Carnapping murders, bus-bombing: Who did those?

By Al S. Mendoza

TERRORISTS did it?

As I was writing this, two suspects had been tagged as the perpetrators of the bomb that punched a huge hole to a passenger bus cruising along Edsa near Buendia Avenue in Makati last week.

If authorities, who floated the terrorist angle to begin with, had bared the suspects’ identities, I couldn’t care less.

The carnage left five passengers dead and several others more wounded and that’s what pained me.

It broke my heart once again to see innocent victims die a meaningless, senseless death in the hands of heartless people.

How could a human being even conceive to undertake such a bizarre, horrible crime?

Only the conscienceless could.

Devil’s disciples.

Satan, indeed, continues to inhabit our world.

And the trouble is, we don’t even know where he is coming from.

His disciples — terrorists as we know them – have been always like that.

They are faceless, nameless and without any address.

We are fighting an invisible enemy here – as always.

And what pains us more is that the innocents become usually their hapless victims.

What kind of a person, group, thinks that way?

Killing people that have nothing to do with their vision – if vision it is called?

What is their mission in doing it?

Insult P-Noy?

Destabilize the new administration?

Maybe yes, maybe not.

By killing and maiming innocent civilians, the perpetrators would scare away tourists.

That amounts to millions of dollars lost in tourism revenues.

That’d hurt P-Noy’s vision and mission to alleviate the poor, and to minimize, if not eradicate, poverty in the six years that he will be at the helm.

The Luneta hostage bus crisis that killed eight Hong Kong tourists last August was a bad enough black eye to the country.

And now this, another bus bombing designed to inflict mass murder.

I was glad to see P-Noy reacting with dispatch in that Edsa incident.

Compared to the Luneta tragedy, where P-Noy was almost invisible all the time that the standoff was on, the Edsa blast saw a P-Noy making himself very visible almost immediately after the fact.

Suddenly, P-Noy has become very presidential, appearing on TV to fire fiery instructions to the police to act swiftly on the matter.

Terrorists could be behind it, police said.

A cell phone triggered the blast, police said.

That’s SOP for terrorists, police said.

P-Noy, to his credit, wasn’t immediately buying the police line.

Good.

Curiously, the bus bombing came on the heels of three carnap-related murders.

Their killers had been allegedly arrested.

But talks were rife that some police top brass (carnappers?) were to be implicated in the triple murders.

Then, next thing we see was a Fairview-bound bus getting blown off at vehicle-infested Edsa.

Terrorists did that bomb blast?

Don’t look at me.

The police said that.

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