‘The new justice secretary should renew the vanishing hopes of the families of the drug fatalities through a reinvestigation of the fabricated or vague reports on extra-judicial killings…’
JUSTICE Secretary Boying Remulla seems to have brought a whiff of fresh air to thousands of inmates at the National Bilibid Prisons rendered wretched and doomed by the country’s hopelessly broken criminal justice system.
He is aghast that the 6,000-capacity national penitentiary has a population of 17,000 or a congestion rate of 300%. The inmates are in the bottom of government concerns and rarely do public officials and politicians, not wanting to risk losing the people’s votes over favoring society’s outcasts, have expressed concern or sympathy for them.
The stark reality that stared Remulla in the face when he visited the facility last week is, according to him, unbelievably inhuman. He wants the Bureau of Pardon and Parole and the Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) to expedite the process of releasing inmates who deserve to go free.
Remulla also wants people in President Duterte’s drug list who are not really involved in the drug trade cleared. Many names in the list have enriched the corrupt in the Department of Justice and in the Bureau of Immigration. He stressed that justice should be served to the innocent.
Remulla knows what real justice means to thousands of families who have lost their loved ones to police operatives in the one-sided and exceptionally ruthless one-sided drug war.
From the start of the bloody drug campaign until he stepped down from office, Duterte didn’t care about the victims of regular street executions by the police or of other suspects who were left at the mercy of homicidal cops, mulcting fiscals and immigration agents.
The new justice secretary should renew the vanishing hopes of the families of the drug fatalities through a reinvestigation of the fabricated or vague reports on extra-judicial killings, if only to show them that justice can still reign for the helpless, the poor and the innocent. And yes, shouldn’t the names of the guiltless and uninvolved in drugs but were gunned down by the police in the horrific series of institutional violence be cleared for real justice and not selective justice to triumph?
Remulla the politician should prove himself outside the clutches of the wealthy and well-connected whose names he wants cleared from drug cases, and help redeem the thousands from the quagmire of grief and despair to which the past government had remorselessly sent them.
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From the New England Journal of Medicine: “The director of the George Washington University School of Medicine argues that the brain of an older person is much more practical than is commonly believed. At this age, the interaction of the right and left hemispheres of the brain becomes harmonious, which expands our creative possibilities.
That is why among people over 60 years of age you can find many personalities who have just started their creative activities. Of course, the brain is no longer as fast as it was in youth. However, it gains in flexibility. Therefore, with age, we are more likely to make the right decisions and are less exposed to negative emotions. The peak of human intellectual activity occurs around the age of 70, when the brain begins to function at full steam. Over time, the amount of myelin in the brain increases, a substance that facilitates the rapid passage of signals between neurons. Due to this, intellectual abilities increase by 300% compared to the average.”
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From Carter Conlon, head pastor of the Times Square Church in New York City: “Faith is the Word of God. The Holy Spirit who inspired the Word is called the Spirit of truth. As we receive with meekness the implanted word; (James 1:21), faith springs up in our hearts – faith in the sacrifice of Calvary, faith in the shed blood of Jesus, faith in the fact that He took over our weaknesses, bore our sicknesses, carried our pains, and is our life today.”
