Our book Marcos Martial Law: Never Again is back in National Book Store.
NBS Trinoma now has copies of the Third Printing of our book.
To make the process even faster, I would like to ask all those who had placed orders with particular National Book Store branches to please call these stores and tell them to pick up copies of the books from the NBS warehouse.
I know my request sounds a bit strange, but given that the NBS chain is so huge and it’s nationwide, it’s hard to disseminate one particular title to many outlets all at once. It would be a big help if those with pending orders would tell the branches themselves to request the books from the warehouse.
Thanks.
The book is also still available at the following outlets:
Bookmark The Filipino Bookstore – at 264 Pablo Ocampo Sr. Avenue, San Antonio Village, 1203 Makati City, Philippines.
La Solidaridad book shop – 531 Padre Faura St, Manila, 1000 Metro Manila
Popular Bookstore – 305 FLP Building, Tomas Morato Avenue. Quezon City
UP Third World Studies Center – Palma Hall, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Roxas Avenue, University of the Philippines-Diliman
Bantayog ng mga Bayani – Bantayog Center, Quezon Ave, Diliman, 1109 Quezon City (near Centris)
To all those who have bought copies, my deep thanks. – Raissa
Stu says
Is there any possibility on having it available on Kindle?
raissa says
It is up to my publisher.
I will ask again.
Mike says
Any international retailers? I’m in Toronto, Canada.
raissa says
sorry. none yet.
duquemarino says
I finally got a copy of the book, kaso student edition lang available NBS Baguio.
Jem says
From CNBC:
Could China build the world’s smallest nuclear power plant and send it to the South China Sea?
Nuclear plant under development could fit into a shipping container and make a small island economically viable
A top mainland research institute is developing the world’s smallest nuclear power plant, which could fit inside a shipping container and might be installed on an island in the disputed South China Sea within five years.
Researchers are carrying out intensive work on the unit – dubbed the hedianbao, or “portable nuclear battery pack”.
Although the small, lead-cooled reactor could be placed inside a shipping container measuring about 6.1 metres long and 2.6 metres high, it would be able to generate 10 megawatts of heat, which, if converted into electricity, would be enough to power some 50,000 households.
-So, dahil binigyan tayo ng donation ng china as good gesture, ibigay nlng din natin ang spratly’s? Good luck Philippines
Gumising Ka Bayan says
OVERHEARD IN A SCUTTLE BUTT THAT MANONG FIDEL IS VERY DISPLEASED WITH DIGONG WHO DID NOT ONLY NAME HIM AS THE SOURCE OF THE NARCOLIST BUT LIKEWISE DISGUSTED ON HOW HE RUNS HIS MOUTH IN FOREIGN PRESS. MANONG FIDEL SAID PAG NAGKAROON NG COUP D ‘ETAT HE WILL BACK IT UP AND SHALL PERSONALLY OVERSEE THAT THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BLACK PROPAGANDA AND EXTRA JUDICIAL KILLINGS BE HANGED IN PUBLIC…
HURRAH MANONG FIDEL IT IS ABOUT TIME
sam says
It was FVR suggestion to Do Dirty that made him run .. Do Dirty even mentioned that FVR solicited money for him
Siguro sabi ni FVR .. wow mali!
Do Dirty now should be careful his days might be numbered .. FVR is a man know for his Physiological warfare .. if he makes his move … ay lagot ka Do Dirty ..
Kalahari says
Du30 must read the story of the STORMING OF THE BASTILLE that occurred in Paris in the afternoon of 14 July 1789, The medieval fortress, armory and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris.
The prison contained just seven inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of abuse of the monarchy, its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution (wikipedia)
Maxima says
Posted by democracy works…
https://www.facebook.com/inquirerdotnet/videos/10154441004884453/?comment_id=10154441027334453&reply_comment_id=10154441346094453&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R9%22%7D
AUDIT THE SURVEYS
It is good IF Duterte still enjoys the confidence of the Filipino people. Survey results like this makes Duterte think that people agree with whatever he does. Then the vicious cycle of spins go on.
However, we must make sure that these results are true and honestly reflecting what people think and feel at hindi gawa-gawa. Attached link was from last election. How do we know that it is not happening still?
Rappler’s investigative report showed that as of Oct. 2016, there are 2.9M fake social media accounts linked to BongBong Marcos while approx. 990,0000 linked to Duterte. A day’s pay for these trollers range from P1,000-2,000 per day. JUST SAYING THAT PEOPLE ARE GETTING CREATIVE AND FAKERY HAS BECOME A SCIENCE AND ART.
I call for a real INDEPENDENT audit of these surveys. It’s only a few thousand respondents so it is not really hard to audit them from simple to more sophisticated processes.
1) Cross check/authenticate the names/addresses of the respondents. DO these people really exist in those addresses? Then do a sample random check, ask some if they answered those surveys.
-You can do an extra step..ask them to fill up the same form and see if they answer the same way.
2) Check the penmanships. Marami pare-pare ho ang penmanship.
3) check the pattern.
A real audit will benefit SWS and the Filipino people. Truth is good whichever way it goes. It is for SWSs benefit to authenticate the responses and really establish its credibility
Maxima says
*Go-goes
*an art
moonie says
I agree with auditing sws. freedom of info should also look into the matter. we have to be sure those answering surveys are not alien life forms, animals or beast trolls. only if authenticated can survey be said to be true reflections of people it supposed to have surveyed.
sws should share and open their data, and say how and where they got such data. and not just give dodgy data. else, sws lacks transparency and nil probity.
Mel says
Can DU30 meet with SC AJ A Carpio? Lawyer to lawyer… from two pillars of gov’t over a cup of tea.
Maxima says
@Mel.
Sorry but I have my doubts how Duterte passed the bar! If he did, he should have been disbarred a long time ago. Just saying.
moonie says
pinas has already shown to the world that we can win against china, we won the court case. that a david can indeed flatten a goliath, and we have made a breakthrough. with the partnership of america’s military might, and our added legal expertise, china is threatened at two fronts.
and in china’s salvation: digong.
digong prefers to see old black and white pictures of the century long dead, more enamored of the long dead than the issue at hand. worst procrastinator ever.
Mel says
Me musing, if it took him seven years to finish high school, who long did it take him to finish Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.)? And what was his Pre-Law bachelors degree? … how was his thesis making?
Was he a one time bar examiner?
Figuring out how he became a lawyer and found solace in extra judicial remedies.
How does he define law in his current dispensation, considering his crusades to expedite eradication based on mere kill lists without due process? … is he Machiavellian that the end justifies the means?
moonie says
sending patrol to west phil sea is too much trouble for digong, too much problem. too hard decision to make, a headache he cannot afford. lazy yan kasi, prefers yapping with his big mouth than being out there in the front, surveying what is ours and defending our territory. methink, he would rather have the communists make decisions for him, china to make decisions for him, make things easy for him, and then, reporting back to him and flattering him. such a lazy bastard digong is. bury his head in drug war, the be all and end all of his pamumuno.
digong is mothballing the military, the men being gilded at tinatanggalan ng bayag. kasing walang bayag gaya niya. women now are carrying the pride and dignity of the nation. the men who are supposed to defend our nation are now preferring to look good only in military parades and marches. eyes right! and back straight. mga bulag! our women are left to defend their own, shame about our men; sayang, ang galing pa naman ng uniform nila.
Totong says
Pag nagtatalumpati si Duterte sa harap ng mga sundalo bukang bibig niya na ang mga addict, nagshashabu at mga durugista ay wala ng pag asa o papel sa mundo dahil sira na raw ang utak dahil sa shabu na gawa sa tubig ng Baterya. Kaya dapat isalvage o EJK na lang. kaya sa YOU Tube mga Video ng duterte troll ang simula ay mukha ni Duterte na I HATE DRUG ang salita. Ewan ko kung may isip si Duterte at si Bato…ang tanong bakit wala silang napapatay na bigtime DRUGLORD? ang sagot po ay mautak ang mga Druglord dahil hindi sila nagshashabu at alam nila na masama sa katawan at magiging adik sila at matotokhang. Sana makapatay sila ng druglord kahit hindi Bangag tapos sa YOUTUBE video ni Duterte ang salita ay I HATE DRUGLORD…ang moral lesson at ibig kong sabihin pati ba naman sa video very UNFAIR si Duterte. yung mga biktima,user timbuwang yung mga nambibiktima gumagawa ng shabu buhay na buhay.
Mel says
Foolhardy?
Appalling, he accedes to an unnamed chinese diplomat to disengage with the Phils. traditional ally. Ganuon ganuon lang.
Goes to china to court permission to allow Filipino fishermen to fish in their traditional pond (panatag).
Thanks china for funding and building a drug rehabilitation center where in fact their chinese nationals were responsible for importing & supplying the addictive drugs that continually destroy millions of Filipinos to date.
moonie says
mel, I think, justice carpio is being kind and maybe, thinks digong is normal person able to process thoughts, can empathize with others and knows how others feel. that if you talk to digong, he can see your point of view, not just dismiss you right away because he is suspicious of motives divergent from his own.
digong has walled himself up, it’s hard to dig him out if he does not want to be dug out, he’s happy being there and thriving. it’s not him but us that is the problem: we cannot approve of what he’s doing.
nagkaruon yata ng job mismatch: digong and the people.
Mel says
SC sAJ A Carpio is trying … uncalled for, willing.
People in the know understands his capacity err limitation, at thesame time recognize his contributions par excellence and patriotic concerns that behooves the nation.
The malampaya gas field will soon run out of gas in less than 10 years time. He knows by now the Phils. should have another source being tapped, other wise … He has done and still doing what are beyond the call and duty of a SC Justice… went overseas to give speeches & conducted lectures … legal or lawful speaker in business functions, conferences and conventions that needed to hear and understand the issues that went before UNCLOS/ITLOS and after the PCA Award.
Digong claims he always wanted to be a judge. Well here is A Carpio who is reaching out (IMO). Good topic to connect. Kung hindi makuha sa flattery, baka pupuwedeng international jurisprudence.
sam says
simple lang ang sagot dyan ni Do Dirty … China does not want that
Mel says
putris, chimoy.
dapat lang na pa champoy si digong.
shhh*huwagNatingPangunahanSiDigong.MayPlanongBalatKayoSaTinginKo.
sam says
Abella said President Rodrigo Duterte is going in the right direction in his desire to end joint patrols with the United States in the West Philippine Sea, the Palace maintained Wednesday.
“This has been carefully considered. He (Duterte) has his own alternatives regarding the matter and he is fully aware of his responsibility regarding the [Philippines’] Exclusive Economic Zone,”
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http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/12/16/palace-ending-joint-patrols-with-us-is-right-direction
Now! what alternatives did Do Dirty did considered?
PH, Vietnam to explore joint patrols in S. China Sea: sources
Defense officials from the Philippines and Vietnam will meet this week to explore possible joint exercises and navy patrols, military sources said, shoring up a new alliance between states locked in maritime rows with China.
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DId they REALLY think carefully? was this the “like” of China? i don’t know .. but i think this was consider by china. With US out … they (china) have full control over the West Philippine Sea which soon Do Dirty will even gift warp it and handed it to China ..
symon victor says
Will China sell us good enough weapon systems that may be used against them if they permanently annex WPS shoals which belong to us? The AFP should carefully assess their weapons purchases from countries
whose interests are potentially in conflict with ours.
sam says
Have you guys read this? sampal ito direct hit sa mga pervert na mga govt officials ni Do Dirty
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Don’t hold Miss U pageant in PH, organizers told
Petitioners told the Miss Universe organizing committee that holding the pageant here would serve as a “reward” to what they believe was the “objectionable, scandalous, and demeaning sexist attitude demonstrated by the newly elected leaders of our country, by no less than President Rodrigo Duterte, and his cohorts towards womankind.”
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http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/10/16/dont-hold-miss-u-pageant-in-ph-organizers-told
JAS says
http://business.inquirer.net/216446/rising-pledges-belie-fear-of-trade-pullout
Finance Secretary Dominguez if I may ask, what country or countries have pledged and have promised to pledge some more to invest in PHL? I have a guess it starts with the C and the other one starts with an R, as in comfort room.
Don’t fool us.
JAS says
Erratum its trade secretary Lopez not Finance Secretary Dominguez.
Maxima says
Soooo the commies will be pardoned, will have a new leash and get free land. There is no issue with that, provided others are given the same hope and opportunities to have better lives.
As they say, a peaceful and thriving society is not just characterized by lack of fighting but by the presence of Justice, inspiring hope and healthy confidence of its people.
Kalahari says
The NPAs will retain their firearms as insisted by jalandoni but objected by the AFP
beachbum says
The communists are now belittling Ramos.
They believe that they run the country. The nightmare scenario is that maybe they do!
They certainly seem to control duterte and channel their hatred through him. The peace panel seems to be more about negotiating a power bloc, not enabling peace.
“The CPP, which is talking peace with the Philippine government, blames widespread poverty in the country to the economic and trade policies supposedly imposed by the US.
“[Ramos], Amboy [“American boy”] top dog, is now set to lead the pack to consolidate the pro-US camp of reactionaries to put on greater pressure on the Duterte regime to backtrack on its promotion of an independent foreign policy,” the CPP said in a statement released on
Monday, October 10.
“It is quite apparent that US military agents in the Philippines are closely working with Ramos to counteract Duterte’s policy statements and measures against US military exercises and presence. He also seeks to countervail Duterte’s efforts to influence the [Armed Forces of the Philippines] and serve as the US counterpole,” the statement added.”
beachbum says
The Ramos article is significant, in content and timing.
FVR is undoubtedly still well connected – nationally and internationally – and has clearly been sounding out opinion far and wide. He is obviously concerned by what he has heard, and the fact that he decided to voice his concerns so publicly and formally suggests that duterte is not listening to anyone, even FVR, and that the situation is getting serious, with the ramifications not being fully understood by the gung-ho, gun-toting, power-tripping president.
FVR also wants to put a warning shot across the bows of duterte before he gets carried away by his china visit, where his ego will be suitably massaged, and his naivete inevitably exploited.
FVR knows that pragmatism, not idealism, must rule the day, and that duterte is being too dogmatic, autocratic, blinkered, obsessive, and unnecessarily offensive, which will all lead to a backlash internationally, as the first wave, nationally, as the second wave, politically, as the third wave, and militarily, as the coup de grace.
FVR is possibly showing himself to be a patriot, as opposed to duterte, who is nothing more than a provincial zealot using nationalism as a vehicle to stir anger and create divisions, which would only benefit china and russia, but ruin the philippines.
A patriot speaks the truth, a nationalist spews anger.
Duterte himself says that he is a provincial mayor and knows nothing about being a statesman or even economics. In essence he does not understand the role of a president, and worse, is unwilling to learn and unprepared to change. He also has no idea about being a CEO, and would be lucky to get a job in the post room of a corporate. All in all, a square peg and a round hole. A fush out of water. A patient escaped from the psychiatric hospital.
“China is easier to do business with for weak democracies and emerging nations because it doesn’t care about human rights abroad – just as it doesn’t care about them in its own country. All the Chinese care about is money.”
The Diplomat
canadadry says
@beachbum
Share ko lang John Nery (of Inquirer) interesting article (Does Duterte know how to listen?, Inquirer October 11, 2016).
DU30 on the road to self destruction, according to friends?
His impression is that according to Du30’s friends (FVR and Bishop Capalla) it seemed the President is not
even listening to anyone.
On the last question of FVR regarding pivoting to China (Are we throwing away decades of military partnership, tactical proficiency, compatible weaponry, predictable logistics, and soldier-to-soldier camaraderie just like that?? On P. Du30’s say-so???”) Nery made the following observation:
“That last question stings, because it is a former president describing the incumbent’s repeated expressions of policy change as mere “say-so.” From experience, Ramos knows the limits of the presidency better than Mr. Duterte does. He may also be signaling the resistance of the most pro-American institution in the country, the Armed Forces, to the administration’s unexpected and underprepared pivot to China.”
Nery mentioned what Bishop Capalla said as follows:
“The former archbishop of Davao, Archbishop Emeritus Fernando Capalla, thinks that Mr. Duterte’s seeming inability to take advice or criticism is precisely the problem. “We have to listen twice as much as we speak,” he told MindaNews. But with the President, “it’s the reverse … That’s why we are in trouble.” Capalla said: “I am worried about him as a friend. I think he has a problem and we need to help him. He is in the course of self-destruction, without even knowing that he is ruining himself.” He added: “If he can only listen … listen to other people.”
Nery ended the topic by stating:
” Last week, I heard an ambassador summarize an overview of the national situation through a plaintive question: Is there anyone the President listens to?”
For more:
http://opinion.inquirer.net/98096/duterte-know-listen
vander says
no offense meant.
just to lighten my very serious reading of all your posts.
imo, he listens.
with just one ear.
see he’s always covering an ear oftenly.
he could have copied 50% of vit-ag on his infamous exchange with mds.
hehehe, magkasangga nga sila.
mga takip-tenga…:)
vander says
o sure, not a “statesman”,
he’s a cityman,
specifically, ‘the bow’ man of china and russia.
HighFive says
100 days: PNoy already brought home $2.4B of investments & $430M of aid grants
-The Maharlikan
People have seen the difference in the way the previous administration effectively govern the nation. It goes to show that the opinions of those who relentlessly put down PNoy in the Socmed are pointless. They are not helping steer the nation in the right direction. They need to ‘muni-muni’.
lydia says
When Duterte comes home from his visit to China, he will bring home China’s promise of railways, trains, infrastructures and rehabilitation centers. But, I wonder, at what cost to the Philippines and to the Filipino people? More drugs being smuggled into the Philippines by Chinese drug lords residing in China? Take-over of Philippine industries? Communism? Population control by killing the 3rd child? What grim future for us. All because of Duterte’s obsession with his brutal war on drugs, wounded pride because of criticisms he receives, and his larger than life ego.
HighFive says
Keeping my fingers crossed that the 74 million of the population will oppose to this. We might end up waking up one day, stunned to find ourselves living in a country that we once called a Republic of the Philippines.
sam says
@HighFive
Do Dirty may not have bring in the needed Investments … but he indeed gave some business within his 100 days …. Funeral Parlor became a booming business, in fact they can not even handle the large amount of clients coming in each day
The Observer says
Yes the funeral parlors in the country are booming, thanks to Duterte. Disgusting accomplishment. Hope the killings stop.
netty says
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3831827/Philippine-president-Rodrigo-Punisher-Duterte-turns-sights-banning-smoking.html
No more drugs, no more smokes,
More killings because there are still poor addicts and lots of police and military guns.
More smokes for the dead are cremated en massed.
More days of horror and its not even Halloween yet.
You may not be allowed to breathe anymore, gloom, gloomier, gloomiest.
Is Agot the only SENSIBLE voice of women in the thick of PH showbiz?
HighFive says
It looks like a lot of Filipinos are gonna have the saddest Christmas season & a downhearted New Year ever.
moonie says
I think, this time, pinoys ought to keep their moneys and hoard them, hwag gasto ng gasto. sasadsad ang economiya natin, and spending big on christmas and new year may not be good idea. once money is spent, its gone. we ought to prepare for emergency, sakuna and others. we may not be able to depend on govt services anymore, the kaban ng bayan is going to be empty with most money going to the reds, the kapolisan and military. less money will be spent on health. medicines will cost more lalo na those that come from overseas.
you can still be happy at christmas without spending big. have lots of hugs and kisses and songs, no expensive gifts though. keep to what is necessary. you dont need much money to be happy, so long as you’re healthy and your family as well, that’s already heaven.
HighFive says
Keeping my fingers crossed that the relatives of those killed get a decent burial for them.
moonie says
sorry po, nasabi ko nuon na kapag napatay ang relatives mo suspected of being drug users, etc. dont bury them. dont claim them. let the govt bury them.. keep your money to yourself. god will understand. use the money on the living, the kids the dead left behind need to be feed and send to school. bills still have to be paid.
leave the dead where they lay. pinatay sila ng polis, it is only right the polis spend for their funeral. families already burdened with poverty should not be burdened anew with funeral expenses.
I would hate to see the poor nangungutang o nabaon sa utang upang mabigyan ng decent funeral ang kamag-anak whose death they did not cause.
beachbum says
King canute thought he had the power to hold back the tide of the sea. He didn’t.
King duterte thinks he can bully the rising tide of indignation into silence. He can’t.
More and more pebbles are being thrown into the murky pond of the duterte administration, and are creating growing ripples.
The rabid dogs of duterte are still barking but with no bite, just bile.
The fence-sitters are starting to climb down on the side of rationality
The administration are in a state of confusion and conflict
Duterte remains his obsessive self, in denial, and deaf to advice
The hope of the nation is in danger of being submerged under the waves of government naivete and inexperience.
Unless the captain changes course, quickly, then it will be a case of icebergs ahead, man the lifeboats, and rats deserting a sinking ship.
Duterte is drowning in his own inferiority
Ancient Mariner says
Perhaps there is more to the old man with medals on his cap than we realize? With FVR denouncing Digong for his lack of military acumen and noises of discontent coming from the armed forces we perhaps have the setting for some anti-Dutetre action?
The situation clearly cannot go on for ever and the geriatric psychopath cannot go on like this unhindered. Perhaps when the BPOs start to suffer reality will set in.
canadadry says
CONTINUING CHILLING ACCOUNTS OF DU30’s WAR ON DRUGS SEPT 26, 2016
AL JAZEERA STORY “Philippines: Playing dead to survive Duterte’s drug war”
Al Jazeera speaks to a man who used an extreme tactic to survive a war on drugs that has killed more than 3,000 people.by ed Regencia
Manila, Philippines – He was left for dead for an hour, his bullet ridden body slumped face down in a dimly lit corner near Manila Bay, soaked in his own pool of blood dripping onto the concrete pavement. Police said that Francisco Santiago Jr and another man, George Huggins,were shot dead during an anti-drug operation in the early hours of September 13.
But, as reporters arrived at the scene of the police shooting, Santiago, who had been shot multiple times, started showing signs of life. Stunned onlookers watched as his legs began twitching. Moments later, the 28-year-old sat upright, propping himself against a car and holding his bloodied arms in the air.
Police officers at the scene surrounded Santiago – pistols ready – before putting him in a car and taking him to the hospital.Speaking from his hospital bed last weekend, Santiago told Al Jazeera that his rise from the dead was not a miracle, but a tactic to stay alive. He alleged police had shot him multiple times and tried to kill him.Breathing with the assistance of an oxygen tank and his bullet wounds bandaged, Santiago said he played dead “for about an hour” after being shot by a plain-clothes police officer. Lying on the street, he hoped he would not succumb to his wounds as he waited for anyone but the police to find out he was still alive. He denied the official police account he had sold methamphetamine, locally known as shabu, to an undercover anti-narcotics agent in the early hours of that morning. He also was not armed, he said, denying a police report that he had pointed a .22 Black Widow revolver at the undercover officer. The driver of a motorised rickshaw, Santiago claimed that he was the victim of a police buy-and-bust “set up”, and that he had been picked up by police for questioning about 12 hours before being shot. Santiago also said that the officer who shot him that night was the same plain-clothes policeman who had boarded his rickshaw earlier that day and took him to the station for questioning. Twelve hours later, he was shot in the chest, upper abdomen and both arms. The second man shot at the scene, Huggins, died of his wounds.
Over 3,000 drug-related killings
Santiago is a rare survivor of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s all-out war on drugs, his mother and a human-rights worker said. Since June 30, when President Duterte took power and launched his war against drug traffickers and users, the police have reported over 3,000 drug-related killings, including 1,105 people killed in police operations up to September 16. Police revised that number down from 3,541, as reported earlier by the Philippine police chief Ronald Bato.
Despite mounting international condemnation as the death toll spirals upwards, Duterte told a gathering of troops near his home city of Davao on Tuesday that he had ordered authorities who are taking part in anti-drug operations, to “stick to your mandate and do no wrong”. The drug problem in the Philippines was more serious than he expected, Duterte said, before offering some of his familiar advice: “If a
suspect draws out a gun, kill him. If he doesn’t, kill him anyway”. “Duterte’s frequent exhortations for extrajudicial violence against suspected drug users and drug dealers have effectively given Philippine police a ‘license to kill’ without any fear of accountability for their actions,” said Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch. The case also underscores the “dire need for an urgent, impartial
investigation into the circumstances of the alarming surge in killings by police” since Duterte came to power, he said.
Santiago was discharged from the hospital on Wednesday and is now detained at a Manila police station, his mother said.
For more with graphic photos:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/09/philippines-playing-dead-survive-duterte-drug-war-160922173054835.html
This is why the global community is very much disturbed. Philippines was never like this.
Latest news is they are bringing OPLAN TOKHANG to BPOs.
(http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/10/16/cops-to-take-tokhang-to-call-centers-condos)
NHerrera says
beachbum, Ancient Mariner: my thanks to your posts.
Ancient Mariner says
@NumbersHerrera. Cool.
beachbum says
Duterte is a xenophobic autocratic demagogue constantly demonising the west as the way to create an ‘us vs them’ mentality, fuel anger, and to then promote nationalism, isolationism, under a structure of feudal federalism, where individuality gives way to collectivity, and the ethics of humanism are replaced with the corruption of communism.
Duterte’s principle is that ‘the end justifies the means’, but in the end the nation will sacrifice human dignity, human rights, and human development upon the altar of a cult leader whose narcissism has given him a ‘messiah complex’, and who believes that he is the only one with the total solution. His ignorance is only exceeded by his arrogance.
The ‘common good’ will end up being very bad for individual freedoms and for national progress.
Future winners will be driven by an emphasis upon education and innovation, not oppression and destruction.
International condemnation is widespread because they have seen the pattern elsewhere, and know the outcome arising from a psychopathic leader who obsesses, lives in denial, and derives a perverted pleasure by violating the rights of others, belittling his betters, and dominating the weak in his constant need to bolster his insecurity and inferiority complexes.
The narcissist uses intimidation and threats to silence criticism and make people ‘walk upon eggshells’, but that is a sure-fire route to subjugation and abuse.
The narcissist is a paradox – a loner who needs the adrenaline of an audience and the oxygene of media publicity/exposure. His three biggest fears – feeling unloved, exposure, abandonment.
Leaders pass the baton and move on – narcissists cling on until the baton is wrested from their grip.
“Psychopaths are people who know the differences between right
and wrong, but don’t give a shit”
Elmore Leonard
leona says
When an actor proceeds to do an act, knowing ahead of the possible consequence of such act but nevertheless do the act and not caring for the consequence [ don’t give shit ], that is recklessness.
The defense that it was not intended that way is commonly rejected. No justification that the act is excused from liability. This is about a simple act of recklessness with liability.
When the act is proven with other acts, like words uttered to embolden the act and the final act results into a more graver result, it is not anymore just recklessness but a more serious act.
The first is like a simple homicide with recklessness. The second is now murder. The former is lesser in nature but the latter is graver.
In both cases, there is no defense or excuse of either acts under that resulting reality.
Can there be another possible defense? What?