PRESIDENT PINOCCHIO
Defaming The Dead
Backroom Politics
May 20, 2018
There is something terribly wrong with a man who defames someone who
was just brutally killed.
Even the dearly departed was not able to escape the president’s foul
mouth.
Addressing the people of Tabogon, Cebu who were then celebrating the
town’s fiesta, President Rodrigo Duterte presented an alleged matrix of the
supposed illicit affairs of murdered priest Fr. Mark Anthony.
The president who was delivering a speech as the guest of honor for the
occasion surprised the unexpecting crowd when he suddenly showed a matrix
entitled “Possible Motive (Love
Triangle)” of Anthony with pictures of eight women.
He told the attendees that the possible reason the priest has been
killed is due to his numerous affairs with different women. He claimed that
Anthony is having an affair with women who are married to a policeman, soldier,
vice-mayor and businessman.
“Paanong hindi ka mamamatay. May
asawa na bise-mayor, may asawang pulis, may asawang sundalo, may asawang
negosyante. Patay ka,” Duterte said.
Fr. Anthony was ambushed in Gattaran, Cagayan province late April by
gunmen right after celebrating a Mass at the town’s gymnasium. The killing was
widely condemned as a result of the worsening impunity under the Duterte
administration.
The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) demanded from
the government to go after the killers and bring them within the ambit of the
law so that justice will be attained.
The bishop’s group said that Anthony is a known anti-mining advocate
and known for helping indigenous peoples of Cagayan province fight for their
rights and welfare. It was actually an implied suggestion of another possible
motive for his cold-blooded murder.
But the president protested and said that the government should not be
blamed for the killing of the priest.
Although Duterte did not name Anthony in his speech, the priest’s name
was visibly indicated in the matrix in possession of the president.
This is not the first time that Duterte has used a matrix during a
public speaking engagement. When he was just warming in his seat as president,
he presented several drugs matrix featuring the names of alleged drug lords,
dealers and the government officials who supposedly protect them.
However, the evidentiary weight of these drug matrices is highly
questionable for being self-serving, hearsay and of unknown origin. The same is
true with the matrix involving Anthony as the president did not reveal where he
got it.
But what is revolting to the conscience is the act of the highest
leader of the land of defaming the name and reputation of someone who recently
died due to a heinous crime. It is tantamount to rubbing salt to the fresh and
unhealed wounds of the family and loved ones of the murdered priest. It is
adding insult to injury.
Duterte, a lawyer, should know that it is a criminal act to say
libelous things and malicious innuendos towards the dead.
Article 353 of the Revised Penal Code, in defining the crime of libel,
specifically and expressly includes the phrase “to blacken the memory of one who is dead.”
Hence, by adding such phrase as one of the acts constituting libel, the
intention is to protect not only the living but also those who have died from
defamatory remarks that tends to destroy or ruin one’s name, reputation, character
and dignity.
Moreover, regardless of the true motive behind the killing, it does not
and cannot justify the bloody murder of a man of the cloth that is indicative
of the alarming rise in the breakdown of law and order in the country.
“Murder is murder, whatever the
motive for it may have been,” said Caloocan Bishop Pablo Virgilio David who
said that he hold on to the words of the archbishop, priests and lay people of
Tuguegarao who vouched for the integrity of Fr. Anthony.
***
DUTERTE IS A BIG-TIME LIAR
This list is getting longer than Pinocchio’s nose.
Drug and criminality figures massively inflated
Duterte lies about Mamapasano incident
Duterte lies about Supreme Court TROs
Duterte trolls funded by unaudited intelligence fund of the Office of
the President
Duterte SALN in violation of Philippine law massively understates
assets
Commission on Human Rights did not clear Duterte of involvement in
Davao Death Squad
Aguirre falsely claims ambush of Duterte cabinet official
Andanar a model spokesman says White House
Duterte “anak ng mahirap”…joke only
PNP claims 215,000 in a crowd of only 25,000
16.5 million pesos paid for February 25, 2017 Luneta rally
Fabricated charges against De Lima
4 million drug addicts FAKE number
PCOO broadcasts FAKE news
Duterte fires Chairman Benjamin Reyes of the Dangerous Drugs Board for
broadcasting accurate data to the public
Duterte spreads FAKE news to justify his declaration of martial law in
Marawi city
Duterte makes promises he doesn’t keep
Aguirre claims anti-Duterte conspiracy between prominent Marawi
families and oppositionists in Congress and then denies he said it
Sarah Duterte spreads FAKE NEWS that Senator Hontiveros is “abetting
rebellion”
Presidential spokesman FALSELY claims Rappler FOI request was not
denied
Most traveled Philippine president during first year in office says he
“hates traveling”
Duterte makes false claim in SONA that Rappler is owned by Americans
Department of Tourism charts show misleading, false jumps in tourism
revenue and visitor arrivals
Abella lies about sending out 2017 SONA invitations to EU and CHR
Malacañang accredits lying bloggers and fake news
Duterte falsely accuses Lopez conglomerate of owing the Philippine
government loan payments
PAO Chief Acosta denies she said that she observed a PATTERN in the
summary extrajudicial killings of two youths
Duterte spreads FAKE news about Trillanes offshore accounts
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/626344/no-such-account-singapore-bank-tells-trillanes/story/
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/626437/trillanes-on-duterte-making-up-account-numbers-buti-umamin-siyang-sinungaling-siya/story/?utm_source=GMANews&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=news
http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/626437/trillanes-on-duterte-making-up-account-numbers-buti-umamin-siyang-sinungaling-siya/story/?utm_source=GMANews&utm_medium=Facebook&utm_campaign=news
Duterte is chief purveyor of FAKE NEWS
Duterte manufactures mutant narratives about family wealth
Freedom of Information kuno
Duterte creates FAKE NEWS about the instigation of the Marawi crisis
Half of the survey population does not believe in the “nanlaban” claim
of the police
Department of Foreign Affairs and Presidential Communication Operations
Office spread FAKE NEWS about Philippine Human Rights Report at the UN
Cayetano in UN General Assembly speech claims 7 million drug
addicts—FAKE NEWS
5 Duterte camp senators falsely claim they did not receive Senate
resolution
Duterte buys FAKE NEWS about Trillanes for 10 million pesos, no
Official Receipts
Mocha Uson, FAKE NEWS Queen
Duterte opposes FAKE NEWS law
Duterte spreads FAKE NEWS that Iloilo is shabu capital of the
Philippines
Duterte administration officials use public funds to spread FAKE NEWS
Duterte makes up story that AMLC member is Trillanes’ mistress
No EJKs in the Philippines—it’s OFFICIAL!
Cayetano claims 3,800 EJK victims were all drug dealers
Duterte falsely accuses Chief Justice Sereno of corruption
DOJ makes implausible claim that Php50 million bribe is just
Php1,000.00 short of plunder
Duterte spreads FAKE NEWS that Rappler is funded by CIA
***
“A partial truth is always more dangerous than unalloyed truth or a
varnished lie.”
“When you do not say what you mean, you cannot be trusted in anything
you say.”
“Propaganda is the gruel eaten by prisoners of the state.”
“Anyone who lies is doing the devil’s work. It is his telltale
signature.”
Public domain photo
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Gonzalinho
EDITORIAL
ReplyDeleteTHEY SHOOT PRIESTS, DON’T THEY?
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:38 AM June 15, 2018
Father Richmond Nilo was about to say Sunday Mass at the Nuestra Señora de la Nieve (Our Lady of the Snows) chapel, in Zaragoza, Nueva Ecija, when the shots rang out. The assassin, stationed by a window, fired at least seven times; at least four bullets hit Father Richmond.
He died on the spot, in front of about five dozen horrified churchgoers, at the foot of a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Unlike the venerable legend after which the chapel was named, it wasn’t unseasonal snow but a shower of blood that filled and marked the ground on which he had stood just moments before.
Father Richmond was the third priest killed in six months, and the fourth targeted for assassination. On April 29, in Gattaran, Cagayan, Fr. Mark Anthony Ventura was killed after saying Sunday Mass; he was with a group of children, blessing them, and talking to members of the local choir, when a lone gunman on a motorcycle rode up to him and shot him in the head and the chest. Death was immediate.
On Dec. 4, 2017, in Jaen, also in Nueva Ecija, Fr. Marcelito Paez was ambushed by motorcycle-riding gunmen. Earlier that day, the longtime activist-priest had helped secure the release of a political prisoner in Cabanatuan City. Though wounded, he was able to roll his car window down and tell the gunmen, “I’m a priest, I’m a priest.” He later died in the hospital.
The fourth assassination attempt took place only a few days before the attack on Father Richmond. On June 6, Fr. Rey Urmeneta, driving his car, was also ambushed in Calamba, Laguna. The former chaplain of the Philippine National Police sustained two wounds, but was later reported as being in stable condition at the hospital.
…FOUR ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AND THREE DEATHS IN SIX MONTHS? These are HIGHLY UNUSUAL, and require urgent attention. This is the most number of priests killed in recent memory; we would need to go back to the most serious upheavals in our history to look for parallels.
…At the least, these acts of violence against priests show a deterioration in peace and order, under the most peace-and-order-oriented administration since 1972. They are an indictment of the administration’s competence in and capacity for crime-fighting.
At worst—well, at worst we must raise questions about the Duterte administration’s complicity in the culture of impunity which enables motorcycling gunmen to assassinate priests at will. When the President kissed that married woman in Seoul, South Korea for the entertainment of his audience earlier this month, what was she doing on stage in the first place? She and another overseas Filipino worker had been invited to receive copies of a book the President was giving away: the late journalist Aries Rufo’s “Altar of Secrets.” The book is an investigation into different aspects of corruption in the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines, including violations of the vow of celibacy. Why would the President, visiting another country, give copies of such a book away?
For that matter, why would the President repeat accusations against the Church in his various speeches, or respond to the killing of Father Mark Anthony not with anger but rather with a license to impute all sorts of allegations against him? In an anguished open letter written after Father Richmond was killed, the clergy of the archdiocese of Lingayen-Dagupan asked the administration to stop the “verbal persecution of the Catholic Church”—because such verbal attacks can lead “unwittingly” to physical ones. WITTINGLY, TOO.
Use of all capitals is mine.
Read more: https://opinion.inquirer.net/113946/shoot-priests-dont#ixzz5IdpAlLLU
The Roman Catholic Church is the most solid and steady opposition force against Duterte today. Circumstantial evidence indicates that Duterte is paying death squads to shoot the priests.
Gonzalinho
FAKE NEWS is not ‘an opinion you don't agree with,’ fake news is a deliberate mimicking of a bona fide news source to make an article APPEAR to be vetted news; it is created to lead the reader towards an intended slant; a systematic & deliberate act of deceit. [Definition mine.]
ReplyDeleteGang Capati @gangbadoy
Philippine Daily Inquirer (February 22, 2019)
The Duterte administration actively propagates fake news.
Gonzalinho
ALL CAPS MINE
ReplyDeleteSTEEP LOSS OF TRUST
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:14 AM March 03, 2019
…the NUMBER OF DRUG USERS appears to be only EVER-BALLOONING IN MR. DUTERTE’S HEAD.
Last month, he raised the drug problem to the “level of national security,” claiming there were already 7-8 MILLION DRUG USERS IN THE COUNTRY. This figure is QUADRUPLE the 1.8 MILLION ESTIMATE BY THE DANGEROUS DRUGS BOARD IN 2016 and double the President’s own pronouncements in 2017.
Where did he get such numbers? Philippine National Police Director General Oscar Albayalde had no idea, only saying that the President has “unlimited sources of information.” But spokespersons from the PNP and the National Bureau of Investigation later said Mr. Duterte may have just “upped” the estimates to challenge law enforcers to get their act together and do “more.”
In other words, THE PRESIDENT WAS MAKING UP NUMBERS, in a bid to intensify his war.
Read more: https://opinion.inquirer.net/119896/steep-loss-of-trust#ixzz5rkSiHXns
Gonzalinho
LIES, DAMNED LIES
ReplyDeleteBy: Rosario A. Garcellano - @inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:04 AM March 02, 2019
President Duterte recently poked the festering wound that is the Marcos ill-gotten wealth and pronounced that IT HAD YET TO BE PROVEN. In so doing in a speech Tuesday at the national assembly of the League of Municipalities of the Philippines, the lawyer-president flouted the SUPREME COURT RULING IN JULY 2003 that SWISS DEPOSITS AMASSED BY THE DICTATOR FERDINAND MARCOS AND HIS WIFE “ARE DEEMED UNLAWFULLY ACQUIRED AS ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH,” as well as the SANDIGANBAYAN CONVICTION OF IMELDA MARCOS IN 2018 on SEVEN COUNTS OF GRAFT INVOLVING SWISS BANK ACCOUNTS that she had opened and maintained as a highly placed official of her husband’s martial rule.
Read more: https://opinion.inquirer.net/119882/lies-damned-lies#ixzz5rutmByGp
Gonzalinho