The dictatorship is dead, long live the dictatorship!
the cost of the separation of powers and the doctrine of checks and balances. Doesn’t this simply show the kind of cheap political opportunists we have in Congress and in local government? What has dictatorship got to do with it?
- dent’s Congress allies had thrown out an impeachment complaint against their chief without so much as a hearing, for alleged lack of merit, and yet, at his instance, they are pursuing a hardly credible impeachment complaint against the Supreme Court Chief Justice. Again, what has dictatorship got to do with it? Does this not refer strictly to the relationship between the Supreme Court and Congress?
She has also heard that the previous administration had asked the permanent arbitration court at the Hague to arbitrate the maritime and China in the Spratlys and that the court has ruled in favor decided not to invoke this ruling in dealing with the Chinese. Doesn’t got billions of dollars in loans and pledged assistance from the Chinese, is a smarter businessman than all his critics? What has dictatorship got to do with it?
She has also heard that where Marcos declared martial law in 1972 to prevent the communists from taking over the government, of a peace agreement, and later declared the resumption of armed hostilities against the Communist getting rid of his communist appointees, the most important of whom remains vice chairman of the National Democratic Front. Doesn’t this merely show - body else? What has dictatorship got to do with it?
How lucky these guys
For this balikbayan, Rody Duterte strong and wily as America’s Donald Trump, whom the London
has called an “insurgent in the White House.” She believes the United States is to have Trump. But he is no dictator at all.
By dictator, we mean someone like Nero, Diocletian, Caligula, and a few others. In ancient Rome, the term “dictator” did not always have a pejorative connotation. The oft-cited story of Cincinnatus is the classical example. He was called from the plow and assumed the role of a dictator at a time of trouble and then returned to the plow when the trouble was over. We are not talking of a modern Cincinnatus here.
pointed out, he would not have tolerated any kind of criticism, printed or spoken, from anyone. He would have also banned all the saccharine and sickening praises being heaped upon him by his sycophants in Congress and in the press. In Marcos’ time, the Secretary of Information once asked the newspapers for a moratorium on columns that showered “incompetent and favor without any provocation.
Protect Honeylet and Bong
have silenced all those who had reported seeing Ms Honeylet Avanceña in Spain, traveling with an entourage much bigger than that which used to follow Mrs. Marcos in her international travels, at the height of her popularity and power. These reports serve to may have gained from firing or threatening to fire govern beyond a few miles from their respective residences, without express presidential consent.
If he were a dictator, he would have found a special place of contemplation for his special assistant Christopher “Bong” Go for own words, a “billionaire” without any credible explanation for it. Or explanation himself, on behalf of this rising candidate for the Forbes annual listing of billionaires.
would have closed down any site that carried photos of himself, taken in Marawi in August of last - dent and Commander in Chief, - side a gunman’s nest. These appear to have generated stories about a “sniper president” who had made so many kills during that visit.
These apparently boosted the morale of the troops during the liberation of Marawi from the ISrelated Mautes. But they have also given some of his critics reason to suggest that “killing”—as in the extrajudicial drug killings— has become one of his real “thera mongering like this.
Inside the torture chamber
he would have ordered House to the Tower of London, as it were, for all the execrable offenses he has committed against the Constitution, simple good manners, the rule of reason and common sense. We would have been honored with a royal execution.
But none of these things have happened or are happening. To in silencing most of the critics of his drug killings; in the last Asean summits held in Manila last year, none of the 19 heads of state and government who came, except for Trudeau, raised any questions on the subject, and no one came to attacked him.
No one asks any questions - tal health anymore, not because nobody cares anymore whether he goes to the cancer hospital in Medical Center at Greenhills or to Dr. Farrah Bunch’s natural medical clinic in Tarlac, but either because he has become so “popular” as the propaganda fraudsters like to tell us, or because he has succeeded in terrifying everyone.
After the Securities and Exchange Commission decided to revoke the license of Rappler, the independent online news platform, for allegedly violating the 100 percent Filipino nationality requirement of the Constitution, I expected the big media organi some token concern at least about the future of press freedom. None came. What I heard instead was an obsequious moan from the - lencing of Rappler did not threaten anybody else.
Praising what we fear
After the entire country has message of “kill, kill, kill,” no individual newspaper or journalist can complain they are being singled out. But no one has a right to believe they will be going to kill you” affects not only specific drug suspects to whom it is directed, but everyone else who hears it and sees the victims being slaughtered like animals.
Thus, it has become so much more fashionable to try to praise the most unpraiseworthy thing and to proclaim as most popular the most fearsome of all our politicians.
KUDOS. Justice ‘ Lolong’ Lazaro, Manuel
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