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A Test of Character

December 13, 2008

A Test of Character

Herbie Gomez

Imagine a man, covered with blood , carrying a dying boy in hi arms. He cries out for help, he asks people around to help him save a life and rush the boy to the nearest hospital.

That is not the picture the public is getting based on the pronouncements and the accounts of those who saw what happened to 15 year old Junrie “Babay” Balingit on a road in Upper Dagong, Carme at dawn Thursday.

Instead the public is seeing a councilor who was elected to be a public servant running away (okay let’s use walking away) from the scene of the Thursday road accident.

The reason of Alden Bacal and his apologists: angry relatives of Balingit might manhandle the former local TV news reader turned councilor.

Here was a boy, dying, and Bacal’s excuse for not helping is because he was afraid he’d get beaten up? Junrie Balingit was dying and Bacal was thinking of his personal safety. Something is definitely not right when a man leaves another human being for dead. And the more it becomes not right when a man voted to become a public servant puts his concern for personal safety above his duty to be a man for others.

The road accident was a test of character for Bacal. Never mind if he ends up charged in court or not. He already failed the test on all counts.

Now we know what Bacal is really made of. Bacal is soft; he is not made of steel after all.

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