Unasked, unasked, unasked

George Grosz. Explosion. 1917. Oil on hardbord. 47.8 x 68.2 cm. The Museum of Modern Arts, New York, NY, USA. Right-clicked from http://www.abcgallery.com

Mamang pulis (our neighborhood cop) through their spokespersons said they were not able to use the Anti-Terror Law against the perpetrators of the Batasan bomb blast. As in the past, the PNP uses tragedies for its campaign for more power over our lives. The Batasan bombers (if you really caught the real ones) committed murder. Multiple murders. Capital offense. Killings done by explosion are murders. You have enough law (i don’t know about your evidence) to detain the perpetrators without bail if the evidence of guilt is strong, and if convicted, you have enough for four life imprisonments apiece (40 years times 4 equals 160 years except that sometimes that becomes 30 years). Here’s the provision, because you’re playing dumb and keep resorting to the tired old practice of using people who get killed because of your negligence (yes, negligence, look at unasked questions below).

“Revised Penal Code. 248. Murder. — Any person who not falling within the provisions of Article 246 (parricide) shall kill another, shall be guilty of murder and shall be punished by reclusion temporal in its maximum period to death, if committed with any of the following attendant circumstances:

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“3. By means of inundation, fire, poison, explosion, shipwreck, stranding of a vessel, derailment or assault upon a street car or locomotive, fall of an airship xxx”

What was unasked was: With or without an anti-terror law, one of the alleged Abu Sayyaf members had a pending warrant of arrest for kidnapping for ransom. KFR, capital offense, can be held without bail when evidence of guilt is strong, if convicted, life term.

Unasked:

Why did you not arrest him earlier?

Unasked:

Why did not exert enough effort to gather intel on his whereabouts, it’s KFR capital offense, say, eight days earlier?

Or two weeks earlier. Or when the warrant was issued?

If he was the real perpetrator and acting as an Abu Sayyaf member, you the police could have prevented the Batasan blast! by…….. doing your job! By arresting him when the arrest warrant for KFR came out. You could have foiled it.

You waited. You waited until there was a reward of Five Million Pesos plus two million pesos from a Congressman Susano. Seven million. Who’s getting that?

Why is no one asking these questions? (if those indeed were the real perpetrators). Unasked unasked unasked. “

“They say a city in the desert lies

The vanity of an ancient king

But the city lies in broken pieces

Where the wind howls and the vultures sing

These are the works of man

This is the summer our ambition

 

….

“Will you hold the keys to ruin

Of everything I see

All my kingdoms blown to dust

My enemies walk free

i’m mad about you” – Sting

(I’m outta here, this is a waste of time, lives)