MONARKIYA SA PINAS

HINDI maganda ang pangitain ng ilang kababayan sa kapalaran ng Filipinas. Ayon sa ilang netizen, hindi totoong mamumuno si BBM. Mahinang lider si BBM. Walang buto. Walang gulugod. Bibigyan lang niya ng pangalan ang panguluhan.

Ayon kay Sahid Sinsuat Glang, isang retiradong sugo ng bansa, si Atty. Victorio Rodriguez, ang namomina na executive secretary, ang magpapatakbo ng gobyerno. Hindi sang-ayon si Stanley Cabanatan, isang netizen, sa tinuran ni Sahid. Sa ganang kanya, limang babae ang magpapatakbo ng bansa. Mistulang isang monarkiya, aniya.

Matinding kumpetisyon ang haharapin ni Atty Victorio, ayon kay Stanley. Limang amazona ang magdidikta kay BBM kung ano ang gagawin. Nandiyan si GMA; hindi nalalayo si Manang Imee. Kahit nag-uulyanin, makikialam si Imelda. Huwag isantabi ang misteryosang si Sara na walang alam sa pambansang pulitika. Siempre, nariyan ang asawang si Liza Araneta.

Walang pag-asa si Atty. Victorio na magtakda kung paano patatakbuhin ang gobyerno ni BBM, ani Stanley. Wala siyang karanasan sa pulitika at hindi malayong paglaruan siya ng limang amazona. Nakikita namin na masahol pa siya sa alilang kanin kung diktahan ng limang amasona na pawang may malalakas na personalidad.

Salat sa kaalaman si BBM. May mga netizen na nagsabing hindi alam ni BBM ang detalye ng trabaho ng solicitor-general. Hindi nga alam ni BBM kung hanggang ilan ang kasapi ng Korte Suprema. May mga nagkomento na isang dahilan kung bakit sumabak sa debate si BBM noong nakaraang kampanya ay dahil walang siyang tiwala sa sarili na maharap ang mga isyu.

Hindi seryoso si BBM sa panguluhan. Hindi niya nais lutasin ang maraming suliranin. Mas nais niya na malinis ang mabahong pangalan ng kanyang pamilya. Sabi ni Fr. Ian Gabinete: “Naupo lang para malinis ang pangalan. Ang inang ganid sa yaman biglang lumakas nang ang anak ay mailagak sa luklukan. Namayagpag na naman ang kasamaan. Saan ka ba talaga tutungo o Inang Bayan? Kailan ka ba papayag maiahon sa putikan?”

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HINDI lang ang limang amasona ang magtatakda ng kapalaran ng Filipinas. Nandiyan sa likod ng dilim si Jonathan dela Cruz at Yen Makabenta. Sila ang magmamanman ng galaw ng iba’t ibang paksyon sa gobyerno ni BBM. Sila ang matalik na kaibigan ni BBM.

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MGA PILING SALITA: Watch out, the Marcos ttoll network will blame Junior’s economic troubles on ‘Pinklawans’, ‘Dilawans’, traditional media and ‘big business’. And when this is repeated a million times on social media, it will become the ‘truth’ for those who voted for him.” – Raissa Robles, journalist, netizen

“Six years nilang tinawag na Fake VP si Leni Robredo. May karapatan din naman siguro kami tawagin na Fake President yan. O mas better, ‘COMELEC-elect President’.” – Dr. Sandy Alipio, netizen

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HALAW ang mga sumusunod sa aming aklat “KILL KILL KILL: EJKs in the Philippines; Crimes Against Humanity vs. Duterte Et. Al. At the ICC.” Nasa huling yugto na ako na pagsusulat.

DUTERTE’S CO-ACCUSED

RODRIGO Duterte did not act alone. He had his close confidantes as his accomplices in the bloody but failed war on drugs. This is exactly the reason the first information, which the camp of Antonio Trillanes IV and Gary Alejano had built up, has several names attached as his co-accused. They are: then Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre; then Philippine National Police Director General Ronaldo dela Rosa (now a senator); then House of Representatives Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez; then Interior Secretary Ismael Sueno, Solicitor General Jose Calida, Senators Richard Gordon and Alan Peter Cayetano, Police Superintendent Edilberto Leonardo, Senior Police Officer 4 Sanson “Sonny” Buenaventura, Police Superintendent Royina Garma (now head of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office), and National Bureau of Investigation Director Dante Gierran (now head of PhilHealth). It did not include Christopher Go, a flunkey who is now a senator. But it was a different story.

To establish the complicity of those public officials, the first information mentioned the grounds under the Rome Statute for their individual criminal responsibility. It cited the following provisions of Article 25 of the Rome Statute:

1. The Court shall have jurisdiction over natural persons pursuant to this Statute.

2. A person who commits a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court shall be individually responsible and liable for punishment in accordance with this Statute.

3. In accordance with this Statute, a person shall be criminally responsible and liable for punishment for a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court if that person:

a) Commits such a crime, whether as an individual, jointly with another or through another person, regardless of whether that other person is criminally responsible;

b) Orders, solicits or induces the commission of such a crime which in fact occurs or is attempted;

c) Crime, aids, abets or otherwise assists in its commission or its attempted commission, including providing the means for its commission;

d) In any other way contributes to the commission or attempted commission of such a crime by a group of persons acting with a common purpose. Such contribution shall be intentional and shall either:

1. Be made with the aim of furthering the criminal activity or criminal purpose of the group, where such activity or purpose involves the commission of a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court; or 2. Be made in the knowledge of the intention of the group to commit the crime;

As the Mayor of Davao, Rodrigo Duterte is sought to be investigated, tried and convicted before the International Criminal Court for the extra-judicial executions of more than 1,400 persons carried out by him through his Davao Death Squad in Davao City after August 2011, when the Philippines became a party state to the Rome Statute. Based on the testimony of Edgar Matobato and Arthur Lascañas, President Duterte as then Mayor has direct knowledge of and participation in the willful killings carried out by his Davao Death Squad with his order, permission and sanction. In fact, he has publicly admitted that he is the Davao Death Squad and that he killed not just 700, but 1700 persons.

The first information said it was seeking the investigation and prosecution of Duterte because of the death of more than 7,000 persons in his war on drugs. Moreover, it claimed that Duterte knew those EJKs, he was allegedly criminally liable. It said his failure to stop the mass violence makes him criminally responsible under the principle of “command responsibility.” He is liable under Article 28 (b) 180 of the Rome Statute for his failure to stop the PNP and the DILG from committing the crimes of murder, persecution, mental torture and imprisonment.

Moreover, his threats to kill and public incitement of the police forces and the public to mass murder and violence “make him directly criminally liable or responsible for crimes against humanity through murder.” It said:

“Under the Rome Statute, the President Duterte is liable under Article 25.3 (b), (c), and (d), for his public statements labelling drug users as criminals without the benefit of due process; for then calling on the police to kill these criminals; and for promising to pardon policemen who carry out his sweeping orders to kill drug users and dealers, regardless of the findings of other investigative government agencies, and even in case of conviction by local courts.”