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A friend gave me the link. It was really horrible what greedy people on our government can do. Not only they take our hard earn money, but they abuse power as well. Damn them!

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This is a repost from the blog of Bambee Dela Paz (http://vicissitude-decidido.blogspot.com/2008/12/world-is-fucked-up.html) which recounts how her 56-year-old father and 14-year-old brother were mauled by the party of the Mayor of Lanao Del Sur and the Secretary of the DAR over a misunderstanding on the golf course.

If you have the means and connections to bring this to the public eye please do so. You can bet I’m going to be bugging my mom and her contacts to bring this to mainstream media. It’s bad enough that corrupt politicians take money from the nation’s coffers but this is just too much.

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So, I just had the worst day of my life.

At around 1:30 PM today, at Valley Golf and Country Club, Antipolo City, Mayor Nasser Pangandaman, Jr., Mayor of Masiu City, Lanao del Sur, his father, Secretary Nasser Pangandaman of the Department of Agrarian Reform, and company, beat my defenseless 56-year-old dad and my 14-year-old brother to a pulp because of some stupid misunderstanding on the golf course.

This is a golf course. I have been a golfer all my life, and I have never seen anything like this. NOTHING. This is hard to comprehend. And it happened to my own father and my own brother too. Right in front of my eyes.

My brother and I were playing golf at the South Course of Valley. We were on the 3rd hole, and we see two golf carts going past us, overtaking our flight, and setting up to tee off on the next hole. My dad goes up to them and asks them why they would do that, why they would overtake us without even asking for our permission. Golf etiquette 101. One of the guys says that they’re with the flight in front of us. (So what? That doesn’t give them the right to just pass us WITHOUT asking.) So, we go to the 5th hole. The flight behind us catches up with us, and asks us what caused the hold up. We said that this flight just slipped in front of our flight. So we complained to the marshall. We play the 5th hole and walk towards the next hole, where there is a teehouse, and both the flights in front of us were there, talking with the marshall. The mayor of Masiu City, Lanao del Sur talks with my dad. Things get heated up. Voices were raised. But never, in my wildest dreams, did I ever imagine that someone would pull out a punch. Apparently not. He attacks my father. His flightmates, maybe 2 or 3 of them, rush to his aid and beat up my father. My 56-year-old father. My younger brother and I could not just watch. We rushed to break the fight. My younger brother pleads to the mayor to please stop it. To not hurt my dad. To just stop. His words still ring through my head…”Sorry na po, sorry na po…tama na…tama na po…” With his hands in front of his chest in a praying position. PLEADING. The mayor socks him in the face. My brother defended himself. My dad is still on the ground getting clobbered. My brother is the same way. I try to stop the fight, but all I can do is stop one person. There were 4 or 5 of them attacking now.

Someone breaks up the fight. I thought it was all over. The mayor shouts to his caddy: “Hindi nila kami kilala! Sabihin mo nga sa kanila kung sino ako!” And believe me, I had no idea who this person was. But now I know. He’s the person who, with 4 other men, beat up my 56-year-old father and my 14-year-old brother. He’s the person who sacks a pleading 14-year-old kid in the face. He’s a person who, I am sure, is gonna rot in hell.

I lash out, but my dad held me back. I was screaming my lungs out, shouting to this mayor, telling him about what he had done. I said: “Nakakahiya kayo. Singkwenta’y sais anyos ang tatay ko. And kapatid ko kakatorse anyos. Anong ilalaban nila sayo?”

The mayor looks at my brother, point to his face, and says,”Tatandaan kita!” And he tells me that my brother has a bad attitude and that I need to watch him. WHAT THE HELL?! So, my brother’s bad for defending his father?!

We leave. We walk to the clubhouse to file a complaint. My brother asks for a doctor. My dad could barely walk. Their group comes to the clubhouse, sees my brother. Once again my brother pleads, says sorry, and is crying. He was CRYING, for crissakes. But no. The relentless mayor still punches him in the face, and then sees my dad and goes after my dad again. Him and his friend pull my dad to the ground, pulls at his feet, and steps on him like he’s dirt. I run to him and try to hold him back, holding him back by his shirt, while this other guy and this girl tries to stop me. She tells me to just stop it. I scream in her face “they’re beating my father up and you want me to stop?!” I pull at his shirt–I don’t let go. All I can see was my dad being trampled on. I didn’t even see my brother getting beat up.

People pull them away. I get my dad, and I saw my brother. His right ear was bleeding. I freaked out. I told the receptionists to bring my brother to the clinic. I pull my dad away. People were separating us.

My mom and my older brother come. I tell her Bino’s right ear is bleeding. They both look like they could kill. My dad holds my brother off, I hold off my mom. When I finally got my mom under control, my older brother gets away and I hold him off. Two of the mayor’s bodyguards pull out guns. I embraced my brother from the back, just holding him back, crying. The receptionists came to us, crying, hugging me, my dad, and my mom, whispering to us to just leave. “Maam, umalis na po kayo, may mga baril sila…Maam…umalis na po kayo please…”

I am pretty sure the Secretary of DAR did not take part in the fight, but he just watched all this happen. He watched two of his sons, as we figured out, the other guy was his son, too, beat up my father and my 14-year-old brother. He didn’t do anything to stop it. And this person is what now? A cabinet member. A politician.

Sounds like something out of a movie, doesn’t it? But this is what happened. TODAY. The day after Christmas. To my family. And all I ask for is JUSTICE. The people at Valley Golf did not seem to want to help us. None of the security guards even tried to stop the fight. Right in the clubhouse. I came back after the fight was over and talked to the receptionists. They say they did not see anything. The general manager of Valley Golf would not give us the names of the men who made my brother’s ear bleed. It took him an hour. Maybe even more than that. He seemed to not want to help us. Because, we were against the SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN REFORM and the MAYOR OF MASIU CITY, LANAO DEL SUR. They were all scared.

The world has gone crazy. Two politicians beat up a defenseless 56-year-old father and his 14-year-old son. At a golf course. I swear to God, I thought golfers were decent people. You would think politicians were decent people. I guess not. I guess they gang up on 56-year-old men and beat up pleading 14-year-old kids.

Please pray for my dad, my brother and for my whole family. Please pray that we get JUSTICE. Oh God, please, give these people what they deserve.

• marcobanderas
  mga utak biaya, just a simple drama of the dela paz family. you immediately belived that the pangandaman is to be belamed in the golf club trouble, now that the decision of the board of the directors of the said golf club is expelled for the dela paz family that may result for the total damage of the golf carer of the 14 years old dela paz and only suspension for the pangandaman, do you still believed that the pangandamans are the trouble maker, if you will continue believing that opinion, there is no doubt, there is something wrong in your thinking, you need to go to a psychiatric before it become serious, pangandamans are muslim, so why the board of directors of the said golf club favored them, are they bribed, perhaps no, that is what we called the truth will prevail, the incident is a sample for the millionaires na matang pobre, the dela paz family, perhaps arrogant people so they deserved what the pangandman did to them, para maging tahimik silang tao, dito lang sa internet ay parang sumabog ang luzon sa kanilang pagdadakdak, yon lang ay enough eveidence to conclude that they are talkative and provoking people. para silang namatayan eh sila pa naman ang may kasalanan ayon sa verdict ng bod of the golf club, na palagay ko ay hindi naman na bribed ang kanilang pagkatao
• Mawe
  The sensationalism of this incident has led many to believe that the whole blame lies on the Pangandamans and their men. We haven't seen the whole picture yet, so who are we to believe only one side of this story? Is it because this case is against a politician and government official? Pls read my post abut this if interested in knowing more. Thanks and btw.. you have a damn great blog!
  
  <abbr>Mawe’s last blog post..The Pangandaman-Dela Paz Golf Incident</abbr>
• The Mouse Potato
  some are just abusing their power, but we do have good politicians though.
• John R.
  This is typical behavior for local politicians. Especially small town politician. Now what is a flight? Isn't it a foursome?
• john
  Please sign a petition here for Resignation of Pangandaman's:
  http://angkapatiranparty.org/index.php?id=26&am...
• Ernie
  Just pray, go and seek help from the media, and cause oriented groups and pursue the case against these bastards, you should not let this pass as they violated your father and brother's constitutional rights. You should also see to it that Valley Golf Club should ban these bastards from playing golf for life..... God Bless
• The Mouse Potato
  I hope Bambee could read our prayers. I too hate politicians like that.