Kaban ni D_BystandeR: DILI AROGANTE ANG GOBERNADOR

DAVIDE BARRED FROM entering Palace of Justice. Security guards at the Palace of Justice didn't recognize him yesterday. Gov. Hilario Davide III arrived before 7am for a breakfast meeting with a judge but was barred from entering the building by guards who said that "only employees of the Palace of Justice are allowed to enter before 8am." They asked for his ID card. Davide just smiled and didn't force the issue. He left  and had breakfast instead in the Capitol canteen.

Later on, the governor said he was happy the guards were strictly enforcing  security measures especially after a lawyer and a doctor were shot dead in a court room by Canadian John Pope, an angry  litigant last Jan. 22.  "Ang mga empleyado sa korte gipasulod, unya sakto man sab sila kay di man ko empleyado sa korte," a smiling Davide said. The Palace of Justice is located behind the Capitol's Executive Building where the governor holds  office.  Security guard Ronald Jayme, one of the two guards who barred Davide, said Davide didn't introduce himself and was accompanied by a male aide. Davide presented a driver's license but the guard didn't bother to look at it. "Ingon siya nga mobalik na lang kuno siya," Jayme said. Told later who  the man was, Jayme kept smiling in disbelief. "I apologized to the governor for not allowing him to get inside the Palace of Justice," he said. "Maayo gyud siya. Dili arogante. Maayo siya nga ehemplo sa tanan, he added.  Last Monday, Davide received judges of the Regional Trial Court (RTC) who paid a courtesy call and asked him to support their request to  donate the province-owned lot occupied by the Palace of  Justice. The Supreme Court (SC) cannot grant funds for the repair and renovation of the building if the lot is owned by  the provincial government, he said. "I told them (judges) that  we will take that up with the Provincial Board. For any action we do there is a need for consultation with the board," he  told reporters yesterday. Davide said the judges told him that  the lot was already donated by the province to the Supreme Court but the judges cannot find the deed of donation. "I want to know the terms and nature of the donation, if ever there was one. We will trace if there is a deed of donation or just an agreement for the plain use of the land, he said.

COMMENT; If this was the same security agency that provides security services to the Palace of Justice that due to their unforgivable negligence and incompetence had allowed that Canadian John Pope to slip that gun unnoticed past their very noses that enabled the Canadian to snatch the lives of two individuals inside the building considered as "gun free" for people with criminal intent, then it's high time they will take a second look into this dismal failure and embarrassing security lapses where the security guards who are supposed to know and recognize the governor are showing their unacceptable "low I.Q." which would redound to the Chief Security Officer's failure to lecture his men on that subject and to remind them in the importance of knowing who are the VIPs in the Capitol building that guards should pay  their courtesy and respect to execute a "hand salute" whenever in the presence of a passing governor. This calls for an immediate review of the kind of intelligence expected of the security guards handling a very sensitive assignment of providing the appropriate security services and extending courtesy to high officials in the Capitol. If this is not a bad sign to indicate unequaled ignorance and incomparable dumbness of the security guards, I don't know what is.

(Bug-os ang  pasalamat sa KAHAYAG ngadto sa magtatampo  nga si JOHNNY LOVE. Nagtakuban siya sa pangalan, "D_BystandeR".  Natawo siya sa Sugbo apan anaa na karon manimuyo sa Illinois sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika. Ang kusog nga koneksyon sa kasayuran pinaagi sa internet kanunayng naghaling sa iyang kadasig  pagtuki sa mga nagbukalbukal nga hisgutanan dinhi sa atong nataran. Usa siya ka magsusulat nga gradwado sa kursong komersiyo padulong sa pagka accountant sa University of San Carlos kaniadtong tuig 1961.  Nahimo siyang miyembro sa usa ka hugpong sa mga batan-ong magsusulat nga gitawag ug STUDENT PRESS.  Nahimo usab siyang   Associate Editor sa basahon  USC-JPIAN sa tuig 1962-63. Magtatampo usab siya isip magsusulat sa nasudnong magasin,  "Philippines Free Press" ug sa mga nag-unang peryodiko dinhi sa dakbayan sa Sugbo sa lunhaw pa ang iyang pangedaron. Nahimo siyang mamumuo sa usa ka pribadong kompaniya sa dakbayan sa Sugbo, ESCAÑO LINES, sulod sa napulo ug duha (12) ka tuig  dayon niyang tapon  ngadto sa NAPOCOR  ug nahimong kawani sa kagamhanan  sulod sa bayente dos (22) ka tuig. Niadtong tunga-tungang bahin sa tuig 2000, nilalin siya ngadto sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika ug sulod sa napulo (10) ka tuig, nagtrabaho siya sa  buhatan sa kagamhanan sa nasod sama  sa  UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (USPS).  Karon sa pangedaron nga 68,  gihuptan gihapon niya ang walay pagkutat nga kadasig ug walay busganan nga kaikag sa pagpaambit sa iyang nahuptang abilidad  ug kabatid sa panulat.  Dili niya mapugngan ang kaugalingon sa pagpaambit sa iyang mga hunahuna labi na kon molambigit kini ug hisgotanan nga makadani sa iyang mga mata. Makadawat siya sa inyong mga hunahuna mahitungod sa iyang sinulat sa johnnylobedica@yahoo.com)