Cong Corrales
IN the past six months of this administration, the buzz word has been the impeccable application of logic.
We have a secretary of justice who urges the Commission on Human Rights, a constitutional body, to prosecute the police who have been suspected to be behind the surge of extrajudicial killings. Are you on drugs, Sec. Vitaliano Aguirre?
We have a foreign affairs secretary who apparently doesn’t understand what the United Nations stands for. He wants the special rapporteur to apologize for something the United Nations has mandated her to do. Are you on drugs, Sec. Perfecto Yasay?
We have a President who abhors drugs but pops a pill 10 to 100 times stronger than heroin as painkiller. He is so huffed up on drugs we can barely make out what he says, and he says a lot without really speaking--he says the exact opposite of what he said months prior. Based on your admission, aren’t you on drugs, President Digong Dada?
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Of course, Misamis Oriental will not be left out of this national phenomenon--the impeccable application of logic that is.
Talisayan Mayor Rommel Maslog fears his town’s water source would soon dry up because of the unabated cutting of trees in the watershed area of the province.
An environment specialist concurs with Maslog’s fear. In the words of Genevieve Cruz, based on their ocular observation, the water supply in the town of Balingoan has reduced dramatically and she, too, blames the cutting of trees.
Science 101 tells us this to be true. Trees in the watershed are an important component of an aquifier – water source. It is called “watershed” for that specific reason.
Here comes our local version of the impeccable use of logic.
Dr. Josefino Bascug, the Capitol’s consultant on the environment disagrees with both Maslog and Cruz saying he holds no record of illegal logging activities in the eastern part of the province. Bascug, too, serves as a technical assistant to the Macajalar Bay Development Alliance.
My “little birdie” told me Bascug told him that there are no illegal logging operations in the province--only “poaching.”
I might be splitting hairs here but in my eight years as a member of Task Force Macajalar, “poaching” still means cutting of trees.
Also, it takes a long jump from “no illegal logging” to Bascug’s declaration of having no records of illegal logging in the eastern part of the province. Associative logic does not apply here, Sir.
