Grow up, people EDITORIAL 08/27/2010

Grow up, people

EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 08/27/2010 Click to enlarge 08/27/2010 The Palace is now resorting to the ultimate buck passing by blaming the previous administration on the Luneta carnage with Secretary Herminio Coloma of the Palace communications and operations office, reasoning that Noynoy Aquino has been merely in office for 55 days and that he inherited from Gloria the crop of the Philippine National Police (PNP) that undertook the bungled rescue operations. The assertion is pure nonsense and was issued evidently in reaction to the former Palace aides of Gloria who are feasting on the many lapses of the administration in handling the crisis, the biggest since Noynoy assumed the presidency last June. It is purely insane to blame somebody who is no longer in command for something that went terribly wrong on Noynoy’s fence, the same way that this administration seems to have made a practice building up its reputation by living on the excesses of the past administration. The police get orders, whether they be generals or the officers on the field, from those authorities who are in government. That was mostly where the hostage problem seems to have evolved into a catastrophe last Monday. Noynoy during a midnight press conference after the bloodbath that supposedly was a rescue operation, said he had allowed the police to exercise a free hand to deal with the hostage situation.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100827com1.html

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