“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 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.

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 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!”

 

Philstar: “Government to form elite strike force vs hostage takers”: Posted: 28August2010