Let me parrot my friend and sometimes adversary here at Filipino Voices–Bencard and another colleague based in Australia with the name BenigNO–what’s this overt and highly sensationalized fascination with a feud at a golf course? What with this national fascination over a department secretary and his son who allegedly mauled a private citizen? Conyo is right–there are far more pressing concerns than write something about a private spat which no one actually knows whose side was really right and whose side is really on the wrong? I dare my colleagues–who among you was actually there in the first place? What we wrote came from a spurned source–the alleged beneficiary of this purported “arrogance” displayed by the Pangandamans.

What if this victim is not really the victim and in fact, the instigator of this bugbugan off the golf course? Why is everyone believing the narrations of this alleged victim online when in truth, nobody actually really know what really happened right?

Look at this site—it devoted five different entries talking about the same thing. Whatthe? So what if a mayor’s bodyguards mauled a private citizen? There must be some reason like self-defense, to begin with. The incident report showed that Dela Paz actually poked his umbrella at the mayor. If I’m the security personnel of Mayor Pangandaman, would I not do the same thing? Of course I would. That’s what I’m being paid for in the first place, protect my client from any harm. Definitely, during the melee, someone would get injuried. But, it does’nt mean that it would cause somebody’s job on the line, right? What’s the connection between Pangandaman’s job as DAR secretary and that of Dela Paz? Nothing. Dela Paz is also a known braggart on the course. He always tell people how great his family and his son is. A braggart receiving the brutal end of the stick will always shout to the world that he’s wronged when he probably started the melee himself.

Do we know that there was a second incident where Dela Paz came with his accomplices, bearing batutas, knives and baseball bats? Dela Paz tried to make that Pinoy penchant for “resbak”. So, was he still a victim or an instigator? Dela Paz is not a good witness. He did’nt tell the entire country of this second episode where he came back with thugs to allegedly beat up the younger Pangandaman.

So, why are we still curious what happened? I think the Pinoy being an usisero is really behind all of this fascination with tabloid stories like these. We like to guess who’s the culprit. This is actually “away bata”, yet, we in the blogosphere is writing about it, making it bigger than what it really is. There are more pressing issues, like charter change, the other Dela Paz involved in the Euro scandal, and even this alleged bribery done by parents of the three Alabang boys caught red handed with cocaine. Time to recover from our holiday blues and talk of something more relevant, like ousting Gloria in 2009.

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