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An Excerpt from the book Marcos Martial Law: Never Again

By Raïssa Robles

To commemorate the death of Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. on August 21, 1983, I am posting here the link from our book Marcos Martial Law: Never Again.

I am grateful to our publisher, Filipinos for a Better Philippines, for allowing me to share with you this extract from the Collectors Edition.

You can request access to the download by clicking here.

Due to the thousands of requests that came in for earlier downloads, pls give me time to send you this new download link. I am especially referring to the download requests from abroad that come in late at night and after midnight.

Later I will also make available the poem that Ninoy Aquino wrote while in detention.

Thanks.

Comments

  2. Sabi ni Police Chief de la Rosa sa Senate investigation noong isang araw wala na raw cellphone sa Bilibid. Pero kanina lang sa paggalugad ulit sa Munti, meron pa ring bulto bultong shabu, pera, patalim at mga cellphone na nakumpiska.

    Baka si Justice Sec. Aguirre ang dapat kasama sa matrix.

    Seriously, walang magagawa ang pagbatikos sa mga kina uukulan. Ang dapat nating gawin gisingin natin ang publiko na parang mga zombie na patuloy na nagbibigay suporta sa kanila.

    Napakahirap gawin nito. Para kang nangungumbinsi ng tao na huwag maniwala sa pyramid scheme. Hindi mo sila makumbinsi kasi mas masarap kumapit sa pagasa na uulanin sila ng pera kesa tanggapin na naloko sila.

    Pero magpursigi pa rin tayo at magigising din sila.

  3. Digong being Digong he decided to use the visitors toilets in Malacanan. He joined a young guy in the urinals. The young man finished before Digong, zipped up his trousers and walked straight to the exit. “Young man”, shouted Digong, “in Davao City they teach us to wash our hands after we piss.” Not in the least bit awed, the young man responded, “Sir, here in Manila they teach us not to piss on our hands.”

    • Pahabol –

      And the young man to clasp Digong’s acquaintance and being a Manileno, shook Digong’s…

    • they are also victims of bato, ginagawa ang mga surrenderers into arsonists at killers. they might as well burn bato’s house too.

      bato ought to pay surrenderers for their efforts, and provide them with transport, gallons of gasolina at saka lighters. else bato will take credit for the job the surrenderers had done at lalong tataas ang sahod niya. habang ang mga surrenderers got nothing.

      dapat wise ang surrenderers, hwag masyado magpauto.

      • una sa lahat po ang bayad muna namin. kayo (bato) po sir ang nasa front line namin. kami po ang magbitbit ng gallon ng gasolina at kayo po ang maghagis ng gasolina sa bahay. kami po ang sisindi ng lighter or posporo at kayo po ang hahagis sa gasolina.

        • dapat may teamwork talaga. and make gasoline free for all, sa buong bansa sa luob ng isang buwan. sagot nina digong at bato ang gastos, after all, and laki ng budget ni digong. libreng gasoline, libre ang karga. I may even get free gasoline too he, he, he. I got rubbish to burn.

          tama yan, dapat bato is there at each sortie, to supervise the surrenderers. untrained kasi yong mga surrenderers at hindi na tama ang pag-iisip, baka sarili lang ang kaya nilang sunugin.

          uhm, maybe it’s better to burn cars than houses. may mga guard dogs kasi ang mga drug lords, at tatahol kaagad yan, may mga cctv pa ang premises.

          palagay ko’y maraming surrenderers ang hindi sisipot, gaya ng hindi nila pagsipot sa ‘bicycling for good cause’ recently organized by the kapolisan. surrenderers were invited pero ni walang isa ang sumipot. apparently, wala silang bisekleta. no money to buy one.

          so if bato offers to pay them, baka surrenderers will heed.

  5. Thank you Ms. Raissa for the link. I just downloaded the chapter of your book. I’ll buy the book when I get the chance. By the way, I don’t know why every time I put a comment here, it is always under moderation. It started last year during the election campaign period. Can anybody tells me why?

    • I don’t know why. I think I have to change the theme I’m using. It doesn’t seem to agree with the latest version of WordPress.

      That is my next project.

      • The vetting is fine.

        You put all handles (including me) in the same basket to gain a bit of your trust to pass your moderation for standards checks.

        In time I reckon the @The Observer, et al would gain his stripes (blogger’s trust) for real time commentaries.

      • Thanks for the reply. Now, I am thinking that maybe the reason why my comments are always under moderation is because once I incorrectly used my handle. That instead of “The Observer” I only used “Observer.” Anyway, it does not bother me much naman if my comments are under moderation, kasi eventually naga-appear din naman kaagad dito sa blog.

  6. Recently, within the past few days, 17 Chinese nationals were apprehended in a drug den. Many of those caught held recently issued Alien Employment Permits (AEP).
    Today in the Philippine Star there are 99 mandatory listings for applicants requesting AEPs. Of these 47 were from Chinese nationals. Add on the Taiwanese applicants and you go well over 50%.
    When will it stop? It can”t be possible that there are no Filipinos who can do the work. Or, are they are dummies who are about to get involved in drugs?

    • Huwag naman sanang maging trabahador yang mga Intsik na yan sa ating mga minahan. Di maganda ang mga nababasa kong balita tungkol sa mga Intsik na nagmimina sa Tibet at Africa.

    • Raissa,

      A trivial item but I am curious.

      I have been a contributor here not known for obnoxious comments. Recently, my posts which are mainly one or two-liners with non-controversial content have been put under moderation. I am not bothered about this; the comments eventually get posted in the blog.

      But I am concerned for your other contributors who may have something useful to contribute but on seeing the “under moderation” tag may be discouraged from further comments.

      No need to respond to this. It may just be a system quirk. But I have not experienced this almost automatic tag to all my posts recently.

      • Hi NHerrera,

        I also don’t understand why.

        I am in the process of screwing my courage to change the WordPress theme of my site.

      • @NHerrera

        Don’t fell bad, you’re not alone. Being a regular commenter here for a long time, one would think my posts don’t get into ‘moderation’ from time-to-time, but they do. Some even get lost into cyberspace.

        I learned to accept it as minor inconvenience in exchange for the safeguards to keep the blog accessible, especially after the relentless attacks that brought down Raissa’s blog site a few times during the height of the election period.

        What I find more disturbing is what seems to be some well-bloggers bloggers’ scaling back, if not entirely giving up, on their efforts to fiscalize the Duterte government in the face of relentless intimidation. Joe Am and Professor Christina Astorga are just some of those who comes into my mind.

        • yvonne,

          Thanks for the note on the moderation of postings here at Raissa’s.

          In the case of Joe, it is a personal thing associated with some circumstance he partly explained a blog ago from the current one.

  8. The unprepared Philippine policemen in killing their helpless countrymen

    With the widespread impact on extrajudicial killings encouraged by the President as can be seen from the Senate inquiry, it appears he and Bato were just too inept in handling the rapidly deteriorating situation. From the body language of the policemen attending the inquiry, one get the sense na pati sila nasusuka na rin sa nangyari. In fact Bato exclaimed”Pagod na pagod na po kami sana order an na kami ng Presudente to stop”.

    Why the sense of confusion and loss from Bato and his men? I think it boils down to the fact that Philippine cops are not trained to kill helpless citizens. Doing this everyday can really destroy one’s sanity.

    They have the option to disobey an illegal order and once they do so…they can gain back that sense of peace.

    • in my opinion, policemen are in (great) pressure to reach their quota to attain their target on or before 6 months. from the testimonies of the witnesses sa senate hearing and from other death related cases sa palagay ko ay talagang sadyang pinapatay at pinapalabas nila na nanlaban ang mga suspects. ganito ang kanilang modos operandi.

      • tama, mukhang may quota, pataasan pa ng tally. kung kulangin, polis would just have to pick people off the street. no one is safe anymore, students and young children alike. killer for hire na ang kapolisan ngayon, digong promised them pay rise come december. and if they dont kill and meet the quota, they’ll lose thier jobs, gaya ng nangyari ng kapolisan sa bicol, 41 yata got fired. no pay rise for them.

    • Would they experience PTSD? Soldiers sent in combats are known to experience this disease. And so our PNP even if they survive the senate inquiry, some of these men will be hunted by PTSD. And that not only affect them but their families. Uniformed men were trained in combat yet when they go back to normal life they have to go psychological treatments and follow up. We have heard news of soldiers in the US coming back from their assignments from war torn countries like Afganistan, Syria, Iraq and a number of them went berserk and snapped. Some committed suicides, some went wacko like the guy responsible for the Oklahoma bombing.

      Scary indeed would be the aftermath of this war on drugs. Imagine a policeman with a gun going wacko. Is the PNP prepared for this post drug war scenario? Or is is better not to wait for the post scenario but act on it now for the sake not only of the police force, his family but the society as a whole?

      • correct me if i’m wrong: hindi kaya mayroong PTSD sina du30 at bato? bato works in davao for 30 years. lumaki na sya sa paligid ni du30. fab lines ni du30 papatayin kita o kaya papatayin nyo. nanlilisik na ang mga mata. kung baga nasa BERSERK MODE na ang dalawa.

        just few minutes ago, sabi ng pinsan kung taga bacolodhindia naman na ilabas sa tv doon pero iba na daw ang mga kilos ni bato habang binababa nya ang kanyang order to former drug users: ‘Burn down houses of drug lords’.

        ano ba ang kasunod nito? pag sinunog ba ng mga former drug users tatahimik lang ba ang mga drug lords?

        • I think, both bato and digong are beyond ptsd. mass murderers na sila ngayon, parami ng parami ang pinapatay. complimentary talaga, two of a kind.

  9. Intelligence funds for next year of Duterte Administration has increased several fold. Apparently they need so much to be intelligent.

    • Intelligence fund is like free money for the concerned government officials – it is not subject to COA audit and is the kind of government funding subject to most misuse or abuse.

      By it’s name ‘intelligence fund’ one would think that only the military, the police agencies, and the foreign services would have it. Not so – even the Supreme Court has intelligence fund.

      And that is addition to ‘discretionary funds’ the government agencies regularly received. No wonder even the Supreme Court would have up to 9, yes 9, non-public or secret ‘trial balances’ before it can come up with a consolidated financial statement for the COA to audit.

    • heh he heh

      More ghosts?

      Elevated from a joker to a prankster. tsk tsk tsk

      Kung may Erap Jokes nuon, anyone for a DU30 Bloody Jokes? tsk tsk tsk … dissonance

  10. While the President and the Senators are very busy screwing each other for drugs and more drugs, here is a very dire warning given by their very govt to the citizens of their respective country. These countries and my own country now very soon will be covered in snow in a few more weeks and back to that feeling of never ending coldness. I just hope the leaders are being aware that the earth,its topographic surface is most affected with its variety of land forms and water areas, climate and shapes are ever changing, that these leaders fighting for who killed the most and who is anyone’s lover and right, we are all living in the Matrix, call NEO, ;)
    These leaders might as well focused also on making the rest live AND SURVIVE and not only about kiling l the drug scums of the earth as they see fit, however some are innocent as they are, but just ARE SURVIVING MAKING pantawid gutom wise. OH MY, this is so distressing. Can’t say anymore distressful expression.

    Here is what is being warned, yes , call me scare monger, but there is no harm in being prepared.

    https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/international-news/nature/the-coming-storm-stock-pile-food-water-for-30-days/

    Sick and tired of these drug killings, nonsense jokes and promises that really doesn’t elevate the standard of living f the citizens, but they just feel a feeling of elatrion that that this gov’t already fulfilled their need of hurting other people they perceived as the cause of the country’s problem.

    Here’s another link, maybe a joke, but well this is all a joke, right? Anyone who is confident this is not happening is ,,,, well again this is a joke !

    https://youtu.be/qJh6EQ5gv7g ( pls delete for space )thanks

  11. Screwed?

    ***

    What are the differences between D5 and DU30?
    D5 was screwing her driver while DU30 is screwing the due process!

    Also…

    D5 screwed her driver’s balls while DU30 is a screwball!

    What is common between Marcos and DU30?

    Marcos screwed the Filipino people while DU30 screws the Filipino people by protecting the Marcoses!

    Definitely does not screw like a goose…

    Parekoy
    08-24-16

    • “And He said to them, “Is it lawful to do good or to do harm, to save a life or to kill?” But they kept silent”
      Mark 3:4

      Philippine politics is 80% confusion, and 20% corruption, driven by 100% self-interest.

      Duterte is 60% psychopath, 20% pathetic, and 20% perverted, driven by 100% ego.

      It is Duterte who urgently needs rehab. His words betray his addictions, which may not be drugs, but are even more dangerous, and very apparent.

      The UNofficial view – The Philippines are not worth paying for.

      “There’s a hesitation at this point in time to really come to The
      Philippines from an investment point of view,”
      ECCP President Guenter Taus
      18 August 2016

      The Philippines is 100% screwed.

    • In the Summer of 1958 Robby goes to pick up his date. He’s a pretty cool guy with his own car. When he goes to the front door, the girl’s father answers and invites him in. “Carrie’s not ready yet, so why don’t you have a seat?” he asks.

      “That’s cool,” says Robby. Carrie’s father asks Robby what they’re planning to do. Robby replies politely that they will probably just go to the soda shop or a movie. Carrie’s father responds, “Why don’t you two go out and screw? I hear all the kids are doing it.”

      Naturally, this comes as a quite a surprise to Robby, so he asks Carrie’s Dad to repeat it. “Yeah,” says Carries father, “Carrie really likes to screw, she’ll screw all night if we let her!” Well, this just made Robby’s eyes light up, and immediately revised his plans for the evening.

      A few minutes later, Carrie comes downstairs in her little poodle skirt and announces that she’s ready to go. Almost breathless with anticipation, Robby escorts his date out the front door. About 20 minutes later, a thoroughly disheveled Carrie rushes back into the house, slams the door behind her,

      and screams at her father: “DAMMIT, DADDY! THE TWIST!! IT’S CALLED THE TWIST!!!”

      ha ha ha

  12. “Next time ayoko ng pulis na namamatay. Dapat ang kriminal ang mamatay, hindi tayo. ‘Pag kayo ay namatay walang taga-human rights na magpapakain sa mga anak ninyo, walang taga-human rights na magpapaaral sa mga anak ninyo,” Dela Rosa said in his speech before members of Calabarzon policemen police in Camp Vicente Lim in Laguna.

    Dela Rosa, however, clarified that he is not encouraging police officers to violate the suspects’ human rights.
    “Hindi ko kayo ini-encourage na mag-violate ng human rights ha. We have to do our job based on the police procedures, according to the rule of law, dahil dyan nila tayo sinisita. Pero kahit anong sita ang gagawin nila sa atin, once na meron tayong ebidensya, anong magawa nila? It is our mandate to stop the drug menace. We do our job,” he said.

    “Kung kayo ay gumawa ng katinuan at kabutihan, kasama n’yo ako, hindi ko kayo iiwan hanggang sa dulo ng walang hanggan. Umabot man kayo sa langit o impyerno hindi ko kayo iiwan. Pero kung kayo ay para sa masama tulad ng mga pulis na nagri-recycle ng droga hindi ko kayo sasamahan, ihahatid ko kayo sa impyerno,” he said.
    – See more at: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/578798/news/nation/bato-to-cops-kill-resisting-criminals-worry-about-human-rights-cases-later#sthash.nMhI3SeR.dpuf

    • 34 Bicol police chiefs sacked for poor work in anti-drug campaign

      Chief Supt. Ramon Melvin Buenafe, Bicol police director, said the police officers were relieved on Tuesday after evaluators from the Philippine National Police concluded that they have failed to meet targets on the implementation of the Oplan Double Barrel, a nationwide police campaign against illegal drugs.

      what does bicol police director mean about this “they have failed to meet targets…” ilan ba dapat ang mapatay ng nasakupan ng bawat police chief? are police officers under quota na dapat ma attain iyong quota na within 6 months mag ta tally sa national total no. of 1.8+m ang dapat napatay against illegal drugs.

      ano na ba ang nagyayari sa ating bansa?
      news just today: 1) sandigan dismisses ill-gotten wealth case vs imelda’s brothers. 2) 6 witnesses to pin down sen. d5 on bilibid drugs. 3) 34 bicol police sacked for poor work performance in anti-drug campaign

      Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/809361/34-bicol-police-chiefs-sacked-for-poor-work-in-anti-drug-campaign#ixzz4IFzg5G4b
      Follow us: @inquirerdotnet on Twitter | inquirerdotnet on Facebook

      • bato talks about ebidensya ng kapolisan thus absolving them of drug killings. kaso, si digong mismo nagsabi na ebidensya can be planted. likewise, it’s easy for polis to plant ebidensya. na victim kuno sila and acted in self defense, na nanlaban kuno yong suspect kaya binaril, na may packet of shabu found on the suspect, na may baril na hawak ang suspect. things are really stacked up against suspect. hindi lang na rub-out sila, pinagsingulangin pa.

        syempre, nagtatanog yong suspect nasaan yong warrant, and the answer given by kapolisan is immediate gun fire, patay ang suspect. nagtanong kasi, and that mounts to ‘nanlaban’ sa logic ng kapolisan. use of brute force, nagtamo pa ng mga pasa sa katawan ang mga suspects, pinaglaruan yata ng kapolisan, ginawang punching bags.

        sa kadami-dami ng arsenal ng kapolisan, may mga baton na dala, trained sila in subjugating and detaining suspect, may negotiation skills pa. but all boils down to shoot at the 1st chance they got. usually, kung tinutukan ng baril, sabi dapat ng polis, easy man, put down your weapon. let’s talk, see? there are are plenty of us and only one of you, so better cooperate and no one gets hurt.

        gaya ni digong, mahilig si bato mag-joke: planted evidence, shoot to kill, bogus self defence, nanlaban yong suspect, ang kapolisan ngayon ay criminal na.

        • aba, yong promise ni digong na tataasan ang sahod ng kapolisan, ay baka joke lang. biniro ang kapolisan, inuto.

        • ang yabang ni bako sumusobra, akala mo actor siya. sabi, hindi ko kayo iiwan hanggay sa dulo ng walang hanggan. umaabot man sa langit o imperno hindi ko kayo iiwan.

          ang influence ni bata ay hanggang pinas lang, at may limit pa. he’ll resign if he cannot meet his mission statement and that is to sugpo drugs and criminality within the next 4 months.

          sa langit man o sa imperno; no, way, bato.si san pedro na gwardya sa pearly gates may not admit bato. sa imperno rin, the king of hades may not take kindly to bato, baka si bato pa ang gawing kasambahay.

          and if there is karmatic reincarnation, baka bato will be sent back to earth and reincarnate as housemaid, to be raped by the likes of digong, he, he, he.

        • moonie. . . he he he you are also JOKING.

          We will hear a lot of jokes until libingan day September 18, 2016

          from everyone for everyone.

          Executive jokes legislative jokes and court jokes

          fun it is. . .

        • makoy’s burial sa libingan is a big joke. digong is a joke. bato is a joke. cayetano and pimental are too. lacson is going their way.

          kaya, I’m updating my joke skills. jokes vs jokes, laughter kills now, and no longer best medicine.

      • By singling out the Bicol region, is there a hidden message here?

        I have yet to read in the papers any negative news regarding drug users & pushers, and about police atrocities or poor performance, in Ilocos Norte.

    • Di ba the families are assured of pensions, medical care and educational support when a policeman is disabled or dies in the line of duty? That should be basic for police organization to ensure they properly perform their mission. This should be attended to by the PNP top brass in parallel with their drive against any form of criminality including increase in their salaries.

  13. MARTIAL LAW REHASH

    The office of a PNP official is spreading information on 4 terrorist women from BASILAN plotting to bomb Metro Manila malls. I am not doubting the fact that this will take place it is the 4 women i doubt exists.

    This plot is hatched by the people who wanted to declare martial law. It is their justification to satisfy what is stipulated in the constitution, REBELLION. Evil is lurking but a copy cat of the old one.

    Mag ingat po tayo

  14. From Dictators’ mouth;

    “Give me 10 years and you wont recognize Germany”…after 10 years Germany was in ruin.
    “This nation can be great again”…after more than 20 years the nation was in shambles.
    ” I will eradicate drugs, crime and corruption in 3-6 months”…in just a month of his rule, corrupt Arroyo was freed, murders everywhere,etc…

    • . . . and the Dictator also got Poland,

      How did the Germans conquer Poland so fast? A: They marched in backwards and the Polish thought they were leaving ! ’twas a German joke.

      JA JA JA

      TURNING SIGNAL . . . An English guy is driving with a Polish guy as his passenger, when he decides to pull over because he suspect that his turn signal may not be working. He asks the Polish guy if he doesn’t mind stepping out of the car to check the lights while he tests them. The Polish guy steps out and stands in front of the car. The English guy turns on the turn signal and asks, “Is it working?” To which the Polish guy responds, “Yes, it’s working….No, it’s not working….Yes, it’s working….No, it’s not working….”

      . . .ski ski ski

  15. Is there a global sleeper movement where old age pensioners are being activated by former beauty queens to run for president and then drained dry.

    The sleeper movement

    Everyone i know, and believe me i know a lot of people. In fact, i guess I know more people than donald trump has ever insulted in his entire life. They tell me that melania trump is a sleeper. I don’t know, but that is what everyone is saying. That she has been around. That she is highly trained to lie back and think of russia, and highly skilled as an underthesheets agent. She was handjobbed, er, handpicked, by putin himself, and told to massage the dons ‘ego’ until he gives her everything he has got. That is what people are saying. Who knows. People still don’t know who killed john f kennedy, or shot cock robin, so i guess anything could be true, after all, who in their right mind would marry trump for his looks, or his money – he has neither, so maybe melania is only pretending to be a dumb doormat, and if so, boy is she doing an incredible job in convincing people. Who thinks melania trump is a dumb doormat. Right, everybody.
    And who has seen her university certificate and her visa. Right, nobody. People are asking – is she a plant, or just a vegetable.
    What else lies beneath her designer facade and surgical appliances.
    Is she planning to have a body swap with the don and become the first transgender president. I am told technology can do anything these days, except teach americans how to stop shooting each other.
    Has the don’s brain already been taken over by alien minds.
    Are ivanka, don jr, and the other one all clones. Do they eat caviar.
    We don’t know anything anymore and that is scary. People are wanting melania to bare her soul and show them her assets or they want her sent back to where she came from. They want donald trump to bare just his tax returns or be sent to siberia, or even worse, canada.
    Who thinks putin is pulling the donald’s plonker. Right, everybody.
    Who here speaks russian. Right, nobody. But Melania does! And when it comes to pillow talk does donald whisper ‘nezhnosti’. Who knows, except the foreign powers wiretapping what goes on between lovers, and the perverts who like to listen.

    Whatever next, daughters giving birth to protect the dynastic rule.
    By the way, congratulations to ivanka trump on her recent birth, or as they say in russia – more vodka.
    Where will it all end. Chinese sleepers in asia? A new group of sleepers and clones to compete with the United nations? Obey or be shot.

    I am told the donald trump of asia – rude duterte is already showing signs of malfunction and dictatorial tendencies – maybe xi jingping’s sleeper program is having teething problems, but that would be no surprise in the philippines where it is still a 1970’s time-warp. Start worrying if he wears his heart on his sleeve – i.e the number 8 in chinese parlance. Who knows.
    People still dont know who killed ninoy aquino or shot liberty vallance.
    Trump calls the philippines a terrorist nation, and i guess he should know. That must be friendly banter between clones and code for destroy the establishment, start shooting each other, and unleash the dogs of war, or in the case of the philippines, the keystone cops.
    By the way, congratulations to duterte’s daughter on her pregnancy – i hear triplets are on the way. Zhùhè
    Someone asked if china has a 3 clone policy! Who knows.

    I don’t know what is true anymore, except that whatever the government says is false, and that trump tower manila consists of overpriced rabbit hutches.

    Co-incidences or conspiracies.
    Only the beach boys know, but don’t care.
    Keep on surfing.

    United we stand, UN we need. Come quickly, as the actress said to the bishop.

    • santa maria! tres por tres! gotta be three, namely: see no evil, speak no evil, hear no evil. uha, uha, uha. three for the price of one.

      • Three is the magic number!
        A trio of old age pensioner clones?
        The triads of terror!

        Mais cela est impossible. There are not any other old men who are married to a model/beauty queen planning to run for president?
        Quelle! En France?
        Qui, “A candidate for brutality” – Sarkozy.
        Sacre bleu! Sleeper Sarkozy has been activated. And his model wife carla bruni recently had a clone, er, child, at the age of 45! Clever these chinese. No age barrier to cloning.
        “Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural
        consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country”
        Maximilien Robespierre
        Wow. Sounds like an educated version of Duterte.

        At least Duterte will not copy the french political model!
        Wot, french federalism for filipinos!
        And there is not even one Michelin restaurant in the country. Quelle horreur!
        This will be a degustation of incompetence followed by national indigestion, and an expensive bill.
        The Philippines is to good governance what mcdonalds is to haute cuisine.
        In cooking, too many cooks spoil the meal, and in politics, too many states steal the money. Federalism will be a dog’s dinner and the cooks will spit in the food. Taste at your peril.
        Bon appetit et bon courage.

        And after the war on drugs it will be a ban on f$#@ing. A one clone policy. Condom or busted. Big daddy is watching.
        Conformity good – individuality bad.
        Welcome to animal farm where the pigs have more intelligence and manners than the politicians.

        • joke daw ang pag-kalas sa un?
          bwahahahaha!
          joke din ung upak kay de5?
          bwahahahaha!
          daming joke!
          all is a joke nowadays!

        • jokes. . . vander

          Smart Ass Mexican It was the first day of school and a new student named Pedro, the son of a Mexican telecom tycoon, entered the fourth grade. The teacher said, “Let�s begin by reviewing some American history.

          Who said �Give me Liberty, or give me Death?� ” She saw a sea of blank faces, except for Pedro, who had his hand up. “Patrick Henry, 1775.” “Very good!

          Who said �Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth� “? Again, no response except from Pedro: “Abraham Lincoln, 1863,” said Pedro.

          The teacher snapped at the class, “Class, you should be ashamed. Pedro, who is new to our country, knows more about its history than you do.”

          She heard a loud whisper: “Screw the Mexicans.” “Who said that?” she demanded. Pedro put his hand up. “Jim Bowie, 1836.”

          At that point, a student in the back said, “I�m gonna puke.” The teacher glared and asked, “All right! Now, who said that?” Again, Pedro. “George Bush to the Japanese Prime Minister, 1991.”

          Now furious, another student yelled, “Oh yeah? Suck this!” Pedro jumped out of his chair waving his hand and shouting to the teacher, “Bill Clinton to Monica Lewinski, 1997!”

          Now, with almost a mob hysteria, someone said, “You little shit. If you say anything else, I�ll kill you.” Pedro frantically yelled at the top of his voice, “Gary Condit to Chandra Levy, 2001.”

          The teacher fainted, and as the class gathered around her on the floor, someone said, “Oh shit, we�re in BIG trouble now!” Pedro whispered, “Saddam Hussein, 2003.”

          ‘We are leaving the UN’. . . Teacher asked who said that. Pedro – ‘President Dutz Philippines at Rappler August 23, 2016. But he said it is a joke.’

          he he he

        • Tutu’t

          Heh he heh

          Sa mga nangyayaring karumal-dumal sa ‘pinas, sinasabayan pa ni digong ng pabiro.

          Parang asong ulol. Pangulo bah o comediante?

        • ibig nya bang sabihin lahat na sasabihin nya ay joke lamang? dahil napaka walang sense ang sagot ng kanyang mga taga pagsalita tapos dudugtungan nya ng kasing o mas lalong walang sense at pag mahimasmasan sasabihin nyang joke lang?

          tito sotto was elected as head of senate ethics body yesterday a day before a complaint vs d5 was filed.

          walang jo talaga ang picture ng head of ethics committee. nangongopya na nya ng speech pati pa ba ang buhok at tiger look ni hitler ay gusto pang kopyahin