The Innocence and Naivety of Kids.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007

a.k.a. The Marvelous World of Children

Today there was a kidnapping of 32 kids in Metro Manila. The story is really sad.

A man, Armando Ducat, the owner of a nursery,Musmos Day Care, wants to help the 145 pupils of his nursery, and he is asking to be allowed to have a vigil with candles to ask for free registration fees for pupils and improvements on the education system.He wrote his request in front of the bus.



Here it is a new case of asking for the right thing, looking for the right goal with the wrong means.

He said what he wanted for the children was education “because if they were educated they would have discipline and would not become drug addicts.”

“I am appealing to you to give me a chance to speak. You are witnesses to the political dynasties, the rampant stealing in government. Because of this, our dream of progress for the country will not be realized,” Ducat said.

“Aren’t we ashamed of ourselves? We are a country who believes in God and yet we are ungodly in our actions,” he said.

“President Arroyo is fighting corruption, we should unite with her,” he added.

You can follow the updates on the excellent breaking news site of The Inquirer, one of the best Fipipino Newspaper.

The thing is that the kids in the bus, for them, this is looking like something extraordinary, something exciting, they don't even understand what's all the fuss with this. You can see their faces so thrilled, with a little bit of fear, all mixed, because the novelty of the situation, they were going to go to class on a normal day and now they are surrounded by people on a bus with a man yelling with a grenade in his hand, with a uzi machine gun and a .45 caliber pistol. It is like a movie for them.





Children live in their own reality, that's what so wonderful about them and that's why they can make us feel full of illusion, because they give us that part of life that we can only find in dreams. But reality is reality and adults are very well aware of it, we got used to because of all the sufferings that we have endured in our lives. So, this is the other side of reality, the real one.
The mothers and fathers of those kids are all worries and sufferings.





And the police is still waiting..



And the kids waiting..







All these kids that you can see are all around 5 years old, as a teacher said, even one of the supervisors offered to bring ice cream to the kids, but Ducat refused. This Ducat man was the same that kidnapped two priests on 1989, because of some repairs on a church.
And the authorities don't know yet what to do, senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla is negotiation with the kidnapper;

“Sinabi niyang hindi siya mananakit. Ibigay lang ang gusto niya. Lalong tatagal ito kung hindi niyo siya papayagan [He said that he would not harm anyone for as long as his demands would be given. This will take longer if we do not give what he wants],” said Revilla.

And it looks like he was able to take one kid from the bus,

Simon Pacheco, was freed because he was running a fever and was brought to the hospital by an ambulance, authorities said.

Let's pray that all ends well, because as we say here, "it is good all that it ends well".

Posted by Manuel Galisteo 1:05 AM    

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