Creeping Fascism

CREEPING FASCISM

Creeping fascism—or is it creepy fascism?

How Duterte is implementing creeping fascism:

- Inciting and directing summary extrajudicial killings

- Aggressively governing by violence and terror

- Allowing police agents of state-sponsored terror to commit crimes, including murder, with impunity, even rewarding them with, for example, promotion

- Swelling propaganda, especially fake news and fabricated data, e.g. by paying thousands of trolls from the unaudited intelligence fund of the Office of the President

- Burying a murderous, massively corrupt dictator as a national hero

- Revising history in order to make authoritarianism appear like an attractive political option

- Attempting—wrongheadedly, obtusely—to ally with authoritarian world powers, especially Communist China

- Jailing the opposition, one by one, on the basis of planted evidence

- Incrementally gathering authoritarian executive powers, e.g. asking for extraordinary executive powers to regulate Metro Manila traffic

- Pushing for the militarization of the police by reviving the Philippine Constabulary

- Pursuing every opening to advance authoritarianism, e.g. stoking artificially inflated support for the declaration of a revolutionary government, manufacturing imaginary enemies of the state, e.g. by overstating the drug problem, in order to justify the expansion of state terror

- Substituting the election of barangay officials with their appointment by the administration

- DECLARING MARTIAL LAW over the entire Mindanao because of armed violence in a limited geographic area, Marawi city, despite the nonexistence of either invasion or rebellion in other areas outside Marawi, which under the Constitution are the only two conditions allowing for the declaration of martial law

- Repudiating the Constitutional oversight of the Supreme Court of our nation

- Appointing a disproportionate number of military and police personnel to government positions

- Inciting through criminal negligence in the exercise of the powers of the state the proliferation of terrorist threats, sometimes imaginary

- Poisoning Philippine democracy with authoritarian and Communist ideologies

- Repudiating the guardian role of the Commission of Human Rights, a constitutional body, over the human rights of our citizens and everyone under Philippine jurisdiction

- Repeatedly postponing the election of barangay officials

- Threatening to block renewal of the ABS-CBN franchise

- Issuing a presidential proclamation to honor Marcos the bloodstained dictator on his birthday anniversary in 2017

- Creating the Anti-Corruption Commission to attack the Chief Justice and the Ombudsman, his perceived political enemies

- Inciting the Duterte party-led majority in Congress to impeach the mainstays of democratic check-and-balance—the Chief Justice, Ombudsman, COMELEC Chairman, and Commission on Human Rights Commissioner

- Creating an intrusive National ID system

- Granting top officials of the Philippine National Police the power to issue subpoenas, encroaching on judicial prerogative

- Turning into weapons against the political opposition, criminals or those grossly presumed guilty

- Propagating fake news

- Repudiating without Senate concurrence Philippine membership in the International Criminal Court under the Rome Statute

- Libeling legitimate human rights activists by labeling them terrorists or Communists

- Railroading charter change and federalism in order to stay in power and avoid accountability for playing a hidden direct role in extrajudicial killings

- Alleging without any evidence links between drug syndicates, and human rights groups and political oppositionists

- Alienating the Philippines from its traditional Western allies in order to escape retribution for the administration’s human rights abuses

- Fomenting unchecked steamroller executive action unrestrained by democratic institutions of government and civil society groups, e.g. shutdown of the entire island resort of Boracay

- Abusing the unaudited intelligence fund of the Office of the President, using the massively inflated allocation to pay off cronies, goons, and trolls

- Attacking the free press under the pretext of regulatory enforcement 
- Harassing the free press by filing trumped up lawsuits

- Fleeing international justice by not complying with the obligations arising from Philippine membership in the International Criminal Court

- Aggressively assaulting judicial independence

- Resorting to the unconstitutional shortcut of quo warranto to unseat the upstanding Chief Justice

- Abetting judicial tyranny by inciting the kangaroo Supreme Court hearing the quo warranto petition

- Refusing to hand over “drug war” documents to the Supreme Court

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Duterte’s agenda, which is to destroy democratic institutions, establish a dictatorship, and enrich himself and his cronies through massive corruption, will have catastrophic economic effects in the Philippines. Bad governance is already showing the signs in massive hidden debt to Communist China, weakening foreign investment, a weakening peso, ballooning inflation, and degraded economic growth.

Duterte is using Communist China as a hedge in his agenda to exploit for his personal aggrandizement the Philippine nation and its people. He is a traitor to the Philippines.

Singapore had Lee Kuan Yew. Ang Pilipinas, Dee Mon Yew.