Category: Crime

Assassination attempt on Donald Trump: illiberal means to “save democracy”?

July 14, 2024July 14, 2024 benign0 No Comments

Quite confronting that an assassination attempt on a former American president and the Republican candidate in the coming presidential election in the United States could still happen in this day and age. Following shots fired during former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania resulted in the deaths of a member of the audience and…

Crime, Politics

Apart from Bamban Mayor Alice Guo, We Have Foreign Meddling in a Boracay Property Dispute Too? (Part One)

May 27, 2024 P. Farol 1 Comment

I’d say the Philippines has more than enough to contend with in as far as foreign meddling is concerned. Having watched and read news of Bamban Mayor Alice Guo’s now questionable citizenship and alleged connection with illegal activities in a POGO (Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator) sitting on property in her town, I feel drawn towards…

Crime, Government

SMNI should take stock of the lessons that can be learned from the “plights” of ABS-CBN and Rappler

December 19, 2023December 19, 2023 benign0 1 Comment

That Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) finds itself neck-deep in trouble comes as no surprise. Like its Yellowtard counterpart Rappler, SMNI sprung out of nowhere at a time when the Philippines’ political situation demanded targeted media coverage in aid of certain politicians’ personal agendas. The readily-evident relationships at the top make its intent a foregone…

Crime, Media

“Hunger strikes” are so Last Century

December 11, 2023December 11, 2023 benign0 2 Comments

Yes, the Mahatma Gandhi did it. But then he was the Mahatma. Will the stunt currently being undertaken by SMNI anchors Lorraine Badoy and Eric Celiz deliver the same public indignation that launched the revolution of the sort that transpired in India that is credited to Gandhi? Very likely not. Will it move those who…

Crime, Lifestyle

CPP-NPA should be held to account for war crimes as a condition to any “amnesty”!

December 6, 2023 benign0 6 Comments

Are the communists genuine in their efforts to make peace with the Philippine Government? The answer to that question is quite simple. No. Communists have one and only one goal — to overthrow any legitimate government through violent means (what they call their “people’s revolution”) and install their “dictatorship of the proletariat”. Yet, current negotiations…

Crime

Send the Army back to Marawi City!

December 3, 2023December 3, 2023 benign0 15 Comments

And so it starts again. Rising criminality and emboldened terrorists. They are an ominous sign that bandits that kept their heads down at a time when the Philippine Government was willing to shoot people to keep the peace are now back in the game. The recent terrorist attack that saw at least three innocent people…

Crime

Leila De Lima threatens to sue former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Will she succeed?

November 18, 2023 benign0 4 Comments

Former Senator Leila De Lima, newly released on bail and now surrounded by Yellowtards, priests, and “journalists” is locked and loaded. “It’s reckoning time,” she reportedly crows — a battle cry made today’s top headline by no less than the Inquirer. But of course, right? But how much credibility as a practitioner of law does…

Crime, History, Politics

Leila De Lima is the new martyr-saint of the Yellowtard-Communist Axis

November 15, 2023November 15, 2023 Ramon Ortoll 4 Comments

“Maintenance cost for a now defunct alliance…” These are the words used by noted Inquirer columnist Manuel L Quezon III in his latest piece to regard the detention of former Senator Leila De Lima as the “cost” of the political alliance of the Marcoses, Dutertes and former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in the leadup to the…

Crime, Politics