Seriously, Anti-Angry Birds Bill?
Posted on 03. Oct, 2011 by dimaks in Pinoy, Politics
At first it may sound lame but yes, somewhere in the imaginative minds of us, a certain satirical website announced that an “Anti-Angry Birds Bill” has been successfully passed into law. This seemed to cause commotion to the gaming groups of Filipino netizens. But as alarming as it is, the news bit was thrown to inject humor to the daily news.
Image: sowhatsnews.wordpress.com
To go on, the website said that Quezon City Rep. Winston Castelo, the proponent of a law against planking, filed fictional House Bill No. 5379 which seeks to ban the domination of a merchandise derived from the massively hitting online game Angry Birds. He got the idea when he went out to buy some gifts and noticed a huge number of Angry Birds novelty items. The Representative said, according to the the satirical news:
Everywhere I looked, Angry Birds this, Angry Birds that! Where is the product diversity? Shouldn’t the DTI be monitoring this?
Well, as far as he got the right to author and propose one, the scenario somewhat gives a crystal clear reflection of what we got in the cauldrons of our political nightmares in the country. People seem to ban this and that, propose law against this and that, cut things here and there but in the end, nobody really wants to implement such in the strictest sense of the word. More so on the general people to follow. Why is that?
Could it be that we find almost everything in our social and political streams a joke in its own kind? Would you imagine that instead of dedicating more of our time in contemplating on how to take part in volunteering for the Typhoon Pedring victims, some find time to fake a supposedly public service? I am sure you were also swarmed by the news on this three (3) government officials being present in almost every imaginable locations. It was like, every time my Facebook account refreshes, I see another doctored photo with the said trio. And yes, that thing got featured in The Washington Post.
Congrats?
How about making a law that would control the mode of transporting pigs in the metropolis? See, I am a daily commuter and it’s just so disgusting to spend time in a traffic jam while on board a jeepney with a pig delivery truck in front.
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4 Comments to “Seriously, Anti-Angry Birds Bill?”
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nielsky_2003
Oct 8th, 2011
Well then, to this satire, Rep. Castelo who himself plays this internet craze if more so with his little son instead found himself amused upon knowing of this posted online article.
Since the hoax still passed on as if it were true, for the record, the Secretary General certified that as of October 3, 2011, the last chronological number of bill filed stopped at HB 5369 which logically means HB 5379 or so-called “angry birds bill” could not have been filed nor is it existing at all.
Let this note puts to a close the circulating viral piece of satirical entertainment.
nielsky_2003
Oct 8th, 2011
By the way, we can always move backwards to the ‘anti-planking bill’ since this one appears to have been unstudiedly interpreted as ‘banning this, banning that’ – which in truth, is far from being the case.
Many people could really be for it. Those to whom planking on streets may possibly pose harm. Those who could be adversely affected if the flow of traffic is caused by this kind of human blockade (‘human planks’). Those who are engaged in every form of economic activity who cannot normally move or transport their products from one point to another.
Not to mention the potential dangers of deaths or injuries if stampede or crowd dispersal operations would have gone loco.
And these are real dangers, matter-of-factly. Even the exercise of freedom of this form can have its limits once government sees the possible harm that one type of activity can do.
There will be members of Congress who will sign up for the bill on mere merits of the measure. It is not at all stupid nor idiotic.
Shane Ryans
Oct 11th, 2011
That is so weird. It also brings about the point that if you can get enough signatures you can pass anything. This gives legal president a long trip thorough the courts.
dimaks
Oct 12th, 2011
Shane,
That’s the sad part, sometimes. No matter how senseless or irrelevant a law is, if it gets the magic signatures, things will be rolling in no time.