MERGED: Joavan Fernandez: Controversial "Son" of Talisay

[o_bama]

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Swerte pa gyd na si Joavan na wala kalabay sa Pari an 2 days ago ky kung ni labay pa pusilan gyd cya sa Tanod.

[ahyango]

grabeha na lang gyud ug ka baga sa naong aning bataa! maayong tao man ta ni si soc.. murag ni sugot raman siya anion siya.. bida!

[treize]

pasuroya ni og carcar ai may kay ang patay didto normal ra kada-adlaw..

[Adamot]

Hahay way undang Ning tawhana og him og kontrobersya, Mao nga nisamot ni kagara Kay Tungud rapud sa panalipod sa iyang amahan. Hastang sayona noh, apil na ang polis sa gibiktima niya. Mao mga talisaynon, of kamo na gani ti-unan or dasmagan, birahi nalang ninyo, Kay tabla ra sa wala og ipa areglo ra sa iya amahan.

[radiostar]

naunsa naman ni si joavan oi

[itzurisen]

di nko mahibong ani oie... hehe! wai kausaban...U

[kzoo_14]

hahaha....napod ug nalang...ga patuyang jud ug taman ning tawhana.....nagpaila lang ni si m.soc nga di niya makaya ug handle iyang anak...hihihihihi...

[ofw_cebu]

maayo ning hiktan ang pikoy aning bataa nya ipaguyod sa kabaw . . . .

[UNWANTED]

nakit-an ko ning amaw ganiha nagpatubil sa shell. may jung ihawon. ug naa pa niy patong sa o datu na ko ron hahahaha

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Editorial: Joavan story: repetition, denouement | Sun.Star Network Online

THE problem with the Joavan Fernandez tale is that it looks like it has become repetitive.

Repetition numbs the senses, muddling people’s appreciation of the seriousness of every incident committed.

In the case of the latest act of the son of Talisay City Mayor Socrates Fernandez, for example, one disturbing response has been, “so what else is new?”

It’s not that ramming a Mitsubishi Pajero into a police car has become Joavan’s habit; it hasn’t.

It’s just that Joavan has become a master of the pinprick. He commits an infraction serious enough to attract attention but minor enough to allow him to do a similar act later.

And he has been at this game for so long now that responses and reactions by both the authorities and the public to every act have also become repetitive, meaning predictable.

Consider the following sequence: the police car gets rammed by the Pajero, Joavan eludes a hunt, the Talisay City mayor comes to his son’s defense, the police file a case, the public condemns the act---then in a span of a few weeks or months, the expected momentary lull.

Even the content of the condemnation directed at Joavan and his father is essentially the same, thus one is prompted to suggest those condemnations should be taped and replayed once Joavan resurfaces and commits another infraction.

That way people won’t be wasting their saliva spewing the same condemnation over and over.

But lest we too become numb to Joavan’s antics, one must understand that all these can only be part of a process that sooner or later will reach its denouement.

Even now, there is already an observable constriction in the space within which the mayor’s son moves. This, as more and more people are standing up to his abuses.

The Talisay City police, for example, are no longer the docile force the Fernandezes used to order around.

The office is now headed by a chief that has exhibited independence in several instances, though often through the prodding of his superiors.

Sooner or later, the Joavan story will end, though we don’t know how.

Published in the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper on November 04, 2010