Tag: rebellion

Does Philippine Senator Bong Revilla deserve to be treated harshly while in prison?

June 22, 2014June 23, 2014 benign0 33 Comments

The Philippines is abuzz over the latest misfortune porn craze, the surrender to the police and imprisonment of movie-star-turned-Philippine-Senator Ramon ‘Bong’ Revilla Jr. Over the last several days Netizens are posting and sharing updates on the minutiae of Revilla’s fall from grace since he and Senators Jinggoy Estrada and Juan Ponce Enrile were implicated in…

Crime, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Is Janet Lim Napoles worth killing?

November 9, 2013 benign0 18 Comments

Murderous senators? That, according to Senator Miriam Santiago, is what alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles should really be worried about. Napoles told: Talk or die, screams the Inquirer.net headline. You wonder if this is a scene in the police interrogation room from an old 1970’s police drama, before the suspect “lawyer’s up”,…

Crime, Government, Politics

MNLF head Nur Misuari is the Janet Lim Napoles of the Zamboanga crisis

September 18, 2013September 18, 2013 benign0 12 Comments

The root issue in the on-going trouble down under in Mindanao is the way the Philippine government has traditionally cozied up to even the meanest and baddest terrorist and rebel groups “for the sake of peace”. Currently, it is the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) that is being painted as the bad guy, and rightly…

Crime, Government, Politics

Antonio Trillanes outclassed as Enrile retains Senate Presidency

January 22, 2013 benign0 63 Comments

For me, the only person who is coming out the usual chump (that he really is) in the on-going circus in the Senate is none other than “senator” Antonio Trillanes. He is, after all, the guy who led a failed military rebellion in the early- to mid-2000s, got convicted and imprisoned, then was pardoned by…

Politics

Cybercrime: US laws seek to protect ideas, Philippine laws seek to protect people

October 3, 2012 benign0 13 Comments

Comparable to Filipinos’ battle versus Republic Act 10175 (a.k.a. the Philippine Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012), their government’s assault on their cherished right of freedom of speech, is America’s own successfully-waged war versus their government’s Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) bill which sought to implement measures that would have enabled the US Government to control…

Crime, Culture, Media

Formerly-jailed coup plotter Trillanes now embroiled in diplomatic coup blessed by Ph president

September 20, 2012June 9, 2013 benign0 36 Comments

I recall that archaic metaphor used to describe guys who are in romantic relationships with two women — they are said to be swimming in two rivers. That’s what red-faced President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III is looking like now having been caught out overseeing two negotiation channels facing the Chinese government: one via what…

Crime, Government, Politics

Will Senator Antonio Trillanes defer to public opinion when deciding on Corona’s impeachment?

January 9, 2012April 29, 2016 benign0 50 Comments

According to “Senator” Antonio Trillanes IV, public opinion will weigh heavily in his final decision with regard to the impeachment of Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona. In a speech delivered at a forum held at the UP National College of Public Administration and Governance, Diliman last week Trillanes said that he intends to…

Crime, Politics