The videos were so disturbing that one lawmaker from Lanao asked the committees to stop showing them, as he felt they had already seen enough.

It is these faces of agony we need to keep in mind when we consider the serious law and order and security problems that POGOs pose. President Marcos was absolutely correct when he ordered them banned despite the objections of the agency regulating them and some lawmakers who seemed to believe that the criminality accompanying POGOs was an acceptable price to pay for an extra source of government revenue. Now, the government needs to swiftly and effectively carry out the President's order to end all POGOs by year's end.