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Education, Government, Law Enforcement

U.P. Diliman To Be Privatized!

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QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Quezon City Bureau) – CNN is reporting that University of the Philippines (UP) officials are asking students to drop talk about a recent hazing issue which surfaced in an alleged conversation among Sigma Rho members, following the death of one of the fraternity’s brothers.

UP Diliman Chancellor Michael Tan said that all students, faculty and other concerned parties should stop posting and forwarding messages on social media related to the death of the Sigma Rho member. “Let us do this out of sense of decency and respect for the privacy of the family,” Tan said. 

The first to react to U.P.’s appeal was Senator Risa Hontiveros who told The Adobo Chronicles that would be filing a bill to privatize U.P. Diliman.

”We hear you, Chancellor Tan,” Hontiveros said, “so we are responding positively to your appeal for privacy by proposing legislation to privatize the state university in Diliman and possibly the other U.P. campuses nationwide.

Senate President Tito Sotto expressed support for the proposal, saying it will save a lot in terms of taxpayer money.

Law Enforcement

Pro-Capital Punishment Philippine Senators Propose ‘Death In Tandem By Swing’

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manil Bureau) – In the 17th Philippine Congress, a measure seeking to reinstate the death penalty failed to pass the Senate despite it being one of President Rodrigo Duterte’s pet bills. 

In his fourth State of the Nation Address, Duterte renewed his call to bring back the death penalty for heinous crimes related to drugs and plunder.

Many Senators — mostly aligned with the Administration — are taking heed and have gone a step further by proposing a novel way of carrying out the death penalty.  They’re calling it “death in tandem by swing” (see photo).

Move over the electric chair, firing squad, and lethal injection.

Death in tandem by swing involves two convicts at a time being chained to a swing set up against a concrete wall.

(The Adobo Chronicles opted not to describe in detail what this involves. We leave everything to our readers’ fertile imagination).

In defending their proposal, Senate President Tito Sotto denies it is a cruel form of punishment and death. Rather, he thinks it is humane and allows the convicts some enjoyment in their last moments in this world.

“It will give the convicts some opportunity to reminisce the good old days of their early childhood when they were brought to a public playground by their parents.” Sotto said.

Government, Law Enforcement, Politics, Travel

Duterte Invites US Senators Leahy, Durbin, Others To Visit Malacañang Palace

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Leahy, left, and Durbin

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – A committee in the United States Senate has approved a proposal to prohibit the entry of Philippine government officials involved in the “politically-motivated” detention of Sen. Leila De Lima.

US Sen. Dick Durbin (D-ILL) lauded the US Senate’s appropriations committee for passing the amendment he proposed with Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT).

In retaliation, some Philippine Senators want to ban the U.S. Senators who approved the proposal from entering the Philippines.

But President Rodrigo Duterte has a different idea altogether. He has extended an invitation to Leahy, Durbin and other members of the U.S. Senate committee to visit Malacañang, the Philippine Presidential Palace.

Duterte however clarified that he cannot ensure that the visiting American Senators would be able to leave Malacañang or the Philippines after their visit.

The Philippine National Police (PNP) may need to build more jail cells next to that of Senator De Lima.