Tag: justice

A better Philippines under President Miriam Defensor-Santiago

October 13, 2015 benign0 41 Comments

She may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but Miriam Defensor-Santiago (MDS) is definitely not like all the rest of them. And, suddenly, just like that, there is a viable standout above the three uninspiring, undifferentiated, pwede-na-yan presidential candidates. With Santiago in the race, there will be a political debate. The sad none-of-the-above choices now…

Politics

Calls for ‘justice’ for the Martial Law ‘victims’ are just fashion statements

September 22, 2015February 25, 2016 Kate Natividad 75 Comments

Eat my shorts. To all those bleeding-heart emos who keep posting memes on Facebook about “remembering Martial Law” and Tweeting these quaint quotes of indignation over the lack of “justice” for the “victims” of (former) President Ferdinand Marcos’s Martial Law atrocities (or, more appropriately, allegations of these “crimes”), manigas kayo. Lumang tugtugin na yan. All…

Crime, Media, Society

Noynoy Aquino’s disregard for the Mamasapano incident doesn’t need an ‘alternative truth’

September 19, 2015 FallenAngel 8 Comments

By now, the whole country is aware that what president Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino recently had to say about the Mamasapano incident, which resulted in 44 Special Action Force (SAF) members dead, was that he was seeking an ‘alternative truth’, another version of the events that transpired, so to speak. Based on what BS Aquino…

Crime, Government

Imbeciles are exempt from criminal investigation in the Philippines

September 16, 2015 benign0 18 Comments

There are the hard realities and truths and then there are the democratic institutions built by a people who presumably aspire to live by said truths as closely as human thinking faculties permit. The trouble with the way Filipinos have applied their expensive Made-in-the-USA criminal justice system is that they did not put such a…

Crime, Culture, Society

Why appeals for discipline and consideration is an exercise in futility in the Philippines’ current incarnation

September 12, 2015 rsurtida 15 Comments

So there you have it. Just a few days after the HPG’s handover of the traffic control of EDSA from the MMDA, one exasperated trooper blurted out what level-headed Pinoys have been complaining about their co-citizens since Day 1: Maraming pasaway. Granted that the monster EDSA had become has been the result of years of…

Civics, Culture, Development, Government, Politics, Society

Why indeed should we not bury former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Fort McKinley Libingan ng mga Bayani?

September 11, 2015December 7, 2021 benign0 106 Comments

Why not bury former President Ferdinand E. Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Filipino Heroes’ Cemetery)? That is the question that came to light in the wake of the burial there of former Secretary and retired General Angelo Reyes, who was in the middle of being implicated in a big-time corruption scandal at the…

Crime, Politics, Society

Filipinos Really Need To Develop A Sense Of Justice

September 3, 2015 Grimwald 33 Comments

I remember writing an article that asked whether or not the Filipino people can ever find justice for themselves and the answer, as it turns out, is far from positive. The thing is, while I understand the suffering of my people and wish I could help in some way, the biggest obstacles for justice in the…

Culture, Society

Aftermath of Iglesia Ni Cristo bomb: PNoy caught negotiating with terrorists again!

September 1, 2015September 1, 2015 benign0 12 Comments

The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) circus that erupted (then fizzled out) on EDSA is a sign of things to come. Granted that it was an outcome of an internal INC agenda that could, if we are to follow the logic of the INC mob, only be resolved by inflicting damage upon a public already broken…

Crime, Government, Politics, Religion