Tag: scrappork network

Senator JV Ejercito exacts groundbreaking apology from Napoles List mongerers!

May 19, 2014 benign0 22 Comments

Until recently, the core dysfunction in the collective thinking faculties of Philippine society has largely gone unpenalised. Careers have been broken, people unjustly imprisoned, and suicides committed because of this. The current imbroglio that Philippine politics has now found itself neck-deep in following the grossly-misguided release of various lists of alleged pork barrel thieves by…

Crime, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Philippine activism FAIL: Now that the Napoles Lists are out WHAT NOW?

May 16, 2014 benign0 19 Comments

I desperately need to ask all the idiots who made a lot of noise clamouring for the release to the public of all these Napoles Lists this simple question: What now? See, I’ve long asserted that a proper and modern investigation of the pork barrel scam can be mounted without these lists. For that matter,…

Crime, Government, Media

Demand for disclosure of ‘Napoles’s List’: Is the #ScrapPork Network a serious activist movement?

May 8, 2014 benign0 15 Comments

The clamor to have a document containing a list of members of Congress who allegedly had dealings with accused pork barrel scam ringleader Janet Lim-Napoles is growing louder, fueled by indignation mongering drummed up by both traditional and social media. Leading the charge is a certain “Scrap Pork Network” (or just #ScrapPork), a coalition of…

Crime, Media, Politics