A drug addict, a former driver of a police official, was arrested with
other illegal drug sellers by policemen in a town near Pangasinan.
Even he was not caught in flagrante delicto (caught in the act) selling
shabu or methamphetamine hydrochloride, the cops nevertheless included him on
the complaint sheet.
Since he could not bail, as selling of shabu is non-bailable, he was
told by the prosecutor to shell-out one hundred fifty thousand pesos for the
striking out of his name on the charge-sheet for a lengthy hearings at the
Regional Trial Court.
Luckily, the detainee has relatives who are overseas foreign workers
that cheap-in to raise the sum for his liberty.
They even gave a big stuffed toy to the prosecutor “kasi mahilig si
fiscal sa stuff na galing abroad”.
Who says working with the Department of Justice is a thankless job? A
lot of drug pushers are being apprehended every day. Susmariosep, that would be
a lot of monies for a mulcting and enterprising fiscal.
***
"Gloves are off" between presidential rivals Marco Rubio and
Donald Trump," says by CNN subtitle recently as both U.S presidential
rivals exchanged acerbic charges in a debate.
"Clinton-Sanders on dead heat tie", "gloves are off"
or “knuckles are bare” are idiomatic expressions seldom used by Philippines'
newspapers as title.
“Gloves are off”, to the tricycle drivers who read this column, means
people start to argue or fight in a more serious way.
I love how the American media described their acrimonious and
rambunctious campaign season as bets ripped off each other’s throat to the
November presidential election.
***
FARC or Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, the richest
guerrillas in the world, thanks to cocaine and marijuana they sell to the huge
U.S mainland, fought the Columbia government since the late 1960s.
Lately they asked for a unilateral ceasefire, yes Virginia, unilateral
ceasefire, with the U.S Central Intelligence Agency's supported Colombia
government because their top brass have been successively killed by the
incessant aerial bombings by the government.
Salamabit, how did the Colombian
government do it so the Armed Forces of the Philippines can replicate it in
Mindanao and other areas in the country inhabited by the half a century old
insurgency?
Thanks to the smart bomb produced by the high budgeted research groups
in the U.S that saw a series of successes in killing with accuracy guerrillas
who were cooking their food or resting on a hammock in Columbia.
To adopt his new technology, the French and the Americans were deprived
of this in Vietnam in the 1950s to the early of 1970s, a country like the
Philippines needs the following: A Cessna A-37 Dragon Fly Plane that carries
the Precision Guided Munitions (PGM) or smart rockets guided by the Global
Positioning System (GPS) from satellite at the space, several A-39 Super
Tucanos (the rugged single engine bombers ordered by the Philippine Air Force
from Brazil) that can dropped unguided bombs, a C-130 cargo plane with 20 mm
Gatling guns blazing to mow the absconding bad guys, and Special Forces from
either Huey, Sokol, or Sikorsky helicopter to seized the computers and
documents of the dead enemies.
