LAMAY SA PATAY

KAKATWA ang sitwasyon ng Filipinas. Bagaman nanalo umano si BBM na taglay ang mahigit sa kalahati ng mga rehistradong botante sa nakalipas na halalan, hindi nagbubunyi ang bansa dahil may bago ng pangulo. Mistulang lamay sa patay ang sitwasyon pulitikal ng bansa. Patuloy ang mga troll ni BBM sa pagkakalat ng huwad na balita at galit sa social media.

Nababalutan ng katanungan ang kandidatura ni BBM. Hindi pa nagdesisyon kung lehitimong kandidato si BBM noong nakaraang halalan. Nagpipilit si Sara Duterte na manumpa sa ika-19 ng Hunyo. Kung mangyayari, mas magiging kakatwa ang sitwasyon ng Filipinas dahil dalawa ang nakaupong pangalawang pangulo. Hindi naiintindihan ni Sara ang Saligang Batas na nagsasabing hanggang tanghali ng ika-30 ng Hunyo ang termino ni Leni Robredo.

Dahil nagmamadali si Sara na manumpa bilang pangalawang pangulo, nahahalata tuloy ang pangkat ng Davao City na nais nila si Sara ang maupong pangulo at hindi si BBM. Kumakalat ang tsismis na lulutuin ng Korte Suprema ang desisyon na nadiskwalipika si BBM. Kahindik-hindik ang lagay ng pulitika ng bansa. Hindi malaman kung saan patungo. Abangan na lang.

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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 had followed the template, which he had developed and implemented, when he became mayor of Davao City in 1988. Hence, Duterte had implemented the same Davao City template on the national level. The information continued:

“In a public speech, President Duterte boasted as Mayor that his ‘best practice’ in eradicating or controlling crime in Davao is to kill suspected criminals, asserting it to be his secret in making his claim that Davao City is the ninth safest city in the world. Based on his public pronouncements when he was still vying for President, Mayor Duterte manifested a clear intention to CONTINUE with his ‘best practice,’ strategy or system in Davao City when he made the eradication of the drug menace as a centerpiece of his campaign platform for the presidency. In fact, his campaign promise underlined by his serious threats in public TO KILL drug addicts and pushers made him so popular that he won by 16 million votes, all the more compelling and pressuring him to continue his ‘best practice,’ strategy or system in the Davao Death Squad in order to fulfill his campaign promise.

“It is, thus, humbly submitted that when Mayor Duterte was elected and assumed office as President of the Philippines, he intended to continue and in fact did continue, by way of a model or template, the ‘best practice’ strategy or system implemented by him in Davao City through the Davao Death Squad when he was still the Mayor and, in furtherance of such intent to continue, he expanded its coverage, as President, to the national level in order to implement his campaign promise to eradicate the drug problem in six months.”

The information contained details about what it described “basic material hallmarks or elements in the extrajudicial executions” by DDS groups in Davao City and the extrajudicial executions after Duterte had assumed the presidency. They include: the element of police participation and command; the element of a hitman or an unknown armed assailant; the presence of a reward system for every killing; and the provision of reward in cash. Other details: the adherence to a kill watch list; the collaboration between barangay and police officials; the presence of the cardboard sign and the face/body wrapped in packing tape (or duct tape); the use of “riding in tandem” motorcycle-riding assailants; the use of hooded or masked assailants; and the planting of guns and drugs. The information said:

“The public pronouncements of President Duterte after the President express a loud and clear intention to promote, encourage, or incite the police and civilians to mass murder or violence, thereby betraying the self-same mental state indicating an awareness, knowledge or intent to further continue at the national level, in an unrelenting fashion and with the same impunity, what he considers to be the ‘best practice,’ strategy or system of killing suspected criminals through the Davao Death Squad when he was still the Mayor of Davao City.”

The information noted that Duterte never condemned the spate of mass killings but even took pride that its increased number showed that his war on drugs was a “success.” He conveyed his weird and distorted sense of value that the sudden increase in instances of mass murder was an accomplishment, an achievement in governance. It added:

“In sum, the following propositions are humbly submitted before the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, namely: (1) as a Mayor of Davao City, Rodrigo Duterte already committed CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY through the mass murder or extrajudicial executions under his Davao Death Squad of suspected criminals carried out as a ‘best practice,’ strategy or system for crime control, and (2) as the President on and after 30 June 2016, he merely intended to continue and did continue the commission of CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY also carried out under the same ‘best practice’ strategy or system of extrajudicial or summary executions in Davao City, this time in his war on drugs at the national level. In other words, President Duterte, as a Mayor and later as a President, has been ‘repeatedly, unchangingly and continuously’ committing crimes against humanity through mass murder since the time that he was the Mayor of Davao City up to the time when he immediately became the President of the Philippines in his war on drugs at the national level.”

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MGA PILING SALITA: “. The issue against the madman is not just subservience to a foreign power. It’s not his defeatist attitude vis-a-vis China. It’s just not the pursuit of an appeasement policy either. Neither is the way he has weakened our bargaining leverage vis-a-vis a major power in the East Asian region. It’s virtual surrender of our national sovereignty to China. By ignoring the decision of The Hague-based International Permanent Arbitral Commission acknowledging the historical fiction of China’s claim of Nine Dash Line, by allowing China to build a military base on one of the contested islands in the West Philippine Sea, and by stopping the Philippine Navy from conducting patrols of the Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ), the sick old man has made it clear that China has won in its hegemonistic design without firing a single shot. This is treasonous, to be precise.” – PL, netizen

“BBM can always claim that the majority of Filipino voters elected him. But he would not have a strong and clear mandate because of allegations of electoral cheating and irregularities. His mandate would always be viewed as questionable.” – PL, netizen

“When Americans tell me how shocked they are that Filipinos elected another Marcos, I tell them that our counting system is much better than any of the highly industrialized countries in the world as the Philippines was able to count all the ballots less than 5 hrs after the polling precincts closed the centers!” – Milette Caparas

“Kita ninyo ba ang pagkakaiba ng 2 pamilyang nagbakasyon pagkatapos ng eleksyon? Yung 1 sa New York, yung 1 sa Melbourne. Palihim yung sa Australia, ipinagmamalaki naman yung sa America kasi, dapat lang! Ang daming masasayang larawan ng simpleng buhay yung isa samantalang wala namang maipakita yung isa kundi larawan ng mga protesta. Sino ba talaga ang panalo?” – Vince Roque, netizen