On suspecting Ted

I now officially hate the police.

This was the status of my friend in Facebook after the police arrested Ted Failon's house helpers, driver, brother-in-law and sisters-in-law. And I have to say I so agree.

First of all, I do not think that there was any foul play at all. Because simply if I were to kill my spouse, I would not have gone to work then come back home to shoot him. I would have just shot him before I went to work. Saves time. Also, if I had to talk on the radio all morning, I could not possibly have the time to think about murder because I am so damn busy.

But okay, irregardless of what my opinion is on whether it was or was not suicide, I still feel a great amount of repulsion towards the police and the government. They say ignorantia legis nemenem excusat. And that is correct, ignorance of the law excuses no one. Dura lex sed lex, the law may be harsh but it is the law. I agree that the house helpers and the drivers could not simply say that they did not know that they weren't supposed to clean up the crime scene. But it scares me more to think, what if it is the police that is not aware of the law? Don't they know that they should not be just dragging around people so they can take them into custody? Do they even know what obstruction of justice is? How can one obstruct or prevent someone to report a crime when there isn't even a crime proven yet?

It was like watching a morbid scene in a telenovela as the police took the maids and the driver while completely not paying attention to their lady lawyer. And again as they picked up Ted's sisters-in-law and brother in law outside the intensive care unit of the hospital despite the fact that these people are grieving and desperate to be with their loved one during her last minutes on earth. Only this was real life. Moments later she died, and the police could never bring those moments back.

Indeed, what the police had done to Ted Failon was a shameless act of revenge because he is a known critic of Gloria and her administration. Specifically of the Quezon City police who he criticized over the killings of suspected robbers last February. This is a lesson to all our media people. Anyone could be next. Something tragic may happen in one's life, such as what happened to Ted, and the police may just see it as an opportunity to get even and turn the whole thing into a circus, under the pretense of serving justice.