Washing his hands off responsibility
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Noynoy, to this day, refuses to apologize to the Hong Kong hostage victims and their relatives, saying that an apology connotes that the state did these Hong Kongers grievous harm when it was just one man and not the state that did them harm.
Said Noynoy to reporters: “We deeply regret what has transpired. An apology connotes that the state did them grievous harm. I don’t think that is correct. This was the act of one man, the same token that some of our citizens have been affected elsewhere in the world, we do not blame the entire population. We know that there are criminal elements, there are mentally deranged individuals that pose a threat to anybody regardless of race or country of origin.”
Translated, what Noynoy really is saying that he, as President and Commander in Chief of all the country’s Armed Forces, refuses to accept any responsibility and accountability for the botched hostage crisis.
Despite the claim of Noynoy that the hostage-taking incident and the bloodbath that occurred on Aug. 23, 2010, was the act of just one deranged man and not an act of the state, he cannot deny the fact that while a crazed gunman did take these hostages, and did shoot at least eight hostages dead, he and his government botched the rescue operations, because the core of the issue is not that a single man acted in taking as hostage the Hong Kong tourists but that Noynoy and his government flubbed and failed to contain the crisis. The botched rescue operation is the proof of this..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110824com2.html
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