[Cax]

The Philippines is a hell poor place in a lot of areas. These people aint got much to live for, no shit they're defending what little they have.

[Spiffyfable]

Bet them cops play a mean game of Wack-a-Mole at the Arcade

[polaris_91696]

Originally Posted by xthabeast ↗

So you wouldn't be pissed if the gov't is trying to kick you out of your own house?

If the property is mine, I would be pissed...but, in this case, the property belongs to the government. Those "poor people" are actually slum dwellers. The government has been trying to relocate them for some time even building a housing complex for them. What these slum dwellers do is rent out those houses and go to back to being illegal dwellers on government as well as private properties.

I actually don't feel bad for them. I feel bad for the police.

[Gregore Mortis]

Originally Posted by vicksvaporub ↗

There was no resettlement area for them.

Maybe because those are illegal flea market they demolished and not houses?

[Space Particle]

I just would of let them have that shithole in the first place.

[King Herald]

Squatters had loads of laws on their side for years in the Philippines, but the pendulum is gradually swinging back towards the landowners. The country is dirt poor, in most part, with a massive gulf between the 'haves' and 'have nots'. Salaries of normal working people are pitiful, and I personally don't see how they can survive on such crappy incomes. Gasoline costs the same as the USA, and electricity is the second most expensive in the world!!! But most 'skilled' workers earn less than $7 a day.

And the police, anybody in a uniform, anybody with a position in law, or government, is usually on a massive ego trip and usually sucking in bribes and back handers left right and centre. The whole country revolves on corruption and bribery.

Chances are the government claimed this land, probably at some stage after the people moved into it. Many people live on land that never had a title, never had documentation, until someone pays off the local City hall to buy the title. Then they call the people (who may have lived there for decades) 'squatters'.

[Rogan]

great post, great photos, thanks

[Quiet]

What the fuck? Do the cops just pick up random sticks to beat people with? That's ghetto as fuck

[King Herald]

And note the covered cops faces, as they know they are doing illegal shit!


Same as cops all over the world I guess, cover the badge, cover the face, hide the number etc.

[froggy123]

usual police takeing on poor who have nothink