Tag: activism

Kidapawan ‘massacre’: Aquino government falls victim to Victim Mentality Activism

April 5, 2016September 4, 2018 benign0 28 Comments

There is an important lesson in the alleged “massacre” of hungry farmers in Kidapawan, North Cotabato during an allegedly “violent” dispersal of a protest rally there. The lesson is that it is easy for a sitting president to be blamed for “atrocities” allegedly committed by the police and the military. Why is this an important…

Crime, Government, Media, The South

3 Big Things That Could’ve Prevented The Kidapawan Incident From Becoming The Tragedy It Became

April 4, 2016 Grimwald 11 Comments

Before I formally begin this rant, I would like to ask for a moment of silence for those who fell in the Kidapawan Tragedy and spare a prayer for those they left behind… … Ladies and gentlemen, it is a different kind of tragedy when the very authority figures meant to protect the common people…

Crime, Development, Politics

The Kidapawan incident – questions that start with the word ‘why’ #BigasHindiBala

April 3, 2016April 3, 2016 FallenAngel 7 Comments

The phrase “preventable tragedy” is inseparable from any discussion of the Aquino administration as it comes to a close in less than three months. Not only has the term of outgoing president Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino been marked by several preventable tragedies, one can be forgiven for thinking that BS Aquino’s victory as president was…

Crime, Government, Politics, The South

Were the Kidapawan farmers infiltrated by communists and incited to violence? #BigasHindiBala

April 3, 2016 benign0 22 Comments

Here is what the commie groups Gabriela and the Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) should have advised the farmers in Kidapawan when they decided to air their grievances through a rally last Friday, the 1st of April. “Let’s organise a protest and attract attention to our cause. The police will come. If they disperse us, stand…

Crime, Politics

The Aquino name is now synonymous with the word ‘massacre’ #BigasHindiBala

April 2, 2016April 3, 2016 Ilda 35 Comments

Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino’s term will now go down in history as the massacre years. If Aquino supporters can blame all atrocities committed by members of the military and police on the late former President Ferdinand Marcos during the Martial Law years, then it is only fair that Filipinos blame the atrocities committed by…

Crime, Economy, Government

How Filipinos can stop being Martial Law ‘victims’

March 11, 2016 benign0 13 Comments

There is a saying: Success is the best revenge. When someone wrongs you, you could either choose to be a victim or go on to be successful. Not the Philippines. It seems the Philippines chooses to remain a victim of “the Martial Law regime” of the late former President Ferdinand Marcos. Indeed, the theme of…

Culture, Development, Society

Dynasty activism: Anti-Marcos ‘activists’ disqualify politicians on the basis of their bloodlines!

March 8, 2016 benign0 63 Comments

Look no further than the venerable Fidel Ramos — former Philippine president and Army general extraordinaire. Today, nobody seems to remember him as one of the key implementors of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos’s allegedly atrocious Martial Law regime. Why have people chosen to overlook Ramos’s past as a Martial Law chieftain? Simple. Because after…

Education, Politics

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