Water attack could be Ate Glo's waterloo?

There's so much fuss about the watering of the anti-GMA demos at Mendiola. "That water attack could have killed 77-year-old-Tito Guingona," someone from Misamis Oriental said. You think so, too? But water is life!

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Had the water cannons not been used, the rampaging militants could've moved closer to Malacañang. A pro-Gloria watcher hailed the water assault saying: "Let's drink to that!"

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The police who used water on the rallyists are being castigated. For what? For washing dirty linen in public?

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The militants are not cowed by the water cannons. They vow to continue their street demos against Ate Glo come hell or high water!

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Looks like the militants are determined to continue taking to the streets against Ate Glo. Until she ends up in hot water.

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Sen. Jamby Madrigal who got a good bath at Mendiola has indicated that the water attack could be Ate Glo's Waterloo.

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Speaking further of water, some residents in the Tejero area here are complaining that they're not getting enough water in their faucets. "Maypa didto's Mendiola nanubra ang tubig," they say.

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So much about water and Ate Glo and the militants. Cebu City Police Chief Melvin Gayotin has been reported as saying that he "will order" his men to always wear the prescribed police uniform, except when they are on a mission where plainclothes are a must. Such an order is long overdue. Great!

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A lot of our policemen these days, it seems, prefer to be seen in t-shirt, short pants and sandals to being seen in complete uniform. I don't know why. "Maybe," says a colleague in media, "they don't want to be identified as cops because of the very low respect people are giving cops these days." Well, maybe.

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I once asked a policeman-friend of mine why I never saw him in police uniform. His answer was: "Mas maayo ning sibilyan ta aron epektibo sa kampanya batok isnatser, holdaper, pick-pocket, hasler, nga nag-opereyt sa kadanan." I didn't argue. That was what he thought. So I let it be. Later he was mistaken for a pickpocket and was about to be mauled by streetside toughies - even when he said he was a cop, and pulled a gun from his hip. A uniformed comrade passing by got him off the hook.

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Needless to stress, what has been stressed many times before, that a uniformed policeman, even with his mere presence, could deter bad guys in the street from pulling a crime. No need to stress this point further.