Opinion 3/4/16 (Spotlight, sexual abuse, clergy, Cebu, Catholicism, accountability, taxi fare, fuel, price hike, presidential candidate)

By Anonymous

The Freeman's Lastimosa: "Kapayasan sa Oslob"
Gihulagway sa Vatican ang "Spotlight" nga di anti-Catholic ug nga igo lang nituki sa kalisod sa mga biktima sa pangabuso sa pagpangita og hustisya sa ilang gidangatan tungod sa pagtabon sa mga kardinal ug mga obispo sa mga pari nga gipasanginlan og mga krimen. Bugtong gisaway sa Vatican ang kapakyas sa producers pag-apil sa seryusong kampanya sa Roma batok sa pangabuso sa kaparian. Ambot unsay sukaranan sa pangangkon sa Vatican sa seryuso nilang kampanya batok sa pangabuso. [...] Apan wa pay nakita ang katawhan nga konkreto nga mga lakang ang Simbahang Katoliko sa pagpatuman sa agresibong kampanya sa Santo Papa. Makapasubo nga sa atong kaugalingong tugkaran, nitumaw gihapon ang mga pasangil sa padayong pangabuso sa kaparian ug sa padayong pagtabon sa mga obispo ug ubang kadagkoan sa simbahan. [...] Napugos bang simbahan pagpapahawa ni Garcia kay gibisto sa laing pamantalaan sa Estados Unidos, ang Los Angeles Times, ang mga dokumento sa iyang mga pangabuso, kansang mga biktima naglakip sa iyang kaugalingong manghod? Kanus-a man makumbinser si Cebu Archbishop Jose Palma nga di paigo nga silot ang pagpada sa nangabusong mga pari sa kapayasan sa Oslob? [kinatibuk-ang lindog]

 "Linigwatay sa lana"
Atubangan sa padayong pagbarato sa lana, nakakita og laing sukaranan ang taxi operators ug drivers sa pagsupak sa gitakdang laslas sa plitehan sa taxi karong buwana: Gikan sa ilang kinaham nga panagang nga pagsaka sa presyo sa spare parts, nga katuohan lang kon mag-ilis sila og spark plug matag adlaw, karon gitumbok na sab nila ang pagsamot sa kahuot sa trapiko tungod sa pag-ayo sa unang Mandaue-Mactan bridge. Inay kuhaon lang og usa ngadto sa duha ka oras ang rutang Cebu City ug MCIA sa una, karon maabtan nang taxi drivers og hangtod upat ka oras, labi na dihang gihimong one-way sa taytayan. [kinatibuk-ang lindog]

Sun.Star Cebu's Carvajal "A Step or Two"
The candidates are glibly promising rosy solutions to problems the current administration has only minimally reduced or failed to solve. But the problems they want us to believe to be peanuts are really not that at all. They are the same land mines that have always littered our social landscape and which no previous administration has managed to neutralize in any significant way. That’s because these problems have structural roots and nothing less than deep-seated structural changes can provide anything substantially resembling a solution. Hence, such socio-economic game-changers cannot be expected to happen in the one term of any new president. Not with elitist legislators unwilling to implement the constitution’s ban on political dynasties with an appropriate law. [full text]

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