DIVIDED BY SHEER IDEOLOGY, UNITED BY SHEER HUMANITY

ABS-CBN Gabby Lopez and Carlo Katigbak seemed to blur the line between Reality TV and reality. Fighting it out in court and see who will be the last man standing, the critical situation will just get worse. To have an early victory nip in the bud for the ABS-CBN is by taking the bull by the horns. Choose the most human and practical approach that will unbind the tangled braid with one swoop of the sword, and that is an amicable settlement with PRRD. Just remember, the boundary zone between land and water tells the difference between life and death.

It is not the battle in court that will save you. Often times a reverse has but made the room for more prosperous fortune.

Do not listen to the legal luminaries around you and tell you that you will be issued a provisional permit to operate. That will never happen. And to wait for Congress to renew your franchise means you will be waiting in vain. Can’t you see the reality if you leave your fate in the hands of those politicians? These politicians are just taking you even deeper to your grave while they will be laughing all the way to the bank.

Take the queue that Mayor Sarah Duterte Carpio said on TV: that his father has a heart of gold and can easily forgive and forget. The ABS-CBN has not been fair to him but PRRD is fair, I can guarantee you that.

You know in conscience and morality there is a lot wrong with how you have been treating PRRD. Accordingly, you cannot keep displaying your nerves of steel and walked away scot free. You cannot have your cake and eat it too.

Yes, it is hard and embarrassing to strike a settlement when you are at fault because you have to swallow your pride and ego. But just to buy peace, do it; anyway, nobody was ever heard to have died from swallowing his pride.

To say more, you have to accept the fact that it was you who created your own storms, so, do not be upset when it rains. Your relation with PRRD is not all sunshine but you can share one umbrella and survive the storm together.

This is the greatest battle of your life trying to save your company and this can only be won by using your brain and not by brute force. I know this because I’ve been settling cases for 30 years as a Judge of the agrarian court, the DARAB (DAR Adjudication Board). I can now consider myself a master because I have failed more times than the beginner has ever tried.