Alcover in Congress: Watch out Rep. Satur!

Congratulations to my good friend, Pastor “Jun” Alcover who is the latest Cebuano Congressman to take his seat of office. He was one amongst the 55 new Party-List members of Congress who were given their seats courtesy of the Supreme Court. This means, whenever Rep. Satur Ocampo and his leftist allies in Congress opens their mouths, you can be sure that they will be interpellated by Rep. Alcover, who will expose their ulterior motives. 

Let me point out that while I’m elated that Jun Alcover is now in Congress, however it doesn’t change my attitude towards the Party-List system, which I never supported and still want to removed through a Constitutional Convention (con-con). But I’m a pragmatist, for as long as this system is in place, and then we have to accept this reality.

Mind you, I have known Jun Alcover since the mid-80’s when he became an anti-communist crusader; that’s when he realized that being with the Communist movement was totally wrong! I was with the group of now Press Secretary Cerge M. Remonde called the People’s Alliance Against Communism (PAAC) and later joined forces with Jun Alcover’s group called Alsa Masa. Rep. Jun Alcover was elected under his group dubbed “Alliance for Nationalism and Democracy (ANAD) whose motto is, “Stop Communism & Terrorism.” As I pointed out, while I don’t believe in the Party-List system, however I believe in the goals and ideals of Anad.

I did interview Jun Alcover with Col. Oscar Lasangue on my Talkshow on Oct. 23, 2006 on the issue of fighting communism. Anad and the military in Region VII responded to the call two years ago of Cebu Governor Gwen F. Garcia when she called to declare war against Communism. That call by our Lady Governor, plus the intense efforts by the military and Alcover’s group helped in ridding Cebu of the New People’s Army (NPA). So at this point, I wish Rep. Alcover good luck and we’ll be watching him very closely as he moves to the next battleground between Anad and Communism in the hallowed halls of Congress.

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Are we fast losing our heat tolerance… or has the summer heat become so unbearable? When that huge Visayas-wide power outage hit us last Saturday, it seems that many Cebuanos (I mean those people who do not have a generator in their homes) trooped to the shopping malls for they were the only establishments whose air-conditioning was fully functional. I had to be in the Ayala mall to fix my cellphone and when I got into the lower basement parking… I had to go round and round looking for a parking space, as there were few available. Of course I found one where a vehicle was just moving out… but I’m sure that the cars behind me had to go round and round in search for that elusive parking.

I later passed through ShoeMart and traffic was snarled as it there was a huge one-day sale. In short, all roads led to all the major shopping malls of Metro Cebu, thanks to the brownout. But that brownout should be a lesson for all of us… to learn to be more tolerant of our rising temperatures because it’s definitely not getting any cooler. That we had a strong rain last Sunday is more than enough proof that the world’s weather has gone topsy turvy… that global warming is no longer just some weird or diabolical scientist’s doomsday scenario.

What I saw in National Geographic’s “Earth Report” the other weekend was even more disturbing because the frozen Tundra in Siberia has began to thaw and when it thaws out completely, it will release humungous amounts of Co2 into the atmosphere that despite all that global effort to curb the emission of Co2 gases, the Co2 levels would hit record highs and speed up the global warming or global cooling as what other people would say.

If you’ve seen Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” he predicts that the when the Artic Ice Caps start to melt, it would raise the sea levels from 20 feet to even as high as 20 meters. Now the bad news is, no nation on earth is prepared to tackle or handle a catastrophe of this magnitude, but this shouldn’t mean to say that we shouldn’t even try.

Allow me to give you a scenario of what would happen if the seas would rise to unprecedented levels; the people living in the lowlands or along he seashore would definitely move out of their inundated homes. Mind you, when the sea level rises, it would not come like the Tsunami in the Indian Ocean, this would be a gradual process, but it just might happen all within a week or a month’s time. That means all the people who lives in the inundated areas would evacuate into higher lands, the hills or the mountains. That means, they wouldn’t care if the lands they occupy were privately-owned or not. That means, there will be anarchy and worse, it would create problems of our food supply. This is just a simple scenario… for starters!

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