City hall resorts to black propaganda, red scare

 Nag-umpisa na black propaganda pangkat nanday Rise-Rise. Short of red scaring, may nakasulod kuno iban nga grupo, indi man mga vendors, nga nagasol-sol sa mga vendors nga makigbato.

That's what happens when you push people harder against the wall. The sustenance vendors have nowhere else to go after having been displaced, that is, deprived of their traditional livelihood as "bolanteros" or itenerant vendors.

They were not stealing or pocketing people's taxes: they only want to resume making an honest and dignified living.

Rise-Rise should be the first to know of that from his progenitor Datu Saripada Agwak, who in his youth was arrested and jailed twice by the Marcos dictatorship. Despite that, he went on fighting.

This is the same Datu Saripada Agwak who has started the logs rolling by handing over the people of Yrong-Yrong's prime jewels spanning nearly four hectares -- the Central and Super markets -- for a song to SM Prime Holdings.

How much does SM Prime Holdings pay the city monthly in rent? Nothing. Nada. Zilcth.

The payment comes 50 years from now in the form of two half-a-century-old buildings that are already decrepit and maintenance nightmares at that.

The displaced vendors are fighting for their right to live which SM Prime Holdings and the apparatchiks of the local government tried to snuff out.

They have nowhere else to go but fight back they must. They need nobody to instigate them, or make "solsol" of them as Rise-Rise and her mouthpiece Fantillaga crow.

Rise-Rise intransigence only fuels the people's resolve, come 2028, to send back Rise-Rise to Carlos Bakeshop to manage or pack mamon.