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People

Brats

Don’t you just hate it when you hear about spoiled, rich kids trying to kill each other?

How about when one of those involved is a son of a senator of the Republic?

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Human Rights

Freedom and Paranoia

Here are some scenes, as shown in television reports yesterday, inside Queen Gloria’s “Strong Republic”:

Policemen arrested supporters of Fernando Poe, Jr. in Payatas who were distributing anti-administration flyers. They were later freed because the cops did not know what charges could be filed against them.

In Mendiola, a pro-FPJ protesters’ rally was violently dispersed by the police even if the organizers secured a permit. The road to the Palace was also blocked barbed wires.

Are our rights to freedom of expression and assembly already obsolete in Gloria’s version of Bagong Pilipinas?

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General

Welcome to Piercing Pens!


“The pen is mightier than the sword.”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Welcome to Piercing Pens.

We are a pair of twenty-something writer-journalists struggling in the troubled waters of the Philippine media.

Join us as we dissect the news and issues that we encounter daily.