What the "F" is that all about?: My take on ABS closure

     I saw Kim Chiu expressing how she felt about the closure of ABS-CBN. She was very emotional and like anyone else whose emotions is on high gear, critical thinking takes a back seat. The intellect is overwhelmed and drowned by the fire and the smoke of the passion, overpowered, waiting for heat to die down, before standing up to clear up the head and extinguish the flash of insanity, and start the engine of thought running.

   The next day, Kim apologized for her poor analogy.

   I understand the anger, threatened with the loss of  income, I would rant too. But at the end of the day, nothing is accomplished. What has been set by the gods cannot be changed. 

    But what is the issue all about? To Kim and her peers in the industry, it's a personal and economic issue. To the believers of Quiboloy, it is the wrath of their appointed God brought upon the blasphemous Vice Ganda and the network.

   This cease and desist order have divided the Filipinos into different camps political, network loyalties, pro-poor anti rich, human rights, etc. as if their existence and subistence are umbilically connected to the network.

   I am no lawyer but my understanding of the law is simplistic and may even be naive to the more knowledgable in it's intricacies. But the law is blind (lady justice winked at me). The law is to be obeyed. It is written in letters, in black and white, becuase the letters do not have empathy, do not exhibit sympathy. The "spirit of the law" , in reality, is invented to break a law a little at a time to favor the favored.

   The issue here is how the law has been emasculated by wrong practice. The law is clear, no franchise, no boradcast. The defense made by the network and it's supporter is that in the past, other networks have benefitted from grace periods given by the NTC.

   The question then is, is the practice of giving grace period legal? Did it override the law? Former Chief Justice made it clear: tradition or practice is not law. It cannot supercede a law.  

   What happened to the network epitomizes what is wrong with our legal and justice system, inconsistent and discriminatory.