Category: Crime

Articles of Impeachment against Philippine President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino III

December 28, 2011January 7, 2016 benign0 116 Comments

As I was going through the articles of impeachment against Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, I began to realise how so much of the complaint against the Chief Justice is based on circumstantial assertions. I thought, hey, if this drivel of an impeachment complaint passed Congress, I’ll bet I can draft one against…

Crime, Environment, Featured, Government, Politics

Fails the So What? Test: Raissa Robles on Mrs Cristina Corona as ‘GMA appointee’ @raissawriter

December 24, 2011December 24, 2011 benign0 107 Comments

By “investigative journalist” Raissa Robles’s own admission, some people end up as collateral damage when “dirt” about them gets dug up when scandal erupts. That’s what “investigative journalists” do after all. Dig up dirt. So the collateral supposedly damaged by Robles’s recent article is Mrs Cristina Corona, wife of Chief Justice Renato Corona who is…

Crime, Media, Politics

Worth the trouble: Impeaching Chief Justice Corona will promise corruption-free and poverty-free Philippines

December 13, 2011 benign0 61 Comments

Due process is better than no process. After much talk on the matter of the Philippines’ Supreme Court (SC) allegedly being beholden to and therefore supposedly necessarily opposed to whatever “reforms” President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III claims to be looking to institute, an impeachment complaint against SC Chief Justice Renato Corona has finally been filed…

Civics, Crime, Government, Media, Politics

Three really appalling ideas being spread by prominent Filipino opinion shapers

December 12, 2011December 12, 2011 benign0 26 Comments

Consider the reality of democratic politics. Just about anyone can be President. Guys like former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada and current President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III are a testament to this truth. For that matter, any position in government that only requires that its occupant be elected by popular vote is subject to the tyranny…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Government, Politics

Noynoy Aquino is powerless against Chief Justice Corona

December 7, 2011October 30, 2013 Ilda 132 Comments

Impotent is a word that can describe someone who lacks physical strength or vigor. It can also mean someone lacking in power or someone helpless. To paraphrase a famous quote, “Power without morality is barbarous; morality without power is impotent.” On not one but a few occasions, President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy) has demonstrated his impotence….

Civics, Crime, Society

Let us ‘Occupy the Supreme Court’ according to the unoriginal mind of Conrado de Quiros

December 6, 2011December 12, 2011 benign0 23 Comments

The irony of Inquirer.net “columnist” Conrado ‘Noynoy is Aragorn‘ de Quiros’s use of the “Occupy” fad to brand his personal crusade against the Philippine Supreme Court seems to have escaped his increasingly tunnel-visioned take on Philippine politics. I don’t follow the moronic “Occupy” movement in the United States, but I hear it has since been…

Crime, Culture, Development, Media, Politics

Speech of President Noynoy Aquino at the 1st National Criminal Justice Summit (English translation)

December 6, 2011December 6, 2011 benign0 42 Comments

I provide below an English translation of the now infamous speech of Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III delivered on the occasion of the First National Criminal Justice Summit held at Centennial Hall, Manila Hotel. The speech was dominated by a personal tirade against Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona who sat just a…

Civics, Crime, Government, Politics

Focus on retribution by the Aquino Government had undermined both the economy and institutional governance

November 26, 2011 benign0 15 Comments

Why the focus and circus around retribution while more pressing and forward-looking initiatives like growing the economy, for one, languish at the bottom of media hyping priorities? It could be because Filipinos are culturally predisposed to being retrospective rather than prospective in the way we think. Back in 2009 just as the campaign of then…

Crime, Culture, Economy, Government

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