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ARROGANCE OF POWER: SIGN OF THE TIMES?
Mayor beats up a 56-year-old man
and a 14-year-old boy in a golf course
This is a forwarded email -- you be the judge...
Sent: Sunday, December 28, 2008 8:51:38 PM
Subject: Mayor beats up a 56-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy in a golf course
This is exactly the kind of medieval mindset that people in
our government have adopted since time immemorial. They walk around the country
and treat it like it was their property just because they have guns. And we all
know that people who brandish guns to show their power are little people at the
very least. And to think we pay these creatures their salaries.
Short of wishing that each and every member of their
god-forsaken family should contract a terminal disease like cancer and aids, I
can settle for them having a family tragedy of any size and proportion now,
today.
This sense of desperation on my part comes from the
experience of how slow the wheels of justice turn in our country. Not because
the process is slow but because those would turn the wheels are themselves slow
and uncaring.
For the family of Bambee may God's grace be with them as they
struggle with both the physical pain, the humiliation and the emotional trauma
this unfortunate event has brought to them.
Mayor beats up a 56-year-old man and a 14-year-old boy in a
golf course Dec 28, '08 10:15 AM for everyone to see.
This was taken from the blog of Ms. Bambee dela Paz. Please
help her and her family as they plead for justice by reposting this in your
blogs and emailing this to your contacts.
The world has gone crazy.
(So, I just had the worst day of my life)
by Bambee dela Paz
At around 1:30 PM today, at Valley Golf and Country Club,
Antipolo City , Mayor Nasser Pangandaman, Jr., Mayor of Masiu City, Lanao del
Sur, his father, Secretary Nasser Pangandaman of the Department of Agrarian
Reform, and company, beat my defenseless 56-year-old dad and my 14-year-old
brother to a pulp because of some stupid misunderstanding on the golf course.
This is a golf course. I have been a golfer all my life, and I have never seen
anything like this. NOTHING. This is hard to comprehend. And it happened to my
own father and my own brother too. Right in front of my eyes.
My brother and I were playing golf at the South Course of Valley. We were on the
3rd hole, and we see two golf carts going past us, overtaking our flight, and
setting up to tee off on the next hole. My dad goes up to them and asks them why
they would do that, why they would overtake us without even asking for our
permission. Golf etiquette 101. One of the guys says that they're with the
flight in front of us. (So what? That doesn't give them the right to just pass
us WITHOUT asking.) So, we go to the 5th hole. The flight behind us catches up
with us, and asks us what caused the hold up. We said that this flight just
slipped in front of our flight. So we complained to the marshall . We play the
5th hole and walk towards the next hole, where there is a teehouse, and both the
flights in front of us were there, talking with the marshall . The mayor of
Masiu City , Lanao del Sur talks with my dad. Things get heated up. Voices were
raised. But never, in my
wildest dreams, did I ever imagine that someone would pull out a punch.
Apparently not. He attacks my father. His flightmates, maybe 2 or 3 of them,
rush to his aid and beat up my father. My 56-year-old father. My younger brother
and I could not just watch. We rushed to break the fight. My younger brother
pleads to the mayor to please stop it. To not hurt my dad. To just stop. His
words still ring through my head..."Sorry na po, sorry na po...tama na...tama na
po..." With his hands in front of his chest in a praying position. PLEADING. The
mayor socks him in the face. My brother defended himself. My dad is still on the
ground getting clobbered. My brother is the same way. I try to stop the fight,
but all I can do is stop one person. There were 4 or 5 of them attacking now.
Someone breaks up the fight. I thought it was all over. The mayor shouts to his
caddy: "Hindi nila kami kilala! Sabihin mo nga sa kanila kung sino ako!" And
believe me, I had no idea who this person was. But now I know. He's the person
who, with 4 other men, beat up my 56-year-old father and my 14-year-old brother.
He's the person who sacks a pleading 14-year-old kid in the face. He's a person
who, I am sure, is gonna rot in hell.
I lash out, but my dad held me back. I was screaming my lungs out, shouting to
this mayor, telling him about what he had done. I said: "Nakakahiya kayo.
Singkwenta'y sais anyos ang tatay ko. And kapatid ko kakatorse anyos. Anong
ilalaban nila sayo?"
The mayor looks at my brother, point to his face, and says, "Tatandaan kita!"
And he tells me that my brother has a bad attitude and that I need to watch him.
WHAT THE HELL?! So, my brother's bad for defending his father?!
We leave. We walk to the clubhouse to file a complaint. My brother asks for a
doctor. My dad could barely walk. Their group comes to the clubhouse, sees my
brother. Once again my brother pleads, says sorry, and is crying. He was CRYING,
for crissakes. But no. The relentless mayor still punches him in the face, and
then sees my dad and goes after my dad again. Him and his friend pull my dad to
the ground, pulls at his feet, and steps on him like he's dirt. I run to him and
try to hold him back, holding him back by his shirt, while this other guy and
this girl tries to stop me. She tells me to just stop it. I scream in her face
"they're beating my father up and you want me to stop?!" I pull at his shirt--I
don't let go. All I can see was my dad being trampled on. I didn't even see my
brother getting beat up.
People pull them away. I get my dad, and I saw my brother. His right ear was
bleeding. I freaked out. I told the receptionists to bring my brother to the
clinic. I pull my dad away. People were separating us.
My mom and my older brother come. I tell her Bino's right ear is bleeding. They
both look like they could kill. My dad holds my brother off, I hold off my mom.
When I finally got my mom under control, my older brother gets away and I hold
him off. Two of the mayor's bodyguards pull out guns. I embraced my brother from
the back, just holding him back, crying. The receptionists came to us, crying,
hugging me, my dad, and my mom, whispering to us to just leave. "Maam, umalis na
po kayo, may mga baril sila...Maam. ..umalis na po kayo please..."
I am pretty sure the Secretary of DAR did not take part in the fight, but he
just watched all this happen. He watched two of his sons, as we figured out, the
other guy was his son, too, beat up my father and my 14-year-old brother. He
didn't do anything to stop it. And this person is what now? A cabinet member. A
politician.
Sounds like something out of a movie, doesn't it? But this is what happened.
TODAY. The day after Christmas. To my family. And all I ask for is JUSTICE. The
people at Valley Golf did not seem to want to help us. None of the security
guards even tried to stop the fight. Right in the clubhouse. I came back after
the fight was over and talked to the receptionists. They say they did not see
anything. The general manager of Valley Golf would not give us the names of the
men who made my brother's ear bleed. It took him an hour. Maybe even more than
that. He seemed to not want to help us. Because, we were against the SECRETARY
OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM and the MAYOR OF MASIU CITY, LANAO DEL SUR.
They were all scared.
The world has gone crazy. Two politicians beat up a defenseless 56-year-old
father and his 14-year-old son. At a golf course. I swear to God, I thought
golfers were decent people. You would think politicians were decent people. I
guess not. I guess they gang up on 56-year-old men and beat up pleading
14-year-old kids.
Please pray for my dad, my brother and for my whole family. Please pray that we
get JUSTICE. Oh God, please, give these people what they deserve.
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