A Man Named "PO"

I was there yesterday at USC gymnasium to have an encounter with the truth icon, Mr. Jun Lozada. I, for one, believed that his visit here in Cebu is called for in order for those truth-loving Cebuanos to not only meet him in flesh, but more importantly, to hear his stories and lessons beyond what he shared in the Senate inquiry. The Senate investigation only confines itself to factual matters. As a political body, its primordial concern is to fulfill its constitutional mandate of conducting inquiry in aid of legislation. It does not delve into what is in the heart of a witness testifying before it. It cannot be concern about matters of the spirit; personal discernment and insights; and personal conversion and renewal. These, I believe, is the higher pursuit of Jun Lozada’s journey, both in the physical and spiritual sense. Despite his being not welcome here in Cebu, he braved the spurn knowing that the TRUTH will shield him against any forms of rebuke and rejections. Jun was simply not rejected, he was harassed and slurred. I, and many others, who attended the forum yesterday, had witnessed how Jun Lozada was humiliated & insulted by a man named Po, who claimed to be there in order to be “enlightened” on the issue. If he was there in good faith, he could have shown deference to the basic rules laid down during the open forum—that is, to limit the questioning for only 2 minutes in order to give fair opportunity to others who want to propound their questions. BUT, instead of advancing sensible question within the permissible time, he beat around the bush, retorted insulting phrases like “Oh really?,” and never allowed Jun Lozada to further explain his answer. He was flagrantly arrogant! And how could it be a biased forum? He was given his time but he only messed around with his God forsaken arrogance. And arrogance has no place in a free marketplace of ideas. While democracy encourages free debates and differences of opinions and perceptions, it cannot be a license to commit insolence and disrespect against people who share opposing views. Apparently, Mr. PO is not in search for the truth; he was there neither to be enlightened nor to be enlightened; HE WAS THERE FOR SOME REASONS ONLY “EVIL” KNOWS.