Frontier Justice

Written on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 1:05 pm | by Rom

Nothing against the cops who shot and killed some of the suspects in the RCBC killings, but that sort of frontier justice doesn’t satisfy. Worse, what if the cops were wrong? What if those weren’t the guys who did it? If not, then the real assholes are still out there, laughing their heads off at getting away scot-free.

If only the cops had not been so fucking trigger-happy, they could have had an unequivocal winner once they captured the killers. Instead, by bringing everything to such an abrupt and gruesome end, they just might have wrested defeat from the jaws of victory.

I’m sure the families would have preferred knowing for sure it was these men that did it. But now, when will that truth ever come out?

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4 Responses to “Frontier Justice”

  1. Nick on May 28th, 2008 12:54 am

    @Rom this is exactly why I am not for any kind of gung-ho, extra judicial killings. Humanity is destroyed, and the truth — well, it dies along with its victims..

    I’m not so sure if they were trigger happy, or if they even had the clearance to a shoot-to-kill order, either that or an order to be free wheeling with those damn triggers..

  2. cvj on May 28th, 2008 5:56 am

    I voted for Alfredo Lim during the Presidential elections in 1998 in part because of his Dirty Harry image. I did not take it against him that drug lords winded up dead in his custody. In fact, that was a big part of his appeal. I now realize i was wrong to applaud then but i know that vigilante-type justice is popular among Filipinos to the advantage of the Lacson’s and Duterte’s of this world.

  3. Jon Limjap on May 28th, 2008 10:31 am

    These guys have been relieved recently as part of an internal investigation. The CHR dismissed the operations as rubouts. I wonder who’ll be left to attend to the case if the assigned law enforcers are suspended?

  4. supersepoy on June 2nd, 2008 3:32 pm

    I read somewhere that bank robberies can be linked to politicians trying to beef up their election war chests. If this were true, as I am inclined to believe, then the killings could also be a way to silence the pawns and prevent them from incriminating the real masterminds.

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