By Peter Clarete
THE city council, apparently in a last ditch move to project an image of lawfulness, was reported to have recently approved a resolution authored by the embattled environment committee president “authorizing all law enforcement agencies to conduct raids and arrest all those found engaging in illegal mining activities in all the rivers and tributaries of the city.”
I am a little, no, a lot intrigued by this resolution because it simply speaks of the kind of law enforcement or lack of it city hall is currently into.
Just read into the quoted report. City hall has now authorized law enforcement agencies to raid and arrest those engaging in illegal activities. To my simple mind and my limited knowledge of the English language, this resolution is practically saying “we are now revoking the prohibition against arresting criminals.”
Why should the city council authorize a given? The resolution is a declaration that prior to this resolution, the given was “law enforcement agencies should not conduct raids and should not arrest criminals!” Read for yourselves, Madams and Sirs.
This resolution is a clear indication that the city lapdogs and their master of deception truly believe that Cagayan de Oro belongs to them, that they own the city that even law enforcers need to wait for orders to effect arrests of criminals! Get my point?
Or are they in a panic mode to save face just like the threat hurled by the master of deception to sue a reporter for merely reporting what was uttered on radio about the “46 millions” in unliquidated cash advances?
That the ship is sinking is now also a given. To prevent the ship’s complete demise, why doesn’t the city council quickly pass a resolution “prohibiting the sinking of the ship that is currently anchored at city hall” so that the master of deception and his lapdogs could continue to pretend they are still welcome in the city that they turned into one of doom, gloom and ka-boom?
Or they could pass a resolution “declaring all city hall squatters led by the master of deception as welcome to Cagayan de Oro.”
A twisted view to save face.