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Rule of Law

In a time when savages and pagans no longer thrive, there are still people who try  to be as disrespectful and lawless as can be. The incident of destroying a swing beam in a farm road of Tadeco which is used to inform people that 'hey, there's a foot bath in here and we have to follow simple protocol to guard  farms from an infectious disease' comes  as a surprise. Surprising, not because it happened once in a lifetime but what  was  surprising are the circumstances that came out  in the open: a misinformation from some radio station citing a closed road from Sto Tomas to Panabo; an  order by the Congress to the police to survey the area for public roads but was carried out by DPWH; a  DPWH District Engineer acting without an order from his superior; a DPWH crew dismantling the lowly swing beam with small mallets and had bonnets and covers in their faces, not wanting to be identified and riding a private vehicle;...