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The Goons RetreatFebruary 12, 2016 at 12:01 am

Jojo Robles/Manila Times

Those Yellow goons oer at the !"sa #eo$le #ower %ommission

su&&umbe" to $ubli& outrage an" with"rew their lame'braine"$lan to &lose (hite #lains )enue *or 16 "ays while they&elebrate their +0th anniersary The latest announ&ement *romthe &ommission states that the ital s$ur roa" to !"sa will be&lose" to tra-& only *or one "ay, Feb 2.

Thats still one "ay too many, i* you as me Me, an" those tenso* thousan"s o* &ommuters an" motorists who werein&onenien&e" last year, when the Yellows shut "own !"sa *ortheir high holi"ays an" *orgot to tell the rest o* the $o$ulation to

stay home

n"erstan", say 3in&onenien&e"4 only be&ause one year is toolong to hol" a gru"ge, een against &lueless Yellows who stillthin eerybo"y shares their strange belie* system $ersonallywale" more than a ilometer *rom the o-&e where wor in themornings on the #asig si"e o* 5haw oulear" to a meeting inMan"aluyong on the other, along with thousan"s o* other ri"e'less Fili$inos muttering &urses un"er their breath, so nowe7a&tly what ha$$ene" last year

ut when the Yellows attem$te" to u$ the ante *rom last year by$romising a 16'"ay tra-& jam *or their +0th anniersary, they gote7a&tly what they ha" &oming to them: #ure, una"ulterate"anger, es$e&ially online, where not een the most rabi" o* )8uinoloyalists "are" to "e*en" the brain'"ea" $lan

9* &ourse, no one has &laime" res$onsibility *or "reaming u$ the(hite #lains &losure The Yellows who &on&eie" this won"er*ul$eo$le $ower gi*t to the $eo$le were smart enough to not i"enti*ythemselesan" that in*ormation will $robably neer leaeahay #angara$

ut you hae to a"mire the au"a&ity o* the Yellows *or e7$e&tingthe rest o* us to just a&&e$t that this is a big "eal *or them an"that any in&onenien&e they may &ause is their iniolable right)*ter all, they een ha" alternate routes "rawn u$, so $eo$le

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&ant a&&use them o* being insensitie to the $roblems o* losinga&&ess to an im$ortant "iersion roa" *or more than two wees

5o "ont really thin the !"sa &ommission shoul" be&ongratulate" *or being sensitie * we &harge $eo$le *or

attem$ting but not &onsummating mur"er, suggest that weshoul" also go a*ter these joers *or trying to im$ose their belie*son a weary $o$ulation on&e againeen i* they got &ol" *eet an""e&i"e" against it at the ery last moment

)n" these are the $eo$le who loo "own on $eo$le who hae the&ourage o* their $oliti&al &oni&tions when these "ont jibe withtheir own Than ;o" we "ont hae to su

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(hat ama@es me no en" is how those years seem to hae ?ownby so *ast t seeme" lie only yester"ay, *or instan&e, when3RTR,4 as we &alle" our Arst e"itor'in'&hie* an" $ublisher, woul"$resi"e oer e"itorial meetings while sitting on one &orner o* the

&entral "es, one leg raise" aboe the ?oor, his so*t an" in"lyoi&e hear" &learly aboe the su""enly 8uiet ty$ewriters

5o mu&h time has $asse" sin&e those hal&yon "ays, when therewas no nternet, no ;oogle, no Fa&eboo an", yes, no &ellular$hones, een ut The 5tan"ar"s $assion *or news an" o$inionneer &hange"B we still loe "eliering the &on&ise news that youwant an" the o$inions that mae you un"erstan" it better

9n a $ersonal note, " lie to than eeryone in The 5tan"ar"

whos ma"e my own stay here, in arious &a$a&ities an" atarious times oer these $ast 2> years, so &hallenging, so &olor*ulan" ultimately so *ulAlling m $rou" to be a $art o* thisorgani@ation an" always will be, whereer en" u$ eentually