NAIA scam, bullet in the bag

The Photos are hilarious. Yes, I am laughing at the irony of the situation. Irony as in "a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of a character's words or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character."

 

Love it busted dead to rights you can see the B*****d unzip the bag and put something in there after it cleared x-ray the first time and then carry it over to a second station to recheck the bag the B*****D just put the bullets in. Why did this guy spend 5+ days in jail and have to pay bond when it's all on film. Complete BULLSH@T.

 

14 Days Left and a Wakeup !!

 

This is just draw dropping incompetence and embarrassment. I guess this is the Philippines and we can't compare, but Russia just lost an airliner possibly due to inside help getting a bomb on a plane. This seems like it's a national security risk.

How can you take airport security and their entire justice system seriously when these people are doing these things? These passengers would have been justified in kicking the **** out of the guy asking for the money to make this go away. I wonder how many days of jail they would add for that?

The entire country should pitch in on a legal fund to sue the airport into oblivion on behalf of the passengers. Add the employees and everyone responsible for running the airport on that list. **** it, we don't need air travel here. Let's just go back to using ferries for everything.

 

Wrye But we are talking about corruption here and not fatalities or how dreadful it would be to spend time in prison in the Phils. I admit it would be an experience to remember. The notion of corruption has strong roots in the educational system here.

Everyone here, it seems, wants send their children to school. Trike drivers for example work all day and save most of their earning to help their children attend school. I suppose their children as seen as a sort of "pension plan."

First, most institutions even in high school rely on feedback from students. Bad feedback usually results in the termination of the teacher. So teachers are reluctant to confront cheaters directly and to give poor grades. Every Filipino will tell you this.

This theme is also present in universities too. Often students with high grades know very little about the subject they are taking.

So here is a scenario you may want to entertain. Graduate student in Criminology (who is a cheater) gets a job on the police force. His uncle is the Chief of Police. He meets some of his friends who were cheaters with him in school. Or he is introduced to other police who have low morals. What did they really learned at school with knowing how to cheat and get ahead? If someone did research here in Duma regarding universities it would be interesting to see how many students were sent home for cheating.

The balance here for schools is how to appease students and settle incidents without sending them home and without the school losing money. When you send them home you lose money and everyone suffers. Right? In the end, you get many graduates who have been able to compromise the system to their own advantage. Most have no qualms about cheating, lying or plagiarizing to get what they want.

High Morals, Integrity, Honesty and Responsibility are not high on their list of things that most Filipinos pay attention too or adopt in most Filipino daily lives.

This broken mentality when it comes to being honest cannot be corrected by the church. And, it will not be corrected any time soon by the educational system. It is systemic in their culture. Corruption is something they have had to live with all their lives and while they say they don't like it most are reserved to the fact that it is part of life.