If Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla’s allegation has an iota of truth that the Regional Public Safety Battalion (RPSB) in Calabarzon region harassed his family in the recent election, where will the lowly people run for justice?
Unemployment and poverty is the root cause of criminality, not only in this country, but elsewhere in the world.
Every three years, the leaders of the local government are chosen. The wounds created in the heart of the candidates, either winner or loser, may not yet have healed within the three years until next election.
Lately 33 persons filed a complaint before the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) because they doubted the credibility of the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines. Mikha Flores of VERA Files, in the Internet wrote “PH gov’t sued in UN rights body.”
The quest to provide the nation with industrialized economy has diverted agriculture to industry.
Three issues of The Philippine Star, a national daily newspaper, questioned the effectiveness of the PCOS (Precinct Count Optical Scanners).
The reported illegal check point conducted by six members of the Regional Public Safety Battalion in the article: “Kananga mayor complains of presence of cops in ‘full battle gear’” should motu propio be investigated by the National Police Commission (Napolcom).
On the seventh year of my ten decades this recent Wednesday, I was privileged to lecture before the officers of the “Federation of Barangay Children’s Association” (FEBCAO) and “Barangay Children’s Association” (BCA) sponsored by the City Council for Welfare of Children, this city.
Indeed, the four decisions of the Supreme Court may have reached the ego of Chairman Sixto Brillantes, Jr. Why ego?
DOJ Secretary Leila de Lima has to face the consequences of her exasperation in the acts of the judiciary.
