Tagasi’rip posted a comment on Buhi-Golden Pond.  This comment has brought to our attention another possible wanton exploitation of one of Buhi’s natural resource – the quarrying of flagstones in Burocbusoc.

I look at written comments such as this as little voices of our collective social/civic conscience.  ’Little voices’ is not meant to trivialize such comments.  Rather it is a statement of a realization that perhaps no one especially the ones in a position to do something about it really cares.

There is nothing wrong perhaps with such quarrying activity.  If only people are informed and are confident that their public officials have concrete plans that are clear and understood by its constituents.  For after all the reasonable and sustainable exploitation of our resources would be beneficial to the community in the long run.

Perhaps  such knee-jerk suspiciousness is spawned by general feelings that concerned Buhi-government functionaries don’t really care.  Especially about written comments like these that are not personally-brought straight to them.  Simply they have to be able to gauge what they would get from doing something about it.  What is their guarantee of a payback from their efforts otherwise?

Don’t you see Tagasi’rip why, no matter how exasperatingly, government services  in  Buhi and in the Philippines for that matter are most effectively acquired through persistent personal follow-ups it seems?

Payback come in different forms.  Your and your family’s guaranteed votes comes election time; or worse yet and most blatantly a direct demand for grease money, padulas or tong.

While you call attention to Burocbusoc flagstone’s-quarrying scandal allegedly involving one of its Barangay officials, who would listen to your ‘little voice’?

Who indeed would listen in the Buhi Munisipyo to your ‘little voice’ if right in front of their very eyes are glaring violations left and right.  Violations such as private-property owners encroaching on public roads and sidewalks to the detriment of public safety.  In the expansion or perhaps more appropriately reclamation of the main road in the Sentro the road kerb suddenly deflected 90% to dodge the dismantling of a road-encroaching private structure.

Or has anyone ever notice the San Buena-Welcome/Boundary Marker that is planted almost in the middle of the main road? Why? What about public safety and common good?

No one seems to be listening to our little voices much less to the little voices of each of our very own conscience – this is true with many Boie’nen public functionaries and ordinary citizens.

So?

Quo Vadis Boie’?