Our beloved Jose Rizal is in heaven

MANY who didn’t care, or forgot, that last Friday June 19 was our national hero Jose Rizal’s birth anniversary, were reminded of him by the Torre de Manila scandal. For days, ABS-CBN’s Ted Failon in his morning talk show “Failon Ngayon” commendably devoted a lot of air time sharing his patriotic anger over it. He opened last Thursday’s discussion referring to the Times banner “Tense Torre TRO hearing.”

Opinion writers and government people who have berated DMCI and the City of Manila officials who okayed the 49-floor Torre to be built have focused on the irreverence to Rizal, the destruction of the beautiful view, the trashing of our heritage, the commercial greed of DMCI and the possible of corruption of the city officials who gave the building permit and exempted from certain ordinances or rules.