Category: Crime

PhilHealth corruption no different to COMELEC corruption under Aquino’s watch!

August 10, 2020 benign0 4 Comments

Corruption is so endemic to Philippine society that it still boggles the mind as to why Filipino regulators and investigators remain so inept at detecting and prosecuting it. The recent corruption scandals surrounding the Philippine Health (PhilHealth) Insurance Corporation follow a template oft-repeated in the country. One such approach seemingly taken by crooks to siphon…

Crime

Make no mistake. “Pinoy Weekly” is a COMMUNIST publication!

July 26, 2020July 26, 2020 benign0 4 Comments

The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) calls it an “alternative media magazine”. Pinoy Weekly is supposedly a “legitimate news organisation” the NUJP insists in a subsequent tweet. Why then would it be a subject of interest for the Philippine Police who, presumably, are looking out for the safety and security of the…

Crime, Media

Maria Ressa is indeed a fraud

July 8, 2020July 8, 2020 benign0 1 Comment

No less than Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte reportedly said it. “Ressa is a fraud. Believe me,” Duterte said in a speech last Wednesday. Duterte evidently echoes growing public sentiment over (or, more likely, apathy toward) Rappler CEO Maria Ressa’s incessant positioning of her person and that of her media organisation as hapless “victims” of an…

Crime, Media

Maria Ressa’s criminal conviction is a victory for the Filipino people

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020 Ilda 58 Comments

They said the whole world was watching. If that was the case, then the whole world knows Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and her former writer Reynaldo Santos Jr are now convicted criminals. This was after a Manila court judge found both of them guilty of violating the cyber libel law. The question is, are members…

Crime, Media

“Free Speech. Yes. Falsehood, No.” – press statement of Wilfredo Keng on Maria Ressa’s conviction

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 benign0 5 Comments

(Official Statement of Mr. Wilfredo D. Keng on the final outcome of the Cybercrime of Libel criminal case filed against Reynaldo Santos, Jr., and Maria Angelita Ressa, of Rappler, Inc.) When I filed this private complaint more than three years ago, I knew that this was going to be a long and painful process for…

Crime, Media

“Activists” calling for the “junking” of the Anti Terrorism Bill are ANTI-Democracy!

June 9, 2020 benign0 5 Comments

What Opposition “activists” and “partisans” essentially seek when calling for the blocking of the proposed and long-overdue Anti Terrorism Law is free rein to continue their seditious activities with impunity. These peoole are, after all, holdovers from vintage 1980s thinking who subscribe to the obsolete idea that people can simply mass on the street in…

Crime

Demonising the police is a DANGEROUS slippery slope

June 4, 2020 benign0 20 Comments

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 typical day at the office. We’ve seen the tragic outcome of incompetent police action back in 2010 when a squad of police officers who couldn’t…

Crime, Society

Here’s what you need to know about the Anti-Terrorism Bill

June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 PulbuRonn 6 Comments

The world of social media is once again abuzz with the collective whinging of the “wokes” in unison with the caterwauling of the usual faces of NPA “legal” front representatives and their sympathizers as the looming “threat” of the Anti-Terrorism Bill passing into law approaches. As an observant citizen I cannot, for the life of…

Crime, Politics

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