Mark, my good friend and sometime fellow band member (Far From Sober), is also the guitarist for Humble Sauce, a really kick-ass reggae band, and they’ve been nominated for Best Live Act and Artist of the Year in the 2005 NU107 Rock Awards.
Salus populi suprema lex esto
The welfare of the people is the highest law
In the final analysis, this is for me the only axiom about law that makes sense. John Locke used the phrase in his Second Treatise (On Civil Government) to describe the proper organization of government, quoting Marcus Tullius Cicero’s “De Legibus”. So what happens when the [...]
Executive Order 464
Can ASSO’s be too far behind?
President GMA issued yesterday Executive Order 464, requiring cabinet members, police and military generals, senior national security officials, and “such other officials as may be determined by the President” to first seek her approval before appearing before any inquiry of the Senate or the House of representatives.1
The Uncyclopedic Meaning of Life
So I was browsing through some blogs, and found this link from The Sassy Lawyer’s journal. I am absolutely loving it!
Human Rights Victim?
I honest-to-gosh really did a double take. Then I had to read the original article just to be sure. Because just when I didn’t think they could sink any lower, the Marcoses do something – as if just to prove – that they are, quite simply, amazing, having mastered the art of shocking and disappointing [...]
Sucks To Be You
Norberto Gonzales, that means you
The Senate didn’t have to cite National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales for contempt – Heaven knows it’s unsettled some people. And I don’t particularly blame them; this is a committee, after all, that has somebody named Jinggoy in it. So yes, maybe Gonzales’ impersonation of Bill and Ted got the [...]
Parallelisms
GMA and Marcos
While worlds (and decades) apart, the similarities between the two are strinking:
During the time of Marcos, the US was neck deep in cold war paranoia. In fact, crying “Communist!” was Marcos’ favorite ploy to get more funds from Uncle Sam, particularly in the late 70’s when the export industry was failing – in [...]
Imelda’s Family Jewels
Let me try to contain for a moment my mirth at the imagery of that pun. :: rofl :: Anyway, here goes:
The government has firmed up earlier plans to sell Imelda MarÂcos’s jewelry collectionn, initially estimated to be worth at least $10 million, said Ricardo Abcede, a member of the Presidential Commission on Good Government, [...]
September 2005
After several months of sitting on my ass, I’m back, and with a new theme shamelessly derived from Bryan Veloso’s AvalonStar. This time around, I’m trying to make Wordpress work more like a CMS than a blogging tool, with issues/themes coming out every month (or whenever I feel like it) which you can navigate via [...]
Proclamation 1081 and Martial Law
On September 21, 1972, Marcos issued Proclamation 1081, declaring martial law over the entire country. Under the president’s command, the military arrested opposition figures, including Benigno Aquino, journalists, student and labor activists, and criminal elements. A total of about 30,000 detainees were kept at military compounds run by the army and the Philippine Constabulary.
