Category: Politics

Florin Hilbay blocks people on social media because he cannot handle dissent

November 4, 2017February 13, 2022 benign0 5 Comments

What kind of lawyer does not listen to dissenting or alternative opinion? Weren’t they trained to present sound and robust arguments in a logical manner? Well, it seems former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay is one such lawyer who does not like to listen to arguments and understand points of view that run counter to his….

Media, Politics, Society

Duterte’s critics should get an award for being inconsistent

November 3, 2017November 3, 2017 Ilda 2 Comments

The Philippine Opposition, which consist mainly of the Liberal Party, its supporters, and allies, deserve an award. They deserve an award for trying. They are trying hard to paint a picture that the country is all “doom and gloom” under President Rodrigo Duterte. They are also trying hard to paint themselves as “victims” of oppression….

Politics

The Philippines’ real tyrants are the Catholic Bishops, NOT its ELECTED officials

November 3, 2017November 4, 2017 benign0 17 Comments

Seems like all the screeching about “tyranny”, “dictatorship” and abuse of “human rights” have for so long been directed at the wrong people and the wrong institutions. Right within Filipinos’ midst is an even more insidious tyranny — one that has renmained disguised under a persona of righteousness that conceals a dark power that has…

Politics, Religion

Thought leaders are at the top of the intellectual food chain, near the bottom are ‘investigative journalists’

November 1, 2017 benign0 4 Comments

The media and the partisans who presume to constitute the Philippine National “Debate” may have succeeded at dividing the Philippines into Dutertards and Yellowtards and, they presume, maintain a lively chatter that, they say, is the heart of a vibrant “democracy”. But whilst this chatter is generating a lot of noise, none of that noise…

Media, Politics

The stupidity in comparing the Marawi War to the Mamasapano PNP operation and Zamboanga conflict

October 29, 2017 benign0 7 Comments

The tragic Mamasapano operation (mounted during the term of Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III) in which 44 Special Action Force officers were massacred by elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front was not a military operation. It was a police operation gone wrong. This fact, however, did not stop Opposition “activists” from making…

Government, Politics, The South

It’s time for Trillanes to seek political asylum in the United States to escape Duterte

October 28, 2017October 28, 2017 benign0 3 Comments

It might be time for “senator” Antonio Trillanes to seek political asylum in the United States. After all, he sees himself as “persecuted” and the subject of attempts to “silence” him. In the West, that indeed constitutes “political persecution” and is enough grounds to consider providing refuge to the “senator”. But will Trillanes’s case meet…

Politics

How Noynoy’s incompetence made Duterte happen

October 26, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

The regime of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte happened not because of a template for “dictatorship” cut by vintage 1970s “tyrant” Ferdinand Marcos. Duterte “happened” because he represented a voters’ swing to an alternative to the status quo overseen by the progeny governments of the 1986 “people power revolution”. That revolution promised Filipinos change. Instead it…

Politics, Society

Can Catholic schools and their products ever be truly non-partisan?

October 25, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

I don’t think so — which is disturbing considering that three of the top four universitites in the Philippines are run by Catholic priests. Catholic priests, it should be highlighted here, have taken a vow of obedience, and at the very top of this hierarchy of obedience sits, guess who, none but the Catholic Bishops…

Education, Politics