Of Changes, Duterte, Catholic Church

By Ulysses R. Butuyan

 

All roads lead to Davao. Only for non-smokers.

Villar is Senate’s lone billionaire. Are there no undocumented ones?

Leftists switch from Poe to Duterte. The Poes in the North are now better known as Southpaws.

COA: P74M meant for calamity victims spent by DND to construct and refurbish its office buildings and facilities for its own personnel. What a sadistic and heartless way to turn a calamity into a catastrophe!

Poll materials found thrown away as trash. Hardly anyone needed to see the ballots, but almost everyone was looking for the money.

LP members hop on Duterte bandwagon. That’s the meaning of Coalition for Change.

Halt to Davao death squad probe hit. Is an association of funeral parlors behind the order to stop the probe?

Duterte: Respect my choices. Even in the matter of summary executions?

Duterte slams the Catholic Church as a hypocritical institution. The church group that solidified the votes of its faithful for him must be the most sincere. He doesn’t seem to realize that the bulk of his winning votes were cast by Catholic voters.

Haves get to represent have-nots in Congress. For sure, the haves will remain haves and the have-nots will remain have-nots, or there will be no one for them to represent.

Tourism office preparing “Dutertours” in Davao City. Will the tours include memorial park visits?

Duterte: “Country first before friendship.” Genuine love is the foundation of true friendship. Can anyone claim that he loves his country if he cannot even be a true friend?

Curfew, no smoking and liquor ban are Duterte’s first orders. Once again, as was done by the outgoing administration, the Constitution is being amended. The fundamental law itself deserves due process and respect.

Barong for funerals, not inaugural. Some guys may be thinking of themselves as ambulant cadavers.

Tough fight looms over death penalty. The death penalty law is presumptuous. It sadly ignores the fact that human judgment is invariably prone to deception, mistake, bias or even corruption. Death is final and irreversible. Long jail terms like reclusion perpetua and life imprisonment leave open the chance for a faulty conviction to be reopened. Heaven knows how many innocent death convicts have fallen victims of injustice, for all who preside over our lives and liberties are but human, fallible and sometimes unclean.

Besides, in the past the death penalty did not at all deter criminality.

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