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Bencyrus Ellorin . 

MANY Cagayanons are at a loss for words over the incapability of this candidate to tell and stand for the truth.

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Goebbels may be uncomfortable now, somebody may have mutated into something, not within the parameters of his propaganda doctrine that a lie repeated will substitute the truth.

This man is something else; he doesn’t have a cause except maybe to prove to the world that people’s decisions can be manipulated with lies.

He packages his lies using logical structures, like laying down faulty premises to support malicious, faulty and untruthful conclusions.

Example, he was heard on radio on Monday, saying: Ingon nila, okay ra mangawat basta dunay proyekto nga makita ang mga tawo. Daghan proyekto gihimo si Mayor Moreno,therefore, kawatan siya.

In writing and even in ordinary conversations, attribution is important. Attribution should be specific as to the source. In the fallacy above, “nila” or often the use of “kuan” is not an attribution. Attribution is accurate and is meant to make accountable the source of information.

Then, this candidate goes on saying that the projects of Mayor Moreno like classrooms are akin to bridges going nowhere. He explains that without a city college, graduates of public high schools have nowhere to run to.

Wow, this high school valedictorian of an esteemed Jesuit school is also ignorant! A lot of public high school graduates end up in universities. Huwag ismolin ang mga graduates of public schools.

Not only is this candidate capable of dishonesty by fallacy, he can also be capable of sounding and looking ignorant. What he willfully and maliciously  failed to disclose are at least two substantial facts: 1) the city has a scholarship program for poor and deserving students; and 2) the new basic education curriculum, the K + 12, is designed to capacitate graduates of basic education to be skilled workers. Going to college or higher education is an option.

The list could be endless. The lies up the sleeves of this candidate seems endless.

Since he is incapable of telling the truth, he is also incapable of thinking out realistic programs and projects.

He says he will build a fast train from Cagayan de Oro to Davao. First, the Mindanao Railway Project is not his idea. The feasibility study is at least 10 years old. It’s only that when the wind blew south, the plan to start the train project from Cagayan de Oro moved to Davao. There’s no problem with that.

If he meant via Bukidnon, he is utterly wrong. Engineers ruled out the shorter Bukidnon route because rail tracks do not have traction to be able to move trains in high grade slopes. If the Bukidnon route is to be pursued, it would be exorbitantly expensive and would entail major environmental impact as it would entail tunneling long stetches of forested mountains.

Big-ticket undertakings like the Mindanao Railway Project costs hundreds of billions. And it is not for local governments to build because the financial capacity is with the national government.

It is easy to dream. But dreams should be realistic and not just anything orbiting one’s nut like that choo choo train of Pompee.

(The author is a former journalist with experience in managing and editing online news portals here and abroad. He is now a public relations consultant and political campaigner. One of the social media groups he co-administered was a finalist in Globe’s Tatt award in 2012.)

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