PRAY FOR THE CAPTURE OF DRUG MULES' BOSSES!

Prayer vigils and masses for the postponement of the execution of our three kababayans in China for drug trafficking are still ongoing in various places as I wrote this.

Please attend if you can find one. It won’t harm you, and it won’t cost you anything. If you can’t, say a prayer just the same for the three. Like all of us, they deserve a fair shot at a new lease on life, or the forgiveness of God and a slot in Heaven.

And when you pray, include these two extra intentions – the CAPTURE OF THE DRUG LORDS who recruited them, and NATIONAL UNITY in the fight against illegal drugs.

It’s not the Chinese who will kill the three drug mules. It’s the drug lords who hired them, directly or indirectly.

If they’re execution pushes through, the drug mules will DIE FOR THEIR BOSSES, not for their families or loved ones. They will pay for their lives but the demonic business of their drug lords will go on non-stop.

Their bosses will KEEP ON KILLING with their deadly merchandise.

Drug lords don’t give a damn to whom they sell their merchandise to --- young or old, boy or girl, rich or poor,  anybody is fair game. That means NONE OF US is safe from them.

So what we need is to unite and confront  the drug lords head-on.

Not the conventional way with guns or other weapons. Except for the police and the military, we don’t have as many weapons as they have.

But if we will bombard law enforcement agencies with everything we know about the illegal drug trade, or identify every goddamn pusher in our neighborhoods, or even educate our kids on the evils of drug abuse early on, we can shrink the world of the drug lords.

If we deprive them of a market, they will be OUT OF BUSINESS.

Easier said than done? A lot of agencies, especially the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency, can teach us how to do it.

ALL WE NEED TO DO IS ASK. NOW!

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Two of our friends on “PDEA should probe Sally Villanueva’s claims”:

MARLENE DAMOLO HOWE of Tacoma, Washington, USA:

If this has been the case then it should have been investigated thoroughly and cops should not play God with the life of a potentially innocent woman. Her crime is her naivete' and gullibility. This Mapet Cortez should be arrested and investigated. If Sally's claims are true, then Cortez should burn in hell.

NOEMI MONTENEGRO

If you allow yourself to do something illegal or immoral, you should be ready to face and take the consequences. if a suitcase was given to her at the airport plus the $500, I’m just wondering. if it contained drugs, did she hand- carry it or it was checked-in? Why was it not detected at our airport?? in my experiences, hand-carried bags are well inspected. They even open our wallets.  Not unless there are people in the airport who are connected with the drug business.