Category: Crime

Antonio Trillanes’s beef with Angelo Reyes: a case of professional jealousy?

February 13, 2011May 24, 2016 benign0 41 Comments

Former Secretary and retired General Angelo Reyes was instrumental in driving the final nail into the coffin of former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada in the 2001 “Edsa 2” “Revolution”. He was also instrumental in having mutineer-turned-“senator” Antonio Trillanes jailed for seven years for his alleged role in various rebellions against the Philippine Government between 2003…

Crime, Government, Politics

Philippine military: Does PNoy know who the bad guys really are?

February 12, 2011July 8, 2020 Ilda 87 Comments

As I was reading about the suicide of former Secretary and retired General Angelo Reyes, my curiosity led me to little snippets of the history of military coup attempts in the Philippines. As I dug further on, a few names kept popping up and a pattern slowly revealed itself. It is a fact that the…

Crime, Featured

What a big difference six months had wrought

January 26, 2011 benign0 38 Comments

The past events have shown just how unstable a country the Philippines is. With most unstable systems, even a slight relaxing of vital control functions results in a rapid unraveling or degeneration of its structure. In the last several months, the relatively robust administrative regime of MalacaÃ±ang under former President Gloria Arroyo had become the…

Crime, Development, Featured, Government

Bus bombing on EDSA: PNoy Government under threat?

January 25, 2011 Ilda 185 Comments

Who would have thought that the Year 2011 would start out with a bang? The smoke from the illegal firecrackers from the New Year’s eve celebrations haven’t even dissipated yet; now we have smoke billowing from public transport explosions, adding to the haze that an already dazed and confused Philippine population is struggling to see…

Crime, Culture, Government

Vizconde Massacre (God Help Us Again!)

December 14, 2010 Ilda 67 Comments

A lot of people are unhappy with the Philippine justice system at the moment. Some people are accusing some members of the Supreme Court of being corrupt and very biased. I think that those who are unhappy with the Supreme Court should go down a few more levels and take a hard look at the…

Crime, Media

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