Grabe ang sitwasyon ngayon sa Nueva Ecija kung saan ang paboritong heneral ni Gloria Arroyo, si Maj. General Jovito Palparan, ang naghahari-harian.
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Inurder ni Palparan na lahat na tao ay dapat may cedula. Ito ang kanyang paraan para mapuksa ang mga komunista.
Parang bumalik tayo sa panahon ng Hapon na kailangan may ipakita kang cedula o identification card na kanilang ini-isyu. Siyempre bago ka isyuhan ng cedula or card kailangan siguraduhin kang kakampi nila. Ang walang cedula, pinapatay.
May report ang Philippine Daily Inquirer sa reign of terror ni Palparan. May isang vegetable vendor raw na ang kanyang cedula ay 2005 pa. Pinakain sa kanya.. Pati raw barangay captain na hindi nakakuha ng bagong cedula, pinakain rin sa kanya ang papel.
Ang isang pulubi ay sinipa nang nagreklamo siya kung bakit pati siya ay kukuha ng cedula. Ang isa namang empleyado ng pamahalaan ay naglakad na naka-brief bilang parusa sa kanya dahil hindi siya nakapakita ng cedula sa military checkpoint.
Nag-order ng curfew si Palparan simula 9 p.m. hanggang 4 a.m. Kaya sa mga oras na yun, parang ghost town ang Nueva Ecija.
Sinabi noong panahon ng martial law na ang pinaka-numero uno na recruiter ng New People’s Army ay si Marcos mismo.Sa kalupitan ng kanyang military, kahit ayaw mamundok at sumali sa mga NPA.
Akala kaya ni Gloria Arroyo at ni Palparan na kapag pinakain ng cedula itong walang kamuwang-muwang na mga tao mamahalin sila? Siguro nga matatakot pero kamumuhian sila. Madali silang ma-recruit ng NPA.
Bakit ba may NPA? Ang komunista na NPA ang kanilang army, ay lalago sa lugar na matindi ang kahirapan at ang kalupitan ng mga nasa pwesto. Siyempre hahanap ang mga tao ng makatulong sa kanila kung ang nasa pwesto ay pinaglulupitan sila. Ang solusyon sa komunismo ay ayusin ang ekonomiya para maka-ahon ang mga tao sa kahirapan.
Dapat magkaroon ng hustisya. Ang Pilipino ay matiisin ngunit kapag napuno na ang salop, marunong rin lumaban.
Patuloy ang kurakutan ng pamahalaang Arroyo. Ang solusyon niya sa mga bumabatikos sa kanyang pamahalaan ay pagpapatayin. Yan ang nangyayari sa halos araw-araw na pagpapatay na mga miyembro ng progresibong organisasyon kasama na ang dalawang estudyante ng University of the Philippines na sina Karen Empeño at Sherlyn Cadapan at ang kasama nilang magsasaka na si Manuel Merino.
Kaya malaking kaipokrituhan ang panawagan ni Arroyo na sugpuin ang global terrorism samantalang dito sa sarili niyang bayan, tauhan niya ang nagte-terroize ng mga Pilipino.
Frankly, I didn’t read the whole article and just took note of the subject. With Palparan’s photo, the subject should have been “Terorista ng Nueva Ecija” or “Nueva Ecija’s Terrorist”.
The cedula eating incident as reported in the news should be fully investigated and reported to the Commission on Human Rights. If the incident is true and not just part of propaganda of critics, it is no doubt a worst form of military abuse which Malacañang should be held gravely responsible.
I understand the military has its own discipline and standard operating procedure to follow. I am very much curious if obliging all residents in Nueva Ecija to have their cedula is authorized by provincial or municipal ordinance or even the general law. There is none I can think of.
The military should remove from their psyche the false notion that insurgency can be licked by abusing ordinary people and depriving them of their basic right as a human being. In fact our experience shows that insurgency multiplies and grows rapidly in places where rampant military abuses are reported and left unchecked by civil authorities.
SO….THAT is how palparan look like!
By looking at palparan’s face here gives me the chill. His is one that has killed innocent lives.
Limitado lang ba sa Nueva Ecija ang terorismo niya?
Kasama rin po ba ang Bulacan kung saan huling nakita ang mga estudyanteng taga-UP?
ALL of us know that Civilian rule overrides those of the military, as gleaned from our social studies subject in school. AS IT IS
AS IT IS, the military in Nueva Ecija and V|Bulacan provinces overrules that of civilian authority. Bakit hinahayaan ng local na gobyerno ng 2 probinsiya na ito na manaig ang kapalpakan ni palparan?
SILENT Martial Law na nga!
The point is why are the local officials like the Representatives of Nueva Ecija not doing anything to stop this Palparan from acting like a little president?
How can someone like Palparan make his own rule the way he does if indeed the Philippines has not become what we feel it has become
No, Taipan, it is not silent Marial Law, but yes, what they have there is more like a military junta with a civilian figure head whom the generals allow to act and reveal herself as nothing but a vain and arrogant mediocre Matron who is more like a Super Atsay.
My Japanese friends who have visited the Philippines and do volunteer works in the rural areas have told me so, and I wrote about it in another loop.
The point is why can ordinary Filipinos not see this? BTW, a former Japayuki from Nueva Ecija, who has been praise releasing herself has been photographed giving Palparan some citation. Have you seen it in the Philippine Digest or some Philippine newsletter being distributed here for free?
Ang sipsip ng taong ito who wants to be recognized apparently as one of the most dakilang Super Atsay and Super Ta-pu sweating it out overseas for a wannabe idiotic queen!
No,
It seems that elected local officials from governor to barangay captains and trial judges in Central Luzon provinces are being intimidated and controlled by a fascist army general. Our constitution states: civilian authority is, at all times, supreme over the military. Anyways, her bogus commander in chief has no respect to co-equal branches of government. Gloria Arroyo interprets the supreme law of the land for her own interests. I think holders of cedula or residence certificate tax is NOT A VALID proof of loyalty to corrupt Arroyo regime. Cedula is readily available in Manila sidewalks and underpasses. Army General Jovito Palparan’s brutal tactics and psychological warfare is a trademark of U.S.-sponsored low intensity conflict in the Philippines. How he can end insurgency in two years and winning trust and confidence of the people in the military? No way Jovito! Palpak ka! The murder of innocent peasants and leftist militants will only strengthen armed struggle and gain sympathy to rebel‘s cause. The ruling class represented by bankrupt and illegitimate Arroyo regime wants to end agrarian revolt thru military force. U.S. President William McKinley counter-insurgency campaign in the Philippines lasted about ten years (1899-1910). It cost about 4,500 American lives and millions of Filipino civilians killed and wounded. Low intensity conflict formula adds miseries, more displaced families and collateral damage in the countryside.
So its just like Japanese occupation time again in the Philippines, but only in Nueva Ecija. I was not yet in existence then, but I heard stories about the cruelties of the Japanese Imperial Army back then. I don’t know if I got it right, that the Japanese army was under the command of a certain General Yamashita, also known as the Tiger of Malaya.
Reports of the activities and cruelties of the military under the command of Butcher Palparan, reminds me of the stories about the Japanese army during WW2. The Butcher may have learned his lessons from the Japanese occupation history about how to control the movements of people, how to terrorize and instill fear in their hearts, and how to let them bow and submit themselves to total submission and humiliation. He and his men are the rulers, the law, and everybody is expected to follow their prescribed rules of the game. And just like the Japanese army, the rule is clear that nobody should dare violate and go against them, or else, be prepared to disappear from the face of the earth.
But one thing that this butcher conveniently forgets or ignore from the lessons of history, is that when people finally reach a point where they lost trust and believed that they no longer can get a fair and just treatment from their government whom these Butcher and his men represents, they are driven to go underground and join in the fight and arm struggle against the injustices, evilness and corruptions of this government. And may the Butcher and his family, I hope, will be among the casualties, together, of course, the imp in Malacanang and her circle of Buwayas.
sobra na ito!!!…i think i mentioned this is a previous topic, sobra na ang panggagago nila sa mga taga barrio, alamn nilang walang mga tv, ang mga radyo ay puro ocntrol ng centro na censored nila of course!..pwe!!! cedula? sino niloloko nila, smantalang dito sa metromanila ay pwed kang kumuha ng cedula bawat municipyo kung may utak ka!..kahit ilan pa!..GGGGRRRRRRR!!!!! wat now? papayagan ba natin na lumaki pa ito?…naiiyak na ako?…saan ang mga congresista or oposisyong puro lip service? am jst asking???? please men with honor, please help your country and ur poor ignorant countrymen being massacred by the very people who should be protecting them!…NPA or not, this style is condemnable…alam ni palpakran na sa ganitong lugar lang oobra ang kawalanghiyaan niya….sana subukan nya dito at ipapaliquidate natin sya sa kbb!!!!
mukha ni palparan eh parang nakita ko si kamatayan na walang hood at karit.
I would not exchange the “respect” of the people around me over “fear”…because, although ONE would fear me, he or she could still “pull the trigger” as soon as the chance to do it comes out. But with respect, comes the fear of “pulling that same trigger” because he/she would be afraid that doing so, the respect of others towards him/her would be lose.
florry, take it easy on your comments about Japanese Imperial Army or you might offend some people. But you’re right. It does remind of the Japanese occupation in Nueva Ecija. Look closely at Palparan’s face…his grandparents might have some Japanese blood. Put a cap with a red star and there you go…Gen. Palparan San.
The first time I saw this Palparan, when he was still a colonel, he reminded me of my Lola’s “description” of such face as what he got. “Mukhang demonyo!”, my Lola Pofeng would always utterm, everytime she saw faces with eyebrows and red eyes like that of Palparan. And knowing a lot of “killers”, I started to believe…because, no matter how much bottle of Visine this Palaparan would use up…the “redness” of his eyes would not go away. The eyes of a “killer”…that’s what he got. My problem is, I admire people who “kills” people that are considered the “disease of society”..like those rapists and addicts, robbers and addicts, murderers and addicts, carnappers and addicts, and hopefully in the VERY NEAR FUTURE politicians who are corrupts, liars, and “KLEPTOCRATS”. But killing “student activies” and “militant workers” whose only fault were the VOICING OUT of their “discontentment and frustrations” against this present regime of liars, cheats, thieves, and hypocrites, this Palparan is no different from the likes of Adolf Eichmann and the GESTAPOS of Adolf Hitler during the 2nd World War, when Hitler was doing what he so-called “The Final Solution of the Jewish Problem”.
Palparan should be brought to the Hague, and face the Int’l War Crime Tribunal, for his “crimes to humanity”.
Ma’m Ellen…hope you can post a “short dossier” of Palparan, so that a lot of us would really “understand and know” what made him become a “monster”…maybe “his parents did not hug him when he was young”?
SINO ANG PA… KAY PALPARAN? .. SINO? .. SINO?!!!!!!!
Unnaceptable kung me pruweba ang mga alegasyon kay
Gen Palparan. Dapat gawin ay ipunin at protektahan ang mga sangkot at mga ibedensiya laban sa kanya. Kung puro haka haka lang, walang mangyayari kahit batas barangay no dice. Alam naman ng lahat ang sasabihin ng Malacanan..where’s the proof, ayusin ang proof then kasuhan. Kahit na anong lakas niya sa palasyo kung solid ang kaso yari siya. Me lahing Hapon yati itong si Palparan kaya akala Japanese occupation pa..
Pringemilyn,
I deleted a few letters in your comments. I hope you understand. Anyway, you message is clear even without those words spelled out in full.
There is such thing as doing things the right way. We can rant and rave here 24/7 against that person, but can we change or improve the situation in Nueva Ecija a bit better? All these namecalling and labeling would amount to nothing really. I am sure it won’t solve or clear the human right issue in that province, if indeed there is any. The best thing to do is, help the victims document the military abuses, build an airtight case against them fully supported with competent evidence and give the victims full support and encouragement to bring the matter to the proper forum.
It seems the silence of civil officials in the province is deafening. It is very sad that Novo Ecijanos learn their lesson the hard way. Next election time, they should scrutinize well the candidates seeking political seats in all level.
Hailing from Nueva Ecija I would like to give some comments on this… This province had always been controlled by the Joson family since after the 2. world war. The late gov. E. Joson was said to be a “co-hero” of marcos during the japanese war and capitalised on this so that they have their own private army who terrorise their political opponents. I read once that all other private armies had been dismantled except theirs, quite sure thru the auspices of the phil military. Therefore I am not surprise that the local govt does not do anything about this since there seems to be connivance between the two.. For us who are far and away from all the troubles, it is easy to say like fencesitter say wait for the next election. Others say remove gma, but my personal opinion is that there are a lot things that must happen before the pinas can prosper. And things happen not thru wishful thinking as we do here but doing something, not necessarily going out and making war with your own govt or army but maybe contribute in politicising the population. If we can convince just one or two of the people we meet, everday who knows? The prob with filipinos in general is too much religiuosity instead of being politicised. I suppose there are not so many reading their newspapers but radios ang mobilephones seems rampant if it is true that the filipinos are the number one user of texting in the world.
There’s nothing wrong if the Josons controlled Nueva Ecija.
The Dys also controlled Isabela. The Marcoses, Ilocos Norte. The Singsons, Ilocos Surs. Villafuertes, Bicol. The Barbers, the Defensors, the Garcias, the Remullas, etc. The question is, how did they govern and perform. Gloria Arroyo controls the entire country; yet, no one seems to question this.
No one seems to question Arroyo’s iron hand?
Everybody, except those who benenfit from her crime, is questioning it.
There must be something wrong when a certain families controll provinces year in/out. This means that democracy is not functioning.
arroyo as overall leader of the armed forces is of course responsible here. palparan cannot operate freely without her knowledge.
With regards to gloria macapal-arrovo and her terrorist military, here’s additional info from ABS-CBN News:
“Opposition solon bares raid on Laguna home
An opposition congressman who recently defected from the administration alleged Tuesday that armed men barged into his home in Santa Cruz, Laguna and abducted one of his supporters.
“Parang hinahanap ako (They were looking for me),” Laguna Rep. Benjamin Agarao told an ANC interview on the sidelines of the House Committee on Justice hearing on the impeachment complaint against President Arroyo.
Agarao said six men armed with M-16 rifles entered his home at 3 a.m. Tuesday and took Ramon Mangaya Jr.
He said the men poked their guns at Mangaya and forced him out of the house where a jeep and a pick-up truck were waiting. The caretaker was returned to the Agarao home an hour later.
The congressman said the assailants interrogated Mangaya about his routine. “[Tanong nila] kung saan nakapwesto ang kwarto naming mag-asawa, kung ilan ang baril sa bahay, kung ano’ng araw ako dumarating (They asked Mangaya where our room was located, the number of guns in the house and the days of my arrival).”
Sen. Franklin Drilon, meanwhile, condemned the raid at Agarao’s home.
“I condemn in the strongest possible terms this apparent political harassment on Congressman Agarao, the latest recruit of the Liberal Party who took oath as a party member last July 26,” Drilon said. Drilon is LP president.
He challenged PNP chief Director General Oscar Calderon to identify the punish the intruders, branding the raid as a political harassment on Agarao.
“Otherwise, this obvious case of political harassment will go down as another statistic in the long list of unsolved political killings that has become the hallmark of the Arroyo administration,” Drilon said.”////eoq\\\\
Another glue tactic of inflicting fear among her opponents?
Kailan mahihinto ang kabastusan ni glue sa mga Filipino?
Ginagago na tayo ng walang kakuwenta-kuwentang pekeng ito?!
Hanggang ka magtitiis, Inang Bayan?
SOBRA NA!
TAMA NA!
BASTA YA!
Hanggang KAILAN ka magtitiis, Inang Bayan?
Martial Law na ba diyan????
Email from Jude Alexis Abarquez:
Sana magising nasi PGMA sa mga nangyayari sa ating bayan. Masyado na yata syang nabubulag ng kanyang kapangyarihan.
As I analyse her move, masyadong magaling ang kanyang PR at kaya niyang paikutin ang mga nasa kapangyarihan kapalit ng pagkuha nya sa kaban ng bayan.
As an OFW, nagtataka ako kung bakit napakababa ng dolyar subalit patuloy na naghihirap ang ating bansa.
Isa pa sa aking katanungan, bakit napakahirap nilang matukoy kun sino ang salarin sa nangyayaring pagpapatay sa ating mga kababayang makakaliwa at maging ang mga kolumnistang lumalaban sa kanyang administrasyon? Kung sa hanggang ngayun ay walang mailabas ang ating mga kapulisan at mga militar, hindi kaya sila mismo ang mga pumapatay o kung hindi naman sila, siguro masyadong malakas ang kapangyarihan ng mga nagpapapatay at hindi nila mahuli.
Nuong naluklok si PGMA sa kanyang pwesto, umaasa ako na gaganda ang ekonomiya ntin dhil c PGMA ay isang ekonomista at nasabi ko sa sarili ko nuon na mas magiging mganda ang takbo ng Pilipinas dhil mawawala na ang jueteng sa ating bansa dahil naalis n ang protektor ng jueteng, subalit mali pala ang naging akala ko.
Kinastigo nila c Erap dhil sa jueteng, iyon nman pala ay cla rin ang protektor ng jueteng.
Cno kaya ang pwedeng pumuwesto sa pagka-Pangulo ang hindi maaring magpa-impluwensya sa mga nkapaligid sa kanya ? Wala cguro ?
WALA !
Taipan, it’s long been an undeclared Martial Law. Even a Congressman like Agarao was not free from GMA’s military harassment. Again, we can’t avoid comparing GMA to Marcos. Marcos didn’t even go as far as this before he declared Martial Law. Palparan and the rest of GMA’s berdugo AFP officials are worse than then Gen. Ver and Col. Abadilla.
npongco, you’re right. I’m very sorry if I hit a sour note or offend others in making reference to the Japanese Imperial Army during the last war. I just can’t remember of anything comparable, so cruel and ruthless to lay side by side with that of Butcher Palparan. Its a fact, but that was more than 60 years ago and everything seeems to be forgiven and forgotten, in fact the relationship between Japan and the Philippines is more friendlier now than ever. I just feel sorry for the people of NE and all the survivors of WW2 where the scars of war and memories of deathly experiences which are supposed to be buried in the annals of their lives comes back to haunt them in the person of Butcher Palparan. And their family’s generation, maybe 2nd, 3rd, after them have to experience too what they agonizingly undergone before, but the most bitter and nauseating about it, its not coming from the hands of foreign invaders or enemies, but from within your own country, from your own countrymen and from your own government under the Evil Gloria MacaPidal Arrovo. With all her evilness and sins against the people, one doesn’t have to wonder if this critter pretender in Malacanang can still sleep soundly without downing a few bottles of cognac. Oh yeah, she can and she will, because she has no feelings, she has no heart, she has no consience, in short, she is THE DEVIL.
npongco, again I agree with you that Marcos martial law pales in comparison with GMAs undeclared martial law. At least under Marcos, everybody is aware that he is governing under martial rule; with GMA we have to guess and give a name from where she is drawing her dictatorial powers in the absence of a formal declaration. It’s not from the constitution and they say it’s not martial law, then where and what it is? She claims that God is talking to her, maybe she can claim too that God gave it to her during their converstion.
Is it right to cheat, lie, steal and eliminate political opponents? She is talking to a wrong god. Maybe Gloria’s god is SATAN. Ang palagay ko may baltik ito sa utak.
“I follow my father’s philosophy,” “Do what is good, do what is right and God will take care of the rest.” BBC interview
Gloria Arroyo Circa 2001
Ma’m Ellen, just to give a bit of a comment on Jude Alexis Abarquez question about…”why is it that most filipinos are still experiencing hardships despite the low exchange rate between the USDollar and Peso?”…In my own “haka-haka”…the Peso/US$ rate is a false indicator that “our country” is really doing well econimic wise…why? our country is “dependent” on our Asian neighbors, especially Japan in “challenging” the might of the US$…although with the “volume” of USDollars “coming in” via the Philippine’s #1 export which is the OFWs helps a lot, by “flooding” the “market”…this only results to what I always call “artificial exchange rate of the Peso/US$”, which can only “directly benifit” those people in the “higher echelon” of the society.
Ika nga, maganda lang pang-“press release” ni gloria na “mababa ang dolyar”..kaya nga “atat na atat” siyang “i-export” na ang “mas marami pa nating kababayan” kahit sila maging “Super Atsay”.
florry, the problem these days is that if we make comment about a country’s dark past, some are offended even if it’s already part of history. So if you describe the Japanese Imperial Army as cruel even if true, some are offended. To many Japanese, those abusive soldiers were even heroes.
I for one cannot compare the current situation in Nueva Ecija to the time of the Japanese occupation since I wasn’t born at those time. But, the abuses were so heinous that many victims of these countries continue to hate Japan. The Japanese PM again attended the War Shrine resulting again in wild protests from some other countries.
But then florry, when we talk about history such as during the Marcos regime, we can’t avoid comparing the past leaders with the current ones. And whenever there’s a comparison, it sure draws favorable and unfavorable reactions from both sides.
Lots of comments here that it is not difficult to find disagreements as well as agreements amongst. My personal opinion had always been that a good leader is only a start for the pinas. From there it is still a long way. Bad leaders are like a sickness that contaminate each other. On the other hand in a functioning democracy the real responsibility falls on the electorate.
Very well said, norpil. The responsibility, at least part of it, falls on the electorate. Why did they elect bad politicians and leaders? But in the case of GMA, she was not elected. She’s a bad leader who cheated her way to Malacanang.
npongco:
You touched about the Yasukuni shrine visits of now Japanese PM Koizumi. THAT, I believe is an INTERNAL AFFAIR of Japan, and as such, no other country except its own MUST interfere. Nakialam na ba ang Japan sa salloobin ng mga Presidenteng bumisita sa Libingan ng mga Bayani? O sa Luneta, Mt. Samat, Corregidor? Sige nga….humor me, and satisfy my hunger for explanations and justifications for your sweepimng statement.
OK, Japan has committed atrocities in the past becoz of the war. The Japanese nation has made numerous apologies for these, and reparations have been committted, allotted and paid for their past mistakes.
Allow me to remind you that “WARS MAKE BEASTS OF MEN.”
This is true in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, and Lebanon, and elsewhere. There were many killed by the germans in hitler’s camps, and the gulags in Russia. The americans massacred Filipinos as well in some parts of our history. These americans dropped bombs without any knowledge of its effects on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I invite you to please research, better still go to Hiroshima or even Nagasaki, or both to FEEL the effect of radiation EVEN NOW on its populace BEFORE YOU MOUTH anything untoward and make sweeping statements over this issue.
While there were news and accounts of atrocities in the Philippines during the war, we can only surmse as to WHO really did those. Please be reminded that there were thousands of Korean and Taiwanese conscripts during the war. While it is a command responsibility of Japan to answer for the atrocities committed by its people/men.
ONE does not know anything until he/she has lived and “feel” the pulse of the people. I now LIVE IN JAPAN becoz I am a second-generation Japanese. My father served as a Naval Captain of the Japanese Imperial Navy in the last war and he was a very gentle soul. Pinoy neighbors loved him for his natural kindness and concern for the community where he spent his last days: in the province where my Nanay was born. He could have stayed here in his country but he chose to die and be buried there with my Nanay.
Living in Japan doesn’t make me a lesser Pinoy than you or anybody else here or in any other blog. I am PINOY, sa puso at diwa. And I have vowed to go back to the country that nurtured me when I was young.
taipan, someone sure appreciates you for responding for her.
No one, much more yours truly, is interfering in the internal affairs of Japan. The visit of the Japanese PM to the War Shrine drew protests not from me, but from her neighboring countries Japan occupied. That’s political in nature. In like manner, no one cares if one Japanese fisherman was shot and killed by the Russian patrol boat in a disputed sea area. There’s another political implication here. But, why do we care about the Lebanon crisis where thousands of our OFWs are present? Whatever happens to one country is of concern to all of us. World events directly and indirectly affect every Filipino and our country. If a conflict breaks out between or among the Asian countries, don’t you care?
WHAT I am pointing at [ kung hindi mo pa rin nakukuha] is the fact that it behooves everyone to get their facts right before giving a sweeping statement.
The protests generated by the shrine visit of any Japanese, be they the top most official of the Land or just plain ordinary citizen like me, is done in any free country. The problem rests on the countries whose old time leaders still instill in their young the hatred that shouldn’t be there. After all, it has been 61 years after.
You also got a point on that, taipan. But the reality is…victims and their families find it extremely hard to forget the past. Yes, we should all forget the past and take care of the present and look forward to the future. But one thing you must agree with me, though…that we must not forget Gloria’s cheating last election.
Despite AI’s report, Malacañang through Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz supports Palparan’s requirement of cedula. But can Arroyo do anything? She is under the thumb of the military who is propping up her illegtinate presidency.
Living outside the pinas and not even having the qualification to vote but in appearance, inside and out I still think of myself as a pinor. I am not so well informed as others in this group and have to be corrected if wrong. Gma was not elected when she became president due to erap’s mistakes. She was proclaimed under contention fpj. Fpj died. There was a case of impeachment which was voted down i suppose due to money and now the second imp. complain was also down. What can fil do under the circumstances. Shall they wait for the next election? Even the bishops i read someplace were already in her basket. Can the filipinos try another street democracy without the bishops?
norpil, you mentioned the bishops. They were surprisingly very quiet in this year’s second impeachment. We’ve not heard from CBCP. The only cry we heard was as usual Bishop Cruz, the anti-jueteng advocate. The bishops didn’t only receive envelopes from Malacanang recently, they could have received the graces through direct bank deposit this time.
tungkol sa bishops. silence means agreement so one cannot expect help from them. what now but have a good sleep maybe tomorrow is another day.
I just arrived from Talugtug Nueva Ecija, and i can’t believe it that it seems were back during the spanish era where the guardia civil are asking for cedula, in my eyes I witness the military abuses that happen in Guimba, Nueva Ecija. All written in your report are true and correct and it happen at Talugtug Nueva Ecija as my relatives tell me the story. Town folks are very afraid, when they work in the farm they usually work till early evening but now, they only work up to 3pm or 4 pm because they are afraid of soldiers.
Gawat na nga sa nueva ecija dadagdagan pa ng sobrang pahirap ng militar, baka maburyong ang mga magsasaka sa ginagawa nila at bumangon si Gat Andres Bonifacio at pangunahan uli ang pagpunit ng cedula.