Vengeful crybabies

ENCOURAGED by a court’s resolution to consign them out of jail, those civilian components of the Manila Pen siege who were apprehended for the duration of the armed occupation of the hotel in Makati last Nov. 29 have regain their bearings and turned the tables on the police, accusing them with unlawful arrest before the Ombudsman. I felt badly with these kinds of developments and I sensed it was a sad note on our justice system that rabble-rousers like these was permitted not merely to go scot-free, but exploit the courts to extract revenge.
Dismissal of the mutiny accusations against the civilians who were at the Manila Peninsula hotel, the court assumed their plain existence at the crime scene was not indication of unlawful activity. At least one of those civilians, a cleric whose anti-government outlooks are well known fact said he was in attendance to “prevent violence,” an excellent objective until we become conscious he intended to accomplish this by precluding the Police authorities from disposing the rebellious soldiers at the Peninsula by force. By inserting themselves between those armed soldiers who held hostage the hotel by sheer force, and those avowed to implement the rule of law, these outrageous personalities were at the very least hamper justice in its course. Underneath the ruse of upholding human rights, the attorneys and a cleric now declare they will compel the police to suffer for their arrest and how they were handled while taken into custody. But the activist priest’s comments were more revealing, he said, he was surprised at how the authorities “disrespected” ranking government and men of the cloth by securing them with handcuffs and at the same time poking fun at them.
The brusque statement discloses two circumstances:
1) A yearning to get even for insults experienced; and
2) The prospect of exceptional treatment on the basis of societal class.
What happened to justice for all? All of a sudden, those human rights records don’t seem to be too believable. Senator Joker Arroyo, a former human rights lawyer and advocate got it correct when he rebuked the Peninsula civilians for “performing similar to crybabies.” We would include the adjective “revengeful and vindictive” to the senator’s depiction since that is how they picture themselves when they take legal action against the police for implementing the rule of law of which they themselves pledge to uphold.