By Raïssa Robles
Hearing a clatter and voices outside the bedroom where I was staying, I peeked out and saw this wiry woman dragging a suitcase up the second floor landing.
“Hi!” she said with a bright, welcoming smile, the kind of smile that flashes between the best of long-time friends.
In truth, it was the first – and the last time – I met Gina Lopez.
It was autumn of 2017. I was then a guest of the Philippine-American Writers and Artists, Inc. in San Francisco. PAWA had lodged me with Chita and Dickie Taylor in order to talk about my book Marcos Martial Law: Never Again before various audiences.
It took me some time to realize that Chita was Conchita La’O, wife of my late Manila Chronicle newspaper boss, Eugenio “Geny” Lopez, Jr. Chita had married Dickie Taylor.
Chita told me that her daughter Gina was arriving very late one night. I shouldn’t worry if I heard noises in the corridor.
When Gina had deposited her suitcase in another bedroom, she invited me to join her in the kitchen downstairs. It was past midnight and I still had a speech to write.
But, never mind. I was curious to see Gina whom I had only seen in the news ordering the closure of mining companies polluting the environment.
When we were seated, Gina lost no time flicking through her iPhone, showing me videos of villagers she was helping.
She brimmed over with plans for spending US$10,000 – the sum she was given for winning the 2017 Seacology Prize in Berkeley. They all consisted of projects to help the poor.
She told me she had just come from a cancer center which had run tests and pronounced her cancer-free.
Our talk run through so many topics.
Did I think she should run for senator?, she asked me.
I said that with her wide popularity and name recall, she would probably win. “But do you personally want to be senator,” I asked her in turn.
She did not reply but switched back to her passion – the environment.
Curious, I decided to ask her two questions in turn. “How do you feel about the drug war? And how did Duterte relate to Leni (Robredo)?”
Gina turned serious and said the President was in possession of facts that justified going after the drug lords.
As for Leni, she giggled and said, “he (Duterte) was always looking at her legs.”
Gina came across like a force of nature. Her sentences were full of exclamations. I was a rapt audience of one as she talked about her future projects.
Gina crammed the last two years of her life with projects. Her latest TV show, the “G Diaries”, was her Last Will and Testament to fellow Filipinos.
It was her way of leaving footprints in her final journey to eternity.
And entrusting what she had started to us all.
As she said in this video, “Alam mo, bahala ka na.”
When I woke up hours after our conversation, Gina was gone. She had flown back from San Francisco to Manila, which she called home.
My condolence to her mom Chita and her step-dad Dickie, her children and siblings and to the ABS-CBN family.
leona says
Our country is with a constitution box. CBx Mr. Rolly asks: ‘. Katiwa-tiwala pa ba ang Supreme Court????’. What is your answer Mr. Rolly? Inside the CBx is the <b?judiciary box. JBx. All powers and authority of gov’t inside the CBx. It includes the limitations of powers, etc.
PRRD suggests to give VP Robredo power as Czarina on illegal drug campaign for 6 months. He had about 3 years and could not put it right. Will 6 months be enough? This suggestion is kidding box. KBx to-be-inside CBx? Can it be possible legally? JBx comes in to answer this. But it is just kidding anyway and JBx will not be serious enough to deal with it. Neither VP Robredo. Why make a kiddong on the VP on that/this? Check health box. HBx of PRRD box. PRRDbx.
Let’s go back to JBx. Inside this box is supreme court box. SCBx. Recently 2 CJs retired. CJ Peralta is cj now until Year 2022. He has 10-points plan on JBx to improve the rule of law and due process. One pending important issue is BB’s protest with PET. PET box. PBx. Will the protest be dismissed over-all or what box result will happen? Protest’s survival will be according to PBx rules and not with SCBx.
In 1972, FM made his own box. Martial Law box. MLBx. The CBx inside this box for about 19 years. The box was also known as Dictator’s Box. DBx. Anything went and not-gone in that box. BB is creating his own box. BBBx. Good as MLBx or DBx. So far, country is boxed in.
It appears this country has so many boxes. What do the general public know about a box. Kwarta ‘o Kahon box. KKBx. People by majority prefers this KKBx – kwarta. So, country is boxed in again.
Metro Manila, in the city of Manila, has a new box. Iskoyorme box. IBx. Isko is doing well in and on his box. Yorme is now popular. Can be good for Year 2022 presidentiable box. What other box coming? Pacquiao box. PacBx. Will box in Year 2022 against BBBx & IBx. Any other box? Sarah Duterte box. SDBx. All these boxes on Year 2022.
What box then will live to survive on Year 2022? Maybe KKBx. The kwarta box – of the people, by the people and for the people. We will know whose box will be a pot of gold and money.
Country is and will be boxed in KKBx. A strong box. A happy box. A juke box. Pinoys and Pinays loves to be put inside a box. Politicians cannot be without a box. POLBX.
This country is alive and living inside these boxes. BOX Live.
. . . this topic is a boring box. Stay out of any box. he he
arc says
kwarta o kahon? digong has given limit of 6months dapat din he should have set aside budget of 6billion, one billion each month, for leni to try solving drug problems. hwag yong utos ng utos lang.
kahit yong super palpak na federalism venture sa nakarang taon may budget e, pero si leni walang budget binigay para masugpo and druga.
digong is boxing hisself, he, he, he. muscle spasm box meron siya.
arc says
leni ought not be boxed in or put in the box by duterte’s hamo. she can counter the hamon and like what I’ve already said above, leni can ask for a panibagong budget, bigger budget so she can hire good staff, provide offices, facilities and security for them. leni can also ask she be given special power to go after drug lords no matter who they are, anak ni digong o hindi, mga kaibigan ni digong o hindi, mga govt officials man o hindi, he, he, he.
leni can ask she be allowed to busisi bank accounts of suspected drug lords and check their salns. she should also be given power to confiscate drug-availed ill gotten properties. and that duterte et al must not stand on her way and pervert the course of her drug reviews and investigations.
and those found with drug trumped up charges like senator de lima, leni can release them and set them free.
think duterte et al can accept leni’s counter hamon? he, he, he.
Rolly says
Katiwa-tiwala pa ba ang Supreme Court????
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1177473/on-marcos-poll-protest-stand-by-your-rules-robredo-urges-pet
arc says
ay naku, rolly, the justices minus two should have their wigs back to front and hide their faces. hitting the wall would be the least of their worries!
release the report dapat and because hindi na-release at sobrang bagal, ito kumambyo si marcos and instead of recounting which he clearly lost, annulment na ang panibagong hiling.
I suggest 3rd hiling ni marcos is for the justices to wear pajamas to work, he, he, he. and no one would notice.
ayan, nagsisi yata si marcos, walang 7hrs na aberiya ang 2016 election at talo tuloy siya. buti pa ang ate niya nanalo sa awa ng aberiya.
not only the justices hindi katiwalaan, pati smartmatic din po hindi katiwalaan. how could the stupid machine not count correctly? ang laki ng lamang ni leni sa recount!
nagdilim yata ang paningin ni bong marcos, he was robbed kuno of vice presidency. well, he was never the vice president, he was not declared the winner and never was the winner. how could he be robbed of what he did not have? may katok sa utak din yata ang mamang ito, he, he, he.
anyhow, if supreme court release the pet finding with finality, it would awfully mean smartmatic failed big time. the bloody machines that cost millions to buy cannot be trusted to count votes correctly, despite jimenez reassurances.
the ballots have spoken, talo na talaga si marcos, no need for justices to prolong the man’s agony, baka ano na naman maisip niyan!
arc says
at saka, bong marcos paid for the recount of votes only. itong bagong hiling niyang annulment of vice presidential votes ay hindi pwede ipataw sa recount.
kung talagang serious si bong sa annulment, e di magfile siya ng panibagong mo: annulment motion, similar to motion for recon. then, he would have to pay anew and submit panibagong paperwork, new affidavits,etc. hwag barat, idaan yang annulment sa tamang proceso.
he did not pay for annulment, he only pay for recount. for annulment to be even considered, he would have to file annulment case and pay appropriate court fee. that is what I think.
recount and annulment are two different things. at kung may isip man si bong marcos, ay dapat annulment ang inunang i-file. at ngayong medyo talo na siya sa recount ay saka nalang mag-annul. ang daya niya!
leona says
A senator proposing to play Filipino songs at West Phil Sea! Who will be listening? Filipino fish or Chinese fish? Both. WTF!
A senator found out that at one Radio Station in Palawan, there is a Chinese broadcaster airing, of course, in Chinese characters, in Cantonese, Fuckinese, Amoyinese and Mandarin! WTF!
Fucking admineseyon in communistyun Filipinas!
arc says
huli man ito, asking forgiveness po ako. better late po than never.
yong chinese broadcaster sa palawan, my gripe is whether he is licensed to broadcast. kung wala siyang license, e di sipain back home to xi. return to sender, he, he, he, his mouth duck taped, hands tied behind his back, his pants pulled down and set on fire. liar, liar his pants on fire!
pero, seriously, he was allowed to broadcast, nagbayad yata ng air time. freedom to speak and air his bile, much like some of our broadcaster/journalist/rabble rouser, etc and tulfo comes to mind, sorry po.
as well in the library, there are chinese periodicals not much understood by taumbayan but catering mostly for the chinese among us. sa ibang bayan po, also in libraries, may filipino periodicals din and no one is complaining, there are also filipino programs and whatnot in the airwaves and free sila, maliban lang kung subversive ang contents then it will closed and shut down by host countries: revoked.
as for the chinese broadcaster sa palawan, I presumed he is being monitored by the locals. if he is hostile to host country, nagmumura sa bayan natin at belittle our own people, then we’ll duck taped his mouth, he, he, he. talk no more bullshit! speak english! stop stealing our fishes! free hong kong!
leona says
PMA the top military school academy in Fort Del Pilar, Baguio City, should nowadays be renamed The Physical Maltreatment Academy.
Sons and daughters who wants to become dead-cadets can enroll. If they are lucky enough, pray to be hospitalized and survive.
Why ‘o why should a person-cadet at PMA allow his/her body to be tortured physically/mentally, I cannot grasp it. There is already a law against hazing but hazing this law instead is the norm.
Cadets ‘to be’ hazed should fight back upper-class cadets by using a bayonet or a gun to protect against hazing. Do not be afraid to stab upper-class cadets or shoot them.
The Dormitorio cadet incident should have ALL officers at the PMA relieved and be-charged for command responsibility this death of poor-cadet Dormitorio.
arc says
darwin dormitorio’s family is asking for hustisya! and yet did not have darwin be autopsied. the autopsy report would have strengthened the family’s claim. now, they only have the word of pma to rely on.
hwag ilibing kaagad, dapat may autopsy. find out in minute details how darwin died, how many bones in his body were broken, paano pinasabug ang midsection niya, his internal organs pulverized, repeatedly hit by riffle butt with upperclassmen taking their turn.
darwin’s suffering was prolonged and the doctor who tended him should have suspected foul play and alert authorities at once.
darwin wrote letter to his family kuno, methink the letter was dictated by his tormentors, else bubugbugin uli siya.
I also think, darwin was filmed, the video to be posted in the internet showing his shame and how weak and helpless a cadet he was, if he wont to do as told. and the more he did as told, the more they tortured him.
apparently, there were others also hazed. pma is sadistic school, bad school.
arc says
the pebble insinuated hisself in the current pma hazing scenario! nuon kuno around 1986, the pebble was hazed at pinainom kuno siya ng patis. aba, he was pranked yata, at napagkamalan ang prank na hazing. the pebble really is the shit that happened, he, he, he.
the pebble remembered quite well the patis and the year he was made to drink it, but could not for the life of him, remember other stuff, physical stuff he thought were done to him. cannot remember, maybe because he has yet to manufacture them.
and here he is now, dating hepe ng kapolisan, dating hepe ng bucor, senador na ngayon at close confidante ng presidente, and yet, for the life of him again! cannot name those that ‘pranked’ him.
arc says
what hazers and cadets inc. need to understand and understand really well is that if they hazed anyone, they must be prepared to be ‘hazed’ as well. hazed by media revelation which can quite daunting and persistent, hazed out of community, hazed out of job and then, there is always the law which can be the most unforgiving haze, brutal too.
hazing may give death to those hazed, it can also mean ‘death’ to hazers: death of status quo and death of ambition, and thus sharing the fate of those they hazed.
hazers beware, hazing extracts a high price.
leona says
No autopsy made on the body of Cadet Dormi? There is a law or Adm order that deaths resulting in crimes or foul play cannot be buried without the approval of the City Health Officer until complete autopsy is done. Is this law, etc., strictly followed? Baka ‘dead’ rin yun opisyal sa City?
NO BAIL should be recommended to all the culprits responsible in this heinous ‘incident’. It is not an accident btw.
Cadet Dormi was TORTURED. How? Beaten up to pulp! He was made to suffer much pain by his torturers. Poor Cadet Dormitorio. This death is HAZICIDE. How can this be stopped?
Improve by amending the hazing law: 1.) Make PMA [ Physical Maltreatment Academy] liable for damages as an Institution to hold all officials from generals to sergeants also personally and jointly and solidarily liable for damages. This is waiving immunity from criminal and civil liability.
2.) Install CCTVs in all corners of the Academy premises 24/7 including at all rooms, bathrooms and toilets, armories, offices, hospital/clinics, kitchens, etc., with speakers and keep recording all and everything to be kept in good condition for 5 years. Etc. In short, transparency & no privacy entitlement.
3.) Maybe, why not abolish this Academy because it is causing one deaths too many? Get candidates for military officers from Reserve Force – ROTC or OCS [ Officers’ Candidate School ].
Last, make this deaths heinous crimes also.
From news report: ‘According to Marisol Abdurahman’s report on “24 Oras”, a medico legal officer told the Dormitorio family that the victim of fatal hazing was also electrocuted in his privates.
The victim’s family gave GMA News a copy of Dormitorio’s death certificate. It showed that he died due to blunt traumatic injuries to the abdomen.
“Isipin nyo po ‘yung durog po yung organs niya di ba? Yung kidneys, niya pancreas niya yung liver. Tapos may pasa pa siya dito,” Dormitorio’s brother Darwin said.
Dexter said the beatings and the electrocution were inhuman.
“Kung kayo kinuryente sa bayag, kakayanin niyo?” Dexter said. [ A loss to reproduce off-springs. Like na sakit ng Mumps] Isn’t this torture? Yes.
Dexter said Dormitorio’s ribs had four whip marks. Torture rin ito.
“Parang maliit na manipis na bakal, rod, pinanghampas po sa kanya. Siguro nakatagilid siya,” Dexter said.’
Laban Kayo Mga Lower Class [ plebes] cadets!
leona says
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/709355/family-told-hazed-cadet-dormitorio-beaten-badly-electrocuted-in-privates/story/?ataglance
arc says
no autopsy done, if there was it was very flimsy. blood sample of the deceased would have been tested to check if there was drug in his system. if drugged, he was unable to fight back to save himself. if not drugged, his adrenaline must have been firing on all cylinders and he would have given the fight of his life and would mostly have defensive injuries to his arms and knuckles, nanlaban e, at nakipagsuntukan, nangagat, nanipa, etc, he would not go quietly.
no autopsy done kaya no mention of defensive injuries. saka hindi sinabi if some of his injuries were inflected after he was dead. forensic pathologist would have been able to elucidate. if his genitals or testicles were electrocuted after he was dead, there would be no guarding of the tissue. patay na siya and would feel no pain, unresponsive na ang muscles. it’s likely his tormentors interfered with the corpse.
if he was still alive when his testicles were electrocuted, forensic pathologist would have been able to categorize electrical burn whether 1st, 2nd or 3rd degree burn. if his broken ribs pierced his lungs, he would have been hypervolumic and drown on his own blood.
methink, the deceased was whip with a blunt side of a saber sa midsection sa katawan.
and to say that the deceased died due to blunt traumatic injuries to the abdomen is incomplete. many survived blunt traumatic injuries to the abdomen like if someone headbutt you, you’ll be winded, in pain but alive. if there was indeed autopsy, it would probably say the deceased died due to ruptured spleen or perforated bowel caused by blunt force trauma to the abdomen.
leona says
Lt.Gen. Brawner SIR!, make it a policy now that any CADET caught hazing another, be made an Enlisted non-commissioned officer to be sent to Mindanao for a special Impossible Mission find the Abu Sayaff eliminating this group thereby torturing all its members before killing them as a counter-torture application. And make this as Opn Hazicide Patrol.
he he
arc says
he, he, he, send erring cadets to mindanaw, aba parang homecoming yan. most are from mindanaw, marahil mga kamag-anak ng mga rebeldes given 2nd chance. apparently, they dont know what to do with 2nd chances given them; kaya, they squandered the chances.
anyhow, the suspects may all be out on bail depending on how good at defense their lawyers are. I can already see holes on the prosecution, and I think, as lawyer, you can see the holes as well, leona, baby.
not all suspects are guilty, some are just ususeros coming in for look-see. and if they want to save their skin, they should release the contents of their phones, the video of who participated in the hazing and who did not.
the stun gun kept as evidence, the defense will go for it. have it tested for dna, see if the deceased’s dna is there present, and how many others dna are there present as well. what would be miscarriage of justice is when the dna of the deceased is not there at maging goose chase ang justice sought. perverted by planting of false evidence.
ay, tugma kuno ang stun gun sa burn marks of the victim. kaso all stun guns of the same make and model ay magkasing-tugma rin, and would most likely match the burn marks of the victim too. the only difference is when there is corroborating dna found.
Rolly says
Janet Lim Napoles’ listed among convicts freed on good conduct
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1163638/janet-lim-napoles-listed-among-convicts-freed-on-good-conduct
By: Christine O. Avendaño, Leila B. Salaverria
Philippine Daily Inquirer 05:36 AM September 12, 2019
MANILA, Philippines — Janet Lim Napoles, convicted of plunder and the alleged mastermind of the P10-billion pork barrel scam, was also found guilty of rape and released on good behavior, according to documents obtained by the Inquirer.
In a phone interview with the Inquirer, Sen. Richard Gordon confirmed on Wednesday night that Napoles was on the list of heinous crime convicts who had been released under the good conduct law since 2014.
Attempt to release many
“There is an attempt to release as many people as they can, including Napoles,” he said, adding that he would raise the matter at Thursday’s resumption of the Senate hearing on Republic Act No. 10592 that he leads.
The good conduct law drew scrutiny from lawmakers for nearly benefiting rapist-killer Antonio Sanchez whose release on supposed good behavior was aborted amid public outrage.
Napoles was among 2,160 convicts serving time for heinous crimes but released on good conduct time allowance under the 2013 law.
A list from the Bureau of Corrections obtained by the Inquirer showed that a ‘Napoles, Janet y Lim,’ prisoner N211P-2332, was among “persons deprived of liberty” who were freed under the current administration.
Released on Nov. 12, 2018
Napoles was number 275 in the group of convicts charged with rape who were freed on Nov. 12, 2018.
The document indicated she was released due to “expiration of sentence” but provided no other details of the case such as when the crime was committed and when she was convicted and sentenced.
leona says
Janet Napoles released also under GCTA RA 10592? 1 more shame. How many shames to make a red-faced on this Administration? A thousand and Nine-hundreds plus! Shame.
‘She also hit Gordon for insinuating that “the IRR was written to achieve corrupt ends.”
“The IRR reflected the letters of the law. Any problem they have as a result of the implementation of R.A. No. 10592 lies with the law, not the IRR,” De Lima said in a statement.’ = any counter-statement by detained Sen. De Lima. Shame.
What lies in the this law? How many lawmakers approved this law even when they were not present but absent? Another shame? No wonder there’s more interpretations of the law & IRR than the number of convicted heinous criminals in Bilibid Prison. It will keep growing by the hour as more released criminals are divulge now and in the days ahead. Shame.
With this advent of R.A. No. 10592 and its IRR, accused persons of heinous crimes, now and to be, will be convicted and will be released shortly afterwards. Thus, tantamount to throwing away the Revised Penal Code, as Amended and other special criminal laws. Shame it is.
Only in ‘Pinas! – S H A M E corruption.
arc says
napoles rapist? who did she rape? I recalled her having hysterectomy and her ovaries were removed.
as of now napoles is not really out of prison, right? kulong pa rin siya hanggang ngayon and waiting to be freed. dahil kung nakalabas na siya, e di bumalik uli siya sa kulungan and pronto, else ma-arrest uli siya without warrant kung sakaling sumuko after grace period.
bucor is one big mess, everything goes pala. freedom for sale. mali daw ang bucor list just like mali ang narco list ni digong, he, he, he.
mali ang bucor list dahil nabuking kasi. kung hindi lang sana nabuking yon, e di tama ang list at lusot si napoles.
walang matitino dyan sa bucor.
Rolly says
Gina should not have accepted the DENR post. She was desperate to pursue headlong her aspirations for the protection of the environment, thus she fell for Duterte’s malevolent deceptions.
arc says
gina was one of the few who were first to call on duterte and congratulated him in person. she was smiling widely and I thought how could she be so happy when the man she’s fist pumping with is mass killer? she failed to get nod of committee on appts and lost denr job.
arc says
duterte did not recycle gina and appointed her to another govt post.
leona says
R.A. No. 10592 GCTA a fire burning justice.
Ang convict is convicted by justice’s courts. Ang convict is released not by justice’s courts. Ang convict gets released by a bureau of incorrection. Shouldn’t it be that this law should include that release of a convict be done by only the justice’s courts? Dapat.
Bakit ‘Dapat!’? Because the case of conviction was done by the Third department of the government – the Judiciary Dept. So, dapat lang that in heinous crimes by criminals, the release be done by the courts including from the Supreme Court. For consistency’s sake.
For justice’s sake.
Even if release is by Executive power, di ba dapat lang it should be ‘with approval’ by the court and the Supreme Court. For justice’s sake. For consistency’s sake.
But this GCTA law on release is done by a bureau of incorrection that even the DOJ office is not informed. Neither the courts. Heinous killings are heinous. GCTA law is simply a bad law as it is now. Either repeal it or change it to be implemented only by the courts.
Ironically, GCTA is ‘greedy & costly TAlaga’! Ang Lagay [the bribe, gift, suhol, atbpa]. Wag kalimutan ang full payment of all the damages for other crimes. For heinous criminals full payment by staying in jail ’til end of un-natural [or natural] life.
he he
leona says
This law R.A. 10592 on ‘good conduct time allowance’ is a corrupt idea on penal provisions of the Revised Penal Code, as Amended.
Imprisonment after final conviction can be paid-up to reduce unjustifiably the years of imprisonment. It even can be availed of in reclusion perpetua a 30 years of imprisonment to less than 20 years if imprisonment, including a multiple 30 years imposed.
Lawmakers ‘thought’ more to killers and criminals disregarding the victims and heirs of those cruelly, etc. killed without focusing whether ‘payment of damages’ was ever done. Collecting ‘Damages’ is a difficult task under the laws.
So, what is now happening on this R.A. 10592 GCTA? An injustice is done. Review this law? Better repeal this law instead. If at all, amending it should only grant convicts a benefit of ‘time’ under detention until final conviction deleting good conduct, studying, loyalty, non-escaping, etc. In fact, every convict should be made to satisfactorily pay all losses incurred like the civil moral damages, actual damages, exemplary damages, etc., imposed by the courts that non-payment of this items should also disqualify early release until then during service of the full term of imprisonment. With such obligation to be complied with will be a sunshine of justice to the poor victims and their heirs.
This is one suggested thought for the lawmakers and Administration.
leona says
How or Why about 2000+ convicts of heinous crimes were realeased since 2013? Per CNN news reports – ‘Metro Manila (CNN Philippines, August 29)— More than 1,900 inmates convicted of heinous crimes have been granted early release since 2013 due to good behavior, the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) said Thursday.
Data released by the bureau revealed that a total of 22,049 prisoners were given freedom through the Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA), a provision in the Revised Penal Code which shortens jail time for good behavior. Of the number, 1,914 individuals committed heinous crimes.’
Yet, as of current news from DOJ office, GCTA R.A. 10592 is suspended for implementation. Huh? Worst, is BuCor does not release the ‘names’ of those released already. Huh? Keeping the secrets? Huh?
This law is causing a floodied-raining days in our injustice system!
https://cnnphilippines.com/news/2019/8/29/heinous-crime-convict-good-conduct-release-BuCor.html
arc says
of the 1,914 heinous criminals freed on good behavior, bucor could not release their names, maybe because some of them had re-offended already. who knows, baka nakalaya na naman uli sila on good behavior.
and the scary thing is how many times did heinous criminals been freed on good behavior? once? twice? thrice?
leona says
SECTION 6. Section 6. Penal Clause. – Faithful compliance with the provisions of this Act is hereby mandated. As such, the penalty of one (1) year imprisonment, a fine of One hundred thousand pesos (P100,000.00) and perpetual disqualification to hold office shall be imposed against any public officer or employee who violates the provisions of this Act.
‘BEIJING — Inmates convicted for heinous crimes but were granted early freedom under Republic Act 10592 or the good conduct time allowance (GCTA) must be sent back to jail, Malacañang said Friday.
According to presidential spokesperson Salvador Panelo, who is also President Rodrigo Duterte’s chief legal counsel, RA 10592 does not apply to them.’ ‘ By: Nestor Corrales – Reporter / @NCorralesINQINQUIRER.net / 01:34 PM August 30, 2019’
‘Former Pasig Regional Trial Court Judge Harriet Demetriou slammed Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo over his involvement in the impending release of his former client, a convicted rapist and murderer Antonio Sanchez.
On Wednesday, Demetriou said Panelo and Bureau of Corrections Director Nicanor Faeldon should resign from their respective posts since they intentionally twisted the good conduct time allowance (GCTA) in order to fit it the Republic Act 10592.
“Tini-twist nila na good conduct time allowance (GCTA) kasi matagal na daw si Sanchez doon na 25 years. Eh mabulok man siya doon, hindi siya qualified under the law unless the law is amended,” she said.
Demetriou said Faeldon allowed the GCTA application of Sanchez despite not being totally qualified since the law excludes heinous crime convicts from shorter jail time privilege. She added that the BuCor chief is clearly making a mockery of RA 10592.’ by Christhel Cuazon’
Who signed and granted the release of convicts for heinous crimes under RA 10592? Who attempted also to issue such order to release them? By GOLLY! One (1) year imprisonment and FINE of P100,000.00 for every act PLUS (reclusion) perpetual disqualification to hold office ARE the effects for unfaithful compliance of this law.
Monday, Senate Hearing by Sen. Dick Gordon on this. Please BRING THE CREDIBLE RECORD for those convicts released in violation of this law. No secrets here!
Abangan!
leona says
http://dzrhnews.com.ph/demetriou-says-faeldon-making-a-mockery-of-ra-10592-panelo-should-resign-from-post-over-loyalty-to-sanchez/
leona says
https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1159253/palace-freed-heinous-crime-convicts-under-gcta-rule-must-return-to-jail
leona says
Will the Ombudsman Chief Office holder have the guts to conduct an investigation moto propio on Bu.Incorrek Nicolas Faeldon? And if evidence initially warrants, remove or suspend Fael from office?
Btw, no senator among the very many, did ever ASKS Fael: ‘How much money did you receive for signing orders of release of disqualified heinous criminals in violation of RA No. 90592?’ Sen. Lacson keeps saying ‘Ang tara lumipat from Bu Custom to Bu Inkorek, yet he did not ask this question? Bakit? Nahihiya ba si Senador?
Drama ‘tlaga ang senate investigation siguro. he he
leona says
Violation of RA No.10952 is only 1 Year imprisonment. So cheap! I suggest that because there is a lot of corruption happening on GCTA, the imprisonment penalty should be Reclusion perpetua.
Ayos!
leona says
RIP Gina Lopez. Though you were not confirmed by the CA [comm. on Arays], such was a wrong law applied on you.
Speaking of a wrong law, convicts of heinous crimes, like ex-mayor Sanchez will be due for release from prison under a new law – wrong law. Why wrong law? Because under RA 9346 June 24, 2006, says: SEC. 3. Person convicted of offenses punished with reclusion perpetua, or whose sentences will be reduced to reclusion perpetua, by reason of this Act, shall not be eligible for parole under Act No. 4180, otherwise known as the Indeterminate Sentence Law, as amended.
‘SHALL NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR PAROLE’! Mr. Sanchez got SEVEN (7) reclusion perpetua [ life sentences]. What is the new law?
A suggestion to JUDGES under the Revised Penal Code: Article 5. Duty of the court in connection with acts which should be repressed but which are not covered by the law, and in cases of excessive penalties. – Whenever a court has knowledge of any act which it may deem proper to repress and which is not punishable by law, it shall render the proper decision, and shall report to the Chief Executive, through the Department of Justice, the reasons which induce the court to believe that said act should be made the subject of legislation.
In the same way, the court shall submit to the Chief Executive, through the Department of Justice, such statement as may be deemed proper, without suspending the execution of the sentence, when a strict enforcement of the provisions of this Code would result in the imposition of a clearly excessive penalty, taking into consideration the degree of malice and the injury caused by the offense.
. . . Judges should include in the court sentences of life imprisonment – that ‘No parole’ be granted in view of ‘Whenever a court has knowledge of any act which it may deem proper to repress and which is not punishable by law, it shall render the proper decision – should be in the proper decision.
Releasing convicts for committing heinous crimes is a WRONG law – Good Conduct Time Allowance (GCTA) law – Republic Act No. 10592. Good conduct? SUSMA! Stupid wrong law should not be implemented.
A wrong law is a BAD LAW. Why does Congress love bad laws? I dunno really. Pity the poor victims and their loved ones. Such convicts should rot ’til death for rats in jails.
Releasing rats will most probably tempt to exterminate the rats extrajudicially somehow.
Do Not Apply RA 10592 to RATS retroactively as it is killing the loved ones of the victims this time around. The Constitution and the Revised Penal Code, as Amended, does not support such view.
leona says
Authoritative opinions: [DOJ] ‘Guevarra said prisoners convicted of heinous crimes and those who have committed drug offenses while incarcerated should be excluded outright from benefiting from Republic Act No. 10592, which shaves years off a prisoner’s prison term for good behavior.
Service of sentences of reclusion perpetua should run CONSECUTIVELY and not simultaneously. Meaning? One after another is served. Example: 7 life sentences [40 years each] is 280 YEARS. That is or should be the intent of the court, whether explicitly or implicitly missing in the sentence. RATS have always existed for millions of years!
Public sentiments: Sarmenta’s mother, Maria Clara, who was shocked and angered by the prospect that Sanchez might soon walk out of prison, was thankful for the justice department’s clarifications.
Bad or wrong law SHOCKS the citizenry.
. . . Allan’s [a victim] family
At UP Los Baños on Thursday, Gomez’s 73-year-old mother, Iluminada, and her eldest son, OJ, joined around 200 students and teachers protesting the early release of Sanchez. This FAMILY should be happy and given HAPPINESS by not implementing a wrong or bad law.
Imagine the sentiment expressed in banners! Carrying banners saying “No to release of Sanchez,” they carried lighted candles while marching around the sprawling campus.
Don’t tempt the people to express in physical violence and firing guns marching around because of a wrong or bad law. Congress and courts, et.als., watch out!
Another sentiment, this time from Sec. Locsin: MANILA—If Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. has his way, rapist-murderer Antonio Sanchez must pay for his crimes with his life.
“Well then, kill him. He won’t be the first to be shot to pieces behind bars. No loss, no regrets, no nothing,” he wrote on Twitter, reacting to Sen. Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa’s statement that the former Calauan town mayor should have been sentenced to death.
RATS by leptospirosis kills people. Sanchez has 7 different of that. Sec. Locsin says: Locsin earlier said the law and the Supreme Court are wrong in letting Sanchez walk free. . .
A RAT to walk free? What a folly! There are thousands of RATS to walk free! The news reports are changing re FAELDON who says in one: BuCor director Nicanor Faeldon had said Sanchez was likely to walk free among thousands of inmates because of a new law increasing GCTA and a Supreme Court (SC) decision applying this law retroactively. In others, he says Sanchez will not get good conduct mertis. Folly! Folly ‘n…ina!
But the cases of Sanchez is being reviewed! Why review them? He is as guilty on 7 counts as hell. According to Guevarra, BuCor officials will still have to review Sanchez’ case for his eligibility for the Good Conduct Time Allowance or GCTA as well as the exact time he has gained during the sentence. What should be done is ‘review’ the cases of Sanchez to make him served CONSECUTIVELY the 7 reclusion perpetua sentences.
The Administration should not allow this folly because we will all end up in a FOLLY world in the Philippines.
arc says
totally agree ako, and would say further na sanchez should stay behind bars for the rest of his natural life. halimaw siya and should not be released. the public is not safe with him around. he has not changed and not reformed, and insisiting siya na he was framed kuno, na innocent kuno siya of the heinous crime committed. aba, in denial pa rin ang hayup hanggang ngayon!
while in prison, he was found dealing shabu, his cell may modcon and gizmos not allowed, he has prison authorities by the throat!
they should dig a deep pit and throw him in, the pit filled to the brim with boiling water.
society is better off without sanchez. keep him behind bars!
arc says
saka, sabi ni senator soto, talagang nagbago na raw si sanchez, e nakapalda na nga sa kulungan.
ay, naku, naging transgender yata si sanchez, in preparation for his release that he maybe able to use female toilets, and thus have access to young girls using the toilet, he, he, he.
ito talaga si sotto, dapat palawakan ang isip! methink, si sanchez nakapalda is because he missed having girls and women around that he resorted to wearing women’s clothing. parang may fetish si sanchez! his kati stoked, the palda to satisfy his longings, for now, he, he, he.
leona says
Si SP Sotto walang alam kay Sanchez kung nagbago na ba, liban lang kung cell mate nya itong konbik ng matagal na mga taon. Sa RA #10952 GCTA naliwanag DISQUALIFIED si Sanchez as having committed HEINOUS CRIMES. Hindi ba marunong mag basa ng Batas ang Sec. DOJ at Chf Bu. of Prison?
Baka yung reading nila ay yung Batas sa LGTBT $%^& ‘tang…ina! Wala pang 40 years sa selda, eh lalabas na ba si Sanchez? ‘TANG. . . INA!
KORUPTSYON umi-iral siguro sa bagay nito. ‘TANG…INA!
arc says
may ‘hold departure order’ yata si sanchez and not allowed to leave prison, kulong muna for now. to satisfy the clamoring public, for now.
ang bigat pala ng influence ni sanchez! doj’s guevarra, senator bato, panelo, sotto, et al are all for sanchez’s early release. and the way they ‘circumcise’ the law, snipping here, snipping there, they ought to be meted the death penalty as well!
and now, all those marked for early release, the very lucky ten thousand prisoners, are put on hold departure order as well, pending review kuno. havent prison authorities already done the review kaya due for early release na sila? review on review, mind boggling reviews. to do another review so soon after the previous review could only mean the previous review was faulty, may margin of error, questionable.
parang may bayaran tuloy, those that can pay will have early release. and those that cannot pay, stay behind and continue on drug dealings while in prison. save big enough money to pay for early release.
there is flood of early releases sa kulungan, may baha, may agos all the way to the exit.