CJ, on 29 Aug 2010, 17:56, said:
Zeke, on 29 Aug 2010, 5:10, said:
Well technically even though he started it, it was the PNP that made it worse.....
So if someone were to slaughter a million of persons with a bomb because a government didn't pay a ransom, he would be considered as a martyr and draped in his national flag because the government made it worse?
In order to answer that question, one must first ask:
We're the charges against him even true in the first place?
Was there a reason to arrest his family in front of him, while he still had the hostages?
Is he really the terrorist here? Or merely a victim of someone else's plot?
The people who handled the situation did not simply "refuse to pay the ransom".
They ignored his request and spit on his face.
His brother volunteered to negotiate, make him stop, did they let him? No. Instead he was arrested in the middle of the "negotiations". Then he suddenly learned from watching the news from the bus that his wife was also arrested.
You'd think it was because the PNP already had a plan to stop him, but no, infact the opposite was true.
The way the incident was handled was not only poor it was completely stupid.