That statement, “we’re asking for Ces and they gave us Angelo instead” is giving me a wrong impression”.

Why CES only? Are other crew’s lives not as important as Ces’?

Sheesh

Yes. To certain extent, it is encourage to tilt the balance in favor of the kidnap victims.

Bencard on, “military agents as abductors? why do i have a feeling this has become a standard speculation?”

I hope you are right. My relatives are in the military. I am proud of few but equally despised others. One is particularly involved in kidnap for ransom and bank robbery, was able to evade both NBI and the military because one of my uncle was in the intelligence unit. Blood is thicker than water.

military agents as abductors? why do i have a feeling this has become a standard speculation? then again, this is the philippines. anything goes.

It is just euphemism. Supporting ransom is bad company image and publicity. Board and lodging is definitely an upgrade as use of actual services.

They can call it by any name but who are they fooling, the kidnappers ? No way. Except for the leader or leaders, this is a bunch of unschooled young people who will see this as payment in exchange of the freedom of the victims.

I remember one statement of the wife of the missionary who was abducted together with the husband at
Dos Palmas. The young “rebels” were mostly talking of what to buy, what to eat when they get the money, to go abroad.

Funny indeed, the giver hands the money as payment for “Forced board and lodging” and the receiver
gets the money as part of the RANSOM.

Whether to pay or not to pay is not a question then.

Tongue,
I think they were all fake,but that is only me.The incident was led by Canlas btw, and I might have my facts mixed up.and those court martials were fast backed then,lahat pala naresolve agad in less than one year so it was not only the gma incident,pati manila hotel,black sat, etc. yun nga ang tinatanong ni erpat bat ngayon they are prolonging the agony eh sya wala pang isang taon.You know what they say about hindsight.

Ngayon,
pasintabi na I am glad the others were released from campaign funds of the local executive.
If you check the sec, I can bet you will notice that on election years,company’s expenses get bloated,dahil ang mga kompanya di lang naman isang candidato ang biniigyan,I am talking only of presidential elections.ngayon tuloy I am thinking that campaign donations of conglomerates goes to local elections as well.

This may be a viscious cycle alangan sabihin ko na itigil nyo na ang ransom para tumigil ang viscious cylce.

why, did the death penalty stop the viscious cycle of the nature of the beast in man?

That is the picture of Philippines – increasing political unrest, deepening poverty and widespread lawlessness.

Where the global price of oil and rice have wiped out the average family disposable income, there is little left than to resort to desperate measures – anarchy is real.