COVID19 surging again, vaccines coming in slowly — the powerful jumping the lines as usual. The favoured Duterte vaccine (initially used as SMUGGLED) still lacks documentation per FDA. You wonder how they green light purchase orders. But all Duterte can say is kill, kill, kill.
Duterte screams kill because, of course, it’s tokhang, jagainst perceived leftists this time. He orders troops to kill when they see armed rebels. But a judge just threw out the case against Lady Ann Salem because, clearly, evidence was planted, testimony manufactured.
Lady Ann’s case isn’t the first one thrown out because of spurious evidence. A series of court judgements have slapped police and the AFP with acquittals of their targets. Because their fiction won’t stand in court, they kill - after red tagging.
The government hysteria grows and they rampage as the High Court hears the legal challenges against an anti-terror law which codifies every abusive act they do today. The vitriol against activists, the political opposition and the media masks ugly fears...
Of anti-drug cops and agents of the Philippine drug enforcement agency turning a metro mall into the OK coral, both sides’ excuses so ridiculous... laying bare that four years of Tokhang have merely blurred the lines of criminality and governance.
The vaunted rule of law has been unmasked, however reluctantly, by government agencies as the opposite of that in Duterte’s drug war. And he lavishes thanks on China as it continues to plunder our waters. Even envoys wave off his lies ... on imaginary weapons stocking in “bases”
They can’t always get pet judges and so they kill. And Duterte hurls another unfounded lie - malls in the capital paying revolutionary taxes — as the dirt in his government spills out... dirt in pandemic management, in the vaccine rollout, in his drug war.
When was the last time we saw so many govt officials and agencies either call out Malacanang or stand their ground despite clear signs of unethical pushing and coercion? That’s the root of the tantrum. Dirt all around and he thinks he can cover it with the blood of citizens.
Duterte fulminates on his presidential platform because his proxies have had their ability to spout lies on social media suspended. They screech about being gagged when the sanctions are against messages plant lies and clearly foment violence against citizens.
That’s not going to stop their lies. Malacanang will pick up the slack. But it puts a spotlight on how dangerously this government is sliding into full blown tyranny. The greatest source of violence in PH is the government. Even the biggest lies can only cover up so much.
*sorry, should be messages that plant lies ...
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