Friday, August 27, 2010
Comedy of Errors Continue:“Nakakahiya”
Hurts “Only when I Laugh”
There is total consensus that the tragic death of 9 tourists at the hands of dismissed, and eventually slain, policeman/hostage taker Rolando Mendoza involved many major errors on the part of the police forces handling the incident.
For example, there is the full, uncontrolled TV coverage that enabled Mendoza to see exactly what was happening at the site and wherever the cameras went thus undermining the police’ ability to manage and control the negotiating process. This inanity is compounded by a member of Congress who reportedly stated that he was filing a bill to prevent media from future coverage of similar incidents. “Earth to Congress: The police already have this authority and power!!”. The problem is we have incompetent police, the result, in large part, of the massive and endemic corruption in the police organization from top to bottom!!!
The jokes keep piling on!! Here is Mayor Alfredo Lim saying that Mendoza’s brother, also a policeman, was not ordered arrested by him but that he only ordered to have him handcuffed. Mr. Mayor, when a person is dragged out of his house by policemen and then handcuffed and brought to the scene of the ongoing hostage crisis he is by all definition “arrested”. The distinction you are trying to make is asinine, to say the least!!
But wait you, Mayor Lim and our Congress, are not the only jokers. There is Mayor Sonia Torres Aquino of the town of Tanauan where the deceased Mendoza resides, sent a Philippine flag to be draped on the coffin of the murderer!! And what’s more the whole world saw this because the media showed images of the flag draped coffin on TV. Needless to say the Chinese government went bonkers that a mass murderer is treated like a fallen hero!! But wait maybe Sonia Aquino has a point here: our people are so used to corrupt policemen that when one is killed it means there is one less extortionist in uniform and is indeed a cause for hero treatment. Excuse me but this is so pathetic and comical. I'm being sarcastic, of course.It hurts only when I laugh.
Message to Congress and President Benigno Aquino III: Stop the Zarzuelas that you call “investigation”. Close this circus down. Find someone you can trust who has impeccable credentials and credibility and have him or her conduct this investigation out of the public eye and once completed release the results first to the Chinese government, and then to the nation. I know it is a challenge to find someone who enjoys this kind of trust and credibility. Perhaps you can ask former finance secretary Jesus (Jess) Estanislao to head such an investigation.
Concurrently, try and look for a few ex-US Marine drill sergeants and have them whip up the police force into fitness. Contract an international team of hostage experts and have them train police and military on the handling these types of crisis so that future ones are better handled. Training must be an ongoing, perpetual process, in all aspects of law enforcement and crisis management such as fires, floods and typhoon catastrophes’.
Then focus attention on cleaning up the country’s peace and order infrastructure and rid it of corrupt elements. This probably means most of the police and military hierarchy as it is strongly rumored that up to 80 percent of all policemen are beneficiaries of graft money from such elements as jueteng operators smugglers, drug lords and corrupt politicians. Those who are not in on this level of corruption are involved, like the late Mendoza, in such rackets as extortion or other forms of tong.
The corruption circle is not limited to police or military. Many judges and prosecutors (fiscals in Philippine parlance) are also in on the take. So the approach that needs to be used Mr. President and Congress, is a total systems overhaul of the establishment. You promised the Filipino people an end to corruption, start with the police and military. If you can clean those two organizations up all other corrupt outfits that populate all levels of government will fall like the proverbial house of cards, because you can then trust the police and the military to go after grafters vigorously. You might then be able to even sic a corruption free police and military establishment to go after the biggest thieves of all: those governors, mayors, members of Congress who are embroiled in all kinds of “businesses” and get them all to jail. Wouldn’t that be something!!
In the meantime, please keep all the jokers out of the public eye.
“Nakakahiya"
Comedy of Errors Continue: "Nakakahiya" !
Hurts “Only when I Laugh”
There is total consensus that the tragic death of 9 tourists at the hands of dismissed, and eventually slain, policeman/hostage taker Rolando Mendoza involved many major errors on the part of the police forces handling the incident.
For example, there is the full, uncontrolled TV coverage that enabled Mendoza to see exactly what was happening at the site and wherever the cameras went thus undermining the police’ ability to manage and control the negotiating process. This inanity is compounded by a member of Congress who reportedly stated that he was filing a bill to prevent media from future coverage of similar incidents. “Earth to Congress: The police already have this authority and power!!”. The problem is we have incompetent police, the result, in large part, of the massive and endemic corruption in the police organization from top to bottom!!!
The jokes keep piling on!! Here is Mayor Alfredo Lim saying that Mendoza’s brother, also a policeman, was not ordered arrested by him but that he only ordered to have him handcuffed. Mr. Mayor, when a person is dragged out of his house by policemen and then handcuffed and brought to the scene of the ongoing hostage crisis he is by all definition “arrested”. The distinction you are trying to make is asinine, to say the least!!
But wait you, Mayor Lim and our Congress, are not the only jokers. There is Mayor Sonia Torres Aquino of the town of Tanauan where the deceased Mendoza resides, sent a Philippine flag to be draped on the coffin of the murderer!! And what’s more the whole world saw this because the media showed images of the flag draped coffin on TV. Needless to say the Chinese government went bonkers that a mass murderer is treated like a fallen hero!! But wait maybe Sonia Aquino has a point here: our people are so used to corrupt policemen that when one is killed it means there is one less extortionist in uniform and is indeed a cause for hero treatment. Excuse me but this is so pathetic and comical. I'm being sarcastic of course and It hurts only when I laugh.
Message to Congress and President Benigno Aquino III: Stop the Zarzuelas that you call “investigation”. Close this circus down. Find someone you can trust who has impeccable credentials and credibility and have him or her conduct this investigation out of the public eye and once completed release the results first to the Chinese government, and then to the nation. I know it is a challenge to find someone who enjoys this kind of trust and credibility. Perhaps you can ask former finance secretary Jesus (Jess) Estanislao to head such an investigation.
Concurrently, try and look for a few ex-US Marine drill sergeants and have them whip up the police force into fitness. Contract an international team of hostage experts and have them train police and military on the handling these types of crisis so that future ones are better handled. Training must be an ongoing, perpetual process, in all aspects of law enforcement and crisis management such as fires, floods and typhoon catastrophes’.
Then focus attention on cleaning up the country’s peace and order infrastructure and rid it of corrupt elements. This probably means most of the police and military hierarchy as it is strongly rumored that up to 80 percent of all policemen are beneficiaries of graft money from such elements as jueteng operators smugglers, drug lords and corrupt politicians. Those who are not in on this level of corruption are involved, like the late Mendoza, in such rackets as extortion or other forms of tong.
The corruption circle is not limited to police or military. Many judges and prosecutors (fiscals in Philippine parlance) are also in on the take. So the approach that needs to be used Mr. President and Congress, is a total systems overhaul of the establishment. You promised the Filipino people an end to corruption, start with the police and military. If you can clean those two organizations up all other corrupt outfits that populate all levels of government will fall like the proverbial house of cards, because you can then trust the police and the military to go after grafters vigorously. You might then be able to even sic a corruption free police and military establishment to go after the biggest thieves of all: those governors, mayors, members of Congress who are embroiled in all kinds of “businesses” and get them all to jail. Wouldn’t that be something!!
In the meantime, please keep all the jokers out of the public eye.
"Nakakahiya"
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There is total consensus that the tragic death of 9 tourists at the hands of dismissed, and eventually slain, policeman/hostage taker Rolando Mendoza involved many major errors on the part of the police forces handling the incident.
For example, there is the full, uncontrolled TV coverage that enabled Mendoza to see exactly what was happening at the site and wherever the cameras went thus undermining the police’ ability to manage and control the negotiating process. This inanity is compounded by a member of Congress who reportedly stated that he was filing a bill to prevent media from future coverage of similar incidents. “Earth to Congress: The police already have this authority and power!!”. The problem is we have incompetent police, the result, in large part, of the massive and endemic corruption in the police organization from top to bottom!!!
The jokes keep piling on!! Here is Mayor Alfredo Lim saying that Mendoza’s brother, also a policeman, was not ordered arrested by him but that he only ordered to have him handcuffed. Mr. Mayor, when a person is dragged out of his house by policemen and then handcuffed and brought to the scene of the ongoing hostage crisis he is by all definition “arrested”. The distinction you are trying to make is asinine, to say the least!!
But wait you, Mayor Lim and our Congress, are not the only jokers. There is Mayor Sonia Torres Aquino of the town of Tanauan where the deceased Mendoza resides, sent a Philippine flag to be draped on the coffin of the murderer!! And what’s more the whole world saw this because the media showed images of the flag draped coffin on TV. Needless to say the Chinese government went bonkers that a mass murderer is treated like a fallen hero!! But wait maybe Sonia Aquino has a point here: our people are so used to corrupt policemen that when one is killed it means there is one less extortionist in uniform and is indeed a cause for hero treatment. Excuse me but this is so pathetic and comical. I'm being sarcastic of course and It hurts only when I laugh.
Message to Congress and President Benigno Aquino III: Stop the Zarzuelas that you call “investigation”. Close this circus down. Find someone you can trust who has impeccable credentials and credibility and have him or her conduct this investigation out of the public eye and once completed release the results first to the Chinese government, and then to the nation. I know it is a challenge to find someone who enjoys this kind of trust and credibility. Perhaps you can ask former finance secretary Jesus (Jess) Estanislao to head such an investigation.
Concurrently, try and look for a few ex-US Marine drill sergeants and have them whip up the police force into fitness. Contract an international team of hostage experts and have them train police and military on the handling these types of crisis so that future ones are better handled. Training must be an ongoing, perpetual process, in all aspects of law enforcement and crisis management such as fires, floods and typhoon catastrophes’.
Then focus attention on cleaning up the country’s peace and order infrastructure and rid it of corrupt elements. This probably means most of the police and military hierarchy as it is strongly rumored that up to 80 percent of all policemen are beneficiaries of graft money from such elements as jueteng operators smugglers, drug lords and corrupt politicians. Those who are not in on this level of corruption are involved, like the late Mendoza, in such rackets as extortion or other forms of tong.
The corruption circle is not limited to police or military. Many judges and prosecutors (fiscals in Philippine parlance) are also in on the take. So the approach that needs to be used Mr. President and Congress, is a total systems overhaul of the establishment. You promised the Filipino people an end to corruption, start with the police and military. If you can clean those two organizations up all other corrupt outfits that populate all levels of government will fall like the proverbial house of cards, because you can then trust the police and the military to go after grafters vigorously. You might then be able to even sic a corruption free police and military establishment to go after the biggest thieves of all: those governors, mayors, members of Congress who are embroiled in all kinds of “businesses” and get them all to jail. Wouldn’t that be something!!
In the meantime, please keep all the jokers out of the public eye.
"Nakakahiya"
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Mendoza, Team Were Rouge Cops
Special News Report
Shuddering pangs of fear and apprehension has been gripping a segment of the student population in Manila, all thanks to the deceased police officer Rolando Mendoza and some of his colleagues.
So palpable is the fear in fact that the information in this report is shared only on condition of anonymity not only of the actual source but also the friends of the source who passed the information on to me. I am filing this report nevertheless because the information contained herein can be verified with Manila police and city officials as well as the office of the Ombudsman.
Here’s the story:
One balmy night in 2008 a student drove to his school location to return a small office instrument by dropping it off at the school’s lobby. He found a parking space in an open, unoccupied lot right beside the school campus. Upon his return he found several policemen hovering over his car.
The “leader” of the police contingent, later identified as Rolando Mendoza, accused the student of “illegal” parking. When he queried how the policemen could say he was parked illegally since there was a car parked in front of his, as well as another car parked in the back of it.
“Uy pilosopo ka pala” (Oh, so you are an argumentative type) Mendoza said, and forthwith ordered him to open his car’s trunk. Mendoza immediately threw in a small packet into the trunk, which he then established as marijuana and pills in the possession of the student.
There was a crowd that had gathered at this point and the student, hopeful that the presence of witnesses would deter the policemen from any further action, shouted to the crowd, “kita ninyo na nilagay”( you saw that he planted it).
Mendoza then shouted at the crowd in a louder voice, “ Sino and nakakita?”
(Who witnessed this?) at which point the crowd, fearing the angered policemen could turn on them, meekly dispersed.
He then instructed the student to get on the driver’s seat. As he sat, Mendoza then used the seat belt to choke the student’s neck, pulled his head back by grabbing his hair making the student gasp for breath and at which point one of the other policemen shoved shabu down his throat.
“O, yan may shabu sa sistema mo, “ Mendoza said. At this point the police group got in the car and instructed to student to produce his ATM card. They drove to the nearest bank ATM outlet and withdrew an undisclosed amount from the account. This transaction was caught on the bank’s security cameras.
They then drove to the precinct at which point Mendoza reportedly instructed the student to call whoever he could to get them the amount of money they wanted. The student called his father, then travelling and out in the provinces, and handed the phone to Mendoza. The latter demanded that the father give him 200,000 pesos that night as his son was in jail for possession and use of illegal drugs. The father said he did not have access to that amount of money. Ultimately one of the friends that the student had contacted brought over 20,000 pesos in cash and with this the policemen let the student go.
As the story goes, Mayor Lim, travelling in San Francisco, California learned of this incident as one of the people in the audience he was addressing at the time read aloud a report written by one of the student’s classmates describing the incident. Needless to say the Manila mayor was flushed with embarrassment at this report and upon his return to Manila reportedly sacked the entire group and Mendoza was reportedly transferred to Mindanao.
The Ombudsman then investigated the incident, obtained details and used the bank security film to convict Mendoza resulting in the latter’s removal from his post.
The student has expressed a desire to leave the incident behind. He learned from others that at least 5 other students of the same school were similarly victimized by this group of police officers. When asked by a tv reporter to comment on the aborted hijacking that led to the death of Mendoza, the student reportedly said that as he had nothing good to say about the deceased officer and preferred to remain silent.
Reporter’s Comment:
So fearful are large segments of the Philippine population of the police and military establishments that only people outside the country can feel safe reporting stories like this one.
http://ldq1944.blogspot.com
ldq44@aol.com
Shuddering pangs of fear and apprehension has been gripping a segment of the student population in Manila, all thanks to the deceased police officer Rolando Mendoza and some of his colleagues.
So palpable is the fear in fact that the information in this report is shared only on condition of anonymity not only of the actual source but also the friends of the source who passed the information on to me. I am filing this report nevertheless because the information contained herein can be verified with Manila police and city officials as well as the office of the Ombudsman.
Here’s the story:
One balmy night in 2008 a student drove to his school location to return a small office instrument by dropping it off at the school’s lobby. He found a parking space in an open, unoccupied lot right beside the school campus. Upon his return he found several policemen hovering over his car.
The “leader” of the police contingent, later identified as Rolando Mendoza, accused the student of “illegal” parking. When he queried how the policemen could say he was parked illegally since there was a car parked in front of his, as well as another car parked in the back of it.
“Uy pilosopo ka pala” (Oh, so you are an argumentative type) Mendoza said, and forthwith ordered him to open his car’s trunk. Mendoza immediately threw in a small packet into the trunk, which he then established as marijuana and pills in the possession of the student.
There was a crowd that had gathered at this point and the student, hopeful that the presence of witnesses would deter the policemen from any further action, shouted to the crowd, “kita ninyo na nilagay”( you saw that he planted it).
Mendoza then shouted at the crowd in a louder voice, “ Sino and nakakita?”
(Who witnessed this?) at which point the crowd, fearing the angered policemen could turn on them, meekly dispersed.
He then instructed the student to get on the driver’s seat. As he sat, Mendoza then used the seat belt to choke the student’s neck, pulled his head back by grabbing his hair making the student gasp for breath and at which point one of the other policemen shoved shabu down his throat.
“O, yan may shabu sa sistema mo, “ Mendoza said. At this point the police group got in the car and instructed to student to produce his ATM card. They drove to the nearest bank ATM outlet and withdrew an undisclosed amount from the account. This transaction was caught on the bank’s security cameras.
They then drove to the precinct at which point Mendoza reportedly instructed the student to call whoever he could to get them the amount of money they wanted. The student called his father, then travelling and out in the provinces, and handed the phone to Mendoza. The latter demanded that the father give him 200,000 pesos that night as his son was in jail for possession and use of illegal drugs. The father said he did not have access to that amount of money. Ultimately one of the friends that the student had contacted brought over 20,000 pesos in cash and with this the policemen let the student go.
As the story goes, Mayor Lim, travelling in San Francisco, California learned of this incident as one of the people in the audience he was addressing at the time read aloud a report written by one of the student’s classmates describing the incident. Needless to say the Manila mayor was flushed with embarrassment at this report and upon his return to Manila reportedly sacked the entire group and Mendoza was reportedly transferred to Mindanao.
The Ombudsman then investigated the incident, obtained details and used the bank security film to convict Mendoza resulting in the latter’s removal from his post.
The student has expressed a desire to leave the incident behind. He learned from others that at least 5 other students of the same school were similarly victimized by this group of police officers. When asked by a tv reporter to comment on the aborted hijacking that led to the death of Mendoza, the student reportedly said that as he had nothing good to say about the deceased officer and preferred to remain silent.
Reporter’s Comment:
So fearful are large segments of the Philippine population of the police and military establishments that only people outside the country can feel safe reporting stories like this one.
http://ldq1944.blogspot.com
ldq44@aol.com
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