MLQ3 has uploaded a presentation detailing the cheating methods used by GMA to win the 2004 elections. Must read.
What EDSA meant to me
At day’s end, I realized I just stayed home the whole time watching Grey’s Anatomy and playing Fallout 2. It wasn’t until I checked my cellphone that I realized that the 21st anniversary of the first People Power revolution — EDSA — had come and gone. And that’s a damn shame.
I was six when it [...]
Palace releases Melo Report
From the Philippine Daily Inquirer: seems the Melo Report does, in fact, exist, and is being distributed to the media. I for one can’t wait to read it, for all the ruckus it’s caused. Philip Alston, the United Nations rapporteur for human rights, as good as tagged the government as the primary force behind the [...]
Over a slow fire
Or why I don’t think GMA will declare Martial Law
Activist and former man of the cloth Ed de la Torre once argued that Marcos declaring martial law wasn’t feasible. Marcos would not declare martial law, de la Torre said, because he did not have to. He had alternatives which were so much better. He had [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
