Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte is fuming over the murder of billionaire businessman Richard King in the city.
The controversial mayor wants the killer identified immediately and arrested for putting his practically crime-free city in a bad light.
Duterte has put up a P200,000 reward鈥攖opped by P300,000 by King鈥檚 relatives, for a total of P500,000鈥攆or the capture 鈥渄ead or alive鈥� of the killer.
But Duterte鈥檚 police investigators will have a hard time looking for suspects since there are many possible motives.
From what I鈥檝e gathered about King, there are several probable motives.
These are: revenge for the murders of some persons imputed to him, business rivalry, love triangle, his alleged involvement in a pyramid scam and a family feud.
I can鈥檛 go into details because of legal constraints, but if the police can look into all the angles mentioned above, these should probably cover everything.
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He who lives by the sword, perishes by the sword.
Don鈥檛 monkey around with another monkey鈥檚 monkey.
Play fair in business and in everything else.
What goes around comes around.
You reap what you sow.
I鈥檓 not insinuating anything, those maxims just came to mind.
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Canceling all permits to carry firearms outside of one鈥檚 residence is a knee-jerk reaction of President Noy to the assassination of Mayor Ernesto Balolong of Urbiztondo, Pangasinan province.
The President is punishing legitimate gun owners who carry their weapons in public (concealed, of course) just because Balolong was killed by a gun.
People living in the provinces whose lives are under threat have been rendered defenseless with P-Noy鈥檚 order.
The person who shot the mayor was most probably carrying an unlicensed gun.
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Investigators should go easy on Twin Pines, the store that sold the AK-47 automatic rifles that fell into the hands of the New People鈥檚 Army (NPA).
Twin Pines shouldn鈥檛 be blamed for the negligence of the Philippine National Police (PNP) firearms and explosives division (FED), the office that issued the licenses for the guns.
Gun stores can鈥檛 sell the guns to just anybody without papers from the FED.
Barking up the wrong tree won鈥檛 ferret out the culprit or culprits who sold the Russian-made guns to the NPA.
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Doctors at St. Luke鈥檚 Medical Center at Fort Bonifacio Global City in Taguig have asked Fr. Fernando Suarez, said to be a healing priest, to say Mass for cancer patients in the hospital.
But the Catholic bishop in Taguig has denied their request.
Even if the bishop doesn鈥檛 believe in Father Suarez鈥檚 healing powers, it鈥檚 not the prelate鈥檚 body that鈥檚 supposed to be healed.
Terminal cancer patients have been reportedly healed by Suarez because they believed鈥攔ightly or wrongly鈥攊n his healing power.
And who鈥檚 to judge whether one鈥檚 belief is wrong?
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Faith healing works most of the time because the person who seeks it believes in the faith healer.
Faith moves mountains, so to speak.
Even one鈥檚 belief in the existence of God is based on faith.
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There鈥檚 no true religion or wrong religion.
Every religion is true according to the believer.
That鈥檚 why it鈥檚 stupid to argue over religion because it鈥檚 a chicken-and-egg thing, or, which came first, the chicken or the egg?