Thread: Philippine Chinese tension

I just got this email from a Filipino friend. I seem to get a lot fo chain mail from him. Anyways it's related to the recent tensions going on between the Philippines and China after the bus shooting incident. You might find it interesting...



The chain email going around...



whoever wrote this,thank you, very well said...

To the Chinese Citizens of Hongkong…
You hate the Filipino people for the hostage fiasco that unfortunate
incident that went out of control at the end. This was a hostage situation
that was under control and which netted 7 Chinese tourists to be released
upon the efforts of our policemen.

You appear and sound sanctimonious and have even stepped upon our
sovereignty. You have demanded apology, the moon and the heavens. You hate
the Filipino people as if we wanted this unfortunate incident to happen.
First and foremost, we offer our condolences to the families of the 8 that
were killed in this incident. Secondly, we are sorry for the bungled
handling of this hostage taking. It was unfortunate, it was an accident,
we never planned it that way. Is it fair to blame a whole nation for a
situation that was never planned?

Let me ask you this question, "Should we hate you also for the lead
poisoning caused by the paint you used in your baby furniture and toys for
the children of the world, Should we hate you also for the use of
cardboard in the "siopao" that you sell to tourists? Should we hate you
also for the melamine contamination wherein not 8, but hundreds, maybe
even thousands have suffered and some even died?

Or, let us talk of Filipino casualties. A few years ago, 3 Filipino
tourists, all surnamed Madrigal, a family of 5 were walking on Tienemen
Square and Beijing. One Chinese stabbed the father and two of his
children, killing all three. Were you even sorry for what this one Chinese
did? Did the Filipino people even demand that China apologized for this
unfortunate incident. This was PRE-MEDITATED MURDER.

Just as the use of lead, cardboard, melamine was pre-meditated - used
because they were cheaper materials, in order to generate PROFITS for the
Chinese businessman. Did you pay damages the same way you are demanding
damages from the Filipino nation and people.

Where was the anger of the Chinese and Hongkong people? Did you even
apologize to the world? My God in the case of melanine, you even kept this
information from the world, until you were exposed for what you are!!!

Enough! We symphatize but don't blame the Filipino people.

So you want to send our OFWs home, that take care of your children? They
play an important part in your lives. Both spouses are able to work, earn
money because of the tender loving care being heaped on your children by
Filipino maids and yayas/amahs. While you pay our OFWs for the work they
do, you earn more for the love and care they bestow on your children. Go
ahead, send our OFWs home. Let us see how that will affect your family
incomes.

Enough!
Pass this to all Filipinos you know. If you love your country, perhaps
you'll send this.



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There seems to be a lot of tension between China and its neighbors lately. In addition to this, there was that incident with the Japanese in which a Chinese fishing boat was taken for ramming a Japanese boat. I wonder where this is all heading?

Eight or nine years ago there was a hostage situation in the Pasay bus station in Manila. A crazed drug addict had taken a young boy hostage and was holding him, with a knife to his throat. The 'negotiations' went on for hours, of course all live on TV with hundreds of reporters and camera crews milling around, and cops sitting around all over the place drinking cokes and eating. The first cops on the scene, it turned out later, had come directly from a bar around the corner where they had been drinking all afternoon, probably while shaking down the owner. During the hostage situation, there were literally hundreds of chances for a shooter to take down the bad guy. You didn't need a sniper, or a rifle even - the guy was an easy pistol shot away. Finally, the guy started stabbing the kid in the neck and a cop shot. Of course he missed the kill shot, and hit him in the side. The hostage taker dropped the knife, and fell down on the floor of the bus station with the kid underneath him. At this point. all of the hero cops rush up from where they were sitting around and unload their weapons into the prone hostage taker. End result: Hostage taker is dead, with about fifty gunshot wounds. Hostage has several fairly superficial cuts on his neck, and is dead from multiple police-inflicted gunshot wounds - shots which were fired into the hostage taker and, of course, went right through him and into the hostage. So, not much has changed in the past decade.

Lucky they weren\'t Indian money lenders. :-)


Fancy uniform and feelings of entitlement. The bane of all underdeveloped country\'s police

the demands are very simple things to honor with the hostage taker
and they gonna play to him later.

Yep. The police in SEA in many places do see to be some of the world's worst at times. I wonder if it's so bad in places like Vietnam or China. They seem to execute a lot of government officials who commit crimes.


Another story related to tensions with China and Japan if anyone's interested.

Chinese hold anti-Japan protests over boat dispute

Chinese hold anti-Japan protests over boat dispute - Yahoo! News

Unlike those wonderful Somali Iraqi or Chechen cops?

Originally Posted by Indian Jones

Fancy uniform and feelings of entitlement. The bane of all underdeveloped country\'s police

....this applies towards overdeveloped country's policing systems as well. Don't be fooled by the pretense of comparatives. It's basically homogenous.

What do you base your assertions on?

Are you saying that the pay-to-get-into-the-army/police hoodlums are on the same level as British or Canadian police?

I like my chances of surviving a hostage crisis here rather than there thanks very much.