The Journey Continues…

I was at the Provincial office of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) earlier to secure a clearance, I was about to do it yesterday but I was kinda lazy after shooting a Garden Wedding at Batis Azul in Quezon City last Tuesday. I took a much needed rest yesterday and decided to just do it today, the mall where the NBI clearance is being processed opens at 10AM, believe it or not, I came around 10:30AM and was given a number 179! Can’t believe that a 30 minute delay could cause me, I finished the process before lunch and were advised to take our lunch first and come back at 1PM.

So I went to the nearest fastfood chain to have my lunch, outside the food chain was a classic example of what a ‘normal’ sidewalk looks like. Vendors occupied the place where pedestrians should walk, I still have time to kill so I browsed on what they are selling.

I was particularly looking for some series that I follow, House MD, Cold Case and CSI (Las Vegas), the problem is that I’ve seen them all. I tried looking for some other series that might interest me, then I found Criminal Minds. I’ve seen some episode of the Criminal Minds on Studio 23 (yeps, local TV since I don’t have cable connections), I got pissed when they removed the series and substituted it with those lame European Football games. I grabbed the copies of season 2-5, I felt a little frustrated when they don’t have season 1, after checking some episodes (you know how bad the qualities of these kinds of products are), I went back to the NBI office to wait for the release of my clearance.

I love crime stories, I don’t know why I was so fascinated by it, even the books that I’ve read were either court room drama or crime stories, possibly this was due to my frustration of being a lawyer.

Criminal Minds talks about a particular unit of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) in Quantico, Virginia. They are responsible in ‘profiling’ criminals most specially those involved in serial crimes, I would admit that most of the cases were disturbing.

While watching, I remember what Willie (the kid) told once, ‘kaya walang serial killer na pinoy kasi matatalino sila’, I’ve known Willie to be straight forward, no holds barred talker, just like me, he would never hesitate to tell what’s on his mind.

I would agree with him that serial criminals have exceptional intelligence but let’s not also forget that most of the times the society molds them to be one. They were beaten, neglected, raped, drugged and all other things that created a monster in them, they live in a society where, existence is a daily battle and attention is a privilege. I don’t see that we have those situation now in this country.

I don’t really agree that we are not as intelligent, what we don’t have (yet) is the situation in our society that would help build a monster out of innocent people. I hope we don’t reach that point.