Pre-Semester Frontier 30
Disclosure: I am NOT a lawyer of BENECO. But I’m still on the side of BENECO.
Since I posted four brief remarks about the ongoing leadership crisis at BENECO, all four have been shared, reposted and embedded in hundreds of Facebook pages, approaching 1,500 in my last count.
So I deem it only proper to make the following disclosure:
I am not the lawyer of any party involved in this dispute. I am not under retainer by any company or agency involved.
In my humble opinion, the way NEA has allowed this situation to spiral into this present perfect storm has all the potential to escalate the conflict into open violence if public grievance is left to pressurize to dangerous levels. On the other hand, if people start discussing the law, and not the personal saga of either GM, this community can elevate the level of discourse back to the more intelligent and safer realm of principled debate.
NEA has time on its side, it doesn’t have to rush this. Most of all, NEA should demonstrate utmost public sensitivity in this season of resurrection of ugly memories of martial law. NEA, after all, is a martial law creation. But the draconian strokes used by Ferdinand Marcos did not yield any true success for him ultimately. NEA should not delude itself into thinking they can do BETTER than Marcos.
About the Author
The author is a writer and lawyer based in Baguio City, Philippines. Former editor of the Gold Ore and Baguio City Digest, professor of journalism, political science and law at Baguio Colleges Foundation (BCF). He is a photographer and video documentarist. He has a YouTube channel called “Parables and Reason”
About Images: Some of the images used in the articles are from the wall in Atty. Joel Rodriguez Dizon’s Facebook account, and/or Facebook groups and pages he manages or/and part of.