"At around 1:30 PM today, at Valley Golf and Country Club, Antipolo City, Mayor Nasser Pangandaman, Jr., Mayor of Masiu City, Lanao del Sur, his father, Secretary Nasser Pangandaman of the Department of Agrarian Reform, and company, beat my defenseless 56-year-old dad and my 14-year-old brother to a pulp because of some stupid misunderstanding on the golf course."
According to her story, this mayor and three to four of his goons, I mean, companions, were the ones to initiate the violence, and proceeded to relentlessly beat up her dad and brother, not stopping even when they were already begging them to stop. Apparently because she and her family were brazen enough to complain about the mayor's behaviour, didn't they know who he was, did they not know the meaning of respect?
According to the venerable cabinet member in an interview with the Philippine STAR, however, they were attacked first by that barbaric, libelous family (teenagers these days!) with absolutely no regard for propriety, or body guards. After all, don't people realize how easily the facts can be skewed and misrepresented? Just ask the local police, and the staff of the clubhouse, now those are some fine, honest folk, they'll all respectfully corroborate the Pangandamans' story.
Or not. I would certainly hope not.
On a more general note, you have to wonder just how often things like this occur. Politics in the rural areas does have a reputation for being bloody and violent, so perhaps something like this is more or less a common occurrence. Perhaps we should just be thankful that nobody was killed, which may be more than others who have dared to cross these warlords and their ilk before can say.
That's just depressing, though.
P.S. Some context on the man himself, the Warlord of Masiu.
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