Showing posts with label No democracy in Philippines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label No democracy in Philippines. Show all posts
Friday, February 24, 2012
On EDSA Celebration
Nilabanan ang diktadorya, hangad ang kalayaan, pero kahirapan ang napala, kasi ang demokrasyang pinaghirapan ng mga taong bayan ay na hi-jack ng pamumuno ng mga oligarchs. Tyranny of power, replaced by tyranny of poverty.
Monday, September 26, 2011
P-Noy's Rate in Democracy
QUESTION: Sir John, I am a mediaman who covers Malacanang. If ten is highest, how do you rate P-Noy in terms of his adherence to democracy? ANSWER: His administration made a STATEMENT that they have no "political" prisoner, that is good. His administration has made an ACTION to give amnesty to those who were politically persecuted during the Arroyo Strong Republic, that is better. I look forward for his administration to finally put an end to political persecution in the future by ABOLISHING the 1930 Sedition Law. For now I give him a rate of 7.
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The Philippines' sedition law was originally drafted in 1930. Former President Marcos amended it many times by executive orders. In 1987, it was restored to its original form. In the Revised Penal Code, the Sedition Law defines sedition:
Art. 139. Sedition; How committed. - The crime of sedition is committed by persons who rise publicly and tumultuously in order to attain by force, intimidation, or by other means outside of legal methods, any of the following objects:
1. To prevent the promulgation or execution of any law or the holding of any popular election;
2. To prevent the National Government, or any provincial or municipal government or any public officer thereof from freely exercising its or his functions, or prevent the execution of any administrative order;
3. To inflict any act of hate or revenge upon the person or property of any public officer or employee;
4. To commit, for any political or social end, any act of hate or revenge against private persons or any social class; and
5. To despoil, for any political or social end, any person, municipality or province, or the National Government (or the Government of the United States), of all its property or any part thereof.
"Inciting sedition" is defined as follows:
Art. 142. Inciting to sedition. - The penalty of prision correccional in its maximum period and a fine not exceeding 2,000 pesos shall be imposed upon any person who, without taking any direct part in the crime of sedition, should incite others to the accomplishment of any of the acts which constitute sedition, by means of speeches, proclamations, writings, emblems, cartoons, banners, or other representations tending to the same end, or upon any person or persons who shall utter seditious words or speeches, write, publish, or circulate scurrilous libels against the Government (of the United States or the Government of the Commonwealth) of the Philippines, or any of the duly constituted authorities thereof, or which tend to disturb or obstruct any lawful officer in executing the functions of his office, or which tend to instigate others to cabal and meet together for unlawful purposes, or which suggest or incite rebellious conspiracies or riots, or which lead or tend to stir up the people against the lawful authorities or to disturb the peace of the community, the safety and order of the Government, or who shall knowingly conceal such evil practices.
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The Philippines' sedition law was originally drafted in 1930. Former President Marcos amended it many times by executive orders. In 1987, it was restored to its original form. In the Revised Penal Code, the Sedition Law defines sedition:
Art. 139. Sedition; How committed. - The crime of sedition is committed by persons who rise publicly and tumultuously in order to attain by force, intimidation, or by other means outside of legal methods, any of the following objects:
1. To prevent the promulgation or execution of any law or the holding of any popular election;
2. To prevent the National Government, or any provincial or municipal government or any public officer thereof from freely exercising its or his functions, or prevent the execution of any administrative order;
3. To inflict any act of hate or revenge upon the person or property of any public officer or employee;
4. To commit, for any political or social end, any act of hate or revenge against private persons or any social class; and
5. To despoil, for any political or social end, any person, municipality or province, or the National Government (or the Government of the United States), of all its property or any part thereof.
"Inciting sedition" is defined as follows:
Art. 142. Inciting to sedition. - The penalty of prision correccional in its maximum period and a fine not exceeding 2,000 pesos shall be imposed upon any person who, without taking any direct part in the crime of sedition, should incite others to the accomplishment of any of the acts which constitute sedition, by means of speeches, proclamations, writings, emblems, cartoons, banners, or other representations tending to the same end, or upon any person or persons who shall utter seditious words or speeches, write, publish, or circulate scurrilous libels against the Government (of the United States or the Government of the Commonwealth) of the Philippines, or any of the duly constituted authorities thereof, or which tend to disturb or obstruct any lawful officer in executing the functions of his office, or which tend to instigate others to cabal and meet together for unlawful purposes, or which suggest or incite rebellious conspiracies or riots, or which lead or tend to stir up the people against the lawful authorities or to disturb the peace of the community, the safety and order of the Government, or who shall knowingly conceal such evil practices.
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
No democracy in the Philippines
QUESTION: Sir John, I am homeschooling. Ask ulit ako for my assignment. Ano po yang tinatawag na "People Empowerment"? Yan ba yung Democracy na malaya lahat pwede magsalita?
ANSWER: Partly yes. There is a fake democracy and genuine democracy. You would know the difference by looking at the manifestations. In democracy, people are not only given the freedom to voice what they want, but people are given the opportunities to achieve what they want. The highest form of democracy and people empowerment is one wherein peoples' PURCHASING POWER is empowered, wherein people can make brave choices on what to buy, who to vote for, who to live with, where to go.
Philippine democracy is fake because there is no democracy who wants to be impoverished. The democracy is demanding fairness of opportunities and survival from poverty, but democracy is not getting it.
Allowing people to voice their sentiments just for the sake of allowing them to ventilate the pressure, without actually accepting their sentiment, is a form of suppression, it is not democracy.
Look at the manifestations. There is no democracy when people are generally dissatisfied with the integrity of the government. There is no democracy when people are suffering and dying everyday from poverty. There is no democracy when the military and police are threats to society because they are trained/initiated in an inhumane ways of maltreatment, hazing, and torture. There is no democracy when people are afraid of losing their jobs if they report irregularies done by their superiors. There is no democracy when government keeps opponent ideologists as political prisoners. Applying this, I can say that in Philippines, there is no democracy yet. Philippines has always been an Oligarchy and Plutocracy, never been a democracy.
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WHAT'S UP? WHAT'S DOWN?
1. POVERTY UP. Some 20.5 percent of Filipinos or about 4.1 million families are going hungry while 51 percent, or some 10.4 million families, consider themselves "mahirap" or poor , according to a new survey by pollster Social Weather Stations. See
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/217239/nation/sws-survey-hunger-up-to-205-poverty-rises-to-51
2. INVESTMENT DOWN. Philippines is second least attractive investment site in ASEAN. The Manila Times Online. March 2011. URL: http://www.manilatimes.net/opinion/2nd-least-attractive-investment-site-in-asean/
3. CORRUPTION UP. Daily Tribune report about the PERC Survey that says Philippines is most corrupt nation in Asia. March 2011. URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20110331hed1.html
4. WARNINGS UP. Corruption Warning About Philippine Real Estate Buying and Investing. Google Blog Nov 2010. URL: http://petalcorin.blogspot.com/2010/11/global-warning-on-philippine-real.html
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I dedicate this blog to my Facebook friends who celebrate their birthdays today. Angie Mendoza, April Shane Venus, Charllene Marcellana Batungbacal, Jovelyn Cequiña Petalcorin, Maris T. Lasco, Rio Bertillo Mata
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