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Esperon secures his future

In bragging about the special jail for those suspected of plotting to oust Gloria Arroyo, Army Chief Hermogenes Esperon should remember the story of Ilocos Norte (lst district) Rep. Roque Ablan, Jr. about his experience when martial law was declared in September 1972.

Ablan related that he was one among those arrested during the first few days of martial law. Although he was a relative of Marcos, the strongman wanted to show the public that his iron hand spared no one.

Ablan said when he was brought to the Fort Bonifacio gym together with other detainees, he cried seeing the irony of it all. It was through his pork barrel that the gym was constructed.

Unlike in many cases involving problems in the army or his role in the rigging of election results in 2004 as mentioned by Comelec Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano, Esperon was eager to inform media about the facility in Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal, headquarters of the Army 2nd infantry division.

That used to be the detention cell of former President Estrada before he was transferred to his sprawling country house across the camp.

“We are building a jail for those who deserve to be jailed,” Esperon said. He added that the jail could also accommodate those considered “destabilizers.”

Probably to scare his targets, Esperon boasted, “When you are inside that detention cell, you are the most secured individual.”

Good. That should be a great comfort for him if he gets the privilege of occupying it when Gloria Arroyo falls.

Esperon would not be able to escape accountability for destabilizing the country with his continued support for an illegitimate president. He accuses members of the military who want to correct the situation by removing a power grabber of plotting a coup. How can you stage a coup against someone who was never elected by the Filipino people?

We see no crime committed by soldiers who denounce the use of the military for election cheating. But we know that it is a crime to be an accessory to cheating.

Esperon should heed the reminder of Sen. Rodolfo Biazon: “Soldiers, your duty is to defend the Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines. Anyone who violates the Constitution is your enemy.”

Since she grabbed power in January 2001, Arroyo has been violating the Constitution left and right. Clearly, she is the enemy to members of the military who takes seriously their role as “protector of the people and the State.”

The perceptive public however senses anxiety behind Esperon’s bravado. The army chief knows the real situation in the military. That’s why he is just resorting to tough talk.

Commodore (ret.) Rex Robles, one of the founders of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, which had a major role in ousting Marcos, last week said government officials should stop talking big while acting small.

He said: “If indeed there was a coup ( he thinks there was none but merely a demonstration of dissatisfaction), then the plotters are guilty of treason. They should be punished with death by musketry.”

Yes. Arroyo and Esperon should not bother about detention cells. If they believe they have the people and the whole armed forces behind them, they should line up Brig. Gen. Danny Lim and Col. Ariel Querubin against the wall and shoot them.

Let’s see what will happen.

Published inFeb '06MalayaMilitary

44 Comments

  1. goldenlion goldenlion

    Yes!!, I believe the jail being built in Camp Capinpin will house gloria and her generals. Sooner or later they will find themselves locked and secured there. Esperon, Senga, Lomibao et. al. will pay the price of keeping a fake president. Until now they don’t realize that everything has an end. That in the end , right wins over wrong. Really satan is manipulating them to the highest degree….from drugs, gambling, cheating, stealing, killing, and whew! lying..these are all satanic works. The end is near….and so they must face the final curtain.

  2. jinxies jinxies

    20 March 2006

    Yeah, gen esperon has secured his future, the second coming or the reincranation of the alte gen. ver (baka magalit pa nga si gen ver na kinumpara sa kanya si esperon e, hehehehehe). Yes folks, he’s future is well secured, after the leprecahun is kicked out of malacanang, that’s the place where esperon will stay, secured daw e, secured para sa kanya, hehehehehe.

  3. anna de brux anna de brux

    Esperon will be retiring in a year.

    His future is secure. He will be given a plum post in the cabinet or become an ambassador to another major ally nation – perhaps as ambassador to New Zealand???? His upperclassman is already ambassador to Australia after all.

  4. uloy uloy

    doon sa bagong ginagawang kulungan,ang dapat unang ikulong doon ay si ate glue,doj r.gonzales,m.defensor,senga,esperon,
    nograles,nachura,claudio at iyong isa pang gonzales (nsa)jdv
    at lahat ng congressman na mga tuta ni gma.palipasin lang ang 3 buwan i firing squad silang lahat para di na pamarisan ng ibang tao.

  5. Mike Mike

    ano? ikukulong nyo si unano? wag na lang sana at gagastos pa para palamunin yun. gawin nalang panambak or ihagis nalang sa kung saan pwedeng itapon. yun lang po

  6. anna de brux anna de brux

    hehehhe!

    Pero saan itatapon si Unano? Sa payatas? Kawawa naman iyong mga taon doon baka matakot sa kanya!

  7. Mike Mike

    oo nga eh, walang mapaglagyan. ah alam ko na pakainin nalang sa mga buwaya….. mga buwaya sa kongreso na kakampi nya para nang sa ganun eh malason na rin yung mga taksil sa bayan. di mababawasan pa yung mga makakasuhan. it’s like hitting many buwaya with one dwarf. hehehehe!!!

  8. Diego K. Guerrero Diego K. Guerrero

    A proven Gloria Arroyo loyal dog General Esperon will be the next chief-of-staff when General Senga retires in July 2006. There’s no doubt that the Philippine military is highly politicized. The shaky Arroyo presidency relies on loyalty of the military for her political survival. Kiss-ass military officers are rewarded. Army chief Lt. Gen. Hermogenes Esperon awarded Major General Jovito Palparan the Distinguished Service Star for “butchering” leftist elements in Central Luzon and Samar provinces. The Arroyo government may have sanctioned extra-judicial killings to eliminate leftist groups with alleged links to New People’s Army (NPA) as part of U.S. global war on terrorism. It’s like giving the highest honors to the late Ugandan Notorious Dictator Idi Amin a.k.a. Dada the Butcher of Africa. He practiced cannibalism and feeding the corpses of his victims to crocodiles. There’s a strong possibility that the Butcher of Central Luzon will be the next army chief.

  9. bfronquillo bfronquillo

    Yung ale sa Malacanang ay nagtangkang maging labandera nguni’t hindi nakapasa sapagkat ang puting damit ay umitim at ang de kolor ay pumuti. Kaya’t galit siya sa mga nagsusuot ng itim kasi alam niyang puti talaga ito. Katulad ng maputing budhi at malinis na puso.

    Ipinahuli ni Gloria sina Dinky kasi naiinsulto siya. Pinipintasan kasi ang kaniyang labada. Itim ba o puti ang 2004 Presidential election? Itim ba o puti ang hello Garci? Itim ba o puti ang CPR? Itim ba o puti ang EO464? Itim ba o puti ang pagsikil sa media? Itim ba o puti ang withdrawal of support? Itim ba o puti ang coup d’tat? Itim ba o puti ang pinili ng Dios upang maging Pangulo ng bansa?

    Huwag na kayong sumagot sapagkat ayon ke Gloria labandera ay tapos na ang paglalaba. Ang maitim na budhi ay maputi na. Ang maitim na mga pakana ay nalinis na at wala na silang pananagutan sa mga ginawa nila dahil nagwagi sila. ANG PAGKUKUNYARI AY NAMAMAYANI NA. PABAYAAN NA LANG SILA UPANG ANG BANSA AY UMUNLAD NA. ANO SILA, MASAYA!

    ANG KADILIMAN AY MANANATILI SA ATING BANSA HANGGANG ANG BAWA’T ISA SA ATIN AY MAGSINDI NG KANDILANG PUPUNIT SA PUSIKIT AT MAITIM NA KADILIMAN UPANG ANG MAPUTING BUDHI AY MAGWAGI LABAN SA MAITIM NA KALOOBAN. At sumigaw: Ang Itim ay Itim at ang Puti ay Puti at walang Pangulong labandera na maaring magbago niyan.

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  11. KAHIT SAAN ANGULO MO TIGNAN ANG PICTURE NI GLU-RIA AY NAKAKA INIS. TIGNAN MO ITONG PICTURE NIYA NA KUHA AT KASAMA ANG HENERAL NA BAYARAN. HINDI KO MALAMAN KUNG ANG MUKHA NI GLU-RIA AY NATATAKOT SA NAKAPALIGID NIYA DAHIL ALAM NIYA NA ANG IBA AY HINDI NANINIWALA SA KANYA OR TALAGANG GANITO ANG MUKHANG NG ISANG MAGNANAKAW. KUNG ISA AKO SA NAKAPALIGID AY TINAMAAN NA ITO SA AKIN.

  12. myrna myrna

    pa cute lang yan!!! akala siguro madadala sa kakyutan ang problema ng bayan. eh siya ang pinakaugat ng lahat ng problema sa pilipinas.

    nagtataka lang ako at ano kayang panggagayuma ang pinainom niyan kina defensor at bunyeta pati kay senga at esperon. sana naman, mapatalsik na ang babaeng yan.

  13. Yuri P. Quezada Yuri P. Quezada

    Ellen,

    Kung sabagay mahirap ang buhay dito sa pinas kaya kanya kanyang paninigurado lang sa buhay pero nakakasuka talaga itong ibang mga heneral natin di baling maging kasangkapan sila ng kasamaan mapabuti lang ang tayo nila,kung sabagay walang taong hindi gusto marating gusto nila sa buhay gagawin nila ang lahat ng kanilang magagawa maTUPAD lang ito kung ito ay uri ng taong MAIITIM ANG BUDHI AT WALANG KINIKILALANG DIYOS. SO SANA MAKONSENSYA NAMAN ANG MGA HENERAL NA ITO KUNG SILA TALAGA ANG PROTEKTOR NG DEMOKRASYA AT HINDI NG ISANG TAONG SA TINGIN NILA AY SILA NILANG MESIAH.MAGSABI NA KAYO NG TOTOO AT WAG NAKAYONG MAGTAKIPAN KAYA PA NAMAN KAYONG PATAWARIN NG TAONG BAYAN PERO BAKA DI KAYONG KAYANG PATAWRIN NG NASA ITAAS KUNG SAKALING LISANIN NA NINYO ANG MUNDONG ITO AT HAHARAP KAYO SA KANYA NA TAAS ANG NOO.KAYA SANA MATAUHAN NA KAYO HINDI PA HULI ANG LAHAT PARA GAWIN ITO.

    GOD BLESS

    YURI

  14. Ferdinand Ferdinand

    IN THE END

    Who will handle the cases if there would be cases to be filed against GMA and her Generals?
    Dapat ngayon palang ay inaayos na iyan ng ating magagaling na kongresista sa oposisyon tama ba?
    Dapat ngayon palang ay gumawa na ng independent komite para usigin sina GMA at mga tutang Heneral.
    Tama yang ginawa ni Esperon make sure na secure yung magiging kulungan nila otherwise baka pasukin sila ng galit na mamamayan sa kulungan sa Tanay..

    Dapat ngayon palang ilista na lahat ng maaaring kaso kay Gma
    1.) Cheating
    2.) Plunder
    3.)

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