Robin Padilla Logic:
kapag menor de edad namaril = kulong dapat, kriminal yan
kapag kaalyado nila na DDS na nasa tamang edad, lumabag sa batas = wag ikulong, tulungan makatakas sa huli
As someone who has spent three decades advocating for children, I find it deeply troubling that his first instinct is to make younger children criminally liable rather than address the failures that allowed this tragedy to happen in the first place.
Three children are dead.
The question is not why a 10-year-old should be punished.
The question is why minors have access to firearms.
The question is why violence continues to find its way into our schools.
The question is why our education, mental health, social welfare, and law enforcement systems repeatedly fail children before a crime is ever committed.
Real leadership requires more than reacting to headlines.
It requires understanding the problem.
Lowering the age of criminal responsibility may generate applause. It may generate media attention. But there is little evidence that it addresses the root causes of youth violence.
Children who commit serious crimes must be held accountable. But accountability should not become a substitute for prevention.
A senator’s responsibility is not merely to propose the harshest response. It is to propose the most effective one.
I have worked with vulnerable children for most of my adult life. Many have been abused, neglected, abandoned, exploited, or exposed to violence long before they ever entered conflict with the law.
It is easy to appear tough on children.
It is much harder to confront the adult failures that create these tragedies.
Before Senator Padilla asks Congress to treat younger children as criminals, perhaps he should explain why government has failed to protect them as children in the first place.
this year, one of them just won the prem (and on their way to possibly with the champions league), and the other is one game away from the NBA finals.
what a time to be an Arsenal and a Knicks fan.
when i was a kid, i picked my favorite nba team and my favorite football team based on vibes. at the time they weren't necessarily the best teams in their respective leagues, but i saw promise and potential and i owed them my team loyalty.
SMC had plans to build a mall inside QC Circle. Joy Belmonte preserved the park's integrity by issuing a cease-and-desist.
Isko, these female mayors have more balls than you.
Metro Manila does not need anymore expressways. Metro Manila BADLY needs more train lines, a subway, and a unified bus/jeep system. Hindi kulang ang kalsada sa Maynila, connectivity at integration ang kulang kaya mas pipiliin pa rin ng mas nakakarami na magkotse.
when i said at some point in the future matteo is going to be our charli3 k1rk equivalent i wasn't kidding.
him regularly asking men how they feel about their wives doing their jobs is colored with alt-right conservative christian man0sphere undertones.
I just checked the decree penalizing Obstruction of Justice (Pres. Decree 1829) and apparently when committed by public officers it carries the penalty of perpetual disqualification from public office…
One thing is clear tonight: the Duterte-allied Senate bloc is willing to plunge the institution into chaos and to weaponise fear, all to shield one of their own from accountability.
when activists were arrested, there were no special considerations and often barely any regard for due process. homes were raided, violence was normalized and in many cases, lives were lost. yet when someone accused of crimes against humanity faces arrest, the entire system suddenly hesitates and bends over backwards.
it raises an uncomfortable question: is justice truly blind or does it become negotiable when power and influence are involved?
"Kasi kung ordinaryong tao po yan, lulusubin po ng mga awtoridad ang bahay niyan para i-serve ang warrant of arrest. At ang sinumang haharang ay obstruction of justice po ang kakaharapin"
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA WHERE'S THE LIE?????????