JUST recently the House of Representatives approved on final reading House Bill No. (HB) 7137 declaring Sept. 11 as “President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos Day” in Ilocos Norte.
And right on cue, the usual suspects, i.e. the “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon”, trendy social-climbing so-called millennials, pseudo communists and the rest of the idiots that make up three percent of the country’s population were rabidly up in arms against HB 7137.
This is quite hilarious and just confirms their stupidity. You see, unless you happen to live or in Ilocos Norte that day, you won’t even notice it, neither will you be affected by it.
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His real name was Jeffrey Laude, not Jennifer, and he was male with a complete set of penis and testicles. He was a street-seasoned cross-dresser and alleged prostitute.
There is nothing neither heroic nor wholesome about him. He did not die for some cause. He died because of fraud and deceit. Still, his death was very much profitable for his family – P4.6 million richer with US visas to boot.
Justice has already been served. The accused Joseph Pemberton has already served his sentence and released because of the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) clause in our law. So it does not really matter if President Duterte pardoned him or not; he will still be released according to law.
So all your shrill whining is for naught and just shows your ignorance and stupidity.
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Meanwhile I’ll park these excerpts from Presidential Decree No. 1986 creating the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board:
Section 7. Unauthorized showing or exhibition. – It shall be unlawful for any person or entity to exhibit or cause to be exhibited in any movie house, theater or public place or by television within the Philippines any motion picture, television program or publicity material, including trailers, and stills for lobby displays in connection with motion pictures, not duly authorized by the owner or his assignee and passed by the Board; or to print or cause to be printed on any motion picture to be exhibited in any theater or public place or by television a label or notice showing the same to have been officially passed by the Board when the same has not been previously authorized, except motion pictures, television programs or publicity material imprinted or exhibited by the Philippine Government and/or its departments and agencies, and newsreels.
Take note, the operative words are “movies”, “television”, “movie houses” and “theater”. Anything else is beyond and not covered by the MTRCB.
A few days ago the Board announced it has a plan to regulate video streaming platforms like Netflix. Of course it drew the ire of not only the citizens but also senators and congressmen which resulted into this (excerpts from the Sept. 7, 2020 issue of Panay News):
MTRCB warned of abolition over Netflix plan
Invoking Congress’ power of the purse, leaders of the House of Representatives have declared bold pronouncements against the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) for planning to regulate video streaming platforms like Netflix.
Deputy Speaker for finance LRay Villafuerte is the latest to join Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano in opposing the agency’s plan, describing it as a “regulatory overstretch” at a time where internet has “transformed the world into one humungous IT society.”
He called it an “imbecilic mindset” which is another term for stupidity, warning that with budget deliberations underway; they might as well view MTRCB as “an anachronism that necessitates urgent downsizing, if not an outright dissolution by giving it a zero outlay.”
“MTRCB’s plan to regulate online video streaming platforms such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, iflix, HOOQ and Apple TV is a farcical take on censorship that is incongruous with the new world order,” the Camarines Sur congressman said.
The agency may suffer “a hefty cut in its 2021 budget,” Villafuerte declared.
Cayetano, congressman from Taguig-Pateros, called the plan in his Facebook post as “ridiculous” and “mind-boggling.”
“What makes this even more mind-boggling is that, in the first place, the MTRCB has no jurisdiction over Netflix and other online content,” Cayetano stressed, as this goes against the government’s efforts in pursuing transparency in all of its affairs.
I would not describe the ridiculous plan of the MTRCB Board as a stupid notion. A better description for it is a desperate stupid attempt to be relevant.
Yes, I agree with the congressmen. The MTRCB Board should be abolished as it is no longer relevant in the IT world today./PN
