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E-MARTIAL LAW. Simply put, the Cybercrime Prevention Act is Martial Law in the internet, says a placard of a National Union of Journalists of the Philippines member. (davaotoday.com photo by Medel Hernani)

Pooled Editorial: Resist Aquino’s e-Martial Law

Let this be the clarion call of our times: Resist Aquino’s e-Martial Law.

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Today’s View:  Imitation Culture

It’s a whole range of our sensibilities that has been affected. Nothing is good enough for us without the quality of the foreign stuff. And in our effort to experience the sense of the foreign, or the ‘imported’ so called, we exult in the thought that we are able to have imitated the alien thing

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Today’s View : CHR For Whom?

“Ngano man kahang gi-initan man gyud sa CHR ang atong Mayor, no? Imbestigahan daw tungod sa iyang pamahayag nga patyon ang dakong taeng smuggler sa bugas kun moanhi sa Davao!” [Why should our Mayor be the object of reproof by the CHR on account of his statement that he would kill the Number One rice smuggler if he comes to Davao?”]

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Today’s View : CHR For Whom?

My friend Lito rasps: “Ngano man kahang gi-initan man gyud sa CHR ang atong Mayor, no? Imbestigahan daw tungod sa iyang pamahayag nga patyon ang dakong taeng smuggler sa bugas kun moanhi sa Davao!” [Why should our Mayor be the object of reproof by the CHR on account of his statement that he would kill the Number One rice smuggler if he comes to Davao?”]

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