I Am Tiramisu

All those innocent lives.
We mourn today. The world literally came to a dramatic halt yesterday as a former police officer held captive a tourist bus full of Hong Kong nationals. All eyes world-wide were upon the events played out on their tv sets. Who is to blame? I don't even want to start. The consequences I don't even consider to think. As it would give me chills. Right to the core of my soul.
This is a wake up call. No.... More like a kick on every Filipino's groin to be able to wake up. Clearly the authorities lack the much needed training and knowledge in dealing with terrorism. Not a terrorist you say?
Anyone who terrorizes the public IS a terrorist in my book!!!
No matter his cause, no matter his grievances, be he guilty, wrongfully accused or unjustly taken out of his post, he had no right to get on that bus and hold the foreign tourists hostages!

The ordeal of the tourists went on for 11 hours. Clearly something was not right.
Who to blame? Officer Mendoza, the hostage taker? The media? The Philippine National Police?
The President? Excuse me for being honest but I say, all of them.

Have you not learned anything from all those trainings? Or the better question probably should be: have we not been training our police well and right?

So many questions. Will they ever be answered? Was it really Mendoza's bullets that killed the hostages? Didn't the hostage taker parade himself visibly on the door earlier that day when he released the 73-year-old diabetic?

Sometimes I wish you guys would watch them foreign police and detective shows. Hollywood, but yet, maybe you could learn a thing or two.

What a shame.
9 had to die.
My heart is heavy. Much apologies to the families and friends of the victims.
Much apologies for the incompetence.
I am no expert. I would not even offer any suggestions as to how the situation should have been handled. But one thing is for sure, they did not do it right.

Poor bus driver. Now getting some flack for "misinforming" the public that 'everyone is dead' (in the bus) after having escaped from his window. So that's your reason for charging on the bus? Without any solid plan? Don't you dare let the driver carry the brunt!!! 11 hours at gunpoint will do havoc on your mind. No matter what he could have said should not have been the only basis for the police's actions that followed. If Mendoza had been a very violent person, he would have shot the hostages one by one in anger while the police banged on the windows.

And media...refrain and don't be ever so righteous. Because what happened yesterday, nobody is.

May God bless all their souls.
Receive them.
Give peace to he hearts of those left behind.