My good friend Daido Angel (true-blue Cebuano based in Manila) is justifiably angry. Why? “The Manila people are pulling out the massive statue of Lapu-Lapu from Rizal Park,” he said.
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Daido said Manila officials never liked that statue of Lapu-Lapu, which is so huge it dwarfs the Rizal statue nearby. “I don’t know why,” my friend wondered. Maybe because Lapu-Lapu is not in proper attire?
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According to Daido, it was then Sen. Dick Gordon who insisted that Lapu-Lapu be given space in Rizal Park. “Come to think of it,” he said. “Gordon is not a Cebuano.”
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A Filipino husband recently killed his Japanese wife in Lapu-Lapu City. Reports said he was dead drunk when he arrived home at down Monday. “You can just imagine the furor that this criminal act has created in Japan,” said a priest of my acquaintance shaking his head.
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The victim died from several stab wounds, according to news reports. The wounds were inflicted by a kitchen knife, which the same reports said, could not be found at press time.
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In this connection, The FREEMAN received this reader’s view: “Many cases of fatal stabbings with the use of kitchen knives have been reported in the news media. This has made the kitchen knives deadly weapons like handguns. So they must be sold with more strictness like the handguns.” — Eriberto Canlas, Mandaue City.
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Many killers in our midst are still going scot-free even if they had been caught en flagrante or in the act. “No thanks to the so-called due process,” says a retired PC officer who requested that he not be named. “This constitutional mandate,” he adds, “has saved the necks of many criminals who get more protection from the law than their victims.”
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OVERHEARD. An angry wife was heard telling her elder sister: “Nasakpan ko dunay usa ka dosenang bag-ong panties sa iyang maleta ... para kuno to nako nga gagmay man, kadako nko no.”