Category: Crime

Filipinos need not worry about what foreigners say about Duterte’s “war on drugs”

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Filipinos need not worry about what foreigners say about Duterte’s “war on drugs”

Leni Robredo is at it again. This time she is reportedly worried about the Philippines’ international “reputation”. This follows mounting coverage by the foreign media of the allegedly unusual high numbers of homicides occurring in the Philippines over the last several months. These killings supposedly coincide with President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs”. Many allege…

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Crime, Culture, Media

Leila de Lima’s EJK inquiry demoralises the police and contradicts her own guidelines

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Leila de Lima’s EJK inquiry demoralises the police and contradicts her own guidelines

It is Day Two in the on-going Senate inquiry on drug-related “extrajudicial killings” headed by Senator Leila de Lima. So far, the circus has resulted only in the highlighting of the indifference and incompetence applied by the government of former President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III to combatting the drug problem. It has also made…

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Crime, Government

Leila de Lima’s driver may be the real victim of sexual harassment

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Leila de Lima’s driver may be the real victim of sexual harassment

The reason why President Rodrigo Duterte’s critics keep losing the debate is because they use the wrong arguments to begin with. Duterte’s most recent bombshell — the “exposure” of the “scandalous” lifestyle of Senator Leila de Lima — highlights the flawed way these critics respond in turn. Take the case of Senator Risa Hontiveros who,…

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Crime, Lifestyle

President Rodrigo Duterte is Leila de Lima’s and the Liberal Party’s worst nightmare

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President Rodrigo Duterte is Leila de Lima’s and the Liberal Party’s worst nightmare

There’s a slugfest going on in the Philippines between President Rodrigo Duterte and Senator Leila De Lima. After Duterte exposed De Lima’s alleged affair with her personal driver, De Lima went on to counter it by saying the President is engaging in character assassination. Her supporters were equally shocked and outraged that Duterte would resort…

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Crime, Politics

Filipinos should junk the 1986 People Power narrative in order to TRULY progress

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Filipinos should junk the 1986 People Power narrative in order to TRULY progress

It’s time Filipinos pause, step back, take stock, and ask: What is really going on here? If one would attempt to answer that question using the common frame of mind with which Filipinos have coocooned themselves within, the responses would be unsurprising, quite trite, and peppered with certain key words prevalent in mainstream discourse today:…

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Crime, Culture, Development, Economy

Manila’s gated communities should be opened to public access to alleviate traffic

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Manila’s gated communities should be opened to public access to alleviate traffic

Gated communities, like jeepneys, are stopgap measures that became institutionalised and so ingrained in the national psyche that, as we see in the general tone of the debate surrounding this issue, people simply find it next to impossible to comprehend the cancerous nature of their existence. They are legacies of a succession of weak and…

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Civics, Crime, Society

Tough love will work better for Filipinos in the War on Drugs

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Tough love will work better for Filipinos in the War on Drugs

In my last article, I presented an argument against the folly of subscribing to a silver bullet idea that promises to wipe out our country’s drug problem. There have been ideas floated that either or both decriminalization and legalization will solve the drug menace since these have been shown to work in featured western countries…

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Crime, Culture, Government

Is winning Duterte’s War on Drugs mission impossible?

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Is winning Duterte’s War on Drugs mission impossible?

Everyone loves the Mission Impossible franchise. That’s because the best stories are about people who’ve hurdled the seemingly impossible, stared down the intractable, and succeeded against all odds. It is the reason that Star Wars fans find that over-used battle ending where proton torpedoes are used to hit a target that is “only two meters…

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Crime, Culture, Society