RedBlueThoughts

This is the bus where Filipino entrepreneur Jun Ducat is holding 32 students hostaged. As I write this, Ducat has just released a kid whom he said has fever. Negotiations already ended between a senator and Ducat. However, until now, aside from this incident,no significant signs of any other significant improvement has happened.

For those who don’t know police procedures on hostage taking, it is actually beneficial for police and hostage negotiators to prolong the situation. Why? In a hostage taking situation, authorities are always in the upperhand. The hostage taker has not enough resources to sustain it. He can only last until his resources dry up.  Based on the driver’s narration, before this incident, he was ordered by the hostage taker to go to a supermarket to buy groceries. So, Ducat is in for a long haul, probably, just within the day.

The question is—is Ducat waiting for a sign, a signal from Above? Or will he be an improvement of Villareal who died when he took an airport tower four years ago?

I say, let a hundred Juns rise up now!

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