Faeldon the lineman

I just heard In Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales asking for an investigation into allegations that Capt. Nick Faeldon served as a lineman for Meralco last November 29. Yes, the good soldier escaped allegedly posing as a lineman.

Well, I'm not surprised. With the low pay of soldiers nowadays compared with the millions being showered to their officers like Esperon, I am not surprised if Faeldon moonlights as a Meralco lineman. Or even a bill collector. Imagine, if you're a bill collector, you'll have thousands of pesos in your hands everyday. The only "threat" to your life probably comes from the dogs. Those wads of dough can probably buy a few handguns or maybe an M-16? That could be used for a coup, right Mr. Gonzales?

Hey, I heard that aside from being a lineman, Faeldon also worked as a balut vendor, a fishball vendor and a Bayantel Wireless Landline seller. Yes, he actually was a BAYANTEL Landline seller.

I have a challenge to Raul Gonzales---Mr. Secretary, are you sure that Dana Batnag is not Faeldon in disguise?Maybe you should call Dana and have her gender checked? Maybe she's Faeldon?

Have you checked maybe priest killer Norberto Manero is the renegade rebel soldier? They seem to look alike, except maybe for the hair? Ah, with photos of him sporting a killer hairdo, the most logical for Faeldon to do is shave everything off.

I bet that Faeldon is just out there somewhere. I heard from a reliable source that he's enjoying his life as palos. Yes, Faeldon is Palos. This should give Gonzales a cause to go to ABS-CBN and look for Faeldon.

Or maybe Faeldon is healing priest Suarez in disguise. They look alike right?

My take on the PNP-Phil Media War

As a journalist myself, let me express my take on the current imbroglio involving the government and the media. I've been immersing myself to the issue and it seems that media is on a higher moral ground in this struggle.

Let me say that media should first unite and fight this creeping attempt by government institutions to control the flow of information. Why? If journalists would not do this, everybody will wake up one morning in an atmosphere of proto martial rule. Media is the only group who is fighting this government above ground. If groups will not unite now, this fight will all be lost.

One of the things that media should reconcile is its internal struggle. This is a good occasion to really determine who are legitimate media and who are government agents.

I wonder why the opposition seems to be so silent about the issue. They are NOT supporting the cause of Philippine journalists. Well, that goes to show how callous and how indifferent the opposition is. Now is the time for cause-oriented groups and like minded organisations to militate against this administration and prevent a repeat of martial rule. If all of us would just be fence sitters this time around, Arroyo's ravenous lapdogs will be more brazen and bold and do other more oppressive actions against all of us.