Hole of Justice: The LTO on Road Mess

Hole of Justice: The LTO on Road Mess: Hole of Justice By Peter G. Jimenea   The LTO on Road Mess   BLACK SMOKE. Everyday lot of vehicles running on the streets ...

Hole of Justice: The LTO on Road Mess

Hole of Justice: The LTO on Road Mess: Hole of Justice By Peter G. Jimenea   The LTO on Road Mess   BLACK SMOKE. Everyday lot of vehicles running on the streets ...

Hole of Justice: The LTO on Road Mess

Hole of Justice: The LTO on Road Mess: Hole of Justice By Peter G. Jimenea   The LTO on Road Mess   BLACK SMOKE. Everyday lot of vehicles running on the streets ...

The LTO on Road Mess

Hole of Justice

By Peter G. Jimenea
 

The LTO on Road Mess

 

BLACK SMOKE. Everyday lot of vehicles running on the streets are seen fuming black smoke. This creates a suspicion that car owners have bribed the operators of emission centre to issue them clearance for registration of their unfit vehicles with the Land Transportation Office (LTO).

 

The dirty smoke coming out from the exhaust pipes of vehicles are health and environment hazard. Law abiding car owners who witnessed this road mess can only shake their heads in contempt for the gross failure of LTO-6 to enforce the “Clean Air Act” law.

 

I don’t know what happened to the taskforce created by LTO-6 in checking at random the tolerable level of smoke emitted by motor vehicles on the streets. A belching machine owned by LTO is used to gauge it. But it disappeared. On why, we have yet to know. What a waste of taxpayers’ money!

 

Tolerance of LTO-6 Regional Director Dennis Singson to this road mess is unfair to other car owners who religiously complied with the required emission test prior registration. The law says; ignorantia legis est lata culpa- to be ignorant of the law is gross neglect.

 

Dir. Singson did not inquire because he knew nothing about this. Now he does. We hope to hear from him soon. As head of office, he should know his official accountability and responsibility attendant hereto. But we have yet to see his enforcing authority on this matter.

 

He has the discretion to implement the “Clean Air Act” in his turf. This will send a strong signal to the operators of emission centre and the vehicle owner not to cheat their way out to the LTO to register. But the discretion must be exercised in accordance with the tune and niceties of this law.

IMPROPER MOTOR VEHICLE’S PLATE. There are lot of motor vehicles on the road with plate numbers we could hardly read. Some expensive vehicles are using plates covered with hard-plastic. Some have dilapidated plates due to rusting. Others have dirty and worn-out paints. Some used home-made plate unauthorized by the LTO.

This use of unreadable plate number on motor vehicle should be stopped. The report of hit and run accident is counting. RD Singson should act now to curb this road mess. The culprit-driver always escaped liability because the vehicle has unreadable plate numbers.

Here’s for the heart, The LTO has put-up checkpoints for motorcycle riders only. But the police are already there to intimidate the criminals riding in tandem on motorcycle. Isn’t this LTO checkpoint a duplication of police function?  And why check on a selective mode of inspection? 

Why not check on every passing vehicle’s plate if it is approved by the LTO? Why make motorcycle a marked target of LTO checkpoints? Here, the director has a lot of explaining to do. But he can work in tandem with the city government to avoid more hit and run cases in Region 6.

 

So many victims died without getting justice. Witnesses claimed they failed to see clearly the numbers on the vehicles’ plate. LTO’s neglect to this problem has also contributed to these crimes. The law dictates, culpa lata dolo a equiparatur – gross negligence is equivalent to malice or intentional wrong. (261 SCRA 128).

 

Well, I hope to have consoled the poor families of hit and run victims who are still crying to God for justice. I also wish that LTO-6 RD Singson can act promptly on the problems brought to his attention. I am sure he’ll subscribes to this, that for a good chief of office, he is better missed than damned.

Hole of Justice: I Am for the RH Bill

Hole of Justice: I Am for the RH Bill: Hole of Justice by Peter G. Jimenea I am for the RH Bill   In August 1969, Jerome Lejeune, a French doctor and world-renowned e...

I Am for the RH Bill

Hole of Justice

by Peter G. Jimenea

I am for the RH Bill

 

In August 1969, Jerome Lejeune, a French doctor and world-renowned expert in human genetics was awarded by the American Society of  Human Genetics the William Allen Memorial Award, the highest distinction that can be granted to a geneticist.

 

It is credited to his major work on “mongolism” published in 1959, a condition that affects one in every six hundred fifty children called “Down Syndrome.” Learning about his discovery, thousands of families around the world with kids suffering from Down Syndrome come to him for treatment.

 

He helped them understand and accept their kids whom he said are created from God’s image. Due to their mental handicap, they badly need love and affection. But the American medical society during that time has the tendency to resort to abortion to prevent affected babies from being born.

 

They claim that it is cruel and inhuman to allow the poor child to come into this world. Britain followed the US in legalizing the screening for Down’s syndrome and its “treatment” by abortion. So, the media battle in France extended to the abortion of “unwanted children.”

 

These countries are sharing the theory that “A baby does not legally become a person until it is born and the woman has also the right to do what she wants with her body.” It was molded under the pretext of scientific rigor, a point of view in which God has no place.

 

The good they say, although it does not conform to the Law of God, it obviates future child problem of the family and efficient to stop the coming of unwanted children.  The bad is that it interferes with material progress that a mongoloid is no longer a person created from the image of God to love Him for all eternity.

 

Church leaders disagreed with this theory on the premise that life is sacred. This is shared by devotees and opposition to the RH Bill, who to date, also believe that sperm has already life in it. In modern science it is half-true. A television remains an idle tv set unless driven by a power to become operational in showing pictures on the screen.

True, a veterinarian can send a dozen of cattle from Iloilo to Palawan using only an envelope as carrier. But inside the envelope is a bull’s sperm for “artificial insemination” to produce that dozen calves. If we believe the theory that the sperm has life, then that bull’s sperm is only half-true and will remain half-true until injected into a cow’s womb to develop into embryo that form into a calf.

 

The embryo is a living thing in its early development formed by the inter-action of the male’s sperm inside the woman’s womb through harmonious relationship or, in some cases, by-forced sexual intercourse. Contraceptives and condom can prevent an embryo’s development. This prevention is not abortion.

 

So what is wrong with the RH Bill when the people had long been using oral contraceptives and condoms? These only prevent the development of embryo in a woman’s womb by disallowing the man’s egg to penetrate and to form as such. This belies abortion as what the oppositions’ earlier claim hinted at.

 

If we consider the Constitutional doctrine in the separation of the Church and the State, this RH Bill deals more on the latter’s problem about the welfare of its citizens. Other than the widening economic disparity between the rich and the poor, this is a primary concern of women, too.

 

The sad scenario at pedia-wards of public hospitals in this poor country bleeds out hearts. The sick and dying infants are counting. Those opposed to the RH Bill should ask from the government free or affordable and accessible health services for the poor rather than support their adding of more children in the family..

 

If unwanted children of poor families survived, what good promise of tomorrow awaits them? Unemployment is the number one problem of poor people in slum areas. Corruption is another disdainful factor that every time they asked for help from the government, they always end up badly-disillusioned.

 

If life is sacred, the opposition should look for solution to the non-stop number of crying poor mothers frequently seen on television screen begging for help to save the life of their dying babies.  Regret comes late, but awareness to consequences of having too many kids in the family is never too late. Now you know why..…see the title!

Hole of Justice: The Regional Director LTO-6

Hole of Justice: The Regional Director LTO-6: Hole of Justice By Peter G. Jimenea The Regional Director, LTO-6 The Land Transportation Office in Region 6 (LTO-6) has g...

The Regional Director LTO-6

Hole of Justice

By Peter G. Jimenea
The Regional Director, LTO-6

The Land Transportation Office in Region 6 (LTO-6) has given us a good reason to bring into the open the deliberate neglect if not irresoluteness of the regional director in the enforcement of law relative to the “Clean Air Act.”

Every morning, lot of vehicles on the streets are fuming dark smoke, creating a suspicion of bribe committed by vehicle owners with the operators of emission centre for their unfit units to qualify for registration with the LTO.

The black smoke from the exhaust pipes of vehicles cannot be ignored by law abiding car owners and commuters who can only shake their heads in disdain. For all we know, the black smoke emitted by the vehicles is health hazard and destroys the environment.

I don’t know what happened to the LTO taskforce armed with smoke belching machine stopping at random motor vehicles suspected of emitting smoke that has exceeded the tolerable limit allowed by law. This taskforce seems to have suddenly got lost. What a waste of taxpayers’ money!

The gross tolerance of the LTO regional director to this road mess is unfair to car owners who have religiously complied with the required emission test prior the registration of their vehicles. In fact, we have yet to see the good result of what we pay for this emission test.

As head of office, the director should know his responsibility and accountability attendant thereto. Jurisprudence dictates, culpa lata dolo a equiparatur – gross negligence is equivalent to malice or intentional wrong. (261 SCRA 128).

Some LTO directors are suspect to have a clandestine trade-off with operators of the emission centre-of-choice. Thus, the tolerance to violators is in exchange for… you know what. I hope the director is not a member of this syndicate we have to deal with!

 
Here’s another for the heart. There are lot of motor vehicles with plate numbers we could hardly read. The reported hit and run victims of unresolved vehicular accidents are counting but we heard no action from the LTO-6 regional director about this numbered plate mess.

Why put up LTO checkpoints intended only for motorcycle riders? The police are already there for criminals riding in tandem on motorcycle. The LTO checkpoint can go into checking of vehicles’ plate number to curb the unresolved number of hit and run cases.

The LTO regional director is not an Ilonggo. But there is a saying that if you are in Rome, be a Roman. So, he should have a room in his heart for the Ilonggos. This request for his official authority to enforce the Clean Air Act and prohibit the use of improper plate by motor vehicles can put everything in place.

So many victims of vehicular accidents have died without seeing justice as the culprit-drivers of vehicles with unreadable plate numbers escaped. Witnesses claimed they failed to read clearly the numbers of the vehicles’ plate and LTO officials are likewise to be blamed in this crime for neglect!

This is a request for the LTO regional director’s attention on matters of public concern, especially the environment. What’s more for the protection of human lives? If he ignores us, that’s his prerogative but he should know that a guilty conscience is the hell of a living soul!