A third extension of martial law in Mindanao mocks the Constitution for wanton absence of constitutional bases which are the presence of actual rebellion and public safety requires the extension.
Rebellion dose not persist in Mindanao and consequently public safety is not imperiled.
It is President Duterte who is vested with the initiative for the extension of martial law and he has not communicated to the Congress his desire to prolong the martial law regime in Mindanao.
The confirmation by the Supreme Court of the downgrading of Filipino and Philippine literature (panitikan) as merely elective or optional subjects in college is unconstitutional and anti-youth.
Section 6 of Article XIV of the Constitution categorically mandates that the “national language of the Philippines is Filipino.”
Contrary to the ruling of the Supreme Court, the aforesaid provision does not need an implementing statute for its enforcement.
The grant by the Sandiganbayan of a post-conviction bail for the provisional liberty of Rep. Imelda Marcos does not liberate her as a prisoner of her own conscience.
No conscience is so callous as not to be afflicted by guilt and remorse.
Since the Sandiganbayan has forfeited the bail bond of Rep. Imelda Marcos for her and her lawyer’s unjustified failure to appear during the promulgation of the decision in her graft cases, the issuance of a warrant of arrest by the anti-graft court against Marcos is a matter of course.
The advanced age of Rep. Imelda Marcos, the widow of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos, is a non-issue consequent to her conviction for seven counts of corruption by the Sandiganbayan.
No law or jurisprudence exempts a felon from arrest or incarceration due to old age.
An offender who is over 70 years old is only entitled to a mitigating circumstance under Article 13 of the Revised Penal Code (RPC) and a death sentence cannot be inflicted on one over 70 years old pursuant to Article 83 of the RPC at the time when the death penalty was the capital punishment.
