Binay: Man of the Moment ENQUIRY Demaree J. B. Raval 06/13/2010

Binay: Man of the Moment

ENQUIRY Demaree J. B. Raval 06/13/2010 Forty-four years ago, in 1966, Jejomar Cabauatan Binay was one of those juvenile, irrepressible, slogan-chanting students who picketed the Manila Hotel and embarrassed the then occupant of Malacañang when they harangued visiting US President Lyndon Johnson with the chant, “Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?” during the Philippines-Indonesia-Malaysia-Thailand Summit Conference. Forty years later, in 2006, a more grown-up but still irrepressible Binay again embarrassed another occupant of Malacañang, when he barricaded himself inside the Makati City Hall in defiance of a suspension order that was a transparent maneuver of the Palace to distract attention from its own scandals. The stand-off would have sparked an ugly, rebellion among Makati’s poor had not the court issued an injunctive order, thereby preventing the Office of the President from enforcing its suspension order.... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100613com3.html

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