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Wednesday, December 28, 2005
Editorials: Season for killing too
They respected the Southeast Asia Games (Seag). During the two weeks or so that visitors were in Cebu City for the regional sports competition, no vigilante or vigilante-style killing was committed.
Murders by hooded, motorcycle-riding assassins resumed during the holiday season, at about the same time the serial executions started a year ago.
What does one see from the timing of the person or persons responsible for the 106 summary killings, all of which have remained unsolved?
One would think the murder company was mercantile-minded, with an ear for the cash register’s ring, when it suspended the “salvagings” while the Seag was going on.
Bad for business
It would have been bad for tourism--–and for business--–had the vigilantes been allowed to operate and snatch banner headlines from the Asian athletes, for bullets to shove to the sides the gold medals.
How about respect for the Christmas tradition of peace? Apparently, vigilantes and bosses did not give a hoot.
Make no mistake about it. Masters and their assassins could be pious persons. You probably even bumped into them during “misa de gallo” in the neighborhood parish church.
Unconcern about timing
But if they have no respect for human life, how can they give a damn about when killing is to be done?
Obviously, those who conceived and carried out the murders did not care for holiday cheer and joy when they started slaughtering crime suspects last year. They could not care less about holiday mood now.
Thus, this year, as they did last year, victims were killed while they were enjoying Christmas with family and friends.
Timing? For the killers and their masters, it was good time as any to snuff out human lives, even better because the targets had their guard down, induced by Christ’s injunction of love and joy.
Profiling the brains
What will a profile of the mastermind of the vigilante killings yield?
The brains, to be sure, must have a lot of power or influence. That is needed to cope with a theoretically massive multi-agency investigation by law enforcers.
Money is needed for payroll, motorcycles, guns and ammo, and cover-up expenses.
How about scruples? There must be an awful lack of it.
One cannot order, encourage, or commit the murder of another human being without bartering a large chunk of one’s humanity.
(December 28, 2005 issue)
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