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It’s July 9, 2013. No one has been convicted since the hearings began in January 5, 2010—see  Ampatuan Update . Witnesses and their relatives have been hunted down one after another—see  Witness Killed and Mutilated . Kin of massacre victims agree to settle with Ampatuans—see  Kin Settles . Talk about a situation from bad to worse. Was there any doubt that the Ampatuans were responsible for the massacre? This was and remains an open-and-shut case. As if the Maguindanao Massacre itself was not sufficiently gruesome, more people have been killed and even more are being prostituted by a failed justice system. It’s bad enough the Ampatuans and their cronies have not yet been convicted after all this time. Yet, they continue to dictate who lives and dies, and are even allowed to settle? They shouldn’t even have access to any of their ill-gotten wealth, which should have already been returned to the national coffers. These monsters are still around doing their darnedest to s...

Little did it occur to Conrado "Noynoy is Aragorn" de Quiros that the very people who voted for Noynoy Aquino in 2010 now voted a bunch of "rogues" into office in the recently-concluded 2013 mid-term elections... One, Imelda Marcos, who won 88 percent of the votes in her husband’s turf in Ilocos Norte—she herself is from Leyte—retaining her seat in the House. She and her husband are well-known plunderers and oppressors. Two, Joseph Estrada, who won as mayor of Manila against Alfredo Lim. Erap was variously impeached, overthrown by People Power, tried and convicted of corruption, but later pardoned by his successor who lived in constant fear of an uprising. Of course Erap was pitted against an opponent who had earned the nickname “Dirty Harry” for ignoring such niceties as due process and human rights. Poor Manila, Nick Joaquin’s noble city. Three, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who also won 88 percent of the votes in her district in Pampanga. Obviously, it didn’t ...