Reply #33 twiceAweek's post
Okay, thats is your view.
In all honesty, Phillipines, at least the police there are experienced with terrorism, for those of you who remember when those two missionaries were taken hostage a few years ago, the army got them back quickly and managed to trick the terrorists into giving away their position.
I just feel that in HK the police would be at a loss as of what to do? It's not like they can think and be like "well this happened last itme, so lets do this".
The situation in manila last night was rather unuaual for several reasons,
1) the guy was an ex cop, so it is difficult to try any negotiating tricks on him.
2) it was in the middle of the city, so they had to deal with crowds before stroming the bus (which is why it took so long)
3) He was mentaly unstable, another reason why it was difficult to get a peaceful solution.
Of course this is not justified, but when trying to think in the killers mind set, he probably planned to kill them from the beginning, just imagine hearing all the horror stories that come out of HK about doestic helpers, e.g. employer abuse, suicides, etc. and then suddenly you are faced with a busload of HK tourists, of course he will do something drastic, someone with little education will often make generalisations like that.
After wathing the local news and comparing it with some of the international reports, i noticd that the local news was much more harsh on the Manila police, and i was discussing this with a local friend (i am canadian chinese), as to why this is, and he says it is probably becuase in general, local HKers tend to feel that Fili's are incompetent, and as one Chinese columist recently put it "a nation of servants". I have to say i cant disagree with this viewpoint, when visiting relatives in hk, they really do treat their helper slike shit. WOW i jsut got pretty sidetracked, but wtv, this is a chat right? | |
