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Vice President Sara Duterte’s absurdity continues its seemingly endless march into the territory where exaggeration, recklessness, and sheer stupidity begin to blur with one another.
Imagine having the audacity to stand before a crowd and declare that in the Philippines, assassins can be hired to blow someone’s brains out for the flea market price of P5,000. It is the kind of claim that sounds less like a serious observation about a nation and more like a bad script about some fictional Wild, Wild West where killers roam the streets with price lists in their pockets.
One can certainly acknowledge that desperate and deranged people exist. Human beings are capable of horrifying acts, and no country is immune from violence. But to casually portray assassination as a cheap, accessible service – as though murder in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao operates like Lazada or Shopee or Grab – is an insulting sensationalism.
Where, pray tell, is this supposed assassination marketplace? Where are these ukay-ukay gunmen willing to risk prison, death, and everything else for a fee so outrageously low that the weapon itself could cost much more than the alleged contract?
