Demonising the police is a DANGEROUS slippery slope
I find it a bit disturbing seeing all the rhetoric meant to incite hatred against the police. Police officers, after all, are people who rush headlong into danger on a …
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It’s time Filipinos DEMAND ACCESS to exclusive private subdivisions!
The conversation surrounding the opening up of private subdivision roads to the public has been fired up again thanks to Manila’s increasingly desperate traffic situation. Indeed, it is one of …
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Filipinos need to get REALLY serious about rooting out corruption – specially in their police force
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte issued some disturbing statements recently, suggesting that police officers are at some liberty to engage in delehensiya (on-the-side money-making). Shocking, perhaps, but hardly unexpected. Duterte simply …
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Why foreigners grieve more for the victims of the Philippines’ “war on drugs” than Filipinos do
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 …
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Kadiri the TAMBAYS! Yuck!
It’s good that President Duterte is going after these tambays. They’re so unsightly! I mean, what are they doing out in the streets anyway while the rest of us are …
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Ica Policarpio mirrors the plight of an entire society that remains lost and has yet to be found
Following days of vigorous discussion around the much-publicised disappearance and “rescue” of Ica Policarpio, a statement was released yesterday by her family through a Facebook post by her sister, Bea …
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Duterte, The Pacifist, and The Just War Tradition
“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is …
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‘Human rights abuse’ is perpetrated ONLY by cops and soldiers according to @CHRgovPh
The recent proposal to drastically cut public funds allocated to the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has put the spotlight on other government agencies that are of dubious value to …
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