Category: Politics

Senate Passes Gordon Sotto Bill Postponing Barangay Elections

September 22, 2017 P. Farol 2 Comments

Proving himself to be a critical but fair and independent ally of the Duterte Administration, Senator Richard Gordon successfully shepherded the passage of Senate Bill (SB) 1584 which postpones the barangay and SK elections to October 2018. Unlike the other version of the bill which grants President Rodrigo Duterte the power to appoint barangay officials,…

Government, Politics

Martial Law is allowed in the Philippine Constitution and Duterte hasn’t broken any laws

September 22, 2017September 22, 2017 Ilda 7 Comments

Critics of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte came out in full force on the 45th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law under former President Ferdinand Marcos in 1972. Typing the number 45 made me realise how ancient that occasion was. Nevertheless, a lot of people still have hang-ups about it. They still whine about it as…

Politics

To CONQUER their future, Filipinos need to forget the past and get over Martial Law Butthurt

September 21, 2017September 21, 2017 benign0 19 Comments

Martial Law crybabies like emphasizing the past. They lament the lack of “accurate” education on the “Martial Law era” and rally around slogans like “Never Forget” and “Never Again”. To be fair, memory of hurt is important so that lessons are learnt. If we don’t remember being burnt we won’t know enough to avoid fires….

Culture, Politics, Society

Opposition’s lack of a strong leader and vision secures Duterte’s hold on power

September 20, 2017 benign0 21 Comments

What were the Opposition thinking when they came up with their latest media stunt? It’s an aping of the Hunger Games salute that came across like the Nazi Sieg Heil! salute. Talk about double-whammy fail! If this was attempt at a rebranding to distance themselves from the Yellowtards, it seems they made things worse and…

Politics

To every Filipino ‘activist’ slogan, always ask: ‘And then what?’

September 20, 2017 benign0 11 Comments

The thing with “activist” slogans proliferating in the lead up to that big 21st September rally being hyped all over social media is they all express a call to “stop” or “end” something. They are so the same and so unoriginal that you can list them all here and kind of forget which timeframe or…

Culture, Politics, Society

The CHR under Chito Gascon is more useful to the Liberal Party than to victims of human rights abuse

September 17, 2017 Ilda 14 Comments

The Philippine Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is suffering from a bad reputation no thanks to the agency’s Chairman Chito Gascon. Gascon is a known staunch ally of the Liberal Party and he can’t even hide his partisanship or pretend to be impartial while doing his job. Yellow is still his favourite colour. As a…

Government, Politics

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

Will the next anti-Duterte rally be AWESOME enough for Millennials?

September 12, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

According to various sources, there will be (yet another) protest rally against the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in the coming days. What are these rallyists going to protest? Duterte’s purported authoritarianism? Martial Law in Mindanao? “Killings” related to his “war on drugs”? So what else is new? This is, after all, the era…

Lifestyle, Politics

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