Ang Kape ni LaTtEX

Excuse the chauvinist banter and excuse the slur. It’s just not right anymore.

In the past few months the headlines have been filled with the killings of several journalists and activist leaders, leading observers to state that a culture of violence is enroaching upon the freedom of speech. There have been more killings the past two weeks; that of former Pasig Congressman Henry Lanot, who was shot inside a restaurant in broad daylight with his killer casually walking out the door, a possibly related killing of Nicolo Echiverri,  a member of the Abalos clan (the political opponents of Lanot) whose car was peppered with bullets by four gunmen, and DFA official Alicia Ramos, who was strangled inside her own bedroom by alleged Akyat-Bahay Gang members but the circumstances of which indicate that it may be more than just a robbery gone awry.

More than just executions done with hired killers, they were actually assassinations that lack neither finesse nor expertise, the assassins seemingly making sure that people are able to see their faces. They might as well give their calling card bearing "need to kill someone quick? dial this toll free number…" The part that worries me most, however, is that all of this is happening in Manila, not in the provinces where such things have almost become "normal."

Murders like this do not only irk me from an spectator’s point-of-view. In spite of the fact that my involvement to such killings are limited to second hand experience, it has become rather personal; the father of a highschool dorm roommate was shot in rushhour traffic, my aunt and cousin-in-law were forced out of their car which was then used as a getaway vehicle in a high-profile assassination of an Army general a few years back, and my own late father-in-law was gunned down point-blank at the porch of the
family-owned clinic back when my wife was only 13 years old.

I don’t really think that it’s a culture of violence that allows such things to happen; it’s a culture of dicklessness. Men who have short dicks need (and use) loaded guns to extend their penises and prove that they’re "real men." When someone with a longer dick (or larger balls) comes around, and they can’t deal with those, the cowards hire killers to extend their illusion of a very long dick even further.

But this culture of dicklessness is not limited to assassinations and murders. I know of a town mayor who was dickless enough to cut the power off in his town when an expose about his supposed indiscretions was shown on national TV. Unfortunately for him most of the people in his small barrio simply had to take a 5 minute tricycle ride to the next town to be able to watch TV. I know of multitudes of "men" who need to buy large overbearing SUVs or extremely noisy rice rockets to compensate for their small-man complex.

I seriously hope that something serious can be done with all of the above dickless bastards.

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