Kaban ni D_BystandeR: SINUKLIAY SA HUNAHUNA

el_latigo:

Why not make the people who, more or less, were directly responsible for the fiasco be held responsible, instead of the President? The people who, due to their wrong decisions and ineptness in handling of that infamous botched Luneta hostage-taking situation resulted to eight precious lives being snuffed out because of politics. Like former Mayor Alfredo Lim and former DILG Usec. Rico Puno, aside from merely apologizing should financially compensate the families of the victims who  sent the Keystone Cops rather than the well-trained SWAT teams to handle the crisis. After all, these two were the ones giving the orders to the KC teams while cooped up inside the Emerald Garden Restaurant feasting, ironically, on Chinese food. There's no dishonor in apologizing especially if the situation calls for it. After all, admitting one's mistakes is the hallmark of an honorable man, if these two consider themselves honorable, in the truest sense of the word. Just asking...

D_BystandeR:

You got it right with your practical assessment of who should bear the brunt of that lingering fiasco which took place in Luneta three years ago that up to now even threatens the employment of our domestic helpers in Hong Kong who are considered part of the group of our OFWs hailed as our modern day heroes for supplying our country with the needed financial remittance earnings in billions of dollars every year. But maybe we should raise our focus not only to those two personalities, like former DILG Usec. Rico Puno and Ex-Mayor Alfredo Lim who, like Emperor Nero of Rome was said to be playing lyre while Rome was burning,  the two aforementioned officials were feasting on pakatable  foods served inside that Chinese restaurant while the eight Chinese tourists were dying in a hail of bullets as a result of a bungled negotiation demanded by a Police Captain Rolando Mendoza to be given "justice" to his case which was just allowed to gather dust in the office of the Ombudsman. The  exchange of words heard over the radio between Capt. Mendoza and a certain Mr. Gonzales in the Ombudsman's office who was charged by the former as having demanded a "big" sum of money to have his case acted upon favorably and to which the latter vehemently denied (nobody will accept that accusation in public) was the height of the hostage drama and that because nothing concrete was achieved out of it the deaths of the Chinese tourists followed. That office, which caused the police officer to lose his patience should also be considered as part of those from whom the "blood money" will be extracted to pave the way for a lasting solution for this kind of controversy.

Footnote: If only the leaders of our country whose presence in the area at that time were known to everybody had extensively "pooled" their bright ideas together into considering the demand of the disgruntled police officer, (he was expecting to retire in a few months' time that's why he was deadly serious to be cleared of that "black spot" in his employment file) they could have done something  to diffuse the delicate situation involving the lives of the Chinese tourists for the amount involved in his demand was not "that great" compared to the repercussions that are now hounding the minds and conscience of our "top honchos" of our country where the Hong Kong lawmakers are now demanding compensation for the deaths of eight of their compatriots and threatens the employment of our domestic helpers in Hong Kong if we fall short of their demand as part of a "collateral damage."

(Bug-os ang  pasalamat sa KAHAYAG ngadto sa magtatampo  nga si JOHNNY LOVE. Nagtakuban siya sa pangalan, "D_BystandeR".  Natawo siya sa Sugbo apan anaa na karon manimuyo sa Illinois sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika. Ang kusog nga koneksyon sa kasayuran pinaagi sa internet kanunayng naghaling sa iyang kadasig  pagtuki sa mga nagbukalbukal nga hisgutanan dinhi sa atong nataran. Usa siya ka magsusulat nga gradwado sa kursong komersiyo padulong sa pagka accountant sa University of San Carlos kaniadtong tuig 1961.  Nahimo siyang miyembro sa usa ka hugpong sa mga batan-ong magsusulat nga gitawag ug STUDENT PRESS.  Nahimo usab siyang   Associate Editor sa basahon  USC-JPIAN sa tuig 1962-63. Magtatampo usab siya isip magsusulat sa nasudnong magasin,  "Philippines Free Press" ug sa mga nag-unang peryodiko dinhi sa dakbayan sa Sugbo sa lunhaw pa ang iyang pangedaron. Nahimo siyang mamumuo sa usa ka pribadong kompaniya sa dakbayan sa Sugbo, ESCAÑO LINES, sulod sa napulo ug duha (12) ka tuig  dayon niyang tapon  ngadto sa NAPOCOR  ug nahimong kawani sa kagamhanan  sulod sa bayente dos (22) ka tuig. Niadtong tunga-tungang bahin sa tuig 2000, nilalin siya ngadto sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika ug sulod sa napulo (10) ka tuig, nagtrabaho siya sa  buhatan sa kagamhanan sa nasod sama  sa  UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (USPS).  Karon sa pangedaron nga 68,  gihuptan gihapon niya ang walay pagkutat nga kadasig ug walay busganan nga kaikag sa pagpaambit sa iyang nahuptang abilidad  ug kabatid sa panulat.  Dili niya mapugngan ang kaugalingon sa pagpaambit sa iyang mga hunahuna labi na kon molambigit kini ug hisgotanan nga makadani sa iyang mga mata. Makadawat siya sa inyong mga hunahuna mahitungod sa iyang sinulat sa johnnylobedica@yahoo.com)