OPINION- GET REAL : Inciting to sedition – By Solita Collas-Monsod
Can we start from the very beginning, please?
Peter Joemel Advincula was host to aseries of six videos entitled “Ang Totoong Narco List,” released earlier this year (April) which implicated various members of President Duterte’s family (including Bong Go) as having ties with the illegal drugs industry and benefiting financially from them. He had lists (tara) of money paid into bank accounts. He then appeared at the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) head office and asked for help to move forward his case against those he had implicated.
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What was the government’s reaction? Outright, the Philippine National Police refused to investigate the charges against the Presidential family, passing them off as black propaganda. Instead, they investigated Advincula’s past and brought out certain interesting facts about him: He was an estafador, he was an ex-convict, he had made previous allegations to government authorities which were found to be false, etc.
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In other words, while the PNP refused to investigate the charges against the Presidential family, they went to town on Advincula and completely discredited him. He was far from being a credible witness. That’s what you call killing the messenger. So far, so good.
Then, Advincula did an about-face on his story. His “Ang Totoong Narco List” became “Ang Totoong Plotters” (per Erwin Tulfo). The new version was that the whole series of six videos was false. Advincula had been persuaded to do it by a group of people who wanted to bring down the Duterte administration and its senatorial candidates.
And who are in this group?
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You read the list yesterday, Reader. Included were Vice President Leni Robredo, Senators Leila de Lima and Risa Hontiveros, former senators Antonio Trillanes IV and Bam Aquino (plus various members of their staff); then you had the rest of the Otso Diretso senatorial candidates. Also included were Archbishop Socrates Villegas; Bishops Teodoro Bacani, Pablo Virgilio David and Honesto Ongtioco; and priests Albert Alejo, Robert Reyes and Flaviano Villanueva.
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