Modern day heroes these SC Justices – After reading in full the dissenting opinion of SC Justice Marvic Leonen I somehow happen to agree in its totality. Allow me to print an excerpt of his opinion:
“The group committing atrocities in Marawi are terrorists. They are not rebels. They are committing acts of terrorism. They are not engaged in political acts of rebellion. They do not have the numbers nor do they have the sophistication to be able to hold ground. Their ideology of a nihilist apocalyptic future inspired by the extremist views of Salafi Jihadism will sway no community especially among Muslims.” Underscoring mine. Likewise the explanation given by the following SC Justices Sereno, Carpio and Caguioa on why martial law should be confined to certain parts of Mindanao only also makes total sense. In essence, if you have a broken finger you do not put your whole arm in a cast, or if you will conduct repairs on your vehicle that happened to be involved in a minor accident you do not do a complete body repair and paint job on the whole car but only the portion that was damaged by the accident. The same logic folks.
To those who try to justify Martial Law for the whole Mindanao are persons who either do not understand the enormity of the problem that Martial Law can bring or they are lucky enough that none of their loved ones have fallen prey to the excesses of martial law. Whatever, safeguards and controls one would want to believe that the current martial law (military rule) carries is simply too naïve to accept the fact that martial law (military rule) in whatever form is prone to abuse. Period!
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A Billion reasons for Pacquiao to loose – Pacquiao’s loss is Pacquiao’s win!!! Why o why are some of us fretting with the loss of Pacquiao? Do you not love the guy enough to let him loose? Do you not love our pambansang kamao enough to let him loose? Are you all that naïve to think that his loss was an honest to goodness loss? Jesus Christ! If you watched the fight, it was quite clear who the actual winner was, the only problem is it must be truly hard to hold a moro-moro or sarzuela when it comes to boxing and therein lies the problem as Pacquiao could not hold his punches and make it appear that Horn was a better fighter. But if Pacquiao would be declared the winner, then there would be no justification for a rematch! Obvious naman hindi po ba mga kaibigan? That is why Pacquiao had to loose so that we can once again be thrilled to his earning Billions of Pesos! So what’s the problem with Pacquiao loosing? He earns his Billions while you loose a stupid bet!