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A Humiliating Week For The Philippines

I’m sure a lot of you guys have heard about the hostage taking in the Philippines last Monday. In case you didn’t know, a former police officer, Rolando Mendoza took over a tourist bus. I’d rather not go into details, so if you want to know more details, you can read about it on Inquirer.net.

Watching it live, I tweeted and tweeted, and so did everyone else I knew. Twitter was abuzz with worry, anger and anxiousness that day.

We were mostly complaining about our S.W.A.T. team’s poor performance. First of all, they were just standing there, right beside the bus, for just the longest time. Eventually, they did something though. They tried breaking the windows with a sledgehammer, but, in doing so, they accidentally made the sledgehammer fall inside. They also kept throwing in teargas and flashbombs, but they didn’t go in after. Isn’t that supposed to be a strategy? You throw it in, then you go in. They just made it really uncomfortable for the hostages.

They did a lot of other stupid things, and this made everyone pissed at them. I think more people were mad at them than at Mendoza. A lot of a people complained, and a lot of people complained about the people complaining. They kept telling us to “put ourselves in their place”. What a pathetic thing to say. I’m a 14-year old high school student, and they’re trained policemen. You can’t compare that.

I did say a lot of bad things about them, but that only means that I was genuinely concerned about what was going on in the bus. At least I wasn’t like this guy.

What a douche.

I actually heard from someone that Mendoza didn’t intend to kill anyone, at first. He just suddenly got aggressive when they took his brother. It’s too bad he had to die.

I’ll end this blog post on a lighter note (though it’s still kinda sad). Venus Raj, the representative for the Philippines in this year’s Miss Universe messed up big time.

I actually didn’t even hear about that. I don’t watch news much. In my opinion, i think they cops were a bit scared. I mean seriously they throw all this crap in but they don’t go in there.
Hahaha beauty pageants crack me up!! The girls are soo fake.
First day of school went perfect. I had so much fun catching up. :D

Comment by Isi • August 27, 2010 • 7:03 am

That guy on Twitter – I feel like I’ve seen his account before. I can’t believe he was being so insensitive about the situation. He’s a disgrace.

I actually haven’t heard about the hostage taking but it must be a huge deal over there. I’m not one to keep up with world news, though. It’s terrible that the S.W.A.T. team weren’t really useful at all. That in itself is humiliating. :(

Oh, Venus Raj – what she said just made me feel ashamed for her. D: I couldn’t help but laugh a little, though. :O

Comment by Georgina • August 27, 2010 • 10:29 pm

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