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Is this still a whiff? Bato and Diño, FDCP and tax rebates

It was bad enough that Bato dela Rosa had the gall to have a film made about his life — after all, it was under his leadership at the PNP that we saw THOUSANDS of Filipinos killed in a bloody drug war that he insisted was necessary because his god … este, his President believed it to be so. Of course a film that is blatantly propaganda via hagiography is nothing new. Neither is the admission that this film is about getting him a Senate seat. Let’s not even get into whether or not he has the credibility and credentials for it (and no, Jimmy Bondoc, insisting Bato’s loyalty to the President is enough is just idiotic, also: anti-nation).

Let’s just talk about the fact that he is already an administration candidate, which means that he already has the benefit of using government resources for his campaign. And then he makes a film about his life, which he need not declare as a campaign expense, even when he himself admits it’s supposed to help him win the elections. Imagine? It’s like getting campaign ads aired without having to declare it as part of your campaign. It’s getting away with spending millions on your campaign without having to declare any of it. 

But it gets worse. Enter Liza Diño’s Film Development Council of the Philippines.  (more…)

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Sacred cows in Duterte’s drug war: Peter Lim

We’ve always known this to be true: a majority of those dead in the drug war, whether in the hands of police or in summary executions, are poor; a small percentage that might be seen as “big fish,” are “rubbed out” in the way that a violent President’s orders have implicitly allowed and encouraged; and there is a select group of people who can get away with pretty much anything, drug-related and otherwise, as long as they are well-connected to Duterte and his men.

This is what’s called the Duterte double-standard. And this creates the select group of people who might be labeled as Duterte sacred cows.

The ones who can smuggle in P6.4 BILLION PESOS of illegal drugs and get away with it. The ones who can be pinpointed as drug lord, but get an audience with the President to declare his innocence. The ones who refuse to even prove their innocence because their father is the President of the Philippines.

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