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Ang tindi n'yo naman talaga diyan sa Malacañang. Isasalubong ninyo sa taumbayan sa bagong taon anomalya agad. Give the people a break, or at least have an iota of shame! Sobrang-sobra ng kabuktutan 'yan. [1]
The PSG would not, at their own peril, inoculate themselves an untested COVID-19 vaccine, much less an unauthorized and illegal one, without the approval or explicit order from the President. [2]
This is nothing but another of Duterte’s shameless and arbitrary use of executive power, and like the rest, so corrupt and deleterious to the public interest. [3]
They cannot brush this anomaly out by calling this a non-issue. Because anything about this pandemic is a public concern. [4]
Why is Duterte willing to bring down the whole of government by threatening a constitutional crisis with Congress in ordering the PSG to defy the latter’s summons to an inquiry? [5]
The Senate should take on Duterte’s challenge to show him that he is not their boss, the Constitution is. The Senate should show the public that they cannot be ordered around by Duterte or be treated like lapdogs to do his bidding. [6]
Isa lang naman at Senator-caregiver at dakilang presidential alalay, and not the rest of the Senators who remain or ought to remain independent of Malacañang.

The PSG officials should face the inquiry. [7]
The Filipino people did not pay for your four (4) years of PMA training just to be the cowardly servants of a man who cannot even face up to his own decision to put his own presidential guards in peril by ordering them to inject themselves with an illegal drug. [8]
So ganito na lang ba parati, kahit mali, kahit labag sa batas, kahit garapalan, kahit sampal sa kapakanan ng publiko, basta si Duterte ang pasimuno wala ng imbestigasyon, wala ng pananagutan? Nakakahiya naman sa "follow the law" ninyo! [9]
Then on top of this is the illegal innoculation of Chinese POGO workers. This is Duterte’s icing on his cake of insults that he has served the Filipinos on New Year. [10]
Our country has been porous to anything China-sourced since 2016, most of them illegal, like the tax-evading POGOs.

At ngayon nauna pa bakunahan ang mga Chinese diyan sa POGO kaysa sa mga Pilipino. Alam kong hindi na misteryo kung bakit nangyayari 'yan. [11]
Ang kababalaghan ay parang normal na lang na kahit na ilegal ang bakuna dahil hindi aprubado ng FDA, at smuggled pa, ay ok lang daw ayon sa Malacañang. Pikit-mata na naman, o garapalan na at wala ng pagkukubli na dito sa Pilipinas ay Chinese first? [12]
Repeated betrayal of public trust by an aberrant President! Enraging! [13]
READ IN FULL: facebook.com/leiladelimaoff…

Dispatch from Crame No. 1,011: Sen. Leila M. de Lima on Duterte’s defense of the PSG on issue of unauthorized vaccination and the vaccination of Chinese POGOs

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The PSG should remember that their loyalty should be to the Constitution and not to Duterte. He may be your Commander-in-Chief but he is neither your king nor emperor. The law is supreme, not Duterte's whims.
When state agents place their loyalty on a man and turn a blind eye to his corrupt and criminal ways, they become nothing more than lapdogs of a mafioso who tramples on the law just to get what he wants. Wake up, and stop being the Presidential Smuggling Group!
To the AFP and the PNP, I ask this: Kung ganitong nababahiran ang reputasyon ninyo dahil sa mga baluktot na utos, kapritso at iligal na gawain ni Duterte, nagugulat pa ba kayo kung bakit parami nang parami ang mga kritiko at dismayado sa inyong institusyon at sa gobyerno?
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Dispatch from Crame No. 999: Sen. Leila M. de Lima on the 7 Billion budget cut on the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) [1]
I am thoroughly disappointed and dismayed upon hearing that a Senate colleague had pushed for and succeeded in slashing ₱7billion from the 4Ps program. This cut will affect around 300k families that were anticipated to “graduate” from the program before the pandemic arrived. [2]
Nakapanlulumo at napakabigat sa kalooban na malaman ito lalo’t alam natin na ang ayudang dala ng 4Ps ay isa sa mga pinaka-inaasahan ng milyun-milyon nating mga kababayang naghihikahos sa buhay na lalo pang hinagupit ng kahirapan dahil sa pandemya. [3]
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This is why Duterte is now trying very hard to backpedal on his statements regarding human rights, to make it appear that they are doing everything to address the issue of EJKs and other grave human rights violations.
But the blood of the thousands of EJK victims are already in Duterte and his enablers’ hands. They will never be able to wash it with empty rhetorics, lies, and repeated denials that EJKs are not state-sponsored, while insisting on their “nanlaban” narrative.
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It should have been over a long time ago.

As soon as the results came out on the revision of the pilot precincts in provinces chosen by Marcos himself, the election protest of Bongbong Marcos against VP Leni Robredo should have been automatically dismissed in accordance with the
COMELEC & PET Rules on the effect of non-recovery of votes in pilot precincts. Non-recovery simply means that Marcos failed to demonstrate that he actually won the 2016 VP election when he was not able to recover more additional votes than VP Leni during the revision of ballots.
In fact, Robredo recovered more votes than Marcos. Around fifteen thousand more.

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I support my colleagues in the Senate in urging the DOLE to present a comprehensive and long-term plan for our 478,839 OFWs affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Halos kalahating milyon. Iyan ang nakapanlulumong bilang ng OFWs nating nawalan ng trabaho.
Habang marami ang napilitang umuwi ng Pilipinas, mayroon namang piniling makipagpatintero sa virus sa ibayong dagat.

Hindi natin sila masisisi lalo pa’t marami sa mga pinabalik dito ay wala pa ring tiyak na trabaho at hindi pa nakatatanggap ng ayuda mula sa gobyerno.
Kabilang na nga sila ngayon sa mga kababayan nating pinaghihintay na lang ni Duterte sa bakuna at lantarang ipinagkakanulo sa Tsina.
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