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HOW TO STOP THE FLOOD
HEADLINE: MMDA to Buy Boats, CCTV Cameras for Rainy Season. And just recently, news showing various equipment for rescue operation were paraded.
This just shows how our government thinks and prepares solutions to the problem of our country.
Our government programs and/or policies are focused toward spending (source of graft and corruption) to REMEDY AND/OR CURE THE SYMPTOMS/EFFECTS RATHER THAN STOP AND/OR CURE THE CAUSE.
Instead of spending for these reactive measures, why not spend on the design and development of a Metro Manila flood control structures and/or system that would PREVENT FLOOD.
The government should initiate and/or develop solutions that would have long term effect.
Metro Manila is provided by nature with natural waterways in and around it. All we have to do is rehabilitate these waterways. Develop a flood control system out of these natural waterways.
Sadly these natural water ways slowly or totally disappeared, like the creek which is now Fernando Street in barangay Pio del Pilar, Makati City.
And with regard to the development of existing natural water ways as integral part of a macro flood control system a good example will be the Medina Creek at Barangay Pio del Pilar, in Makati City.
Allegedly the city of Makati cannot rehabilitate nor develop this creek because the responsibility is in the hands of the national government (bureaucracy!). And because of this bureaucracy, Pio del Pilar is flooded every time it rains.
During regular rains, flood in this area is chest deep.
MMDA could rehabilitate the Medina Creek make it wider and deeper similar to Amorsolo Creek. Once MMDA has done this, I am confident Pio del Pilar will never be flooded.
And this could be done to other natural waterways within Metro Manila.
Doing this, MMDA would only spend ONCE and CURE THE CAUSE rather than the effect;
THUS, MMDA STOPS THE FLOOD INSTEAD OF FIGHTING THE FLOOD!
ELITE STRIKE FORCE
News Headline:
Government to Form Elite Strike Force vs Hostage Takers
Here’s another case of “knee reaction.” What they called in gun club circle as “utak pulbura” shoot now ask question later. Where the only acceptable action to achieve an objective is through the use of bullets!
I don’t have anything against forming an elite strike force to handle a hostage situation where the hostage takers are TERRORISTS whose lives are ruled by the barrel of guns.
But for similar Quirino Grandstand (QG) fiasco, where a lone hostage taker is demanding justice for alleged injustice done to him, negotiation for a win-win situation should be the only course of action.
NOT AN “ELITE STRIKE FORCE” WHERE COLLATERAL DAMAGE IS ALWAYS A POSSIBILITY! Like what happened in the QG fiasco.
What the government should form for a similar QG fiasco is a crisis team management headed by a decisive, logical thinking leader with high level of authority. A leader who could give his negotiator the authority to grant the demands of the hostage taker.
Again, I am not claiming to be an expert, but in the last QG fiasco a win-win situation could have been achieved if SOMEBODY asked or FORCED (to save the lives of the hostages and hostage taker) the Ombudsman to reverse its decision against Mendoza.
The President through the DOJ could order this. And after his surrender, the DOJ could throw all the legal books on him.
Ergo, no deaths (collateral damage), no adverse international repercussion, and we hide our dirty linens from the eyes of the international community!
Please, no more “utak pulbura!”
QUIRINO GRANDSTAND FIASCO – WHAT WENT WRONG?
Lack of funds, lack of equipment, lack of training, lack of coordination, lack of an “elite strike force”, lack of etc…. were the reasons why the hostage taking drama ended into a tragedy.
These are not acceptable reasons in any failed operation, military, police or otherwise. Especially when the situation involves foreign national, that any which way it ends will surely have an international repercussion.
And now, its finger pointing, investigations here and there and senate inquiry in aid of legislation (pogi points?). What we are doing now is showing our dirty linens to the international community! l
I am thinking aloud and wonder, with all the president’s men around him, nobody was able to advice him to exhaust all peaceful efforts!
I believe the situation should not be left to the ground commander alone. More so, this type of hostage crisis should not be put in the hands of an “elite strike force” because these guys are trained in the use of guns to achieve their objectives. And more often than not, collateral damages cannot be avoided when these forces are used in rescue operations.
Besides, the situation does not involved hard core terrorists whose lives are ruled by the barrel of the guns that would justify the use of an “elite strike force.”
Hence the situation should not be left in the hands of the ground commander, who only thinks of guns as tools or politicians who want to earn pogi points.
How about negotiation without the use of guns?
What we forget is the use of logic in saving the lives of the hostages.
Considering, the situation involves a LONE hostage taker who demands justice to the perceived injustices done to him.
A scenario; where a determined LONE hostage taker is ready to die if his demands are not met. A scenario involving hostages of foreign nationalities hence, any which way it ends, will have an international repercussion.
The crucial objective should be to save the lives of the hostages and possibly the hostage taker at all costs because of the international repercussion it would bring any which way the crisis ends.
I believe, what we lack during the tragic incident is decisive leadership with logical mind set that should be on top of the situation.
The crisis management committee should have been headed by at least Secretary-level-of-authority, if not the President himself.
I do not claim to be an expert, but ideally the situation calls for a crisis management committee headed by the Secretary of Justice, or the National Defense, or the DLIG or the President himself who could give the negotiator the broad scope of negotiating authority and give his negotiator what he needs.
The President, or the Secretary of Justice, or DND, or DILG is the person who have the authority to ask or to FORCE the Ombudsman to reverse its decision, and reinstate Mendoza. And after his surrender, the DOJ could file illegal detention case against him and other violations that could be thought of that would put him in jail for a long time.
This way, the gunfight will be shifted into legal issues (interpretation of laws and NOT EXCHANGE OF BULLETS) and the battle and confrontation will be transferred in the court of justice.
Ergo, we wash our dirty linens in the privacy of our court of justice.
Most of all, this would surely save the lives of the hostages and Mendoza.
And the Philippines will save face in the eyes of the international community.
Clearly, what went wrong in the Quirino Grandstand fiasco is the lack of a decisive, logical leader who should be on top of the situation with one primary objective: to save the lives of the hostages and avert the ridicules of the international community. A leader whose tools include logic, diplomatic tact and who would exhausts all peaceful efforts of negotiation before resorting to SWAT operation.
Nevertheless, the Quirino Grandstand fiasco is not the fault of Mendoza, neither the police nor the President, IT IS OUR FAULT!
We are the ones who elected the leaders we want to govern us.
And we deserve the government that we choose.
24 YEARS AFTER EDSA’86
24 YEARS AFTER EDSA WE WERE GIVEN FREEDOM….!
FREEDOM to see corruptions in every corner of the government…!
FREEDOM to see kidnapping become an industry…!
FREEDOM to see political massacres…!
FREEDOM to give pork barrels (via PARTY LIST SYSTEM) to the people who wants to destabilize and to violently overthrow the government…!
FREEDOM to see our youth being destroyed by drugs, (“70% of heinous crimes are drug related”)…!
FREEDOM to make the Philippines as a “DRUG SMUGGLING PARADISE“……!
FREEDOM to make the “Philippines as one of the most dangerous places for journalist“…!
FREEDOM to see politicians become multi-millionaires and/or billionaires, while their constituents live a life of hand-to-mouth existence….
THOSE SANDAL WEARING PEOPLE WHO WENT TO EDSA’86 AND THOSE PEOPLE WHO VANDALIZED MALACANANG…
- DID THEY BECOME RICH?
- DID THEIR LIVES IMPROVE?
WHERE IS MR. PANDOY?
The only people jumping with joy after EDSA are the people and POLITICIANS who gained popularity and wealth after using the common Pilipino to achieve their vested interests..!
WE HAVE SEEN THE RESULT OF EDSA’86…and the following EDSA revolts…
WE HAVE BEEN FOOLED AND USED IN EDSA’86…
ARE WE GOING TO BE FOOLED AND USED THIS COMING MAY 2010 ELECTION?
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I Will Make It Happen 
HOSTAGE CRISIS – WHO’S TO BLAME?
In the aftermath of the Quirino Grandstand Fiasco, investigations are conducted here and there by every government agency including the senate and congress.
Fingers are pointing in every direction.
The nagging question – WHO’S TO BLAME?
Who’s to blame in this given scenario?
Scenario – Hostage Crisis
Implication – International repercussion any which way the crisis ends.
Players:
Situation:
Issues:
News Item: Noynoy: Heads will roll over hostage rescue lapses (Philstar; 31 August 2010)
“But again, at the end of the day I’m commander-in-chief, I was in touch with (Philippine National Police) Director General (Jesus) Verzosa, I asked who the ground commander was, I was informed it was (Manila Police District director Chief Superintendent Rodolfo) Magtibay. I was also informed that the NCRPO (National Capital Region Police Office) was there to back up Magtibay, I was informed that the SAF (Special Action Forces) would be the primary unit tasked in case there was a need to employ the final option. A lot of these things did not happen…why exactly the assurances given to me were not done, and that is where I will show you corrective action this week,” Mr. Aquino said.
From these statements of the President, it is clear he knew what’s happening and the focus of the rescue operation evolves in the use of police force to save the hostages with a justified collateral damages. The president was assured by the PNP that this is the best they could do to save the lives of the hostages.
However, from the onset of the crisis, it’s a pity that:
Nevertheless, even in the absence of these advisers, an experience and decisive leader would initiate the basic management resolutions for a crisis with this magnitude and he would immediately:
All of these could have been done before that fatal handcuffing incident. Where were the president’s men when he needed them most!
With this scenario, Mr. President, whose head should roll?