Category: Government

1000 pesos is a princely sum for a non-value-adding agency like @CHRPhilippines

September 13, 2017 benign0 27 Comments

It is really up to Chito Gascon, head of the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to convince the Filipino people why his organisation deserves to be allotted more than 1,000 pesos this year. Congress, after all, are made up of popularly-elected representatives of the Filipino people. As such, their decision to grant this sum…

Crime, Government, Politics

Here is why Trillanes is responsible for Sonia Brady’s stroke and Angelo Reyes’s suicide…

September 10, 2017 benign0 8 Comments

If we are to use the logic of the Opposition, we can argue that “senator” Antonio Trillanes caused the stroke suffered by former Ambassador to China Sonia Brady and the suicide of the late Ret. General Angelo Reyes. Here’s why. The Opposition are adamant in their assertion that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is responsible for…

Crime, Government

The Fastest Way to Change the Anti-People Yellowtard Constitution is through a Revolutionary Government

August 31, 2017 zaxx 18 Comments

The 1987 Yellowtard Constitution needs tweaking. No, it needs a major overhaul. Wrong again – it needs a total and complete replacement. So what’s wrong with the Yellowtard Constitution? Let’s just take this provision for example: ARTICLE VII (Executive Department) SECTION 2. No person may be elected President unless he is a natural-born citizen of…

Charter Change, Government, Politics

Democracy is not dead – only Ninoy and Cory Aquino are

August 29, 2017 FallenAngel 4 Comments

Every year in August, Filipinos are unfailingly reminded of the deaths of their “icons of democracy”, former president Corazon “Cory” Aquino, and her husband Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. It is generally accepted that Ninoy’s death paved the way for Cory to be president, and Cory’s death was how the son, Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III…

Culture, Government, Politics

Meeting the parents: #JusticeForKian no longer lies with Duterte’s critics

August 29, 2017August 29, 2017 FallenAngel 4 Comments

The problem with how president Rodrigo Duterte’s critics have approached opposition to the anti-drug campaign is that they assert a few things that they have yet to prove a definitive causal link to: a) that the killings are state-sanctioned, and; b) that Duterte himself has encouraged impunity. So when the death of the young Kian…

Crime, Government, Politics

#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

Freedom from Democracy: Is it Time for Duterte to Abolish Congress?

August 19, 2017 zaxx 73 Comments

Democracy stands for freedom. So essentially, “freedom from democracy” entails liberation from the clutches of freedom. Now why has freedom become fetters that keep the Philippines a struggling third-rate dirt-poor country amidst economic tigers in the region? Well democracy is actually a double-edged sword. While it gives us the benefit of that cool ecstatic feeling…

Development, Government, Politics

Hey #CarlosConde ! Who Did You Say Was DOING LITTLE To Keep Journos Safe?

August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 P. Farol 6 Comments

A friend warned me that calling you out on your unfair treatment of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) would encourage your meal ticket, the Human Rights Watch organization, to increase funding for your operations as its Asia Division researcher. I told them that I’ll risk it and make you appear to be…

Government, Media