Leni Robredo Lies To The World, Shames The Nation And Herself In UN Message
Either this lady is so naïve, or so stupid, that she doesn’t
really know the gravity of her message, which I suspect she doesn’t, since she
was reading the message, obviously done by a Liberal Party writer, as fast as
she could.
She even had the kind of facial expression with a smile that
VIPs have when they send congratulatory messages to some group on their
celebration – while she was talking of thousands of Filipinos killed. Or she
has been totally deluded by the narrative of the Yellow Cult desperate to get
foreign help to overthrow President Duterte.
Whichever is the case, Robredo shames the nation by
portraying the Philippines as a failed state like Somalia, Eritrea or Liberia
where the rule of law has totally broken down, and where the streets are
littered with the corpses of the innocent killed by the police. She shames
herself as she makes allegations against her own government, based on patently
false data.
I found it astonishing that as she spoke she even had the
official seal of the Vice President and the Republic. But she was really
speaking not as the Vice President but probably as the last of the Yellow Cult
leaders.
We should all be outraged over Robredo’s message, and
Congress must issue a resolution condemning her, and transmitting this to the
UN body. Our ambassador to the UN must protest why the body allowed (if indeed
it did, since as of press time I cannot confirm if her video message was played
or not) at their meeting such an unfair and biased picture of the country’s
campaign against drugs. Isn’t it protocol for such international bodies to play
only official messages from countries’ official representatives?
Robredo’s claims
Let’s take up point by point Robredo’s claims in her video.
“We are now looking at some very grim statistics: since July
last year, more than 7,000 people have been killed in summary executions,”
Robredo claimed.
This number is false, a fake news.
This 7,000 figure as the total number of extra-judicial
killings that Robredo has disseminated to the world is one maliciously
fabricated by a low-level biased or incompetent researcher, and posted by the
yellow and lazy editors of the rappler.com newsite on March 13, 2017.
This
number has been repeated again and again by the Yellow Cult, and even by
uninformed media abroad. Rappler even has misled readers by claiming that the
“numbers are based on data” from the Philippine National Police.
The number is the sum of the 2,555 which the PNP Directorate
for Operations reported as those killed in anti-illegal drugs operations from
July 1 to January 24 and the 4,525 total murder cases in the country. The PNP
data of course does not distinguish whether these murder cases are police and
vigilante killings of those involved in illegal drugs, road-rage murders, or
even crimes of passion.
Because of rappler.com people’s odium against Duterte
though, all murders that occurred since he took power in July 1 last year were
due to his anti-illegal drugs war.
I will discuss in detail this grand lie of rappler.com in a
future column. Suffice it to point out now that a more realistic figure would
be one based on “The Kill List” of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, hardly a
pro-Duterte newspaper. To their credit as rigorous journalists, the paper
listed, based on police blotters and the dispatches of their police reporters,
killings related to the anti-drug war, from July 1 to Feb. 16, when government
officially halted, temporarily, its campaign.
“The Kill List” (last update of which was on February 16)
reported 2,166 killed in the anti-drug war. This includes those killed in
police operations as well as by “unknown hitmen”. It does not explain though
the criteria by which it listed a person killed by “unknown hitmen” as due to
the anti-drug campaign. Indeed, the police has uncovered several instances in
which those killed with anti-drug placards pinned on them, actually were
executed by criminal, rival gangs themselves.
The 2,166 figure is obviously so different, three times
smaller than the 7,000 figure Robredo told the UN body, which would drastically
change an assessment of Duterte’s anti-drug war.
‘People told…some told’
Robredo said in her message to the UN body:
“People are told they do not have any right to demand search
warrants as they are squatters… Residents are rounded up, women separated from
men and those with tattoos have their belongings searched. People are told they
don’t have any right to demand search warrants since they are squatters… Some
have told us that when there’s a crime they normally go to the police. Now they
don’t know where to turn. Our people feel both hopeless and helpless.”
But Robredo doesn’t present any iota of evidence for her
claims, not even a single instance of the human rights violations she alleges,
not even newspaper reports on these; nor does she refer to any report detailing
her accusations.
“People told… some have told… they…our people…” Are these
real people, or are these just Liberal Party propagandists?
It gets worse though. Robredo in her message to the UN body
made it appear that the rule of law in our country has so totally broken down
that victims of human rights violations are given no recourse:
“Around 500 cases have been filed at the Commission on Human
Rights, recommended to the Department of Justice for the filing of cases. So
far, seven months into the administration’s drug war, no information has been
filed,” she claimed.
This is a lie. I was told by insiders that there are no such
“500 cases” filed regarding human rights violations in the course of Duterte’s
administration at the commission, which continues to be led by Robredo’s
Liberal Party colleague Jose Gascon. This is simply because the commission has
never even bothered to list and count such complaints. The 500 figure is
clearly one pulled out of the air by Robredo’s speech writer.
Not a case filed
But even if there were such cases filed, I was told, the CHR
has not filed at the justice department a single case of human rights
violations against the police related to the anti-drug war. “CHR attorneys
appear on television complaining about this and that, but they haven’t even
filed a single case,” a source said.
If no charges have been filed against the police and the
Duterte administration, it is the fault of the CHR, led by Robredo’s comrade, a
Liberal Party official. There have been three complaints of extra-judicial
killings related to the anti-drug war under Duterte’s watch, none though
because of the CHR’s efforts.
Robredo even shockingly draws from some mafia novel by
claiming that the police have had a policy of arresting a suspect’s wife or
other relatives if he can’t be found, even calling it, in her attempt to get
her lie to land on sensationalist tabloid front pages, the “palit-ulo scheme”.
If there were really such a scheme, anti-Duterte newspapers
like the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Philippine Star as well as the
dozens of tabloids hungry for sensationalist scoops would have reported it long
ago. But they haven’t.
An administration spokesman, however, claimed that Robredo
must have mistaken it for a police practice of letting an arrested suspect go
free, or accused only of lighter charges, in exchange for squealing on a
suspect in the higher rungs of the drug syndicates.
There has been no unprincipled and noisy, or even blissfully
imbecilic Vice President as Robredo who has been demonizing an incumbent
President, and portraying the country as such a horrible place.
Resign as VP
Leading opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. was told in
1968 by his scheming Liberal Party colleagues that there were reports of two
dozen Muslim trainees summarily executed by their Army superiors in Corregidor,
which they had even dubbed to sensationalize it as the “Jabidah Massacre”,
Aquino however investigated the claim himself, and even went
to Jolo where he found the alleged victims alive and kicking, astonished at the
“massacre reports”. Even on exile in the US, Aquino didn’t portray the
Philippines as having become a horrible place under Marcos, but focused on the
country’s need for democracy. Neither did his widow Cory try to portray Marcos
as a cold-blooded killer.
Then Vice President Gloria Arroyo, even after she resigned
from President Estrada’s Cabinet in October 2000, wasn’t vitriolic at all in
criticizing him, and openly asked for his resignation only after it was clear
that he had lost the people’s mandate.
Those opposing Duterte’s regime have all the right to accuse
him of this or that, even on just the flimsiest basis. But Robredo can’t as
Vice President, since when she does that, she is representing the people, and
I’m sure most Filipinos do not support her hate of Duterte.
If she thinks she is morally required to protest, then she
should do real work in gathering real data to back her allegations, rather
than rely on fake news by such biased outfits as rappler.com.
If she wants to continue ranting against Duterte, she has to
resign as Vice President, and send the messages like that she sent to the UN as
one by a Liberal Party official.
If this is the kind of leader the Liberal Party thinks they
can impose on this nation, they should give up all hope and should dissolve the
party immediately, so its ambitious members can pursue their dreams using the
vehicle of other more credible parties.
By: Rigoberto D. Tiglao
Source: The Manila Times
Leni Robredo Lies To The World, Shames The Nation And Herself In UN Message
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March 17, 2017
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The sooner this yellowtard bitch is impeached, the better for the Philippines.
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