Ah, the sunset. I like watching the sunset from Puerto Heights on
a Saturday. Just got my salary and this is what I do before heading out to
party: a little time for contemplation. Funny, but it seems to help keep me
sane.
It's a golden sunset over Macajalar Bay. There's the
battlecruiser! Yep. That's the thing that stomped the navy to pieces. The
carriers are over there in the distance.
What caused the Takeover you say?
Well, it had to do with some greedy senator who just couldn't keep
his greed in check. He provoked Eric Ong. They used to have this thing in the
law that says that the senate can haul you off to be interrogated without a
warrant. That's been used by many politicians in the past to blackmail people
into giving them more money. And it's also been used as a way of interfering
with other people's privacy.
Well, this senator tried to blackmail Eric Ong because the Taipan
was winning all his tax cases against the BIR. It wasn't that he was sued, but
he was suing the BIR for collecting the wrong taxes. Finally, some of the
people there tried to get that senator into taking Eric Ong off their backs so
they could continue extorting the EOGC. So that's just what happened. That
senator threatened to form an investigative committee and bring Eric Ong in to
be questioned.
Eric Ong wouldn't stand for that. And he didn't act like a typical
Filipino businessman. He fought back. And he didn't do it by patronizing
anybody. No way. He really fought back. He always said that if he treated it
the same as everyone else did, the blackmailing and threatening would never
stop. Besides, there was that part in the law (the constitution was it?) that
said that sovereignty is in the people and some legal experts said that that
means the people can overthrow a bad government if they want to.
(Sigh) I'm getting kinda political here. It's not my thing.
Hey, let's go over to Limketkai for some drinks, kay?
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