Category: Crime

Here is why President Rodrigo Duterte can legally kill criminals in the Philippines

March 29, 2016March 29, 2016 benign0 35 Comments

The cornerstone of presidential candidate and former Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte’s campaign is a promise to curb galloping national crime rates that have left Filipinos gripped by fear. According to Duterte, his presidential term will be “bloody”, presumably said blood spilt when he makes good on his promise to kill criminals. How exactly is…

Crime, Government, Media

The Light-A-Fire Movement was not Heroic

March 20, 2016March 20, 2016 ChinoF 16 Comments

One nearly forgotten chapter of Martial Law history was revived with the recent death of a controversial figure of the time: Steve Psinakis, one of the leaders of a terrorist group called the Light-A-Fire Movement. It was a group of upper class people who decided that violence was the solution against Martial Law abuse, and…

Crime, Culture, Politics

Money laundering joins list of crimes that flourished under Noynoy Aquino government

March 18, 2016 Ilda 11 Comments

It looks like Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino is going out with a bang. Less than two months before the next Presidential Elections, an audacious cyber heist incident has sent shock waves around the world. If not for its sheer brazenness, that it involved a tiny Third World Catholic country like the Philippines makes this…

Crime, Government

Entrenched thievery: The Philippines remains home to institutionalised money laundering

March 18, 2016March 18, 2016 benign0 7 Comments

In an era that has seen the demise in just a couple of decades of the legendary secrecy that shrouded Swiss banking and the shadowy transactions of its princely clients, the Philippines stubbornly persists as a blight to global banking transparency thanks to its infamously outdated bank secrecy laws. Certainly it comes as no surprise…

Crime

What is terrorist spokesman ‘Mohagher Iqbal’ doing meeting with Philippine Military Academy (PMA) cadets??

March 13, 2016March 13, 2016 benign0 12 Comments

A picture has emerged of Moro Islamic Liberation Front spokesman Mohagher Iqbal (a fake name he uses for his public appearances and representation with the Philippine government) and Bangsamoro peace panel chair Miriam Coronel-Ferrer in a forum with Philippine Military Academy (PMA) cadets in Baguio City. In a photo published on Minda News the man…

Crime, Government, The South

Ateneo faculty accuses Senator Bongbong Marcos of committing acts of brutality

March 6, 2016February 18, 2022 benign0 44 Comments

It’s been several days since the faculty of the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) took a “stand” on the alleged “historical revisionism of the Martial Law years”. The stand takes the form of a statement published on the ADMU official website here. Suffice to say, the Ateneo community is now in the midst of a…

Crime, Education

The TRUTH about Martial Law: Young Filipinos no longer believe that it was all bad!

March 3, 2016January 3, 2022 benign0 178 Comments

The war for minds surrounding the 2016 elections now seems to be centred on how the last 30 years of “freedom” that was “won” in 1986 stacks up against the 20-year Martial Law regime of former President Ferdinand Marcos. You can see it in how much “lest we forget” messages that aim to “educate” the…

Crime, Featured, Government, Politics, Society

‘Daisy’: Why I Lost Hope In The Philippines

February 25, 2016 Grimwald 20 Comments

WARNING: Mature readers only. This is NOT a joke. This issue continues to affect me on a very deep level. So there it is, it seems that the presidential debate is over (as covered here by Charles Englund) and people are now gearing up to celebrate the anniversary of the EDSA Revolution, the so-called bloodless revolution that…

Crime, Government, Society