On the Philippine police shooting a mother and son incident in Paniqui, Tarlac — Dracarys and my twisted sense of justice

 

This video of the fatal police shooting incident that murdered a mother and son in Paniqui, Tarlac, originally appears on GMA News YT channel, among other sources, and the storyis explained in English on Channel News Asia written by Gabrielle Andres, among other sources.

MY SOLUTION TO ALMOST everything is doing nothing. Though I’ve been enchanted by the concept of Katniss Everdeen—the symbol, the one voice of rebellion that will change the world—it’s just my default mode to meet people in the middle. In life I’ve learned I can’t defend my rebellious team if I don’t have the favor of the management. So, it’s necessary to win both sides by doing nothing. And contrary to popular belief, doing nothing requires every ounce of energy in our body. While many think that it makes you an enabler, sometimes a tremendous amount of power lies in remaining balanced. In fact, my friend Marjorie is someone rather close to being a Katniss Everdeen or even a Thatcher, while I take more of the Elizabethan path.

But events like this can trigger my inner Targaryen. A Hitler. Or a mad Jesus.

Imagine a mother (52-year-old Sonya Gregorio) trying to cling to her son (25-year-old Frank) being arrested by a policeman (Police Senior Master Sergeant Jonel Nuezca) in their home. A helpless old lady is shot mercilessly to death just because she answered jokingly to the tune of a K-pop song to a rather arrogant policeman’s daughter. I can’t think of anything but twisted. Twisted in a sense that a policeman who have sworn to serve and protect the lives of the people becomes the one to take them away. Even violate their rights. Twisted in a sense that a policeman who should have raised a disciplined child ended up raising an egotistic bitch. I’m a first cousin to a policeman and a soldier, and I can attest that at least my cousin has done it right for his children. Apparently, Police Senior Master Sergeant—oh, remove the title, which he's unearned—Jonel Nuezca hasn’t. In fact, if you watch the video closely, it’s the daughter’s attempt to take part in the incident that triggered the helpless mother to reply that way, which in turn annoyed the policeman and made him pull the trigger. Mercilessly. Sure. It’s the policeman’s fault in a major sense. He’s the mature one. The one capable of thinking. And he just tried to defend the daughter he loves so dearly from hearing a K-pop song that they might have found insulting being sung by a mother trying to protect a son she loved so dearly—past tense, since they are both dead now. Rest their soul. Very well then. Let’s twist this story so much further. The authorities said that Jonel Nuezca will pay for his crimes. In jail. But I beg to differ. Let Jonel Nuezca pay for his crimes in seven folds.

I suggest that we burn his daughter alive with dragon fire. In front of him.

Let his screaming daughter be the last sight he’ll remember during his last days until he commits suicide himself. In regrets. In pain. In conscience. If he has one.

Now if he doesn’t commit suicide after that, give it 7 months. Then take his wife. Or another child. Feed them to the dragons. In front of him. One each month, one limb each dragon bite. Until only one member of his immediate family remains.

Let the last remaining member of his family live a life of liberty. Of mercy. Away from his disgraceful father’s name. Give him a chance to redeem their bloodline.

And finally, if the father still doesn’t commit suicide, behead him. Like Ned Stark. What a graceful father’s name to be compared to a rather futile pest of a certain policeman. (I wish to be clear. Just one policeman. Not everyone wearing their uniforms.)

Compassionately I’m well aware that a rapist father doesn’t make his son a rapist, too. The same way a daughter shouldn’t pay for the crimes of his murderous father. But I’m also well informed that what triggered the father to do such act could somehow be his love for his daughter. The feud is between the two men, while the two “ladies” are victims. Jonel Nuezca loves his daughter the same way Frank Gregorio probably loved his mother. Jonel took away the life of Frank’s mother—so it’s just accurate to say that we must take the life of the arrogant daughter. Jonel took a loved one, so we take his loved one. Also, if I’m not mistaken, when a police officer dies while fulfilling their mission, the government will subsidize their family. So, if this policeman kills while unfulfilling his mission, why don’t we make his family pay, too? Unjust? Illogical? Well, if you think this is all about justice and logic, you haven’t been paying attention.

Sure. The daughter is a minor. Innocent for her age. Well, I shall let you in to a secret. We as individuals are solely responsible for how we react to things around us. To events around us. To people around us.

It was the arrogant girl’s choice to react that way. To be a patronizing daughter to an egotistic father. And it worsened the situation. Mercy belongs to those who earn it; she didn’t.

Meanwhile, the news further reports that Jonel Nuezca has already had some multiple cases of homicides in previous years. It really makes me wonder how he managed to add two more to his list. It only makes these events even much more twisted.

Might I suggest that we find Nuezca’s mistresses, if any, and stab them all with Valyrian steel.

But non-fictionally speaking, the next helpless people this type of self-centered policemen might be shooting could be our fragile mothers and aged grandmothers. He has to be stopped. At all costs.