Tag: homicide

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

Will the US government allow Joseph Scott Pemberton to be imprisoned in the Philippines?

December 2, 2015December 2, 2015 benign0 6 Comments

Seriously, if you were the US government, would you allow one of your boys to be imprisoned in a Third World rat hole? Take the average American schmoe. To develop each American into a productive citizen, Uncle Sam forks out more than $23,000 to fund his education through to high school. The average American therefore…

Crime, Economy, Education, Society

Any sympathies for a jeepney driver shot in the head by a pedestrian he almost hit?

August 28, 2015 benign0 77 Comments

C’mon, admit it. It’s hard to feel sorry for that jeepney driver lying dead on the pavement with a hole in his head. I had just come across the Inquirer.net story and found myself feeling a bit guilty about how I felt — or didn’t feel. Jeepney driver shot in the head by irate pedestrian…

Crime, Society

Three Key Ingredients Of Prosperity And Progress That The Philippines Lacks

April 21, 2015 Grimwald 15 Comments

Sorry for not having posted anything in a while guys, I had to take a short break from it all and spend a short vacation away from both my identities. However, your favorite Fallen Crusader has returned from his recent sojourn to once again ruin the day of many a delusional Filipino. Apparently, not even…

Crime, Culture, Development, Education, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

What gets to be ‘news’ in the Philippines

April 15, 2015June 2, 2016 benign0 2 Comments

No less than the venerable Inquirer.net is now in the spotlight now that one of its own — the late Melinda ‘Mei’ Magsino — lies dead, a victim of the Philippines’ banal tradition of murdering journalists. It is, indeed, quite ironic that an industry supposedly feared and pandered to by the country’s most powerful oligarchs…

Crime, Culture, Media, Society

Will Mei Magsino be put on trial for her own murder?

April 14, 2015 benign0 12 Comments

The killing of former Inquirer corespondent Melinda ‘Mei’ Magsino brings to 26 the number of media personnel killed under the watch of Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III. Suffice to say, even the mightiest newspaper in the Philippines will likely helplessly watch as justice, yet again, proves elusive; this time to one of their…

Crime, Media, Society

How lessons learned from #Hagupit can help deliver justice to the #Maguindanao massacre victims

December 9, 2014 benign0 9 Comments

Super Typhoon Hagupit (locally code-named “Ruby”) has come and gone, and many lessons have been learned. But the most important insight following this experience is quite tragic: that the thousands upon thousands of lives lost in previous years to typhoons were all preventable. The death toll in the aftermath of Hagupit’s visit to the most…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Race Card on the table as America reels from consecutive police ‘brutality’ cases

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 benign0 10 Comments

Coming in the heels of the recent street riots that erupted over the failure to indict of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson who gunned down Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager who happened to be black, another grand jury voted not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, a New York Police Department (NYPD) police officer accused of fatally…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Society