A lesson to all playboy politicians

 “I'm actually a very moral guy.”

—Hugh Hefner

 

By Alex P. Vidal

 

BOY Tisoy is not the only powerful and influential person in society who has impregnated a younger woman and secretly maintained a second family. 

But he symbolizes the persona of a spoiled brat who sowed his wild oats and bungled, and spun out of control his acts of indiscretion.

Many moneyed politicians and prominent businessmen even cavorted with more than one concubines and sired multiple children outside the marital bed.

But their dalliances mostly didn’t end up in a public scandal and macabre crimes.  

If both parties want to call it quits, they mutually part ways with an iota of rancor and animosity in their hearts, but seldom do they resort into a homicidal rampage.  

In the first place, before these powerful and influential characters decided to commit extramarital affairs, many of them knew the thorny situations would bring damnation if they couldn’t control their satyriasis or excessive sexual desires, and they didn’t have the willingness to totally subsidize this addiction.

 

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This will probably explain why unlike the big time contractors, politicians, businessmen who are always in the VIP rooms, a simple laborer, who earns a fix 15-30 income, seldom or is hesitant and afraid to engage in womanizing as a vice. 

Money or financial capacity has always been the name of the game in any sexual peccadillo. 

To avoid conflict and any untoward incident, most of those who can afford provide adequate financial support to their inamoratas and their love children without much ado.

To camouflage the subsidy, some philanderers decide to put up businesses and let their other women manage them so they can have independent sources of income. 

But they don’t panic and murder their lovers if their original wives and children have stumbled into their dark secrets.

They don’t totally abandon their second families when push comes to shove.

In Hollywood movies, as well as in real life in some cases, though, it’s always the wives who have the stronger desire and motive to eliminate the mistresses.

There are wives who are passive and unmoved by their husbands’ sexual parasitism, but there are wives who summon the spirit of Sylph  when they learned of their husbands’ bed-hooping.  

It’s always a simple mathematics for the police investigators.

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.

 

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BEING the first city and province in the Philippines, through their leaders, to throw their “solid” support behind Vice President Leni Robredo’s presidential bid in the May 9, 2022 election, Iloilo—city and province—stand to benefit most if the only woman candidate for president will win.

The Ilonggos, led by Mayor Geronimo “Jerry” Trenas and Governor Arthur “Toto” Defensor Jr., have shown to Robredo and her vice presidential bet Kiko Pangilinan and their senatorial slate that they were willing and ready to go all-out for the pink team when they held a caravan last year.

Iloilo has become closer to Robredo’s heart as manifested by the volume of assistance the Office of the Vice President had poured in the city and province in the aftermath of super typhoon “Odette” in December 2021.

(The author, who is now based in New York City, used to be the editor of two dailies in Iloilo.—Ed)

 

Iloilo’s ‘Claudio Teehankee Jr.’ kills a boy

“Even in killing men, observe the rules of propriety.”
--CONFUCIUS

By Alex P. Vidal

NEW YORK CITY -- The manner the senseless crime was executed, the attacker’s behavior, and the circumstances before it happened can be compared to the celebrated Hultman–Chapman murder case, which occurred in Makati City in the Philippines 27 years ago.
But in the shooting incident that killed a 15-year-old male member of the Jalandoni family in Laguda Subdivision in Brgy. Magsaysay, La Paz, Iloilo City on June 28, 2018, all the victims belong in one family.
Victim Jezreel Jalandoni, a Grade 10 student at Alphacrest Academy, suffered gunshot wounds on his head, neck and nose. He died while being treated at Medicus Medical Center in Mandurriao.
His mother, Marites, who was driving their vehicle, and brother, Jedidiah, 18, also incurred multiple wounds but survived.
The actuation of suspected triggerman, Teopisto “Totong” Castroverde Sebanta, 47, was similar in many ways to that of Claudio Teehankee Jr., lone gunman in the unprovoked killings of Roland John Chapman and Maureen Hultman inside the Dasmariñas Village, Makati City on July 13, 1991.
Either they were “psycho killers” or trigger-happy maniacs under the influence of illegal substance or liquor. Or both.

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Both Teehankee Jr. and Sebanta approached their victims’ vehicles and started shooting them at close range.
Teehankee Jr., son of the late former Chief Justice Claudio Sr., first stopped Hultman’s group and asked for their companion, Jussi Olavi Leino’s identification card. When Chapman intervened, Teehankee shot him dead.
He then shot Hultman, who died in the hospital after several weeks. Leino, who was also shot, survived.
Like the victims in Makati City, the victims in Iloilo City were also unarmed and just came from a dinner.
Sebanta did not say any word and started peppering the victims’ vehicle with bullets when he saw it.
Both the attacks happened at night; Teehankee Jr. and Sebanta “shot” the victims several times even if they could not defend themselves as they were unarmed and not prepared to engage the shooters in a deadly altercation.
The only difference is Teehankee Jr. was arrested and convicted in the trial court.
His conviction was sustained by the Supreme Court, while Sabanta remained at large as of this writing.

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I was the lone Filipino in a jampacked Colombian resto on corner 82nd and Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, New York City July 3 afternoon when Colombia battled England in one of the last and most exciting Round 16 matches.
There, I witnessed how the Colombians heartily cheered their soccer players in the giant screen and how they noisily exploded when Colombia leveled the score at 1-1 just when the match was about to end in the last five minutes.
After failing to score in a five-minute extension, both England and Colombia tore each other apart in the tortuous penalty shootout.
England snatched victory from the jaws of defeat with a decisive 4-3 to book a quarterfinal slot in the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia.
The Englishmen broke the Colombian fans’ hearts, including the sympathetic Latino crowd in Moscow and in the Colombian resto here in Queens.
I saw tears in their eyes as they all disappeared one by one, while I stayed behind for another couple of minutes to finish my smoothie.