BASED on research, there are more than two hundred classified forms of mental illness. Some of these are clinical depression, bipolar disorder, dementia, schizophrenia, and anxiety disorders. Most of us are suffering from any of these mental disorders but in different degrees.
Then there is schadenfreude, a feeling of joy some people get while seeing others fail or get hurt. People who have this laugh at the misfortune of others. This happens because when we see others fail, we feel better about ourselves. Kun sa title sa drama sa radyo pa ni: “Gikalipay Ko ang Kasakit Mo.”
I think the “former political has-been” is suffering from this mental illness. Why? Because he laughs at the misfortune of others, especially his enemies and even defames a dead man. I am referring to his statement accusing the late Ermita barangay captain Felicisimo “Imok” Rupinta of being a drug protector and of being responsible for the proliferation of illegal drugs in the barangay.
He said he is happy for Barangay Ermita residents because with Rupinta’s death they are now free from the bondage of tyranny and can start building a new image for the barangay free from illegal drugs. Does this also mean he is happy that Imok was murdered?
If you are in in the right frame of mind, would you say that to a dead man? Poor Imok he can no longer defend himself. Out of respect for the bereaved family, he should not have said those words whatever his past was. Okay, there were allegations that Imok was a drug protector but these could be only insinuations peddled by his political rivals or by those people who had an ax to grind against him.
If the “former political has-been” has nothing good to say about Imok, who was political enemy, he should just have kept his mouth shut.
I am not a lawyer but I think his statement is libelous. One of the elements of libel based in our Revised Penal Code is “to blacken the memory of one who is dead.” Dinhi ra nimo maila kun unsang matang ni siya sa pagkatawo. Madinumtanon. Aw, huwat lang ta kun siya na pod maoy mamatay kay atong ibisto iyang mga binuang sa buhi pa.
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When police regional officials presented last Saturday to the media Jimmy Largo, suspect in the ambush-slay of Barangay Captain Imok Rupinta, they claimed they have initially solved the case with the identification of the mastermind. I expected them to immediately release the name of the alleged mastermind and included him in the filing of the case before the prosecutor’s office.
But how come that only Largo was charged the other day before the Provincial Prosector’s Office in connection with the killing of Imok. Is one of the “John Does” in the charge sheet the mastermind? Who was he? By the way, the elder brother if Imok denied Largo’s claim that they met in Ermita at the same time Imok was ambushed in Liloan. So, I am inclined to believe that Largo must be one of the suspects as positively identified by Rupinta’s “partner,” Jocelyn Mendoza.
Pero kinsa lagi gyud ang mastermind?