Tag: human rights

Leni Robredo should worry more about victims of drug addicts and drug lords

August 6, 2016 Ilda 16 Comments

Current Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo is reportedly lamenting the lack of public outcry versus drug killings. She said that she is worried about the culture of impunity and violence that is going on. First of all, what she’s saying is not true. There are so many social media activists who are condemning the seeming…

Crime, Government

The REAL reason why killing is easy in the Philippines

August 3, 2016August 3, 2016 benign0 45 Comments

“Human rights” is the current rallying cry of the Philippines’ “civil society” today. This renewed interest is backdropped by the noticeable escalation in the number of homicide cases reported in the media recently which, activists allege, can be traced back to words of encouragement supposedly issued by no less than President Rodrigo Duterte himself. So…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Society

Human Rights advocacy is the latest fashion statement in Imperial Manila

July 28, 2016 benign0 25 Comments

Whose side are Filipino “activists” on nowadays? From all the chest-thumping and fist-waving we are seeing all over social media and mainstream media nowadays, it would seem that the Philippines’ chattering classes are on the side of the crooks! That is exactly how both President Rodrigo Duterte’s massive base of voters and the broader swathe…

Crime, Culture, Society

Why I Still Value ‘Due Process’…

July 27, 2016 Grimwald 19 Comments

Now, before you go thinking that I’m an anti-Duterte and pro-drug lord activist, let me clarify to you that no, I am not against the progress brought forth by the new administration. Indeed, I believe it is high time that something be done about our many social issues, especially that of the illegal drug trade…

Crime, Media, Politics, Society

Aquino supporters are violating the human rights of the police and President Duterte himself!

July 26, 2016 benign0 33 Comments

When you are in the heat of a standoff with an intruder in your own house and you have a weapon within reach, which of your options would you err towards: (1) recognising the intruder’s “human rights”, or (2) recognising your own right to security within your own home? Hold that thought for a minute…

Crime, Government

Aquino supporters are blocking Duterte’s War on Drugs

July 23, 2016September 30, 2016 benign0 109 Comments

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “war on drugs” has a problem. There is a noisy minority who is against it and bent on making Duterte look like the bad guy at every step of his campaign to rid the country of the drug scourge. As if it weren’t hard enough dealing with drug lords and other…

Crime, Government, Politics

Gloria Arroyo’s acquittal proves Noynoy Aquino is a failure

July 20, 2016July 20, 2016 Ilda 73 Comments

The cornerstone of former President Benigno Simeon Aquino’s so-called fight against corruption — the jailing of his predecessor, former President Gloria Arroyo — just got shot down by the Supreme Court. The last remaining case against Arroyo, which was the plunder case over the alleged misuse of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) funds, was finally…

Crime, Government, Politics

Leila De Lima is to blame for persistence of extrajudicial killings in the Philippines

July 18, 2016 benign0 15 Comments

The way social media “activists” are chattering about the supposed sudden surge of “extrajudicial killings” (EJKs) in recent weeks, you’d think that the Philippines has descended into an orgy of vigilantism under current President Rodrigo Duterte. The fact is, EJKs have long been a business-as-usual feature of Filipino-style “justice”. Back in 2010, the Hong Kong-based…

Crime, Government