Red faces
| FRONTLINE |
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
The media that focused on the execution of the three Filipino convicted drug mules in their bid to get public sympathy for the three and of course increase circulation for the print media and a larger viewership for TV, must be red-faced by now, realizing the big boo-boo they committed in protraying these drug mules as overseas Filipino workers who are pitiful victims, and pleading for their lives, when all along, the three were not OFWs at all, but the usual drug couriers who willingly smuggled drugs into China for a hefty fee.
While it may sound callous, it must be said that, having broken the laws in China that metes out the death penalty for smuggling drugs, they deserve to be punished, according to the laws in China. So why did these media outfits make them out as martyrs, while blaming poverty for their crimes, with Noynoy now vowing to go down hard on the recruiters, when apparently, they were not recruited as OFWs for a job in China, but merely get into China on a tourist visa for the purpose precisely of smuggling large amounts of cocaine?.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110402com2.html
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