Murder in crime-free Davao City

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—topped by P300,000 by King’s relatives, for a total of P500,000—for the capture “dead or alive” of the killer.

But Duterte’s police investigators will have a hard time looking for suspects since there are many possible motives.

From what I’ve 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’t 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’t monkey around with another monkey’s monkey.

Play fair in business and in everything else.

What goes around comes around.

You reap what you sow.

I’m not insinuating anything, those maxims just came to mind.

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Canceling all permits to carry firearms outside of one’s 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’s 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’s Army (NPA).

Twin Pines shouldn’t 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’t sell the guns to just anybody without papers from the FED.

Barking up the wrong tree won’t ferret out the culprit or culprits who sold the Russian-made guns to the NPA.

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Doctors at St. Luke’s 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’t believe in Father Suarez’s healing powers, it’s not the prelate’s body that’s supposed to be healed.

Terminal cancer patients have been reportedly healed by Suarez because they believed—rightly or wrongly—in his healing power.

And who’s to judge whether one’s 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’s belief in the existence of God is based on faith.

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There’s no true religion or wrong religion.

Every religion is true according to the believer.

That’s why it’s stupid to argue over religion because it’s a chicken-and-egg thing, or, which came first, the chicken or the egg?