very government official of this country, whether elected or appointed, is supposedly in office in accordance with Constitutional processes. Their power to appoint their subordinates is based on their presumed legitimacy and that of the President, who assumes that post as a result of constitutionally mandated elections.
Among others, those provisions mandate the equal protection of the law; the right to life and to be secure in one’s home; the right to due process and the privacy of communication and correspondence; the inviolability of the rights to free speech, free expression, press freedom, and freedom of assembly and of organization; freedom of religion; the right to information; freedom from torture; the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty; and the right to hold contrary opinions without...
The principal reason for that crisis is the ruling oligarchs’ use of the power the people have delegated to them to either completely ignore, or interpret according to their personal, familial, and class interests, the meaning and intent of whatever the Constitution and the rest of the country’s laws say.
As for the “equal protection of the law,” the same oligarchs have demonstrated time and again how tenuously they observe that principle, as those who steal a can of corned beef to feed their starving children are quickly imprisoned while they set loose those of their ilk guilty of the plunder of billions of pesos from the public treasury.
A throwback to the US colonial period — it was passed because, according to the then Governor General, Filipinos did not understand press freedom — the 1932 libel law criminalizing libel is still in force 90 years later.
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