system error: geez, what brought you here?!

read the title?? good, then you must know what sardonic means.

im sure by now you've already gone beyond your initial shock on the outcome of the pacquiao-de la hoya "dreammatch" (nay, fixed match) and that you've at least somehow managed to get wind of the other local news.

if not, click on this article.

I was watching the evening news when something really really dumbass stupid got hold of my temper and infuriated me like hell.

One police director/officer, let's call him the "Incredibly Stupid Mr. B", said he will be asking his men to review the pnp's sacred book on the rules of engagement. In fact, Incredibly Stupid Mr. B will even be asking directors to carry the handbook with them whenever they have some really fancy operations like say, the takedown of really really skilled robbers, so they would be guided in their tactics.

And all the time he was saying this, Incredbly Stupid Mr. B put on a face which he might have thought of as the "puppy-eyed" look, but which just screamed "hey, we shouldn't be made responsible for collateral damage!!"

F*ck. Do doctors carry with them their 'basic anatomy' during surgeries?! Do lawyers, when representing their clients, bring with them their constitution books just so they would be reminded of the basic laws of the land?! They don't!! You know why, because they know their craft by heart, as if knowing it comes as easy to them as breathing. And more so because they are (and ought to be) prepared in advance. Would you want a surgeon (hot as he would be) operating on you as he follows a step-by-step procedure from a surgery book?! Or a lawyer defending you in the highest court and he keeps on asking you what you're being charged with?! hell no!!

And no, being a policeman is not any different!! it's a profession which requires mastery of skills as well. it asks for precision especially when you're chasing down perps and civilians are in your line of fire. you don't just empty your ammo everywhere you believe the targets are. because you SHOULDN'T even be talking to bereaved families afterwards, explaining to them that their departed beloveds were merely in the crossfire. Get some dignity as*holes, maybe then you'd understand shame.

You idiots have killed, among others, a father/husband and his daughter. You don't get to wipe your guns clean of reponsibility by telling the surviving wife/mother that her family got caught in the crossfire. You imbeciles don't get to tell that woman that while she was waiting to be picked-up by her "mag-ama", her mag-ama is getting gunned-down in their car. That woman still clutches her daughter's pillows at the wake. Her husband is a migrant worker who was just in town for their daughter's seventh birthday. SEVENTH. And you know what this woman said on national tv?! "Bakit natira pa 'ko?" ("Why did I not perish too?")

No. you idiotic policemen should never be absolved of the carnage you've brought about by your incompetence.

And in true Queen-Marie-Antoinette-of-France fashion,

~~To the guillotine --~~

Bastards.

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