We, the people, saw criminality trebled—but not big and foreign media

WE, The Times and the Filipino people, saw it. We in this paper probably bored some of our readers to tears but they did not leave us because they knew we were telling the truth: crime and lawlessness had grown so large under the Aquino regime.

We noticed how lawlessness was growing rampant as early as the second and third year of this Aquino government. Then, in 2015, this space and our columnists (specially Ric Saludo) said that under President BS Aquino we had become the most violent country in Asia, next to North Korea, and we warned that he were becoming like the drug and gang lord-controlled governments of Central America.