Category: Crime

#JusticeForKian campaign outed as a sham after Duterte meeting with Kian’s parents

August 28, 2017August 29, 2017 benign0 27 Comments

Suffice to say, news that that the parents of the late Kian delos Santos, Saldy and Lorenza, met with President Rodrigo Duterte in Malacanang knocked the wind right out of the sails of an Opposition campaign to demonise the Philippine leader. A tweet fielded by a certain JR Castillo encapsulates the collective dismay of a…

Crime, Government, Politics

Risa Hontiveros could be guilty of illegal detention and witholding evidence from the police!

August 25, 2017October 10, 2020 benign0 5 Comments

According to this Inquirer report, Senator Risa Hontiveros, “with the help of an institution”, took custody of the family of Kian Delos Santos who was allegedly killed by police officers in a botched anti-drug operation. According to the same report, “witnesses” to this killing were also taken by Hontiveros’s office. It seems Hontiveros, in so…

Crime

Lessons Duterte could learn from the past admin to contain the Kian Loyd Delos Santos issue

August 21, 2017 benign0 16 Comments

The way things are looking, seventeen year-old Kian Loyd Delos Santos, who was killed in a police operation last week, could become the latest rallying artifact of the Philippine Opposition. The key principle that underlies this latching onto Delos Santos are the ideas that (1) he was killed in a police anti-drug operation (2) amidst…

Crime, Society

Filipinos shrieking #JusticeForKian are turning Kian Loyd Delos Santos into a sad political agenda

August 19, 2017 benign0 15 Comments

The tragedy that befell 17-year-old Kian Loyd Delos Santos allegedly in the hands of Philippine police officers is truly an outrage. No kid deserves to die that way. And so it is, like in any society that aspires to be a truly just and modern one, imperative that justice be sought for the wrongful death…

Crime, Culture, Politics, Society

COMELEC Chairman Andres Bautista is not living up to the ideals of the Ateneo

August 13, 2017September 29, 2022 benign0 3 Comments

Thanks to all the messages of support for embattled COMELEC Chairman Andres Bautista over social media, many now know he is an alumnus of the Ateneo de Manila University. As many are aware, the Ateneo is a prestigious private learning institution run by the Society of Jesus or the Jesuits. One wonders then how Bautista’s…

Crime, Education, Religion

COMELEC Chairman Andres Bautista’s unexplained wealth must not be ignored

August 12, 2017August 12, 2017 Ilda 6 Comments

From the moment Patricia Bautista held a press conference exposing her husband – Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman Andres Bautista’s “unexplained hidden wealth” a week ago, the public has been transfixed by the development of the issue. Most people have been left guessing and speculating on which one of the two is telling the truth. However,…

Crime, Society

Andres Bautista’s unexplained wealth is the issue, not his wife’s character

August 8, 2017 benign0 19 Comments

The most baffling thing about this latest circus surrounding revelations that Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman Andres Bautista may have amassed a fortune through “unexplained” means is the muted — and, in some cases, even defensive — response of certain camps in the Opposition. The way the Opposition has rallied around Bautista is not without…

Crime, Government

COMELEC Chairman Bautista’s alleged “unexplained wealth” key to exposing 2016 electoral fraud

August 8, 2017May 8, 2022 Ilda 13 Comments

A key to uncovering the alleged election fraud during the Philippine 2016 Presidential Elections is now in the hands of the National Bureau of Investigations (NBI). Patricia Bautista, the estranged wife of the Chairman of the Commission on Elections Andres Bautista, has submitted an affidavit disclosing evidence against the COMELEC chief that he has a…

Crime, Government