Climaco, now of her third and final term, is leading way ahead against Team Lobregat and Team Dalipe in most of Zamboanga’s 98 barangays, and so is all her candidates in both Districts 1 and 2. The mayor said residents were telling her the black propaganda, lies and fake news her foes were spreading.
“I heard grumblings by (my) opponents, who look at opportunity to tarnish the work we have done to serve our people. Lies and accusations being thrown at me to diminish my dignity as a woman and as person. They have recruited men to demolish and destroy me. Even my husband (Trifonio Salazar), a soldier (retired and decorated Major General and former Director-General of the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency) who put his life in grave risks to protect our people, was not spared. Unfortunately, even if they do not know the person, the condemnation is made even if it is false,” Climaco said in her Sunday Reflection piece.
“I was so busy to address the Covid pandemic when we had the different surges from Alpha, Delta to Omicron that I couldn’t answer the negative and false messages. Hasta ya queda mas malo el maga mensaje de negativismo y mentira. I chose to ignore these fake messages because I do not want to give the opponents room to increase their mileage,” she added.
This was also confirmed by several of Climaco’s aides telling the Zamboanga Post that even residents are now defending the mayor from black propaganda, and helping campaign for her and the Team Climaco.
“Hay, Madre de Dios, esos maga gente que no hay cosa hace, todo ya lang mentiras y fake news poreso el maga gente todo el suporta con Mayor Beng. Si Mayor mucho ya hace para na maga pobre, na maga senior citizens o los demas. Mucho accomplishments si Mayor Beng pero esos maga los demas ta corre ahora no hay y puro lang esos boca, aire poreso todo black propaganda ta hace,” one of the mayor’s aides said.
Enough is enough
Climaco said: “El verdad libra canaton todo. Barely 30 days to go before the elections, it is no surprise that other camps are back again in their usual ways of perpetrating black propaganda and disinformation against us which they have done too in the past. We are again witnessing an avalanche of malicious claims and baseless accusations that aims to sow distrust among our people and annihilate the truth.”
“We say, enough! Our people deserve the truth and they deserve better. This election will define the future of our City and of our people and we should not let it rest in the hands of those who are purveyors of fake news and disinformation. The discourse in this campaign should rise above dirty politics. It should be about our people's aspirations, hopes and dreams, and how we can offer un Nuevo Vida, lleno de esperanza, seguridad y prosperidad para na todo!” she said.
Climaco said in every mass she attended, a prayer was always offered for a clean, honest and peaceful elections, adding “politics is God’s gift to us, and an opportunity to contribute to the common good” and not engage in dirty politics because of vested interest.
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| Mayor Beng Climaco talks to an elderly woman. |
The mayor also recalled she prayed and asked God how she would respond to the false accusations made against her by political foes. “I was asking myself how Jesus would want me to respond to all these accusations. Last week, I got my answer, when a friend, Fr. Rentax, (Fr. Rene Tacastacas) S.J., shared on his Homily and I was moved to stand firm for truth. I recall Jesus challenging the accusers of the woman caught in adultery to cast the first stone si sila no hay culpa. Then on Araw ng Kagitingan or the Day of Valor, the Holy Spirit gave me bondness and the truth set me free,” Climaco said.
“Fr. Bong Suñaz, (Fr. Juan Manuel Suñaz) CMF, mentioned the contradiction of Alleluia to Crucify Him. The Paradox of Jesus, we are called to share in His Passion, Death and Crucifixion. May we offer ourselves as a Sacrifice with the Great Suffering of Jesus for us,” she added.
Paradox
Climaco did not provide meaning of the paradox mentioned by the priest, but biblical paradoxes exist as a teaching tool to reveal righteous and eternal principles. Many times, they contrast human values, influenced by the devil, with those upheld by God. Several of them given by Jesus also educate mankind on the coming Kingdom and the qualities required to enter and excel in it.
According to the Bible Study, Jesus used paradoxes, along with other literary devices in Scripture such as symbolism, allegories and parables, as one of the many ways to manifest God’s character, will and promises to humans.
In John 12:31, 2 Corinthians 4:3 - 4, Ephesians 2:1, the Holy Bible said the Eternal has allowed the devil, since the time of Adam, to heavily influence humanity as a god. Satan, who is a perfectly evil and the quintessential liar (John 8:44), has systematically deceived humans by constantly promoting his own perverted beliefs and self-centered goals. He has performed his job so well that the Bible makes plain that he and unconverted humans think an awful lot alike (Mark 8:33). (Zamboanga Post)
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