PART II HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL WITH TRUTH ON MY SIDE
convicts. They don’t care about the truth. All they care about is power, flexed through lies, deceptions, and oppression. Come to think of it, what do we expect from this clown? Like his immediate predecessor, this presidential mouthpiece only parrots what his principal dictates, including slanders. More than being hurt, I am infuriated by the persistent demonization and character assassination I get from these presidential underlings, obviously upon Duterte’s orders. In fact, it is Duterte who is “criminal in nature”. What can be more criminal than the murder of thousands of human beings using the state apparatus as an instrument to enforce his policy of summary execution of targeted civilians? This is what the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data project (ACLED) pointed out in its report about the Philippines being fifth among countries with the most number of civilian fatalities, thus making it “one of the deadliest places in the world to be a civilian”. No amount of denials and propaganda from Panelo can hide this plain fact from the rest of the world. Unfortunately for Panelo, the world is not populated by Duterte sycophants like him. The world sees the truth as it is. It would take more than a clown like Panelo to convince it otherwise. Dispatch 465 COL. MARCELINO KNOWS I AM INNOCENT 9 February 2019 I am glad that Marine Col. Ferdinand Marcelino has found the courage to speak out and assert anew his innocence on the drug charges previously filed against him. Indeed, being falsely accused is most painful. I know exactly, without any exaggeration, how it feels to be falsely accused. Perhaps what many people do not know is the previously dismissed charges against Col. Marcelino were then revived in order to pressure him to falsely testify against me. His and my experience only goes to show the malevolent strategies utilized by the Duterte government to persecute and target innocent individuals who are perceived to be enemies as well as those who they think ought to be silenced. He was a collateral victim of this government’s vindictive actions against me,
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