House Bill 6052: Congress working on jailing children instead of the Anti-dynasty Law

Philippines-  A debate on lowering criminal liability from 15 to 12 years old divides the lower house as it tackles House Bill (HB) 6052 titled Strengthening the Juvenile Justice System in the Philippine Act. In summary, the proposed law subjects children over 12 years old to criminal liability once found to have acted with discernment.

These people must be joking!

My fellow voters, this debate is stupid, working on how to jail children instead of crafting meaningful laws like anti-dynasty. This, definitely signals the need to change all members of congress.

Juvenile Justice is an oxymoron. How does one equate justice with children? Justice is such a vast concept that takes years to understand. Even lawmakers are lost as to its meaning like when they become fugitives, Senators Gregorio Honasan and Panfilo Lacson as well known example along with  not a few law makers who are also law breakers. 

HB 6052 was prompted by media reports on rampant shenanigans committed with audacity right in the busy highway of EDSA by out-of-school youth gangs alternately called 'Bakal Boys' , 'Car Wash' and 'Tropang Rugby' .  One very graphic footage captured a taxi driver in mid morning traffic assaulted by a boy, probably no more than 15 whose cohorts, meantime, grabbed the cabbie's earnings. It was a stunning depiction of lawlessness.

And Lawlessness is what it is, the inability of law enforcement agencies to enforce the law. One day Philippine Law enforcement would land in Roget's as an oxymoron.
Children are children. What these children lack for parents, the state must provide but not in form of incarceration.
Poverty kicked these children out of homes, into the street and into sniffing rugby. We know about syndicates who pick up these  children using them to beg. We know about men in uniform, men in high places cuddling these syndicates but what do our lawmakers do, they decide to jail children. S T U P I D !!!!
Poverty is caused by a myriad of corrupt practices that  has stunted the rise of a level playing field- government corruption, oligarchy, dynasty and the alliance of criminals and law enforcement personnel. And what do our lawmakers decide on, to jail children. S T U P I D !!!!
One day we'll see news of an ambush in Antimonan of 200 kids massacred under Oplan Batang Armado.
If they are going to say children of 12 can have discernment, then we should not call them children. These people of 12 years and above should be, if they can be criminally liable :
(1) allowed to vote
(2) contract marriage- (and where will that leave your RH law)
(3) Have consensual sex
(4) be emancipated from their parents
(5) be able to go into a contract
(6) sue
(7) allowed to drive
(8) statistics would include them in the ranks of unemployed if they're not in school
Look at the HB, it doesn't bother to mention these ramifications. What can I say?