Tag: #SAF44
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Yesterday marks the second year since the untoward deaths of 44 Special Action Force (SAF) troopers of the PNP that were sent to calm rebels MILF-BIFF encounter in Mamasapano, Zamboanga. This year, on a similar vein, amidst ongoing Miss Universe pageantry around the islands and another news of Filipino OFW execution this time in Kuwait, we hear of…
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Governments are privy to information gathered by intelligence services and other means that the general public does not possess. Because the public is not in possession of this information, the public is not in as advantaged a position to determine whether the conditions are met. As a result, the public must in significant measure be…
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History has again repeated itself in the sense that the ongoing investigation of the SAF operation in Mamasapano will result to nothing beneficial for the country except taking those who are watching it on a free roller-coaster ride as was the fate of the PDAF Scam investigation and other similar high profile cases. If the…
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Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. ― George Burns
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Print and broadcast media are still in high gear over Oplan Wolverine. Yes, there’s a lot to be said but still it is imperative to view these against practical and difficult realities and the rarely straight path in the quest for peace. And what timing that the Mamasapano encounter happened right after that girl child’s question, why does God allow…
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A cop was killed one somber night, They buried him today. He gave his life to do a job. A wooden box his pay. Taps were played and the shots were fired That signified the loss. They echoed ‘cross the lonely land. All eyes stared at the cross. The folded flag was passed along To…
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