Tag: homicide

Making sense of Jonel Nuezca’s senseless killing of Sonya and Frank Anthony Gregorio

December 22, 2020 benign0 12 Comments

It is easy to watch a viral video of the most recent police “killing” then jump into a “conclusion” that the Philippine police are “evil” and then go off to launch a whole media circus around it and propagate the latest outrage fad. The incident that left Sonya Gregorio and her son Frank Anthony Gregorio…

Crime, Politics

Philippine Opposition bent on POLITICISING the Jonel Nuezca shooting incident

December 21, 2020 benign0 6 Comments

As expected, the Opposition led by the Yellowtards (the block within it loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco clan) and the communists are seizing the opportunity to politicise the shooting incident that left Sonya and Frank Anthony Gregorio dead. The dishonest logic that underpins this politicisation campaign is all-too-familiar: (1) put up this isolated incident as sufficient…

Crime, Politics

Dispute over firecrackers lead to mother and son Sonya and Anthony Gregorio shot dead by police officer Jonel Nuezca

December 21, 2020 benign0 6 Comments

A video has been making the rounds on social media today depicting disturbing footage of what many describe as just the most recent incident of police-perpetrated violence. The police officer on the video has been identified as Jonel Nuezca. A report published on the Daily Tribune describes the incident in the detail available at the…

Crime

There are worse people than Andal Ampatuan Jr and they are among us

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 benign0 10 Comments

Frankly I fail to be impressed by all the huffing and puffing about how “shocking” the massacre of 58 people is allegedly in the hands of warlord Andal Ampatuan Jr. I also fail to be impressed by the people who are grandstanding about calls for “justice” and close public scrutiny of (and the proposed televising)…

Crime, Media, Society

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

Why foreigners grieve more for the victims of the Philippines’ “war on drugs” than Filipinos do

July 11, 2019 benign0 7 Comments

It sounds baffling at first. The most shrill “activists” of the Philippine Opposition gnash their teeth about it and the “rest of the world” — the cadre of journalists and “human rights” activists putting in their two-cents on the matter — lament these “killings”. But the numbers seem to say that Filipinos don’t give a…

Crime

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

The oxymoron that is the Philippines’ university fraternity community

September 26, 2017 benign0 7 Comments

Suffice to say, everyone recognises that patronage is the single biggest issue that plagues Philippine politics. Nothing moves and nothing gets done unless an initiative is brokered through its movers’ unofficial patronage network. Thus it is quite surprising that a key pillar of the cancer of patronage politics — university fraternities — has enjoyed blanket…

Education, Society