CONTRARY to what many assert, I do not think that President Duterte has a communication problem.
I think he has a problem with his Presidential Communications Office (PCO), its Secretary Martin Andanar, and the whole team of people working under him.
The Supreme Court’s 9-5 decision rejecting the petitions to stop the burial of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Libingan ng Mga Bayani is a betrayal of both the Court’s noblest traditions and of the animating spirit of the Constitution. We share the view that the majority’s version of judicial restraint in the face of presidential prerogatives has allowed evil to slip through the thicket of technicalities—and triumph.
One of the questions that dominated the discourse pre-Typhoon Lawin was: what the heck is government doing?
The truth was, we weren’t hearing much about what was being done, who was doing what, and whether government was prepared at all. It didn’t help that too many members of the President’s Cabinet –including the heads of communications – were with him in China, and so there was absolutely no sense at all that there was anyone in control of delivering information about the typhoon, one that was said to be akin to Typhoon Yolanda of 2013.
Here’s the thing: when you come from an Aquino government that had three communications offices, having no functioning communications office for President Duterte is nothing but a liability. For the public and the government itself.
Nov. 4-Friday from 9am to 1pm. Padre Faura, SUPREME COURT Gates. If you have not engaged in any public protest against the proposed Marcos burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayani, this is our LAST CHANCE to be heard. On November 8, Tuesday, the Supreme Court Justices are deciding on whether to allow the Marcos burial at LnmBayani. If they vote yes, then the SC will bury Truth and Justice with the Dictator. Join us for this last push, a last plea to the SC Justices to vote against the burial. The last time a crowd was at the SC gates, it was a throng of Marcos loyalists there in full force. The SC justices do not engage in social media, they do not see our memes, our online protests. They need to see us, in the flesh at their gates, pleading our cause. Please come. Huling Hirit na ito!
There is also a concert-prayer rally at Lapu-lapu monument at Luneta on Sunday, Nov 6 from 4-8pm
(Facebook message via Susan Quimpo. Huling Hirit sponsored by Duyan ng Magiting Coalition, Akbayan Youth, SCAPS, Ateneo Sanggunian, QC Unite, Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan)