Missing his target HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 09/15/2010

.Missing his target

HE SAYS

Aldrin Cardon

09/15/2010
It was, to say, picture perfect — that of President Aquino, his eyes squinting as he peered through the scope to check a high-powered rifle any gun lover — which, in case you don’t know it yet, includes our very own dear Chief Executive — would love to own.

The photograph was a great copy, they shared the headlines in many newspapers last week, at about the same time when another photograph, this time bearing the likeness of an elite police team, in a re-enactment of the fateful Aug. 23 hostage-taking incident at the Quirino Grandstand, where eight Hong Kong tourists were killed when an out-of-it-all dismissed police officer sealed his life for nothing but to send the country into an international embarrassment that would blot Noynoy’s first hundred days.

The two photographs, however, tell similar stories.

The first, that of the President inspecting a deadly hardware, could be so privileged to at least lay hands on a modern equipment his police and military forces could only dream of.... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100915com6.html