WHY IS THERE NO EFFORT TO TRACE SHABU SUPPLIERS?

The Philippine National Police' (PNP) Anti-Illegal Drugs Special
Operations Task Force (AIDSOTF) rounded up 319 drug pushers and users
during the raid of Pasig City's "Tiangge ng Shabu".

The mystifying demolition of the tiange ordered by Pasig Mayor Vicente
Eusebio, however, erased clues and evidences the police needed,
prompting the PDEA to file a complaint against the city mayor.

But all these seem to have distracted the public from asking who the
shabu supplier or suppliers were. Surely, a major commercial venture
like that could not have existed for two years without an
organization. There must also be enforcers who see to it that "secrecy
and discipline" are maintained.

But while everybody is bashing Eusebio, nobody seems to focus on the
more essential issue: Who were behind the organized marketing of the
prohibited drugs? And, inevitably of course, who were the suppliers?

The funny thing is that the Pasig police officers and personnel seem
to have washed their hands in the incident, crowing instead about
their "accomplishment" in arresting some users as proof that they were
aggressive in their anti-drugs drive.

Oh, well, that was one of the most baffling things that happened
recently. Drug laboratories were raided, big amounts of prohibited
drugs seized and lowly employees of these laboratories were arrested.
But the big bosses behind these operations were not arrested.

Of course, there must be major figures involved in these
multi-billion-peso activities but no one seems determined to identify
the supplier/suppliers. There were too many people arrested in the
Pasig raid and anyone of them could have given the police a clue on
who were supplying them with the prohibited drugs.

Oh well, c'est la vie in the Philippines.