(Editors’ note: The Midland Courier is reprinting the columns of the late Atty. Benedicto T. Carantes as a tribute to one of its long-time columnists. This piece was published on June 25, 2006)
Although the Baguio Boys’ Club or whatever, appears to have come a little late, it is never too late for lovers of Baguio to save the city from ambitious and scheming carpetbaggers, from sweet-talking opportunists, and in the process, save Baguio from becoming a city of crime and other evil activities.
Take a close look at Baguio today. Where did all those informal settlers, vendors, robbers, and snatchers come from?
When exactly did corruption in City Hall start? And how did law enforcers become wrongdoers?
Amazingly too, we now have a bumper crop of dishonest politicians claiming to be straight and upright, yet acquiring properties right and left, even while fattening their bank accounts.
Sure, everybody dreams of getting rich someday, but towards the end, only the kupal would push through with their selfish and greedy agenda, while the God-fearing and law-abiding turn the other way and pray to the heavens for miracles to happen in their lives.
Hopefully, the Baguio Boys will move to rid the city of these kupals – and quickly.
If not, these people will bring Baguio to ruin, and wouldn’t care less because they are carpetbaggers of the kupal kind.
Stand fast, Baguio Boys, save the city from these mindless and avaricious intruders.
It is time to fight back.
Pahabol:
I am embarrassed.
Now neglectful of me to have forgotten my own lawyer in the wild and reckless days of my youth.
“Pahabol sa taglugon”, means catch up derbies before the molting season begins, so “pahabol rin ito sa Father’s Day”, bagamat nakaraan na.
The lawyer I refer to is mang Tene Tenefrancia, whose kids, in case you don’t know, are all lawyers, holding high positions in government if not doing very well in private practice.
Despite their modest success, mang Tene’s children have remained unassuming and soft-spoken like their dad.
They are children that every parent would be proud of – polite of manner, all brains and no airs, admirably brought up right by their loving parents.
