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This Business of Kidnapping

There has been news about piracy in the high seas... And here is news about a nefarious activity you don't see... People go missing in action off the waters of Philippines... And then the cat and mouse game of high stakes begins... While some families agonise over their missing loved ones.... Going by the news, the border security patrol force was duly informed... But this I wonder, looks like the sovereign security patrols fail once again... With a dusk to dawn curfew in force, was there a lapse in security yet again... Was it a case of lax security or was it a case of one attempt too many... Border Patrol boasted it has thwarted double digits of attempts that were so many... Is this latest affront to sovereign securty a reminder we cannot escape kidnap attempts... When we have for our neighbours bandits who sees us not as human beings... Catch some Malaysians, then began a hide and seek game in the jungles of Philippines.. Next is a couple of months of various seek n find missions involving the governments.... And negotiations in earnest then begins , builds up to a critical delicate point ... For money in a few tens of millions, freedom and lives can be traded to a point... Should negotiations fell through or deadlines are missed, death to the victims ... Often it's slow death by beheading under the guise of fanatical religious belief... Hoping for religious sympathies to condone a blatant cruel act against humanity.. When in essence it was all a well disguised despicable act of kidnapping... Treating fellow humans as human cattle to be traded and prices haggled... While playing God and pretending to be God's warriors when talks are bungled... Claiming every unfortunate victim's life in the name of the Islam religion... Thinking in their warped religious fervour they are on the pathway up to Heavens... These terrorists, they can be no other, terrorise the international community... With such blatant organised crimes of inhumanity with such impunity... Maybe vigilante squads in the Philippines is the final solution.... Thousands of drug peddlars and merchants are dead by executions... Looks like therein lies a possible solution, storm the dense jungles... Cash rewards for vigilante squads killing terrorists in the jungles....?

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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