The law which penalizes a person caught carrying even a single bullet should be amended or scrapped altogether because it is stupid.
Yes, we’re aware of the saying “dura lex, sed lex” (the law is harsh, but it’s the law), but a law that makes no sense at all is stupid.
For example, why should someone who carries a bullet in his pocket or bag as protection against a hex be penalized with a long prison term when he did not intend to cause harm to another person?
Why penalize a person caught with a bullet in his/her pocket or handbag but who did not carry a firearm?
Of what use is the bullet without a gun?
I’m sure the lawmakers who passed the law in question didn’t read the draft of the bill.
You see, most lawmakers are too lazy to read a proposed law and just sign a bill just to accommodate its author/s.
Most laws which make no sense or whose mandate is impossible to follow were passed out of accommodation.
Our legislature should go over all laws in our statute books to determine which of them should be weeded out from the books.
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Our law enforcers should have enough common sense to discern the stupidity of a certain law, and thus become lenient to violators.
A prosecutor, who has the quasi-judicial power to dismiss a case at his level, should use his common sense in deciding whether a case presented before him should be filed in court.
But most prosecutors, like the ones in Pasay City, lack common sense.
Their intelligence is derived from being bookish and not from a developed intellect.
Many lawyers passed the bar exams by memorizing long provisions in the statute books without understanding what they were memorizing.
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We should have more street smart—rather than bookish intelligent—policemen, prosecutors and judges.
We should have leaders whose intelligence is based on practical wisdom rather than on books.
I prefer a leader whose emotional quotient (EQ) far surpasses his IQ (intelligence quotient).
EQ is the ability to deal with people or become sensitive to their feelings.
President Noynoy has a very high IQ but dismally lacks EQ.
If the President has a high EQ, why did it take him so long to act on the bullet “planting” incidents at Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia)?
If he has a high EQ, why did he skip the arrival honors given to 44 dead commandos at Villamor Air Base in favor of the inauguration of a car plant in Laguna?
Our President is really a special case.
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If he’s not a special case—I don’t mean this in a derogatory way—then our President should have sacked Jose
Angel Honrado, general manager of Naia, in answer to a public clamor for the latter to resign.
Other presidents—like Fidel Ramos who replaced the secretary of foreign affairs during the Flor Contemplacion controversy—would have given Honrado the boot.
But this President is a special case: He’s not sensitive to people’s sentiments.
P-Noynoy stands by Honrado not only because of their blood relations but also because Honrado was an aide of Noynoy’s mother, President Cory.