IT’S BEEN over two weeks and still no end to talk of Mommy D, aka Pac-mom, hexing Timothy Bradley.
Only last Tuesday, an article bylined Lou Ramon Aguila on the web page of the International Business Times’ Sports section bannered “Boxing News: Manny Pacquiao’s Mother Accused of Witchery by Tim Bradley’s Camp?”
Read the article in part: “…there are reports that Bradley is not happy to learn that his opponent’s mother casted a spell on him during the fight. “…Moreover, several people even went over the line, calling her a witchcraft practitioner…
“That being said, there are also rumors circulating that Bradley’s camp is condemning Dionesia’s “voodooism.” He alleged Pacquiao’s mother put a hex on him, causing his calf to hurt and making him disoriented in the later rounds
of the fight.”
Instead of harping on the inexcusable, Bradley could have just done a Cassius – remember the Bard’s Julius Caesar? – “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
Yeah, Pacquiao was the superior force in that bout. It does not mean though that hexes are unreal. Hexes are usually cast by one upon another, as in the supposed instance of Mommy D muttering some gibberish and raising the finger to Bradley.
As in that of San Fernando Auxiliary Bishop Pablo Virgilio S. David casting a curse on the polluters of the Sapang Balen Creek two years ago. Then too are persons hexed by their own (un)doing in given situations.
A case in point are the quarry operations during the tenancy of the Lapid father and son at the Pampanga Capitol.
No names now, lest we be misconstrued as dishonouring the dead and slandering the still-living. Anyways, those
in the know can readily identify them. The fi rst quarry overseer died “officially by suicide” while besieged by an army of CIS operatives.
The second also died, due to a sudden ailment, albeit long after he rationalized the quarry collection scheme. The trio that came in next fell on different misfortunes: one suffered bankruptcy, the other went to early retirement from the force, the last went blind, had a leg amputated and soon thereafter died, barely in his 40’s.
The quarry tsar that followed amassed much wealth, then suddenly dropped dead. His successor, a kin, had his brains splattered after engaging in some other questionable enterprise subsequent to his quarry tenure.
Pampanga’s quarry operations – believers avow – underwent an exorcism of sorts during the term of Gov. Eddie T. Panlilio. The honest quarry collection that brought in P1 million daily to the public coffers struck the malediction out of the province’s premium source of wealth.
And the benediction continues – increasing even – onto the administration of Gov. Lilia G. Pineda. Incidentally, the local media have their own hex-men in Macky Pangan and Deng Pangilinan, where elections are concerned.
No candidate whose hand was raised in endorsement by Pangan ever won. Worse is Pangilinan’s record of having those candidates – presidential at that – he clasped hands with not only losing but even soon after dying, read:
Raul Roco and Fernando Poe, Jr, here. A reversal of misfortune in these political hand-raises: 2004 gubernatorial candidate Zeny Ducut had both hands taken heavenward by the master political strategist Elpidio Mendoza and intrepid journalist Ody Fabian after a forum at the Old Manila coffeeshop at SM City Pampanga.
Within eight months, both Mendoza and Fabian were dead. Old Manila shut down a while later. And Ducut did not win. But there are people in politics who may be considered so blessed that those who oppose them get hexed.
The Bondoc siblings – Ana York and Juan Pablo – are a testament to that. See where those that challenged their
political hold on the fourth congressional district are now? Current Candaba Mayor Rene Maglanque, twice loser to the doctora is enmeshed in a plunder case, by association with Janet Lim- Napoles.
Past Candaba Mayor Jerry Pelayo, loser to Rimpy in 2013, is facing a plunder case too, although unconnected to Napoles. And the Bondocs did not lift even but a pinky to cause all these. Of a different type are those deemed as hexes in themselves. Here, I defer to the fi losofo de camino who advanced that the Aquinos are a hex to the nation.
Remember the earthquake of 1990, the Mount Pinatubo eruptions of 1991, typhoons Sisang – 979 deaths – in 1987; Ruping – 748 deaths – in 1990; and Uring – 5,101 deaths in 1991, all during the incumbency of President Cory Aquino.
Happening anew only last year in the earthquake that devastated Bohol and Cebu and Supertyphoon Haiyan that left some 7,000 fatalities and reduced Eastern Visayas to a pile of debris under the watch of BS Aquino III. Yeah, with the Aquinos, by all appearances, we are a nation hexed.
