Fight against monsters

ONE good thing about retirement is that we have time to sit back, relax and watch movies at home. I have quite a collection of movies in VHS tapes. These tapes last 30 to 40 years even, more if you take care of them. Yes, better than the CDs.

Just recently I watched The Flock, a movie starring Richard Gere. The role played by Gere is that of a case worker, some sort of a psychotherapist dealing with sex offenders. I got interested in the movie considering that every now and then rape and sexual assault top our evening news.

Sex offenders in some countries like the United States which was the scene of the featured movie are registered so that they can be monitored as soon as they are released after serving their sentence. The registrants then meet with the case worker on a regular basis.

In the course of monitoring these people, Gere finds out that most of them are still into their perverted activities, some of them more violently; therefore, Gere made it part of his job to stop them. His immediate boss in the police department did not agree with him as the supervisor felt that Gere was being consumed in his fight against rapists and sex offenders and might break every rule in the book, and in the worst scenario, take matters into his own hands.

There were recent complaints against men, young and old, who sexually harass girls in public utility vehicles. There were more serious cases wherein the alleged perpetrators of rape were close relatives of the victims. This type of sensual pleasure turned wild if not violent is not only alarming but a clear manifestation of how far we have drifted from the moral precepts of our Catholic faith.

Several factors or issues could be the culprit. There is the influence of lewd pictures in the internet, dance moves that are very suggestive, the lack of parental guidance, alcoholism and chemical dependency or substance abuse.

Our government is bent on eradicating illegal drugs. In the process, thousands have been killed, jailed and shamed by mere accusation in public. There is not enough data how many were actually rehabilitated. There is so much talk about possible violation of human rights that have yet to be validated and investigated. Well, someone said: “Whoever fights monsters, you should see to it that in the process, he does not become a monster. In the fight against evil, be very careful he does not succumb to evil himself.”

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