New Directive from the Mayors Office (AC)
note that the to follow information has not yet been verified to my standards as of yet (meaning that in this case, i do not yet have a copy of the letter that was delivered), but i felt that the need to inform the public of this information heavily outweighs the need for the confirmation process which can take at the minimum hours and in most cases days to confirm. should i not be able to confirm this information within 48 hours, i will ask the moderators to remove the post and will issue a direct apology to all members of this board in a separate post (but i am highly confident this will not need to happen).
it seems that there is a new "directive" from the mayor’s office that was delivered to the bars within the last seven days or so. (funny how not one of them posted information about it isn’t it).
paraphrasing the "directive" it states that they [authorities] have the right to enter a [any] bar and inspect the books and revenue at any time and close the bar on the spot for any infraction whether national or local as well as potential for filing of charges. it does say something to the effect that the "inspections" will be conducted in a manner that shall not in any way cause any inconvenience to the operation of the business, but if history is any indication of what will happen, the "authorities" will come into a bar to "inspect" and upon entering, the girls will of course rep001ter for the night (or longer) and i have about as much confidence in the these "authorities" abilities to have no negative impact on business as i do that the philippines will be de-listed from the un’s 3rd world country list tomorrow.
should the above information be confirmed by additional source (s), here is the problem, while this may not seem to be an issue to customers, it really is. what this is (whether legal or not, this issue has not yet been determined by any court in the philippines) is side stepping to the need for a mission order (search warrant). those veterans of ac will know that this is simply a run around of the (hardly ever followed law (s) and legal processes that are in force in the philippines) this will allow the "authorities" to enter a bar without any real probable cause. it is far from a quantum leap from the "authorities" going into the bar for one purpose (real or not is irrelevant) and finding something else "wrong". realistically people, read the "directive" again, it basically spells it out for all to read when it says [paraphrasing] "close the bar on the spot for any infraction whether national or local".
i can remember a couple of years ago when people were talking about the aftermath of one of the raids in ac, most of them said "they would never arrest a customer for being inside of a bar", but just a short time later during the alaska bar raid, it happened two customers were arrested for being inside of the bar during a lock in party. so no it is not a quantum leap to think that this to will likely be have a similar impact on ac.
so how imo, with evidence (included within this post) to support my theory, does this potentially affect/concern customers of the bars in ac? that depends if you want to end up being arrest like those two customers in the alaska bar raid or not. the conditions just got more probable that the "authorities" will be out more "inspecting".
i would be appalled if i was the only one concerned enough to think that this new "directive" is anything more than a free pass of sorts for the "authorities" to have free unfettered access to the inside of the bars for financial gains and/or for the purposes of forcing the bars to discontinue their current operations. even if the unfeigned motive is not centered in direct relation to financial motivations, the words of the directive speak for themselves and unquestionably go towards demonstrating that there are grounds for admonition (caution) to be used by those who are or will be in ac at best and at worst there is a critical defect in the tourism and entertainment sections of angeles city which has seemingly adopted the new campaign slogan and movement from the mayors office (and all of the other "official government organizations" that is now lets get the bars out of ac.
gentleman (and ladies if the case maybe) this is not a move by the mayors office to open the books of the bars for transparency for the public of the world to view. if it were like that, everyone (who graduated the 6th grade) would know that this would only commence the opening of flood gates to even greater world pressures to stop the "entertainment" venues available in angeles city. evidence points to the simple fact that this town (ac) and the philippines are in the company of the most corrupt elected officials in the world and this is simple viewed by those in the mayors office as a potential revenue stream that has not yet been tapped on this level before.
you just have to laugh at the types of campaigns and ideas these "authorities" and elected officials come up with in this country and in particular ac. even taken at face value they are laughable. how can anyone educated in an industrialized country at a 6th grade level or higher not laugh. here is an elected official (s) office that is coming out with a directive that is all but sure to negatively impact the economy in his city. keep in mind that these are some the same people that have not been able and subsequently imo in the next 1, 000 years will not get their country de-listed as a 3rd world country.
on the bright side of things, it seems as thought the philippines should be moving up in the ranking of something in the near future, regretfully it will/should be in the world ranking for graft and corruption standings. there is a significant chance that the philippines could outrank rwanda in this category.