Angging blasts proposal to scrap juvenile-justice law

By ANGELA LIBRADO-TRINIDAD

We have hoodlums in robes, we have cheats at the highest echelons of the government, we have crooks in Congress, landgrabbers and killers well-entrenched in state machineries and business, and the irony is, despite the laws available to victims, to the poorest among us, these criminals appear decent and held with high regard in our society. We see the young shoplifter, the young molester or the young drug pusher and, alas, we are immediately agitated to have them removed from our sight and from the streets!

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All-out war in Mindanao prelude to more US military intervention — Bayan

DAVAO CITY – The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan in Southern Mindanao today
concludes that the recent military clashes in Basilan and Sulu are
prelude to wider US military intervention in Mindanao.

“A research group, Focus on the Global South, and a photo taken by
Agence France Press showing US military personnel in an AFP convoy
going to Basilan only confirmed that conflict in Mindanao serves the
US military interest.” Frankie del Rosario, spokesperson of Bayan-SMR
said.
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