Just read the news on the hostage crisis in Manila, & it's spreading reactions like wildfire on Facebook and Twitter. Sad fate these had to happen, disappointing and even shameful. While it maybe fair to consider what led to such seemingly desperate course of actions, what puts bane to it was that the end to justify the means is just downright un-condonable.
3 things:
1- While it has been said and written; what led principled men into such desperation... it's cowardice; just outright cowardice. In psychology, it must have been either fight or flight for him. Flight: would have contradicted his claims for innocence and righteous principles. Fight: perhaps a viable option, but to involve collateral damages at the expense of innocents... you make the call, I've opined already.
2- While most people would think, the Police have some short-comings and blundered big time; they probably have... but I would still opine; they just may not have been adequately trained, nor adequately equipped and neither prepared. After all, he was one of their own. They have acted the best of their capacity, under duress to address a situation where it may have presented a clear-and-danger to the innocents. To speak mostly of the negatives, may just add more insult to an already wounded morale. The thing is; they (the Police) are competent, they are capable, they are good as any other LEO’s around the world… but I’ll leave the flip-side of the coin to you…
3- The crowd; oh, don’t we just loooove to get in the middle it… public opinion, media, plausible accountability. To think and speak of the things that have and have-nots. They said, you said and I say… whatever hehehe. The benefit of the right to free speech and opinion. I say this… I say that… what do you say?
In the end, there is still no measure to the loss of lives; be it the guilty, the righteous or the ones caught in the middle. Nor such actions be condoned just to prove a point or two. We have a system, flawed, inconsistent, inept… but a system nonetheless
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