IN THE MATTER OF PLANTING OF EVIDENCE, RUMOR-MONGERING AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES

By Bayawanon

From the extrajudicial killings to the imprisonment of Senator Leila de Lima, to the impeachment case of Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno and to the sacking of General Dionisio Santiago, the president has proven one thing ... PLANTING OF Pieces of evidence work. Because of this, the president is now the living example of many criminals and undesirable men in uniform plant pieces of evidence just to tag their enemies and eliminate them.

As far as the circumstances are the concerned planting of evidence, legal rumor-mongering and conspiracy theories are being used by the current national leadership just to accomplish their evil plans.

In many cases, the president has spoken on national televisions how to combat drugs by way of planting evidence like guns for the police to justify killing drug addicts and drug users.

In the case of Senator Leila de Lima, the current supreme national leader had tapped the services of many convicted drug lords and felons who are inhabiting in the National Penitentiary who are under the law are being disqualified to be witnesses in cases as provided by the Rules of Court of the judicial system of the country.

As to the matter of the impeachment case of Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno, a leading dissenter against the current national leadership at the highest tribunal of the land, the complaint filed against her is simply based on clippings of national news coming from national newspapers and tabloids and not based on personal knowledge by the complainant.

In the special incident involving the sacking of the very honorable gentleman, General Dionisio Santiago as the Dangerous Drugs Board Chairman, the former decorated Army Officer and Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, was just a victim of rumor mongering. The people of the Dangerous Drugs Board under his tutelage have attested to the fact that all the claims against Santiago were not true.

Now, if the current national leadership capitalizes on the planting of evidence, rumor-mongering and conspiracy theories in downing their enemies and former allies, the same can also be done in pushing their personal ambitions and interests and many innocent people's heads would fall because of this.

What would be more saddening is this ... because of fabricated evidence, conspiracy theories and rumor-mongering, the country would be destroyed by the politicians who are trying to do these things just for them to accomplish their selfish ends. What is alarming also nowadays is this, people easily believe in invented stories without personal investigations, and this fact would probably pull as down to the pits of national sabotage.