MANILA, Philippines ? Hostage-taker and dismissed police officer Rolando Mendoza may be the most hated man at the moment, but he has also gained sympathizers.
In the social networking site Facebook, 233 fan pages were dedicated to Mendoza, http://tinyurl.com/2bcoqcf, http://tinyurl.com/2w8eqsw, and http://tinyurl.com/2vyh7rp, among them.
?The others are hate pages. What if he really deserves to be heard. What?s wrong with the stereotypes, where is the benefit of the doubt, right to remain silent has gone to a different level,? according to an entry on http://tinyurl.com/2vyh7rp.
One such hate page is http://tinyurl.com/38y9yea.
Meanwhile, 45 other pages called for prayers for the victims or for the government to sack the police responsible for the bungled rescue.
