A local weekly, not the Bohol News Today plastered in its front page, the unspeakable and the unmentionable.
The long rumored presence of a death squad here in Tagbilaran has been brought out of the hush-hush circles into the open. Now, not only did this paper muster the courage to shake off a popular belief that God-fearing Boholanos would always value life, it also exposed the apparent overwhelming support for the unconventional way of sweeping the dung off the streets.
The death squad uses a rather expensive modus in sweeping off the social dirt: through a hail of bullets.
The victim whom the paper cited, comes from a prominent family. He bit the dust and hugged dirt this time, even though as reported, he was less of a drug user and pusher but more of into getting things in his own creative way.
There are two things we need to get across here: First, this paper has finally blurted out what everyone kept mum about. Second, that this paper called it well-funded, means it can only be funded by those who have the means. On this, the police said these are perpetrated by rivals in the business.
So, can we say that even thievery is now a business and it can get you shot by your rivals? Maybe, if he got shot for drugs, we may have to believe so, the business being very lucrative.
But if the poor guy was like the one in Rizal street, or the spirit leaving the body near Coke, or the kid shot in front of Capitol, then it’s an entirely different apple and the paper was a tad close to saying what we deemed as honest appraisal of the killers and their mastermind.
This revelation, makes our world now less lonelier.
When we have been vocal about our belief that we have created our Frankensteins, we have only our people to blame. We have to tell you this, and we aint telling you nothing since then.
Well, it is just that we pity out law enforcers who stake their necks down the line everyday.
We then believed the police and their fastidious task of putting the drugs genie back in the bottle. It’s as daunting a task as a ton of cunning wont work with a genie all too powerful in and out of the bottle. So the vaudeville of arrests and raids have escalated into the death of several police officers and all these are the least publicity that an investment hungry Bohol needs.
So, the death squads come to even up the score.
What is just sad is the insinuation roughly puts us admitting that there is already a breakdown in the justice system.
You let loose a death squad and you will have more police work on the line.
The worse thing is, with the police staking out all their reputation and their balls, it seems this would be them again who would be dampening up the blame.
