Freedoms under threat

WITH threats to some of our basic freedoms, Filipinos all over the world marked on Sunday the 118th Independence Day of the Philippines as a republic. I say “with threats” because of the pronouncements by none other than the incoming President to suppress not only some of our individual rights but also the right of the legislature to investigate his anti-crime policies.

Perhaps it is in the face of such threats that Facebook greeted Filipinos with the Philippine flag upside-down, with the red part at the top and the blue at the bottom, indicating the country is in a state of war. But then, it could also mean solidarity with the incoming administration’s declared war against criminality and corruption.