Tag: criminal investigation

Crime does not pay in the Philippines – or so Filipinos would like to think

June 24, 2014June 24, 2014 benign0 13 Comments

With Senator Jinggoy Estrada now on his way to the slammer, it’s two down, one to go. That’s right, Filipinos are keeping score. With glee. They see the imprisonment of Estrada along with Senator Bong Revilla and soon, presumably, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile as vindication that, indeed, crime does not pay. The three Senators are…

Crime, Culture, Society

3 core principles that should define a NATIONAL-SCALE Anti Pork Barrel Movement henceforth

June 12, 2014June 12, 2014 benign0 3 Comments

Seems the decision to hold the official presidential Independence Day celebration in Naga City, Camarines Sur was shrewdly-timed considering that a big anti-Pork rally is scheduled to be mounted in Luneta Park that same afternoon. According to an ABS-CBN News report, Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III used the occasion mainly to slam critics…

Crime, Government, Politics, Society

6.12.14 Scrap Pork Coalition: If you just have to protest, make sure you protest the RIGHT thing

June 3, 2014 benign0 8 Comments

I had asserted earlier in a previous article that the investigation on the pork barrel scam should build a case from the ground up without having to be coloured by media and publicity stunts and the noise around these drummed up by the country’s vacuous “activist” mobs. This echoes what Senator Aquilino Pimentel III points…

Crime, Government

Philippine activism FAIL: Now that the Napoles Lists are out WHAT NOW?

May 16, 2014 benign0 19 Comments

I desperately need to ask all the idiots who made a lot of noise clamouring for the release to the public of all these Napoles Lists this simple question: What now? See, I’ve long asserted that a proper and modern investigation of the pork barrel scam can be mounted without these lists. For that matter,…

Crime, Government, Media

Why pork barrel whistleblowers Benhur Luy and Ruby Tuason should go to jail

February 16, 2014 benign0 9 Comments

The fact that there are many whistleblowers and that the entire case the Department of Justice is mounting against several Philippine senators accused of plundering their pork barrel funds rests on these whistleblowers highlights the profound dysfunction of the country’s criminal investigation and criminal justice system. How many whistleblowers are needed to support the case?…

Crime, Media, Politics

Vhong Navarro or Deniece Cornejo: Who is the real ‘victim’?

January 28, 2014September 21, 2022 benign0 14 Comments

Journalist and TV personality Ramon Tulfo started it. His award winning show Isumbong mo kay Tulfo (“Report it to Tulfo”) encouraged Filipinos to approach the media first before the police. In the Philippines, the common sentiment is that the police may itself be a party to the crime, so get the media involved as well…

Crime, Glitz and Glamour, Media

Wouldn’t it be great to see handcuffed senators walked out of their homes by NBI agents?

August 20, 2013August 20, 2013 benign0 12 Comments

As indignation-fuelled momentum mounts in the lead-up to the planned “million people march” to the Luneta Grandstand at 9 a.m. on the 26th August, Monday, the obvious question What happens next? comes to mind owing to the immense challenge of bringing erring senators and House representatives to justice. The scale of the outrage over the…

Crime, Politics