DO KOREANS have vestiges of the Aztec culture in them?
Though hemispheres – and centuries apart – the Koreans – at least those at Subic – find common ground with Mexico’s fierce forebears in the practice of human sacrifice.
This inevitably comes to this small-part-Mexican reading the erudite Ding Cervantes’ banner story here yesterday of 24 Pinoy workers – “not just 18” – having lost their lives at the Hanjin shipyard.
That too high a death toll makes the Hanjin shipyard one temple of doom! Humans are sacrificed by the Aztecs and some such warrior tribes of the Central and South Americas as offering to their gods in supplication – for rain at a time of drought, or in thanksgiving – for bountiful harvests.
Workers at Hanjin appear – not entirely dissimilarly – sacrificed for profitable produce.
To date, four titanic vessels have been launched, so gloriously, from the Hanjin shipyard: the MV Argolikos in July, MV Turquoise in August, and last week, the MV Opal and MV Topaz – all four ordered by the Greek shipping firm Dioryx Maritime Corp., which awaits two more, having laid claim to the first six ships from Hanjin.
Twenty four fatalities ranged against four finished vessels makes an average of six human sacrifices per ship produced! And with Hanjin barely two years since setting shop in Subic, that makes a dozen human sacrifices per year! Much too much blood shed there, damned!
I distinctly remember that immediately after Hanjin’s Fatality Number 6 – one Joel Raquine who got electrocuted on January 14, if I am not mistaken – the Honorable Riza Hontiveros-Baraquel raised a howl.
Said she: “It is extremely appalling that Filipino workers are subjected to such danger by a foreign company enjoying the graces of Malacanang,” joining the workers and their families in calling the attention of authorities to the “unsafe and dangerous conditions” at the shipyard.
Baraquel pointed an accusing finger at Hanjin for “shifting blame to its many subcontractors, a tactic that is dangerous to its workers.”
She asserted: “We strongly believe that almost 90 percent of workers at Hanjin are subcontracted and Hanjin uses this as an excuse when accidents happen. They pass on the responsibility to the subcontractors by simply claiming that it is the subcontractor’s fault and not theirs.”
And as quickly, Hanjin vehemently denied all the accusations. Its president, Jeong Sup Shim, quoted as saying – with remorse, if not regret that: “In every accident, Hanjin takes final responsibility even though it was done by our supplier or subcontractor.”
Ding’s report carried Task Force Hanjin’s “updated research” naming Hanjin blood-stained subcontractors as Gran-Span Dev’t Corp., Bodahh, Inc., In-Young Int’l Trading Corp., DMK Corp. , KC Power Tech, Globe Distribution Services, HHIC-Motorpoll, Subic Ship Builder Corp. , Suschicor, Hanjin Constructiion Corp. Ltd., Subic Hansung Inc. , Binictican Corp., Philnorkor, and Kombo Industries.
Cries now Senator Pia Cayetano: “But how can Hanjin be entirely cleared of liability when it is the one selecting and supervising the subcontractors? Hanjin is aware that all these accidents and deaths have been occurring the past two years, but has it done anything to make its subcontractors comply with all occupational safety regulations?”
The beautifully sensible Senator went on to dub the Hanjin shipyard as a “modern day killing fields.” Which is not too far-off from our take of it as a temple for human sacrifice.
So how many more Filipino workers have to be fed to the Hanjin god before he gets sated and, hopefully, placated?
No sarang has Hanjin for its workers here.
Though hemispheres – and centuries apart – the Koreans – at least those at Subic – find common ground with Mexico’s fierce forebears in the practice of human sacrifice.
This inevitably comes to this small-part-Mexican reading the erudite Ding Cervantes’ banner story here yesterday of 24 Pinoy workers – “not just 18” – having lost their lives at the Hanjin shipyard.
That too high a death toll makes the Hanjin shipyard one temple of doom! Humans are sacrificed by the Aztecs and some such warrior tribes of the Central and South Americas as offering to their gods in supplication – for rain at a time of drought, or in thanksgiving – for bountiful harvests.
Workers at Hanjin appear – not entirely dissimilarly – sacrificed for profitable produce.
To date, four titanic vessels have been launched, so gloriously, from the Hanjin shipyard: the MV Argolikos in July, MV Turquoise in August, and last week, the MV Opal and MV Topaz – all four ordered by the Greek shipping firm Dioryx Maritime Corp., which awaits two more, having laid claim to the first six ships from Hanjin.
Twenty four fatalities ranged against four finished vessels makes an average of six human sacrifices per ship produced! And with Hanjin barely two years since setting shop in Subic, that makes a dozen human sacrifices per year! Much too much blood shed there, damned!
I distinctly remember that immediately after Hanjin’s Fatality Number 6 – one Joel Raquine who got electrocuted on January 14, if I am not mistaken – the Honorable Riza Hontiveros-Baraquel raised a howl.
Said she: “It is extremely appalling that Filipino workers are subjected to such danger by a foreign company enjoying the graces of Malacanang,” joining the workers and their families in calling the attention of authorities to the “unsafe and dangerous conditions” at the shipyard.
Baraquel pointed an accusing finger at Hanjin for “shifting blame to its many subcontractors, a tactic that is dangerous to its workers.”
She asserted: “We strongly believe that almost 90 percent of workers at Hanjin are subcontracted and Hanjin uses this as an excuse when accidents happen. They pass on the responsibility to the subcontractors by simply claiming that it is the subcontractor’s fault and not theirs.”
And as quickly, Hanjin vehemently denied all the accusations. Its president, Jeong Sup Shim, quoted as saying – with remorse, if not regret that: “In every accident, Hanjin takes final responsibility even though it was done by our supplier or subcontractor.”
Ding’s report carried Task Force Hanjin’s “updated research” naming Hanjin blood-stained subcontractors as Gran-Span Dev’t Corp., Bodahh, Inc., In-Young Int’l Trading Corp., DMK Corp. , KC Power Tech, Globe Distribution Services, HHIC-Motorpoll, Subic Ship Builder Corp. , Suschicor, Hanjin Constructiion Corp. Ltd., Subic Hansung Inc. , Binictican Corp., Philnorkor, and Kombo Industries.
Cries now Senator Pia Cayetano: “But how can Hanjin be entirely cleared of liability when it is the one selecting and supervising the subcontractors? Hanjin is aware that all these accidents and deaths have been occurring the past two years, but has it done anything to make its subcontractors comply with all occupational safety regulations?”
The beautifully sensible Senator went on to dub the Hanjin shipyard as a “modern day killing fields.” Which is not too far-off from our take of it as a temple for human sacrifice.
So how many more Filipino workers have to be fed to the Hanjin god before he gets sated and, hopefully, placated?
No sarang has Hanjin for its workers here.
