy.
By the way, I don't hate Sara.
ReplyDeleteI just don't want a situation where hitting and punching (unless for self defense) becomes the rule of law.
In fact, in Sara's own way, she already apologized by saying, "it was not her best moment." Yeah, that is not a direct apology, but that's her. She meant well. She is even taking a leave. Good. She acknowledges her misgivings. This is the part where she is my "kind of girl--" the part we she knows she is strong enough to reflect on her actions and see that it wasn't really a good moment for her.
My Girl too : )
ReplyDeletegreat post for
a great young lady!
Mayor Sara Duterte had no qualms in beating a sheriff into submission, because she knew that she would always be protected by her father (the Vice Mayor, only because of term limits on being mayor, albeit for one term only). He had no qualms giving the dirty finger to the media in response to a question on his stand regarding the sheriff. The mayor’s son, who is OF COURSE the head of the barangay captains council, also had no qualms giving his own dirty finger to the media when asked about his father’s gesture. This is clearly the manifestation of a dynasty based on thug mentality masquerading as vigilantism and being on the side of “the people”. The name Duterte will become as well-known (infamous) as the Ampatuans in not so long a time. mark my words.
ReplyDeleteThe mayor that punched the face of a sheriff! The Vice Mayor
ReplyDeletethat flashed a dirty finger in public.! I don't approved of it
BUT i would rather have leaders like them who are not so
concern with their public image and have done that in the
bigger context of taking side of the poor than to those
politicians who APPEARS TO BE VERY CLEAN BUT HAVE
RAPED AND BITTEN THE POOR DUE TO THEIR
UNWAVERING CORRUPTION!!!!
Sara should rot in jail. No wonder this country is dead last among all Asian countries.
ReplyDeleteI'll go for inday sarah too..
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