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A report published on Bicol Today way back in 2015 cited Naga City as " the most dangerous city in the Bicol region ". “Naga has the highest number of index crimes as compared to other Bicol cities.” Police region 5 statistics said.  Naga police and Mayor John Bonggat cannot be contacted for comment regarding Naga’s new imputed bad image. Joey Natividad, editor of the publication went on to write about the fear gripping residents of the City of Naga at the time... It is the FEAR felt by a Naguenio mother that her high school son may be beaten up by a gang of street addicts on his way home from school. It is the WORRY felt by a mother that her college girl student might get molested by a co-passenger inside a tricycle. It is APPREHENSION by a young professional that, by walking the street in downtown Naga, his laptop computer might be snatched by thieves riding- in- tandem on motorcycle. The same fear felt by a Naguenio family that, planning to spend their one-w...

As Rod Stewart once crooned in an address to "young hearts": time is on your side . This is really the only thing truly relevant to young people who have everything to look forward to and only lessons to learn from the past. There is a big difference, however, between learning lessons history has to teach and being paralysed by imagined "historical parallels". The latter is essentially what old-fart Martial Law Crybabies are trying to do. They are emotionally- blackmailing young Filipinos into believing that the "evils" of authoritarianism continue to loom in the horizon and, like the fear of damnation that is a key feature of the particularly primitive way Filipinos practice their Catholicism, enjoin them to remain fearful of that ever-possible dark future. This they do, not out of a genuine concern for the well-being of the future generation, but to further their political ends. We see this in the Yellowtards' astounding willingness to overlo...

Yellowtard Netizens are rallying trolls to vote on various Twitter and online polls to prove that their "leader" Leni Robredo is the fairest of them all. This, plus other polls that make respondents decide between a Yellowtard position and some other position on various issues preoccupy the minds of Netizens nowadays... The question remains, however: Can the Yellowtards win a real election? That remains to be seen. Activity on Twitter and other social media platforms have long been notorious for being unreliable indicators of the public sentiment. It brings to question whether the energies being expended by so-called "thought leaders" of the Opposition constitute an optimal deployment of resources. Do the Opposition even have a coherent election winning machine and a platform to back an effective bid in the coming elections? These are the more important questions these people should be asking themselves.

The answer to that question depends on whether or not there still are options to do something to bring some sort of closure to the heartaches of the Martial Law Crybabies. It seems, however, that while the Philippine Opposition led by the Yellowtards continue their shrill campaign keeping Martial Law Crybabyism a dominant aspect of their campaign, they evidently fail to offer a roadmap to achieving that closure. What more can be done if after more than 30 years of Yellowtard domination of the Philippines' political narrative, they have failed to contain the influence of the Marcos family which steadily grew over this period despite the Yellowtards' vehement efforts? Perhaps one of the Yellowtard politicians should run on a platform that promises justice for so-called Martial Law "vicitms", vows to prosecute the Marcos family, and aims to sequester whatever wealth the Martial Law Crybabies claim this family still possess. If the Yellowtards are convinced of th...

Even just the profusion of the colour Yellow in Santo Domingo Church last Tuesday, the 21st of August (death anniversary of Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr) could make one conclude that the Philippines' Roman Catholic Church is a partisan organisation. It routinely provides a venue for the poltical events of the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) and, in this particular instance, provided a platform for the politically-charged rhetoric of partisan leaders gathered there to commemorate the occasion. Filipinos need to get to the bottom of this evidently profound relationship between the Yellowtards and the Roman Catholic Church. The Church is a powerful organisation that commands the fear and awe of the vast majority of a country of 100 million. Its mandate is to serve the spiritual needs of this people. What it is doing, however, is perverting that mandate towards poltical ends. An organisation such as the Catholic Church being involved in national politics is a dangero...

It's become fashionable nowadays to wax poetic about the "horrors" of the "Martial Law years" and how these alleged horrors continue to cast a shadow over Philippine politics today. That has been a talent of Yellowtardom exhibited over the last 30 years -- keeping Martial Law Crybabyism fashionable . The reality is more confronting, however. The shrill din of Martial Law Crybabies masks a more stark reality -- that under the watch of the Yellowtards, none of the supposed "injustices" perpetrated under the "Marcos regime" were rectified. Now we see them issuing their lame melodramatic laments around the continued prominence of the Marcoses in Philippine politics. Yet none of them question who actually failed to put them in prison (if, in fact, they deserved to be imprisoned to begin with). For that matter, one wonders: why all the noise about the Marcoses when what is really astounding is the silence surrounding Marcos's top Mart...

The qualifications and abilities of "vice president" Leni Robredo, who is but a heartbeat away from the presidency if, indeed, she won the 2016 elections honestly , has long been a subject of intense debate. No less than the president has raised this concern ... Duterte has repeatedly questioned Robredo's suitability for the job. Robredo has said that she doesn't want to dignify Duterte's attacks against her, and instead urged the President to focus on the economy. ...and, as can be observed, Robredo's response is typical of someone who actually has no response . Indeed, her sidestepping the question by, instead, telling the president to "focus on the economy" comes with a bit of irony. On many occasions, Robredo has proven herself to be quite mathematically-challenged, botching reckoning of relatively simple arithmetical puzzles. As such, it is highly doubtful that she could, herself, focus on "the economy" if her life -- or ad...