Mamang Pulis HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 08/23/2010

Mamang Pulis

HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 08/23/2010 The pot-bellied kotong cop has a new face. But such is a grainy face which we recognize now, yet one that is far from the fierce handsomeness of Roman emperor Tiberius, uncle of Caligula, yet as fearsome and evil, as he now shares Tiberius’ love for lacing penises, shutting suspected criminals’ urethras and tugging them, while letting out an explosion of laughter with each pull, alternating them with curses and questions not only to warn and extract information, but also to shock and awe, and send a message so dark even to the innocent ones, and those who have witnessed Senior Insp. Joselito Binayug employing such torture against a suspected stick up man in national TV have cringed in fear. From being a suspected criminal, Binayug transformed the tortured man into a victim. He is dead now, as claimed by his family and the others who saw him, with only the grainy ABS-CBN footage, shot from a telephone’s point-of-view and that of a conscientious man, most probably a member of the Philippine National Police, himself, and maybe one of the 20 personnel of the Tondo precinct personnel relieved over the fiasco, surviving as a not-so-silent witness to the practice of torture within the PNP, which not even its officials could easily brand as an isolated case. We have heard similar claims of torture in the past, but the advent of cellular phone technology made it possible to record at least one torture incident for the world to see. I’ve seen the footage, and for an instance, am surprised to see another cellular phone being used to record the torture like a simple happening that does not make stomachs churn, and it was visible in the other people present around the police officer identified as Binayug, as though it were just an ordinary event that their reaction, borrowing from youth parlance, was wala lang (nothing)..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100823com6.html

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