close the gates!
just wanted to get this off my chest. those of you who live in BF Homes, Paranaque know what the title of this entry means. for years, BF has been a relatively safe haven for its inhabitants. if you didn’t have a sticker indicating you live in BF, you can’t just waltz in and do your thing. meaning thieves, murderers, and rapists couldn’t just prance right in and violate human rights. there wasn’t much threat of getting yourself kidnapped, mugged, or even killed. sure, for friends who live in other areas to visit my place, leaving behind your driver’s license was a pain and a bit of a hassle, but at least we all knew our security was doing its job guarding our safety. that’s what we paid them for.
now the gates are open, and all sorts of bad juju is flooding in. last night i sat next to two young women talking about the increasingly horrible situation in BF and realized that terror’s striking too close to home. i listened with growing alarm as one of the ladies told her friend about a suspicious phone call her daughter’s yaya received. the woman sounded exactly like the lady’s mother, and she told the nanny some tall tale about getting into an accident. the caller then requested that the nanny not tell anybody about it, and that she should just bring the daughter to a certain place. fortunately, the nanny was smart, and she was debating with herself what she should do when the real mother came home and demanded to know what all the panicking was about. an attempted kidnapping was, thankfully, foiled.
that doesn’t discount the fact that a call was made, and all sorts of devious gangs are moving in. moving in on what was previously a safe place.
another sickening bit of news. VERY close to where i live, VERY close to my parish, somebody entered a beauty salon, slit the throat of the cashier, and took all the salon’s cash. for christ’s sake, why kill the poor cashier if the money was all this son-of-a-bitch was after?
so here’s an urgent "wake-the-fuck-up" call to our mayor. Mayor Bernabe, what the hell have you done? you opened the gates and left us virtually defenseless. your traffic aides are useless, there is NO ONE guarding the main roads at night, and now there are thieves, kidnappers, and murderers traipsing about unnoticed and unchecked. piece of advice from somebody who can’t afford your precious bodyguards: CLOSE THE DAMN GATES. hell, if we knew this was going to happen, the voting population of paranaque probably wouldn’t even have given you a second glance, and it was BECAUSE of paranaque that you’re now the mayor. so do your damn job. ’nuff said.
