Category: Crime

5 cops named and shamed, but early days of Duterte’s war on drugs draws mixed reviews

July 6, 2016 benign0 68 Comments

What to make of what’s happening in the Philippines today. Reports of “drug lords”, drug dealers, kidnappers, carjackers, and the like being killed in police operations fill the news. It could be a shortfall in reporting resources deployed by Philippine corporate news organisations that makes facts surrounding these incidents spotty but there seems to be…

Crime

Necessary Evil: How the Philippines Thrives on Criminality

July 4, 2016 zaxx 20 Comments

Would you ever go watch a movie that didn’t have a villain? Likely not. In fact, we often glorify good villains – those who excel at being bad. Would box-office hits rake in their millions without the likes of the Joker, Darth Vader, and Cobra? Would there be heroes without the resilient antagonist that brings…

Crime, Society

Prison awaits Aquino: Justice in the horizon for SAF 44 victims of Mamasapano Massacre!

July 3, 2016April 6, 2017 benign0 28 Comments

Even as former President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III transitions into civilian life, it seems he still proves incapable of taking with him lessons learned from past experience. Aquino faces charges filed against him by kin of the victims of the 2015 Mamasapano Massacre in which 44 elite police officers of the Philippine National Police…

Crime

Goodbye to a rule-breaker. Goodbye Noynoy Aquino!

June 27, 2016 Ilda 15 Comments

The time to say goodbye to Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino is finally here. It is hard to believe it has been six years. To some, it has been the most unbearable six years. The number of people who couldn’t wait for his term to end grew significantly throughout his term. In the beginning, there…

Crime, Government

Overseas Election Results Prove that Bongbong Marcos was Cheated Massively

June 23, 2016July 16, 2016 zaxx 53 Comments

Who you see scheduled to take the throne of the second most powerful office of the land is more likely than not a Robber. My sensors tell me that Overseas Absentee Votes cast by our heroic OFWs were mostly untouched (least manipulated) by the LP-COMELEC-Smartmatic triumvirate of electoral sabotage. Common sense dictates that the Liberal…

Crime, Featured, Government, Politics

Wait… Why blame Duterte? He’s not yet the President!

June 22, 2016 Carlo de Leon 16 Comments

Are you crazy or just plain stupid? According to educator and philosopher, Paul J. Glenn (1933), some of the notable errors in thinking are “the careless acceptance of common and uncriticized opinions; prejudice; and inordinate predominance of personal preference”.1 This happens when a false is judged to be true and the true is judged to…

Crime, Government, Politics

COMELEC breaks own rules, proves the Philippines is a Banana Republic!

June 17, 2016November 19, 2021 Ilda 209 Comments

The Commission on Elections (COMELEC) proved once again that patronage politics rules in the Philippines. By granting the request of the Liberal Party (LP) to extend the deadline for the submission of the Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE), the agency broke its own “final and non-extendible deadline” rule. The agency showed ordinary Filipinos that…

Crime, Culture, Politics

Nation of Laws? Hardly. COMELEC breaks its own rules by allowing LP to submit late SOCE!

June 16, 2016August 19, 2019 benign0 20 Comments

The next time you well up with outrage at the sight of a Filipino pissing on a public sidewalk, think of this day, the 16th of June 2016. The Philippines after all is not and never has been a nation of laws. This was proven yet again today when the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) en…

Crime, Society