PNP’s Rule of Engagement: Point and Shoot!
Yes folks. The Philippine National Police (PNP) has only one (1) rule of engagement… POINT and SHOOT! With subsection… ‘UNTIL YOUR MAGAZINE CLIPS ARE EMPTY!’ *sic*
This has been religiously justified by our law enforcers since time immemorial. From the pre-Spanish to PGMA era, our trigger-happy-blood-thirsty cops are on the prowl for would be victims to satisfy their itchy fingers. And the worse part is that our government is not doing anything about it. The cries of the family of their victims falls on deaf ears.
What happened to these erring law enforcers after the complaint? Has anyone been put into justice? Has there been measures to prevent such barbaric operations to happen again?
I’ve googled the internet to look for clear rules of engagement in the Philippines. To my dismay, there’s none. What i’d been given are archives of several operations of the PNP / NBI / Army turned bad. From the innocent family on their way to picnic, to a mistaken van in Cebu, to the child of a driver who just happened to borrow his boss’ car to an event (his boss is an alleged kingpin), to a demented guy in Pasay city who held hostage a boy, to a fil-chinese girl riddled by the defunct PACC with bullets alongside with her kidnappers, to a group of yuppies just having fun in Ortigas that has been mistaken for carnappers and planted evidences against them, and more! (http://dg.up.edu.ph/viewtopic.php?t=2003&)
These recent witch hunt of the PNP on the RCBC robbers, who cold-bloodedly killed several bank employees and customers, escalated this issue once more of not having a clear rules of engagement. PGMA should chastened her law enforcers as they continue to defy her order last 2004:
“The end can never justify the means and lapses on police operations must never be tolerated,” the President said in a statement.
The President said the directive was “to avoid a repetition of this unfortunate event.” – http://www.gov.ph/news/default.asp?i=4762
The question that comes to our mind now is that, are these law enforcers know what are the Rules of Engagement? Or are they also in the dark as they don’t know what to do… as there is really no one?
Do they know the Miranda Rights? Are they not watching hollywood movies, where a cop reads the suspect’s rights no matter how they execute their arrests? They’re not doing this. If you watch those sensationalized tv programs in channels 2 ( XXX ), 7 (imbestigador) and 13 (bitag), you won’t see any law enforcers reading the suspect’s rights… and these are seen on national tv!
Our lack of clear rules of engagement sends negative signals to our people and foreign neighbors and investors. The wheel of justice is not rolling, or if it is… it’s rolling on the wrong direction… or rolling in the dark… crashing anyone, anything in its path.
We have our rights to have a peace of mind… that we are safe in our homes… that any members of our family is safe out there because there are law enforcers who know what their doing… that even if they were mistaken to be law-breakers, we know their rights will be upheld…
because there are clear rules of engagement!
Las Piñas is Drinking Their Own Garbage
I’ve been passing by the coastal road from Las Piñas almost everyday. I’ve been kuligliging there for years now. I just noticed that after you passed by Zapote, you’ll see the landfill there (yep, another “smokey mountain” but without the smoke… yet!). You’ll know when you’re there if you start smelling rotten/foul odors that would make you puke.
If you’re not familiar with and what Coastal road is, it is a reclaimed highway that connects Manila/Pasay to Cavite province and Las Piñas City. Reclaimed — so it means it is used to be part of Manila Bay. And if you go there right now, its west-side is the filthy Manila Bay and the east-side are our poor people squatting the area.
Now back to the landfill, a few meters away from it is the now-closed incinerator facility (it’s closed because of the Clean-Air Act). The landfill sits on top of another reclaimed area and at its side is a river going to the Manila Bay. I don’t know if it is still active as i have not seen any garbage trucks there at the time i am passing by. If the landfill is there for quite a while, it must be decomposing now and its stinking chemicals are now sipping down the land and to the river going to Manila Bay.
As you know, Las Piñas don’t rely on MWSS for its water supply. It gets its water from deep wells. Yes, deep wells… those area underground that contains vast supply of water. Which for all we know gets its source from Manila Bay by means of series of natural filtration by soil minerals underneath… yes, from the Manila Bay that this landfill has been polluting and sipping its deadly chemicals… yes, it passes through them first… must have been mixing their chemicals with Las Piñas’ water supply underground. For all we know…
Las Piñas has been drinking its own garbage!!!
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Fuel Prices Up Again for the Nth times
Ouch! Fuel prices up again. Greedy oil firms raised the price with additional 1 peso per liter for gasoline, and 1.50 pesos for diesel. Has this no end? every week fuel prices goes up. And some says it will hit the PhP 60/liter mark.
As long as we are highly dependent on oil, we’ll continue to suffer from this crisis. And what is our government doing? Barking on the wrong tree again! (for the nth times). They should leave MERALCO alone. The real problem is this oil companies. Dapat nilang kastiguhin ang mga ito. But what is the government doing with them? NOTHING!!!! They just said, we should accept the fact that this will go on. BULLSHIT!!!!
They have the power in the first place. There are many measures as what our Senators are doing. REMOVE THE VAT IN OIL PRICES! We should rally behind our Senators and support their fight.
BRING BACK OIL PRICE STABILIZATION FUND!!! BRING BACK OIL SUBSIDY!!!
THAT’S THE ONLY SOLUTION!
The Broadband Conspiracy
This has been going on for weeks now. It’s the headline of almost all the major news organization in the country, both print, tv and the. It’s the expose of the controversial Broadband deal of the government with China-based ZTE Corporation. The government is expected to borrow around US$300 Million just to pay ZTE for the alleged installation of Broadband Internet connection in all of government agencies… thanks to COMELEC Commissioner Ben Abalos.
My first reaction upon hearing this asking myself, “why? can’t our local internet service provider companies provide such infrastructure?” Being in the IT industry, i am well aware that PLDT, GLOBE and Eastern Telecoms are competent enough to provide such connection. What surprises me is that i just learned from the TV news Bandila (c/o ABS-CBN) that Globe and other major telecom companies are not aware that such transactions and bidding existed.
Our country again is going down the drain with such officials as Comm. Abalos. His stint as COMELEC Commissioner for so many years are riddled with controversies from the infamous “Hello, Garci” tape expose to 12-0 controversial 2007 national elections, in favor of the Administrations dogs, which positioned Miguel Zubiri to a senatorial seat.
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Those Unregulated Gameshows
It’s about time government step in to monitor and regulate our local TV gameshows. With the recent “Wowowee Scam” scandal, we (the viewing public and the participants) don’t have any protection and safeguards against this abuse or if I may say cheating — intentional or not, accidental or not!
Nagpalabas na ng press release at official statement ang pamunuan ng ABS-CBN regarding sa “Scam” na ito at tahasan nilang sinabing “there were supposed to be 2 numbers inside the box… it’s a design flaw”. Ok… ok… alam kong tumataas na naman BP nyo. But let’s try to give them the “benefit of the doubt” (bullshit!). In my personal view, this is how they want it to be… originally there are Zeros sa boxes… then pinapatong na lang dun ung mga major prizes like 2, 1, houses, etc. With this design, they can easily place it at-random. Tipid nga naman! But this backfired at them and it caused them their reputation. Ok lang si Willy eh… ala namang reputasyon un.
This incident reminds me of the similar gameshow from ABS-CBN din some time ago with now Videogram Chairman Edu Manzano, Ai Ai, and et. al. As far as i can remember, it was about a load (or sim) yata un that they will scratch-off live on air to get the number and that you have to call them to get that number (or something like that). What happened was hinde pa tapos ipakita ung iniscratch ni Ai Ai, may tumawag na sa kanila on air with the correct number. Whhoooaaa!!! how cud that be possible? That was the last time i watched such game shows especially from ABS-CBN.
Another thing is the proliferation of texting services in order to participate in their gameshows. And they would be drawn daw via an electronic raffle draw. The question now is… who’s monitoring their so-called “electronic draw”? They always claim na may DTI representative daw. Pero who is to believe them if they don’t show us that DTI representative their referring to? I am a computer programmer and believe me this can be manipulated.
So unless our government will create a body that will regulate and monitor these gameshows, we will always be in the mercy of these people who capitalizes on the hapless plight of every Filipino.
