I love reading current events online instead of the traditional print because of the following reasons: free to read the news, interactivity via blogging and commenting and most of all it helps the environment by lessening the cutting of trees primary content of papers thus help Mother Earth and as I was doing my rounds of reading I was glued in reading an article by Mr. William Esposo of the Philippine Star Website entitled, "Will Martin Nievera dare to sing Iran's national anthem his way?" because I also have an article about this issue entitled, "Ang mamatay... ng... dahil... SAYO!!!".
Another reason I was hooked in reading his article eventhough I am not familiar with his writings are the comments he received from the comment section of his article and the discussions going on with the people who gave comments.
On the side of Mr. Esposo, I understand his point that "a law is a law" and it should be followed by the citizens or suffer the legal consequences for not doing so. This is how the world operate for it to have order. I mean, if someone stole something, then by law that's not allowed thus should be punished as according to the law. If someone murdered someone, the same should be true. A law is a law...
But while there are existing laws, I have suggested that there are "some" laws [if not all] where the consequences should be put on hold and just give warnings first especially if the person who committed the offense is not aware of that particular law as I don't think there is one single man on this planet that knows ALL the laws of the Philippines much so the world. This particular "leeway" suggestion that I say is applicable to the law that Martin Nievera broke as aside from tradition and history, no one was really hurt or na-agrabiyado because of this incident for me not even Julian Felipe as it was sung to the best of The Concert King's ballad ability. For me, that's not being disrespectful to the composer or his family or other sentimental people. To disrespect our national anthem is to intentionally change its lyrics especially with hate messages. Yes, Martin may have broken the law in properly singing our national anthem but it should be much of a big deal as no one was really physically or emotionally hurt that's why I'm suggesting for this particular law to be amended along with other laws. If not, baka wala ng kumanta sa susunod ng Lupang Hinirang dahil sa takot na mapenalized for singing it incorrectly. Kawawa naman ang wife ko kapag kinanta niya yan. Anyway, as wise men say, "The only thing that is permanent in this world is change", so laws can be changed and SHOULD BE changed if it needs to be changed.
That's the good side of Mr. Esposo's argument which is undeniably correct [just keep in mind my suggestion to amend the laws that need to be amended] as per the law. But to insult people like Manny Pacquiao, Martin Nievera, Charice Pempengco, Jennifer Bautista or any body else is foul especially to a man who seem to be educated. Although, again as per the law, he is entitled to freedom of expression but a group of disappointed commenters paraded his comment section who has the same right to express their comments on the insults he wrote to the above people. Insulting people should one of the last things we should do hanggang kaya nating magpigil. Mas acceptable sana if the insult is a result of a retaliation instead of an initiation. Dapat palaging respeto pa din ang unang bukambibig at kilos natin. To earn respect, we have to give respect. If Mr. Esposo simply gave a fair and unbiased opinion about the matter he might not have received such raging comments from fair and unbiased people [kasi minsan kahit na fair and unbiased ang article sadyang may mga innately bastos magcomment for unknown reasons].
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