The Philippines is Becoming Like Europe in the Worst Way Possible

The Philippines is becoming like Europe in the worst way possible. Allow me to explain. Shortly after Marcos was elected president there was a flare up of reports of kidnappings. The PNP said it was all bunk. One columnist claimed it was a conspiracy to make Bongbong look bad.  As if a man who continues to apologize for his father's bloody dictatorship, continues to lie about his Oxford diploma, and continues to deny that his family plundered the nation needs anyone to make him look bad. 

However, given that the kidnappings were actually not fake news and the Senate even began in investigation into the matter, the PNP were forced to come clean. Chinese gangs were kidnapping Chinese nationals.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1665660/pnp-at-least-5-groups-may-be-into-pogo-linked-kidnappings

The Philippine National Police is expecting a sharp decline in kidnap-for-ransom attempts that target Chinese workers of Philippine offshore gaming operator (Pogo) companies, after the arrest of some “Chinese gangsters” being linked to at least five crime syndicates believed to be operating in the country.

On Thursday, the PNP’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) arrested five Pogo workers, four of them Chinese, following an operation to rescue a Chinese woman who was abducted on Sept. 14 in Pasay City.The five are now in custody facing charges of kidnapping and serious illegal detention, robbery extortion and possession of firearms and live ammunition without a license.

The suspects were identified as members of the Zi Criminal Group, a syndicate linked to kidnappings and illegal detention of Pogo employees in the southern part of Metro Manila, according to a February report of the PNP Directorate for Intelligence.

The syndicate is one of “more than five groups” involved in Pogo kidnappings, based on police intelligence, according to Col. Hansel Marantan, chief of the CIDG-National Capital Region (NCR).

CIDG director Brig. Gen. Ronald Lee said the successful operation was the latest in a series of positive developments against Pogo kidnappings.

In the past two weeks, the CIDG has arrested 15 Chinese nationals, with the first operation involving eight individuals who were armed with high-powered firearms when they were caught.

“The forecast should be – the kidnapping cases should go down [after the arrest of the Chinese suspects],” Lee said.

According to the CIDG chief, the Philippines became a hotbed for Chinese gangsters after they were forced to shut down operations in Vietnam and Cambodia when the two countries outlawed Chinese-backed online gambling and overseas casinos – similar to Pogos – to safeguard security and public order.

Lee warned Chinese working in the Philippines to think twice before engaging in serious criminal activity.

“I have instructed my operatives to not go easy on you, otherwise, you’ll suffer a greater consequence for your offense within the bounds of the law. The CIDG is committed to arresting and deporting these heinous criminals to put an end to their criminal activity,” he said.

The Philippines has been infested with Chinese gangs engaged in kidnap-for-ransom activities and who knows what else and the director of the CIDG says he has instructed his men to not go easy on them. That is a complete 180 the directions previously given to the PNP.

https://mb.com.ph/2022/09/16/azurin-pnp-given-hands-off-order-on-pogo-related-matters/

Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief, General Rodolfo Azurin Jr. revealed Friday, Sept. 16, that the police organization had been told not to meddle with matters concerning Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO).

Azurin said that the PNP, under his leadership, continues to address the sudden increase in POGO-related crimes such as kidnappings even though there was a previous “hands-off” order to the police organization when it comes to POGO matters.

“In the past, the PNP was given a hands-off directive to avoid meddling as far as POGO is concerned,” Azurin said in a DZRH radio interview.

The PNP Chief could not recall who or when the directive was given, although he said they were already doing a backtracking.

Now, he said the PNP has started coordinating with the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), and Bureau of Immigration (BI) to solve the spate of POGO-related crimes in the country.

There is only one man who could have given that order and that is Duterte. He was the man calling all the shots and directing the PNP to execute his will. 

So, despite the rise in crime related to POGOs, despite the Chinese Embassy asking that POGOs be shut down, despite other countries making them illegal, and despite even the Bureau of Immigration engaging in scams allowing Chinese to enter illegally who then went to work for POGOs the PNP was told to keep their hands off. That is exactly like what is happening in Europe. 

In the UK Muslims gangs were grooming and sexually assaulting children for years. The cops refused to investigate because they did not want to appear racist. 

https://archive.is/clmwb

A senior police officer admitted that his force ignored the sexual abuse of girls by Pakistani grooming gangs for decades because it was afraid of increasing “racial tensions”, a watchdog has ruled. 

After a five-year investigation, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) upheld a complaint that the Rotherham officer told a missing child’s distraught father that the town “would erupt” if it was known that Asian men were routinely having sex with under-age white girls. 

The chief inspector is said to have described the abuse as “P*** shagging” and to have said it had been “going on” for 30 years: “With it being Asians, we can’t afford for this to be coming out.”

On New Years Eve in Cologne, Germany hundreds of women ere sexually assaulted and raped by Muslim immigrants. The cops were told to cover it up by not mentioning rape in their reports. 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3527771/German-minister-told-police-remove-word-rape-reports-mass-migrant-sex-attacks-Cologne-new-Year-s-Eve.html

A German state minister allegedly tried to pressure police in Cologne to remove the word rape from reports about the mass sexual assaults committed by asylum seekers on New Year's Eve. 

Cologne's Express newspaper claimed that the interior ministry of North Rhine-Westphalia pressured a senior police officer to delete 'rape' from an internal report issued on January 1.

'KHK told me that the state control centre wanted the report cancelled and the expression "rape" deleted,' read a document written by another police officer which was printed by the Express.

The number of instances of European cops and ministers covering up and downplaying crime committed by so-called refugees is almost innumerable. They do it out of fear for being racist. In the Philippines Duterte and the PNP have downplayed the crimes committed by Chinese nationals working at POGOs for a different reason. Money.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1154488

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee on Thursday said establishing a tax regime for Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) would help stabilize the industry, which was "wracked by the uncertainty" due to the Supreme Court’s (SC) temporary restraining order (TRO) on their tax treatment.

Albay Rep. Joey Salceda made the statement as he lauded President Rodrigo Duterte for signing Republic Act No. 11590, which imposes a 5 percent tax on gross gaming revenues (GGR) of offshore gaming licensees and a 25 percent withholding tax on foreigners employed by POGOs.

“President Duterte was very clear: He will only allow gaming if they pay the right taxes. This will make sure they do,” Salceda said.

He said the measure will help the POGO industry recover since the country lost some of them to Cambodia due to the "uncertain" tax regime in the past.

“As long as they pay the right taxes and comply with all our laws, they will be able to operate,” Salceda said, highlighting that the POGOs would be operating under stricter terms.

This money,  along with that earned by taxes on cockfighting were supposed to fund universal health care. But POGOs owe billions in back taxes. Now POGOs are being shut down and POGO workers are scheduled to be deported but, just like in the USA with the millions of illegal immigrants who get lost in the system the BI says they cannot locate these people!

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1674479/bi-admits-not-knowing-locations-of-40000-pogo-workers

The Bureau of Immigration (BI) admitted that they do not know the whereabouts of the over 40,000 employees of Philippine offshore gaming operators (Pogos) who are set to be deported by the government.

BI Deputy Commissioner Fortunato Manahan Jr. made the revelation at Monday’s hearing of the Senate committee on ways and means after the inquiry of Senator Grace Poe.

(They say, “We will deport 40,000 or more individuals.” Where are they? I’m not asking to deport them immediately. What I’m saying is, do you know where they are, or these are just promises?)

Manahan answered that the 40,000 figure is just an estimate, assuming that there are 200 workers in each of the more than 200 Pogo firms with terminated licenses.

Poe immediately questioned Manahan’s remark.

“I just want to make sure that I have this right. You’re just making a calculation but you don’t actually know where those individuals are at this point?” she quizzed, to which the commissioner responded, “Yes.”

According to PACGOR POGOs began operating in the Philippines in 2003 but it was Duterte who began regulating them.

https://thediplomat.com/2020/06/chinas-clandestine-gamble-in-the-philippines/

The rapid expansion of Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators or POGOs is linked to rising Chinese influence on the government of Rodrigo Duterte. But this is a controversial, if not unmentionable, connection because the Chinese government has officially rejected POGOs, while the Philippines denies that it is giving preferential treatment to Chinese citizens for such businesses. For many Filipinos, however, POGOs have come to symbolize the dark side of state-backed Chinese investments in the country.

According to the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR), POGOs began operating in 2003 but it was only in 2016, after Duterte came to power, that the government began regulating online gaming hubs.

The nation can thank the destructive typhoon that was the Duterte administration for foisting this mess upon the nation by giving POGOs legal sanction. All that's left now is to clean up the debris. That will not be so easy.