The Whole World just witnessed “World Class” Filipino Policemen and Media Practitioners botch a hostage taking crisis in the Failippines, ending up with 8 innocent hostages dead, as well as a Tourism Industry that will be avoided like the plague for years to come. No tourist in his right mind is going to want to visit the Failippines.
Yes, the Failippines. That should be the real name for the wretched country that not only ends up on the top of the world’s disaster-prone list for natural disasters, but also seems to be at the top when it comes to self-inflicted man-made tragedies.
In 1998, we elected an idiot actor to be president. In the year 2000, we ended up having a “winning streak” of embarrassing news happening almost every week as we had the Abu Sayyaff beheading of two hostages, then almost simultaneously, an Air Philippines plane crashed in Samal Island on April 19, 2000, then the Love Bug Virus put the Failippines at the center of the news again on May 4, 2000, getting a whole lot of mileage on World News for the next week or so. Then suddenly on May 25, 2000, the World laughed at the Failippines once again for the Skywayman who held-up an Airbus A330 from Davao to Manila with a toy grenade, and after passing the hat saw that the money he got was so little that he passed the hat again and finally decided it was time to jump out of the plane with his parachute. And his parachute failed.
Two weeks later, the World once again saw the miserable Failippines take the centerstage: It was the Payatas garbage landslide tragedy. The rest of the world wondered: “Why do so many Failipinos live in mounds of garbage?” After all, everyone knows Payatas stinks and it’s dangerous. Not just mountains of garbage, but the methane gas produced from all that rotting and decay that could explode, and yet Failipinos still insisted on living there.
Can anyone be proud to be Pinoy if Philippines means Failippines?
Later in 2000, the World started to see the unravelling of the Erap corruption scandal which led to his ouster, basically getting the rest of the World to ask the question: “Why did you Failipinos vote such a slob into office in the first place?”
A few months after Erap’s ouster, the World once again saw the same types of Failipinos from the garbage sites staging a riot at the EDSA Shrine. And we had the supposedly “intellectual” and upper class Dong Puno, even declare “Mabuhay ang mga Mababantot!” (“Long Live the Stinkies!”) to a cheering mob composed of idiots who liked the fact that Puno called them stinky.
Fast forward to 2002… We have the Gracia and Martin Burnham case with the Abu Sayyaff. Gracia was wounded and Martin was killed. Not a very positive outcome.
Trillanes (front right) later won as Senator: SHAME!
On July 23, 2003, another bunch of stupid Failipinos decided to make it embarrassing to be “Pinoy.” Trillanes and his band of adventurers doing the Oakwood Mutiny, essentially a form of hostage-taking, the hostage being the Central Business District, taken on a Sunday! Again, the world saw the drama unfolding in the Failippines. No one was killed, but none of the perpetrators were punished the way traitors are supposed to be: execution.
Later that year, in November of 2003, another hostage crisis happened, this time at the International Airport’s control tower. It was an ex-Air Transportation Office Chief named Panfilo Villaruel with his accomplice Navy Lieutenant Ricardo Gatcheliar taking over the control tower making stupid and incoherent demands about making some kind of political statement.
With the airtime he got, he said “”This is my last contribution, my legacy to the decent people of the Philippines — to stand up and tell the leaders of this country to wake up.”
Suffice to say, Villaruel and his accomplice were killed in the assault. Was it worth it?
Why did that moron have to take over the control tower just to make that statement? Why didn’t he just print flyers and sent out an e-mail to passed around? He and his accomplice both ended up dead. And for what? To gain air time to air his “grievances?”
Years later, the guy who should have been shot, Trillanes later ran for Senator, and won!
Failipino Hostage-Takers: Trying to copy Ed Harris in "The Rock"
What is wrong with Failipinos? First Gringo Honasan, now Antonio Trillanes IV! No wonder the Failippines keeps having these nutcases popping up! Instead of punishing them, they win elections.
That is the why the Philippines deserves to be called the Failippines.
Worse, in November of 2007 the idiot Trillanes struck again at the Manila Peninsula Hotel!
Almost paralleling the trying hard to be Quixotic yet idiotic stance of Panfilo Villaruel who insanely used hostage-taking in order to make a statement, another nutcase named Jun Ducat got the entire World looking at the Failippines once again. Instead of a control tower, this idiot made a publicity stunt taking over a tourist bus with kids at the Quirino grandstand!
No, he didn’t ask for money. He didn’t have demands for himself. He was being “selfless” and “Quixotic” asking for better treatment for Filipino school children, better education for them, making all sorts of political statements, and essentially grandstanding. But still, he endangered the lives of other people. He disrupted the Peace.
Jun Ducat: Nutcase
After Jun Ducat comes that other nut, dismissed Police Captain Rolando Mendoza who, this time, is the real deal: the real bad guy who had no qualms of actually killing hostages. Thanks to the policy of Pinoys being so “humane” and wimpy for not executing failed coup plotters, the Failippines spawned a series of circuses. We didn’t just have a circus because of Mendoza and all the nutcases before him all being looneys, but the whole exercise also showed how inept the Police Force and Failippine Media reporters were in dealing with the crisis. The reporters were uncoordinated and the policemen were awkward and had no proper sequencing of what needed to be done. Tear gas cannisters were thrown in the bus, then police officers jumped in without gas masks or goggles. Bravo, policemen!
The aftermath revealed a total of 8 Chinese hostages killed. While Mendoza died, as he deserved, Hong Kong has placed the Philippines on the blacklist of countries to actively avoid, urging HK’ers currently in the Philippines to immediately pack up and leave. Everyone else from more advanced countries is afraid to come to the Philippines. Those HK tourists came to the Philippines despite the bad reputation for danger associated with the country. Now that the collective ineptitude of our media, police, and many others has proven that their fears were not unfounded, we are obviously not going to see tourists coming our way.
Well done, Failipinos from the poorly trained media and police. The World will now shun the Failippines and the question now is: Can one really be proud to be Pinoy?
No one in his right mind can be proud of a People who collectively and consistently continue to be an international embarrassment. People who can’t report news correctly, who can’t rescue hostages safely, and can’t vote for president properly.
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In defense of the maker of the love virus, if the Philippines had usage of counter intelligence via us of computer networks, he could be put at work.
Now he’s in the CIA doing that kind of job. Funny eh?
It could have gone both ways really. Give into demands, put a spin on it. Or had a better force than the PNP to do the job of insertion, execution and extraction. Of course the problem was executing the whole thing in a half assed manner.
Now as much as Noynoy isn’t responsible for overseeing this, he had a chance if he had the wisdom. Instead Win na Win comes on and tries to save face for the Philippine police community and security guards.
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Lilly Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 7:43 pm
The bit about the virus author working for the CIA or Microsoft or whatever is an established hoax, I think.
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silvercrest Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:13 pm
I agree. With so many hackers in the US to choose from. Gusto lang magpasikat ng Pinoy.
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Jay Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 1:33 am
ah, I should have figured out as much. Been watching too much hollywood when the people accepted in CIA are straight up cryptographer geniuses.
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Aquino to media: If we ordered a news blackout you’d tell us we’re we were guilty of censoring you. We cannot censor you for things that you have yet to do. And we did vow transparency.
He does not want to break his promise to the media so ‘bahala na kayo mga hostages, just hope hindi pinanonood ni Mendoza lahat ng actions ng mga police’? So wangwang talaga.
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lakambini Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 5:44 pm
I mean buwangwang. Hehe
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mel Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 6:38 pm
It was a terrible excuse not to censor the media. The lives of the hostages should be the first priority. It shows how crooked this country is.
I am terribly ashamed of this country!
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Lilly Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 2:01 am
It’s just PNoy’s usual childish excuse why he didn’t implement a media blackout. In actuality its all because he doesn’t have the balls to censure the media. Compared with Arroyo who lashed at the mediamen for interfering with the Pen takeover initiated by Trillanes–only to be accused by the media as being “against the freedom of the press”.
People, along with freedom comes responsibility. Sensationalist news coverage is NOT responsible news coverage. Even CNN observed proper journalistic protocol.
Recently we’ve been getting protests against media killings right? What if its the MEDIA that is the cause of killings?
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BenK Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 2:48 am
I remember once during the Manila Pen circus Ricky Carandang — now a top official of Ignoy’s Media Whatchamacallit — saying, live on the air, “The authorities have asked us not to show the movements of the police and Marines to avoid compromising their operations, and we agree that this is sensible. So, we apologize if we can’t show you everything and we’ll do our best to describe what’s happening, but please understand that safety comes first.”
Apparently “sensible” has gone out of fashion under the Administration of the Retarded Sock Monkey.
If any of you have friends or family in Hong Kong (and maybe in China in general), you might want to tell them to consider getting the hell out — I talked to a colleague of mine in HK early this morning, and he says those folks are PISSED OFF.
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Evette Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 10:21 am
Transparency, my arse. I checked his official page tonight, and in that ‘contact us’ page of his, the last comments are dated August 17. Now that’s just perfectly unbelievable, seeing as the whole country (and even the whole world) was bothered and aggravated by the hostage-taking incident. Ergo, his staff either disabled the comments, or they’re still enabled but won’t be posted automatically without being moderated by the site handlers.
So much for transparency, really.
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Makes me very very proud…
…to be American!
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We just need another Manny Pacquiao fight or Charice in Glee to fix our pride.
/sarcasm
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Aegis-Judex Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 8:34 am
It won’t be enough.
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I am deeply ashamed of being Filipino.
The things mentioned above and more are reasons why Pinoys are treated like second-class humans outside this country. I have to travel to Hongkong and China for business in a few days, I don’t think I can look at people’s faces, I am too ashamed of being Filipino.
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Mike H Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 7:45 pm
If Gu-lorrrYYYaaa were still president, then the Yellow Army will begin to spread stories that this Hongkong tour bus hostage item PLUS the murder of a Korean minister in Pasig in front of Eber Gotasco Mall was meant to create a state of
crisis in metro-Manila. But why can’t 
suspended Constitution, then the 
decision is in limbo.]
GMAP-Noyyy want to declare Martial Law!!! [With athe persidente can have parliamentaryHacienda Luisita[Reply]
What bothers me is that people are actually looking for excuses for these guys. They effing embarrassed themselves in front of the entire world! They should be lambasted for their incompetence.
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It’s one thing to be the showcase of a series of pathetic presidential gaffes. At least those cans till be seen to be laughing matters.
But when we become a showcase of one bloodbath after another, everything the “Philippines” stands for becomes a real dark and unfathomable tragedy — and this is a country that is not even at war!
I also recall back during one of those coup attempts in the 80′s (or whenever the hell it was) how, as government troops began their assault on the mutineers holed up in Camp Aquinaldo, the media called out in public radio broadcasts troop movements for all the hear. That’s DA PHILIPPINE MEDIA for you — a bunch of morons grovelling for the latest scoop.
I read how a guy — a prominent media watchdog in the U.S. and himself a former journalist — once called journalists “the only class of professionals that makes lawyers look good”.
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Lol. Sounds like the governor of Hongkong–Donald Chang?–kept trying to contact P-Noy throughout the hostage crisis. But what do they get? A Cannot Be Reached tone.
Yeap, expect no help from HK government if our OFWs get effed up in their country.
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benign0 Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:13 pm
That’s consistent with Noynoy being the 9-to-5 president that he is, preferring to live in his parents’ home in QC than in Malacanang where he campaigned hard and yellowy to get himself into. Ironic.
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nakakainsulto yung mukha ni pnoy dun sa pres con buti pa si ate glow marunong mag emote sa “I’m Sorry” eh
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silvercrest Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:20 pm
He’s just waiting for the situation to fix itself. Mabaon sa limot.
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desktop general Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 8:23 pm
this is the video im talking about http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUo_iyGcwv8
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mel Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 2:46 am
@desktop
Shamelessness is a sign of low intelligence. Obviously, Pnoy is showing his null IQ in this press conference.
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Currently listening to Mayor Lim’s interview re: hostage tragedy in the radio. When asked about the police’s actions forcibly taking the hostage taker’s brother agitating Mendoza, he only has this to say:
“Oo nga marahil tama ka. Pero sino ang nagpalabas?”
HAHAHA OH WOW. Sisihan na! Kung media ang nagpalabas, sino ang pumayag?
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BenK Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 3:39 am
I’m getting tired of everyone whining about the hostage taker’s brother. The brother is a police officer as well, he should have known better than to behave like he did. Showing up with a concealed weapon, then pitching a rant about how the “injustice” done his brother. Did he not realize that, at that point, the details of Mendoza’s dismissal had been rendered completely irrelevant by current events? Yes, the other police on the scene handled arresting him very badly, but he absolutely deserved to be arrested — he was acting for all the world like a conspirator, I thought.
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Lilly Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 4:41 am
The brother acting as a conspirator is not really the point. The point is that in every hostage crisis, placating the hostage taker for the sake of the hostages is of utmost importance. The brother can be arrested or taken into custody AFTER the crisis. It’s not like he has money enough to flee abroad weeks after the sh*tstorm anyway.
But what happened? We see the brother getting manhandled along with some woman who kept holding on to him WHILE THE HOSTAGES WERE STILL AT MENDOZA’S MERCY. Goddamn. Of course it’s unacceptable! Whatever happened to diplomacy for the sake of the victim’s lives?
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LOL! Ay nako Pilipinas, bakit ka nagka ganyan?
“The Beauty of the Philippines, shining through……Philippine Airlines, shiniiiiinnnngggg throoooouuuuuugh!”
Two lessons learned from this tragedy: Kapag merong sira ulo o pang pagulo sa Pilipinas, dapat, pinapatay na lang…tulad ng mga pang gulo sa gobyerno. Another lesson is that the powers that be will do anything to exploit you! Yes, even take away your pension after working so hard all your life.
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Bwa ha ha ha ha ha! Flips imbibed vast quantities of intoxicating empty promises from prez gung gong… so, flips, how’s the hangover? Bwa ha ha ha ha… Flips, puro kayo gung gongs! Estupido!
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naku! if nandyan lang si JackyChan at that time of Event eh di SOLVED na!!!!!!!!! xD
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Jay Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 1:40 am
I got your humor prend. Whoever gave you a negative vote needs to know the JackyChan meme.
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PNP should undergo more SWAT, Speed and other urban assault movie watching. Play Ghost Recon, Splinter Cell and Counter Strike. Dumb police, dumb media and dumb president.
Did they ever think of misdirection?(Swordfish) False broadcast?(Speed1)Injection of sleeping gas?Compressed air propelled hook to puncture the door to be pulled by a truck?(Speed1)Infrared scopes?(Navy Seals)
Yes patience is a key element in hostage negotiations…but so is intelligence & ingenuity! Is it really patience or reluctance to shoot a comrade? “To serve and protect…OUR OWN” should be the PNP motto.
Does the PNP need to make checklists? They should hire safety consultants.
Worst thing is…Pnoy gives the impression…”well… crap happens”
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HareBurger Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:43 pm
they also need to watch Criminal Minds, all CSIs, NCIS, Numb3rs, Monk (?), and the likes of it. Kaso, yun mga gagong decision makers sa hostage drama na yun, mga unresearched, non-credible, stupid ABS-CBN telenovelas lang ang alam… ayun! kahit pag-gamit nang gloves to protect themselves, di man lang alam…aysaws!!!
Darn! I hate hate hate hate this country!!!!
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a lot of Chinese replies in the ignoy youtube video. I can’t read Chinese, but i sure the hell have an idea what they’re trying to say!
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Dr. José Rizal II Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 10:15 pm
(tune of alin, alin, alin ang naiba)
Ignoy, Ignoy, Ba’t ka natatawa?
Alam mo bang ika’y ma-tatanggal?
Ikaw ay ‘sang gago, ikaw ay ‘sang tanga
Palpak ang operation wag… matawa!
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where the heck was Noynoy during those twelve hours anyway? sure, he was there at the scene of the crime after twelve midnight. but shouldn’t he have been there earlier, when he could have actually done something?! the reputation of the country in the international community was at stake, at the very least he should have issued a statement during those twelve hours. Heck, if i were president, I would have been there and handled the negotiations myself. But then, that’s just me. I’m not some wimpy old mama’s boy who has somehow miraculously managed to convince most Filipinos that he has the capability to run this country.
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HareBurger Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Abnoy does not care about the reputation of this country towards the international community. He is comfortable in his own crooked world with all his yayas and crazy puppeteers doing all his supposed work! “Kayo boss ko, kayo nang bahala!”
*Curse* *Curse* *Curse* Abnoy!!!!
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HK was trying to reach our president daw pero could not be reached. ABS-CBN’s anthony taberna said on his radio program na baka daw busy sa ibang ginagawa lang. ang masasabi ko lang is challenge sa communications group ni President Noynoy ang image building effort na kailangan n’yang gawin for this incident. he’s good in image-building. let’s see how he skips this one.
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On the other hand, I am frustrated (and angered) by some Filipino reactions to the whole thing – that “them Chinese deserve it” for their treatment of Filipinos in Hong Kong.
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Jay Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 1:45 am
@kotobuki
That is what you get with a brain washed pinoy nation and their misconception of nationalism. If it were kapwang pinoys they’d cry but get over it since Pinoys can count how many have perished in the machinations of the FAILIPPINES but only pray for them. Then when you count in the factor of Pinas trying to prove its world class worth, they fall flat on their face.
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I cried yesterday when I saw the bloody bodies of the dead victims
what’s angering about this is not the hostage taking. It can happen anywhere in the world. What’s angering is that you’re seeing stupid police, who, in the simplest terms should be well trained and should be saving lives, my gahd.. kung ako hongkong national tapos nakita ko yung mga kapwa ko taga-hongkong na ganun ang sinapit dahil sa mga kabobohan ng pulis natin, talagang mabibwisit ako..
and the media, ah the media, what else can I say?
Congratulations to us, we are being recognized in the world for our world class SWAT team. No more Disneyland now..
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nskie Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 10:48 pm
Another question to be posted could be, what kind of training are our policemen receiving? Even our dear /sarcasm/ president acknowledged lack of training and equipment of the PNP. Where is the budget for that?
And yes, the media. Hungry for the latest scoop to boost their ratings, when they have in fact endangered the lives of the hostages. Put more wood in the fire, so to speak.
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if only GMA were still president…
we can be assured….
that esteemed national artist CARLO J CAPARAS will have “moviefied” this hostage hullabaloo…
perhaps starring Mark Lapid again ranting about bananas?
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I don’t get it why Aquino was smiling and a bit arrogant in answering the questions of the press. Ironically, the HK officials had released their statement earlier than our own government.
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Yeah, a real shame. We are put again on the map for wrong reasons. While I sympathize for the pointless loss of lives, it’s hard not to scoff at how it was all handled. Did it really have to take THAT long? Why did some police not have any protective gear on? Mendoza was heavily armed with automatic weapons. Did the police think it was going to be just a slapping-yelling match? Gentlemen, PLEASE STOP WATCHING TELENOVELAS!!! I heard on the radio some blockhead from Tourism being quoted as saying this was not big enough to affect tourism. Ahhhh, the buffoons that run this show! I LIVE HERE and am afraid to take the bus!!!
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embarrassing! both the police and the media were so full of bull****, that’s what you get from watching too much pinoy tv and film
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Please forward this link to the Failippine Media reporters: http://www.poynter.org/content/content_view.asp?id=4640
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I am still proud of being a pinoy despite the blemishes on its face.
But I am quite disappointed with the recent hostage taking. The way they handled it was lousy, sure it has to be slow, but only to a point.
And it seems like we are a nation who thinks that image-building is more important than actually improving. I mean look at our current president.
It’s also quite sad to see that it seems like these HK nationals matter more than the 1200 people that were killed the last decade.
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Lilly Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:12 pm
“It’s also quite sad to see that it seems like these HK nationals matter more than the 1200 people that were killed the last decade.”
That’s not really the point. All lives matter, Filipino or HK nationals. Especially when the tragedy was avoidable yet innocents were needlessly killed.
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Ramon Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Oh shut up with your pathetic nationalism bull****. The Philippines suck. Indios are stupid, undisciplined, jealous beings. Puro good time, beer bellies and rock music. Life’s unfair, and if you’re born in the philippines, you are at an extreme disadvantage in the world stage.
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look at the bright side guys
we have boracay to ourselves for a very long time
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Ramon Reply:
August 23rd, 2010 at 11:54 pm
You got that right. PINOY PRIDE! WOOOHOOOO!!!! Until you get shot by some son of some corrupt politico’s son for cutting his or her car, or get kidnapped, or get knifed for your measly cellphone. **** this country. Yesterday’s broadcast was like watching ****ing keystone cops or gods must be crazy ****.
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The only thing I wonder if captain mendoza is already out of service where how did he got his armalite and 45 pistol.And when he was calling erwin Tulfo I think w/ that kind of person who has a psycological problem is also in danger,After using tulfo itself migth kill Him or even make Him another hostage becouse the tulfos are very against most corrupt police officer.he knows that he is finish concerning His careers and He is not really ready to die in my opinion becouse after the rampage mendoza laid down His armalite and pistol on the buss floor and showed his face on the door maybe ready to surrender thingking that he will become like the ampatuans after the massacre was still treated like super stars becouse there is NO death penalty in the Philippines but maybe He was wrong then becouse when His face appear he didnt think that the police is really now ready to get him dead or alive.hey what does his brother doing there in civilian clothes thats fine but how about the firearms he was carrying its not supposed to be for a lawman to do so yes we have a very very big problem concerning police man psycologically mentally spiritually what are We doing about it police brutality immorality corruption what are We doing about it their manners conduct ethiquetes they look more like goons then to be called lawman
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I’m not surprised about the way the PNP handled the situation. A relative of mine used to work in PNP and told me about the stupidity and corruption within.
First off, hundreds to thousands of PNP applicants fail the psychiatric evaluations yearly. These evaluations are to determine if the applicant is mentally fit to be a responsible person of authority, especially one wielding a deadly weapon. However, hundreds to thousands of those who fail the psychiatric evaluations STILL BECOME POLICEMEN ANYWAYS. Why? Because of two reasons: 1) The upper ups want these kinds of policemen so they can control them, i.e. “bata system” and 2) A lot of said applicants bribe the upper ups with at least P5,000 to be accepted. According to my relative, of those who failed the tests at least 2000 offer bribes ranging from P5,000 to P15,000. Do the math and see how much money is that.
My relative left when the system accepted MENTALLY RETARDED applicants even though they obviously failed all psychiatric evaluations. According to him, there are at least 100 mentally retarded policemen accepted yearly, not counting the other thousands of policemen with psychiatric problems.
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HA!HA!HA!HA!HA! Like what I told you guys! Journalists worldwide are like Muslims. Touch one hair of journalists and they delete your posts. My comments of above was just recently deleted by another moderator in ABCNews.com of questioning the reports of Philippine Journalists. HA!HA!HA!HA! There seems to be conspiracy against Filipinos.
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Filipinos journalists are highly critical deep thinkers when it comes to politics but fails to see (conveniently) the obvious. According to reports in ABCNews.com, the hostage was shot at when he shot at government sharp-shooter. I asked ABCNews.com to ask Philippine journalists the following which was deleted by them: 1) How far was the sharp-shooter? 2) he shot thru drawn curtains and glass? WoW! He must also be a sharpshooter adjusting for wind variables and glass enclosure and drawn curtains! DUH! DUH! DUH! 3) In the ensuing pandemonium, chinese hostages were covering themselves while they were shot at all 7 of them while the hostage taker WAS SHOT CLEANLY IN THE HEAD!!!! DUH! FOOL THE FILIPINOS BUT NOT ME, RENATO PACIFICO!!!!!!
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LIGHTS-OFF. CURTAINS DRAWN. SEVERAL ATTEMPT TO BREAK DOWN PLEXI-GLASS and he was shot cleanly in the head? FOOL THE HIGHLY CRITICAL DEEP POLITICAL ANALYSTS but not Renato Pacifico. SOMETHING IS TOTALLY WRONG HERE.
Chinese Government should do their own autopsy. Recover the slugs, see if it is coming from the same rifle of the hostage-taker.
TELL YOU WHAT GUYS! THOSE 7 HOSTAGES WERE SHOT IN THE CROSS-FIRE!!!!
HA!HA!HA!HA! Of course, Rubber-STamp-President-to-the-Oligarchs and his media darlings will deal with Chinese Government. I give you Filipinas to rape but do not expose us to the world!!! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!
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MY PARENTS told me about a General who was held hostage in Zamboanga. They sent in the SWAT team, complete with tanks and howitzers. YEAH, HOWITZERS. I googled for news and there it was THEY BROUGHT IN HOWITZERS. They fired away. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? The hostage, of course, died!!!!! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!HA! And the hostage-taker? He got away!!!!! HA!HA!HA!HA!HA!
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Why does it have to take an incident of tremendous proportions to jolt the consciousness of many? Obviously, we cannot be proud to be a Filipino until appropriate action towards attaining progress is taken.
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Dino Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 1:46 am
Hmm… Jolt the consciousness of many? Few days later, we’re back to unconsciousness with our aptitude for forgetting and whitewashing.
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Elevic Pernis Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 1:54 am
I know. I’m still sad with the incident. Yes, we’ll probably be back into unconsciousness, maybe a few days, next week or so.
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Jay Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 2:03 am
I’m actually disappointed. Even if I look down on the country with the reality and gravity of things, I try hang on to a hope of optimism that maybe somewhat was wrong. That there is something happily waiting to prove me wrong somehow.
Then this came along. If the Philippines have to fail big time in order to realize the bigger scope of success, then let them fail as far as logic goes.
Because all the constant yapping about issues always puts a lot of people to sleep — even the ones that were supposed to do something about them. It takes a jolt to wake them up.
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nakakalungkot at nakakahiya talaga ang nangyaring hostage drama.
at marami ring kamalian at kabobohang nagawa/ginagawa ang mga Pilipino, hindi lang sila kundi tayo. pero sa kabila ng mga kapalpakan, sapat na ba ang mga ‘yon para hindi ipagmalaki ang pagiging Pilipino? sa tingin ko, depende ‘yan kung nakakakita ka pa ng magandang bagay sa mismong sarili mo. kung wala, talagang hindi mo na ipagmamalaki. pero porke’t wala ba e wala ka na ring gagawing “tama”?
di naman uunlad ang bansa kung puro reklamo at pangungutya ang gagawin.
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Jay Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 2:26 am
Eh hindi talaga uunland ang bansa kung hindi kayang i reflect kung ano ang nangyari, bakit man at aminin kung san nanggaling ang pag kukulang. Importante din yun dahil kung hindi, eh di satsat ka pa ng usapang pag unland pero di alam kung ano ang paraan.
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account from one of the survivors.
http://midnightafterburner.blogspot.com/
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ChinoF Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 4:53 am
It seemed to have been taken down. Somebody might have warned the blogger that it might be fake.
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Lilly Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 5:00 am
Doesn’t it say “fiction” on the top of the page in the first place? I checked it out a while ago. The blog belongs to a Filipino, not an HK national.
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BenK Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 5:12 am
It did say that, which means it was in very bad taste to write something like that, IMO.
ChinoF Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 5:49 am
I shared it on Facebook, but now I have to write the classic disclaimer/retraction that it may have been fake (most likely was). After all, it did make the police look bad and incompetent, probably the piece’s purpose.
There’s an obvious anti-foreignism tone in this hostage-taking incident. Why did Mendoza target a bus full of Chinese nationals? Why not a JAM Liner, G-Liner or King of Kings bus? Because he knows fellow Filipinos don’t have money? Is that what Filipinos think of foreigners… ATMs? Or foreigners will get him more attention… obviously. He released the Filipinos in the bus, but kept the Chinese? Was Mendoza a racist?
Another is that Mendoza was a former policeman. So that’s how it is. It’s not just the Abu Sayyaf, but the disgruntled former policemen who will kill you. There are so many disgruntled people in this country. Even those who’ve gone abroad remain disgruntled.
These specifically make this hostage incident so embarrassing for our country. It’s not so much the police who didn’t seem to know what to do, or had inadequate equipment to do it. That’s a given.
All point to our failed economic system. Protectionism had led to padrino/patronage systems, corruption and low salaries in our country. Thus, our people like Mendoza are poor, and when you kick them out of their jobs, it becomes the breaking point. The best solution is to solve our economic problems. I call on the Aquino government to address the economy as their main agenda, and not anymore trivial things like K-pop on radio. Unless the economy is solved, we will remain the Failippines for a long, long, long time.
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foreign media won’t give a damn if it was a bus full of Penoys taken hostage.
Foreigners = int’l coverage
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SWAT
S.yet W.ala A.kong T.ear gas
S.ige W.ait A.tras T.ayo
S.ana W.ag A.ko T.amaan…
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BenK Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 4:01 am
Hostages: ****, We’re All Toast
Police: Shoot Women And Teenagers
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Lilly Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 9:25 am
Sharon Wow Ang Taba
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Great… Our economy is going to die now since this STUPID LOSER! I predicted just destroyed our country’s tourism which would rake in the dough… But now, WE’RE more SCREWED than ever before.
Oligarch owning country + Dead Tourism + God hell knows what!? = Country going down the drain… Everyone! Better save your money and your babies and prepare to get the F********* out of the FAILIPPINES!
Now… I know the F************ing reason why this country and the whole world should get screwed/destroyed… RIGHT NOW or on Dec. 21, 2012. They’re no more Heroes and Honors… Just Losers and Horrors!
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This is being reported by AP right now:
“Mayor Alfredo Lim, a former Manila police chief, said the regional police commander Leocadio Santiago issued an order reinstating Mendoza ‘just to accommodate his request, just to peacefully resolve this hostage situation.’”
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_PHILIPPINES_BUS_HOSTAGES?SITE=SCCOL&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
If true, that is absolutely appalling. That’s license to every freak with some kind of personal grievance to resort to this kind of stunt to get what he wants.
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Lilly Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 4:25 am
I think it’s just a spin to make himself look good. If that were true we would have heard about it DURING the crisis, what with the wanton sensationalist news coverage. Don’t tell me the person who was supposed to deliver the order didn’t have a celphone to communicate it in advance while he was stuck in traffic, the purported reason why the order didn’t come on time. What the heck was the negotiator for then?
But yeah, Lim’s statement also had that unintended effect–man, even in formulating excuses to save their faces, they still fail royally. Hurrah to a lot of coup and hostage attempts in the near future! Cheers!
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BenK Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 5:13 am
So, the best-case scenario here is that Fred Lim is a senile idiot. That’s just great, no?
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Sa Manila City Hall dinala ni Jun Ducat ang bus, hindi sa Quirino Grandstand
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Ok so Failipines ison the list of the most embrassing scenes around the world.1st the hostage-taking crisis in Luneta then Our country has failed 2 win a medal in the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.What’s next??
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Maybe we can use this event to “educate” typical Filipinos into AP members.I’ve seen a lot of Filipinos mourning and saying “nakakahiya maging Filipino ngayon”.More support means more power into changing the system and the culture.
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seems to me all the peopel in power around the will turn it to person benefit..
but philippines still a very beautiful country
LeonSingaBoreyour readerhttp://hanleong.blogspot.com/2010/08/mother-son-bonding-session-with-movie.html
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I’m deeply ashamed of the fact that there are Filipinos who constantly bloat of the wrongdoings of their fellowmen…WTF! You are reason enough why we should be ashamed of ourselves. Of course, there are stupid Pinoy living in this world, but good people live amongst them. And maybe the truth will stand out wether you, yourself is one of the many bad, who ruin our pride, or one of the few who makes this world a better place.
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Ed Harris in The Rock, “I am aware of your counter-measures. You know and I know it doesn’t stand a chance.”
In the PNP…counter-measures….counter-measures?… what counter-measures?
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Munich Massacre all over again.. except for the fact that nothing good will come out of this, at least the Munich Massacre paved the way for Germany’s anti-terrorist GSG-9 group…
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hahahahaha. Our clueless countrymen are only good at dishing out personal attacks on this site.
Halata namang pumapalpak na yung abnoy na binoto ng mga “mas nakararaming tanga”, hahaha.
Mr. Franklin, there are indeed good pinoys, but they are seriously outnumbered!
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Aegis-Judex Reply:
August 24th, 2010 at 9:04 am
What do you think the ratio would be, then? One in a million would be tad too small, considering the number of AP members here alone.
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P.Noy said: This is not acceptable. This should not happen again!
No he did not say this about the hostage crisis. It was after the typhoon changed its mind and went to areas of Metro Manila and Southern Luzon, instead of Central Luzon.
Re the hostage crisis? Well he is more of defending the police. Maybe for him, it is acceptable this time?
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A job well done.. The hostage drama is now the talk of the town. My, my ,my at least the police admitted they made mistakes but the media? Yes, there is the so called freedom of the press but don’t they know their limitations?
I heard that the OFW’s in Hong Kong are now being fired and being sent home. How true is this?
By the way, Venus Raj just won. I bet a hundred dollars, the Filipinos will just run to Pacquiao and of course the new asset, Venus Raj to save the Filipino pride..
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Teka… teka… teka… Ms flipins made Ms U. top payb… Okey, balik sa reality… Yehey… more hostage taking! More KFRs!
Magkano na ba ang forex? Bwa ha ha ha ha… Flips, puro kayo gung gongs!
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We are slowly descending into becoming a Failed State. Somalia is No. 1. The Philippines is in the No. 51. With Nut cases, in uniforms; taking over innocent people as hostages to promote their demands. We have false Army Nationalists coup d’ etat people. Without any sensible ideologies. They just wanted to be in the limelight of the Media, and to be elected as Senators. We have a Policeman, with his own agenda, trying to attract attention for his personal problems…
Do you believe the whole nation, should be examined in the head? Begining from the President to the Politicians and to the Media people. Why did the Media people cover this idiotic happenings in the first place? The Hostage Taker wants publicity…why did the Media obliged to give it to him?
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