Serve whom?
Credit to Author: Tempo Desk| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 16:45:40 +0000
IF there were minors at home watching the televised coverage of the Senate hearing on the ninja cops accused of “recycling” confiscated drugs, I would have exercised my duty to censor what they were viewing.
The sorry spectacle of Aquino vs Albayalde, Magalong vs Albayalde, and Albayalde sinking deeper into the hole being dug by his policemen was strictly for adults only, adults who have gotten used to the dark side of how cops “protect and serve” the public selectively; and how the tricky ones connive as a brotherhood to protect their own self-interests. Without passing judgment on Gen. Oscar Albayalde, who still enjoys the President’s confidence, this observer thinks that if he is innocent as he claims, he should immediately retrain, recycle, do something drastic about his subordinates, short of murder/homicide. They should have done a million pushups before appearing before the senators – look at the clean-cut former police chief Senator Ping Lacson, who once ordered a 34-inch waistline for men in uniform – and they should have been rehearsed on what to say in defense of their boss during the time he was posted in Pampanga.
According to Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong, ex-CIDG head, that was the time drugs flooded the province and the drug busters rewarded themselves with a fleet of SUVs. Gen. Albayalde said he did not own an SUV, only a battered pickup bought cheap from a neighbor. Scandalous? Perhaps, but not as dangerous as the demotion by a mere one rank of th
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