Tag: war on drugs

Firing of Leni Robredo as “Drug Czar” is the final nail in the Liberal Party coffin

November 25, 2019November 25, 2019 Ilda 16 Comments

Things have been moving too fast in Philippine politics lately that it’s hard to keep up. I have been promising myself I would write about current Vice President Leonor “Leni” Robredo’s relentless attacks on the government – a government she is a part of, but before I had a chance to do it, President Rodrigo…

Crime, Government, Politics

Leni Robredo should set the record straight on the Philippines’ “War on Drugs” death toll

November 16, 2019 benign0 3 Comments

Having taken the job of co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), “vice president” Leni Robredo has vowed to “get the facts straight” on the actual situation of the Philippine Government’s on-going “War on Drugs”. Considering that this initiative is being criticised for what many describe as its unnecessarily “bloody” nature, part of…

Crime

Robredo should set “human rights” guy Phelim Kine straight re his “recommendation” to ARREST Duterte

November 11, 2019 benign0 6 Comments

Following news that Philippine “vice president” Leni Robredo had been appointed to lead the government’s War on Drugs, a certain Phelim Kine, who, according to his Twitter bio, is “Director of Research and Investigation at Physicians for Human Rights” is calling for the “arrest” of President Rodrigo Duterte. Dear VP @lenirobredo – my bags are…

Crime

Leni Robredo’s MOUTH is her worst enemy

October 30, 2019 benign0 5 Comments

Leni Robredo got herself into another embarassing pickle again. Back on the 23rd October, Reuters published the report “Philippine vice president says time for Duterte to halt failed drug war”. Most political observers would agree that this headline pretty much sums up Robredo’s position on the matter. In a subsequent statement translated to English by…

Government, Media

Why Filipinos don’t need the UN to save them from Duterte’s war on drugs

July 16, 2019July 16, 2019 zaxx 5 Comments

What’s tricky about the war on drugs that Pres. Rody Duterte has delivered as promised to the Filipino people is that each death can be either due to the usual nanlaban narrative or some other totally unrelated reason ranging from political vendetta to love-triangle marital infidelity, or from silencing of critics to failure to settle…

Crime, Society

Why foreigners grieve more for the victims of the Philippines’ “war on drugs” than Filipinos do

July 11, 2019 benign0 7 Comments

It sounds baffling at first. The most shrill “activists” of the Philippine Opposition gnash their teeth about it and the “rest of the world” — the cadre of journalists and “human rights” activists putting in their two-cents on the matter — lament these “killings”. But the numbers seem to say that Filipinos don’t give a…

Crime

What happens NEXT after Filipinos #StopTheKillings?

October 15, 2018 benign0 19 Comments

By now, most Filipinos will have been familiar with the Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) slogan “Stop the Killings”. However, what would be interesting to get to the bottom of is how much Filipinos really understand what it means to “stop the killings”. But to get to that understanding there…

Crime

Yellowtards exhibit crab mentality when they vilify Brillante Mendoza and his TV series “Amo”

April 9, 2018 benign0 5 Comments

The Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) have gone way beyond feeding Western media with slanderous and downright misleading information about the Philippines. The Yellowtards are now resorting to lobbying — even bullying — a media organisation into withdrawing content they summarily deem “undesirable” in this most recent instance of their…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media