Kaban ni D_BystandeR: BISA'G ASA IBUTANG, BINAY KANUNAY'NG ILOGAN SA KATAWHAN!!

It is always true that if a tree bears sweet fruits, people will most likely throw stones to it. Just like what happens to VP Binay, especially now that recent poll survey  result has credited him for topping the survey, political enemies could be planning with sinister plan how to counter it and to hurt him so much to dishonor him and put him to shame. And it could not be further from the truth that the LP of BS Aquino  does not run out of "bright boys" especially that it was already announced earlier in the news reports that Binay was the only presidential candidate invited by Mayor  Mike Rama to grace the occasion in the Cebu City Sports Complex, someone among  the LP "bright boys" must have thought of a plan to put some 5 or 10 paid saboteurs to initiate a booing campaign inside the Complex and it will just be too easy to ignite the crowd into becoming a loud, deafening and uncontrollable booing match unprecedented in any Sinulog Feast celebration in the city. And especially that there was no visible  sign of a police officer detailed to the place because it was not supposed to be an unruly crowd because it was supposed to be composed of respectful revelers, and well-behaved devotees and educated visitors. But nobody can tell if some group with  a strong connection to Malacanang, everything can be hushed out in silence and  no further investigation is made; much less no one was arrested among the group of possible hecklers! Everything was done very clean with no one caught despite  the vaunted number of police officers guarding the celebration to maintain the orderly behavior of the people in the crowd because it is the first time to happen  in the history of our Sinulog celebration that somebody, much less, a Vice President  can be heckled that much and no one is caught disturbing the peace among the guilty  hecklers. But what turns out as the great loser are the plain Cebuanos who are just  completely innocent of the whole development creeping silently among the political enemies of VP Binay. And what suffers the most as the number one casualty is the traditional  phenomenon about the unmatched friendliness and hospitality of the Cebuanos who were known to have always treated their visitors, especially the strangers, with high respect and dignity. And the booing campaign inside the Sports Complex is completely un-Cebuano! But whether the LP is vehemently denying any part of the booing brouhaha, the accusing finger points to no one but the LP because they are the ones who largely benefited from the embarrassing incident that put to shame not only the person of  Jojo Binay, because it can be classified as only personal to him, but what strikes as the most unpardonable crime committed is to disrespect the 2nd highest official of the land, the Office of the Vice President.

Footnote: This comment came out in connection with a news item in Cebu Daily News, entitled, "Davide: Binay displeased Cebuano crowd." It came out on January 18, 2016.