Tag: extrajudicial killing

Claims that the Philippines is a “war zone” all DISCREDITED. So what’s next?

December 14, 2019November 11, 2021 benign0 5 Comments

Despite a vast international fear mongering initiative mounted by Rappler CEO Maria Ressa to paint the Philippines as a blood-soaked “war zone”, very few are convinced that the Philippines is a bloody mess. Indeed, what actually came out of all that are revelations that Ressa lied about her claim that she knew a thing or…

Crime, Media

What happens NEXT after Filipinos #StopTheKillings?

October 15, 2018 benign0 19 Comments

By now, most Filipinos will have been familiar with the Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) slogan “Stop the Killings”. However, what would be interesting to get to the bottom of is how much Filipinos really understand what it means to “stop the killings”. But to get to that understanding there…

Crime

Ica Policarpio mirrors the plight of an entire society that remains lost and has yet to be found

December 27, 2017 benign0 11 Comments

Following days of vigorous discussion around the much-publicised disappearance and “rescue” of Ica Policarpio, a statement was released yesterday by her family through a Facebook post by her sister, Bea Policarpio. This was after the large number of Netizens who had responded to an appeal issued by Bea to assist in the location of her…

Culture, Media, Society

Lessons Duterte could learn from the past admin to contain the Kian Loyd Delos Santos issue

August 21, 2017 benign0 16 Comments

The way things are looking, seventeen year-old Kian Loyd Delos Santos, who was killed in a police operation last week, could become the latest rallying artifact of the Philippine Opposition. The key principle that underlies this latching onto Delos Santos are the ideas that (1) he was killed in a police anti-drug operation (2) amidst…

Crime, Society

Ozamiz Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog shooting: Justice delivered or crime committed?

August 1, 2017August 2, 2017 benign0 15 Comments

Filipinos may be harshly judging the West-of-the-Pecos brand of “justice” meted out to Ozamiz City Mayor Reynaldo Parojinog using Starbucks hipsteratti standards today — because that is the easy and politically-correct thing to think and do. But, see, sometimes a bit of thinking outside of the square is called for, specially in this instance when…

Crime, Politics

@TIME exaggerates De Lima’s “heroism”, paints the Philippines as lawless under Duterte

April 22, 2017 Ilda 22 Comments

As someone who still pays for a weekly subscription, I’m very disappointed at TIME Magazine editors. I just realised that after all these years reading about and admiring people featured on their annual 100 most influential list, it turns out that some on the list include people whose achievements were simply romanticised, exaggerated or completely…

Crime, Government, Politics

Leni Robredo epitomises the deep impoverishment of Philippine society

March 23, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

You made your bed. Now you have to lie on it. This is the underlying principle that guides whether or not “vice president” Leni Robredo was right to get onto the world stage to shriek about the “horrors” of the “extrajudicial killings” (EJKs) going on in the Philippines. The EJKs (whatever way it is defined)…

Culture, Government, Society

Filipinos’ overall extrajudicial way of life is the reason Duterte remains popular

October 24, 2016 benign0 31 Comments

It is quite evident by now that the notion that “extrajudicial killing” is “bad” doesn’t sell very well to the ordinary Filipino. This is, after all, a people renowned for their overall extrajudicial way of life. To bring the point across more pointedly, doing things above, below, beyond, and around the framework of the law…

Crime, Culture