People saw the photo of Chief Justice Enrique M. Fernando holding an umbrella for Imelda Marcos not as chivalry but his final act of legitimizing the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos.Listen and take heed, civil libertarian and environmental warrior Marvic Leonen. This too may become your fate one day.
Ang kabuuan ng budget insertions ni Escudero na mukhang nagbabalatkayong pandarambong — P142,717,586,000.Dapat nating ilantad ang engrandeng sikreto ni Escudero na ginagawang tanga ang bawat mamamayang Pilipino.
The sole political context: Chiz Escudero wants to be the next Senate president of the 20th Senate. But his ambition does not cost a free lunch. He must win his way by means of projects not only to his fellow senator allies, but for himself as well. In addition, nothing can stop him as well from using these insertions to buy their acquittal votes for Sara Duterte. Get the equation?
Rodrigo Duterte turned government into one national gambling machinery by making E-sabong a state-enabled enterprise. By 2021, the system spanned 14 regions of the country.
Juan Miguel Zubiri, senator of the land, is done with his work as judge in the impeachment trial of Sara Duterte. Even before the trial has begun, he has already rendered a verdict. And his verdict is acquittal. He has violated his oath of office.
Our association of the Duterte house in Doña Luisa subdivision is far from rosy. The self-confessed Davao Death Squad assassin, Arturo Lascañas, said it was in that house that the assassination of Leila de Lima, then the chair of the Human Rights Commission was planned by then Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte while cooking sausages.
In the event the three judges of pre-trial Chamber 1 will reject the interim release, the Dutertes have only themselves to blame. It is a very sick family of bullies and persecutors. They know no other game but power for themselves. At our expense. That is why unlike the people of Davao city, we see no end in the need to hold them accountable.
In 2015, GMA News reported that Sigfrid Fortun’s acceptance fee is P20 million per case. If that is true, we can already envisage the bottomless pit of money that the Dutertes have. Remember that for the ICC case of Rodrigo Duterte, the family is not being impoverished by Nicolas Kaufman’s legal fees of P2,590,960 per month (Eu40,000). They have asked the International Criminal Court to help them cover the legal fees of the Kaufman team’s five lawyers.
Integrity is not one of Chiz’s talents. We can make him know there is a price to it.
Go’s transfer to Lupon, Davao Oriental is seen as his break from the Duterte children and their heirs, now numbering five in political power. With Go’s higher ambitions, his chances of having the city as his baluarte are dim. It will always be in the hands of the Duterte children, who see him as belonging to the opposing Honeylet Avanceña side of the broken family.
