The code of silence sends a chilling effect.
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27562)
Philippines
October 18, 2017 2:55am CST
One young man from a de buena familia died in a fraternity hazing rites. Investigations both by the police and a senate committee went into full swing.
Today, the frat boys invoked their rights to self-incrimination. Evidences such as witness account, cctv footages, and facebook chat conversations clearly showed the frat boys guilty beyond reasonable doubt.
Yet, upon advice from their counsels, the frat boys were adamant, even appearing without remorse, as if all the proceedings is just a matter of procedure.
This code of silence is a pact, but when a life is taken away, that pact is desecrated. That ceases to be.
Young men, bright future ahead of them. Lawyers, the defenders of the law, defending the frat boys by hook, or technicality.
Chilling.
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@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
Yearly a person due to hazing of the fraternities. If these de buena familia seem hardly chase the justice, how much more to the victims from poor family.
@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
I was never into fraternity so I don't really know what is happening during hazing. But I have seen many times the paddle they use to hit their recruits. If the recruit die, that means it is more than just paddle in the legs.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
@ilocosboy when the body gets traumatized, the veins fail to send blood and oxygen to the heart and the brain. That causes cardiac arrest, I think. Sorry, I can't recall my High School Biology.
When we bump a part of our body, we apply cold/hot compress right away, to keep the blood flow. Atio and the other fatalities received one terrible blow too many.
@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
that was informative.
But what I want to see now are the suspects to be put on jail. When this happen, maybe the initiation rites for joining fraternity will get lessen.
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
18 Oct 17
yes it is the same here. also with many other groups like government and police have the code for each other. very wrong that some don't have to answer for such a terrible deed
@bunnybon7 (50973)
• Holiday, Florida
19 Oct 17
@eileenleyva i think you are right. they are making a very bad bunch of men of their boys which will hurt them in the long run
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
20 Oct 17
@bunnybon7 I am critical of parents who tolerate their children's ill behavior and wrongdoing. The children grow up spoiled, as in really spoiled, super brats. The children believe they could get away with anything. They believe they are above the law.
Whereas, I highly commend parents who correct their children early on. Rearing children with good manners and right conduct begins from birth. Never spoil the child.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
19 Oct 17
Something wicked came our planet's way, and instilled evil in man's heart and mind. Man has become selfish and greedy, power hungry, without compassion to another.
Those young men are by=products of their parents, that much I realized in the course of the hearing. The parents were shielding their boys. The knew their boys had committed a wrong, yet, they would do everything in their power to prove their boys innocent. What kind of thinking is that? Can parents really give true love if they condone the wrong their child is guilty of?
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
bThat is true. However, in my country, lawyers are as good as liars, That is an accepted truth. In the legal world.
Conscience is in the person. It lies in the soul. It was instilled free since birth, nurtured by parents and professors, and the Christian community. That is why I was wondering why these boys, educated and by no means, poor, could simply distance conscience from their selves.
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@vandana7 (98804)
• India
18 Oct 17
@eileenleyva .. In every country I guess that seems to be true. Lawyers are not drawing line.
@Letranknight2015 (51511)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
That is Total BS, sure they can get away from the Senate's grilling day but they can't get away from the COURT. I'm sure they're going to jail. I wonder why on earth they have to go the senate hearing when the court hearing is even more accurate since they're the ones passing the sentence after the suspects defense? I can't believe it's 2017 and they still have hazing.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
Hazing is a juvenile thing. The youth, especially the boys, are privy to the excitement the initiation rites would bring. Some use the exercise for unleashing a repressed power. It's a male thing. The make are not privy to danger.
Thus, the fatal consequences.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
@Letranknight2015 A very sound decision. Brotherhood is in the heart. Brotherhood is not some over-sized ego of guys bonding together because they need someone to watch their backs. I believe in friendship but when it comes to professional careers, one must make it on one's own.
@Letranknight2015 (51511)
• Philippines
18 Oct 17
@eileenleyva Even though there's Fraternity in Letran I didn't join any of them.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
21 Oct 17
That is the hamartia. Often, the youth miss this mark. Understandable in the sense that these youth have not achieved wisdom. The parents who condoned, the lawyers who advised to refuse to answer a question on the grounds that it might incriminate, the wisdom of the old seems to have floated somewhere. In errors and mistakes committed, truth always sets one free.
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