I have just been informed by Malaya that I have to go to court to post bail because there’s a warrant of arrest issued for me in connection with the libel suit filed by Mike Arroyo.
I was already dropped from the case but Arroyo petitioned that I be re-instated. The judge approved it.
Have to go. Will update you.
Wow! What an injustice. Over in Japan, when a libel suit is filed by a civilian, it is considered a civil suit and not criminal, and the police will have no right to arrest someone being complained about.
Thus, if this is not abuse of power, what is? Can’t help the profanity but this is the only way I can express disgust at the lousy justice system in the Philippines. God forgive me!
Ellen, we are behind you. Now, will show you what friends are there for! At least, I know I can count on the Barkada! Will see what we can do to put pressure on this bogus government from this part of the globe.
God bless you!
Ellen, that is double jeopardy you are being subjected to. What does the judge think he is doing … playing yoyo?
Geez!
Hanep ang bagsik ng galamay ni FG[?] ni glue!
Just today, may article si Neal Cruz about that libel brouhaha.
May araw rin yang mga yan, Ellen. Just be cool, OK?
My prayers are with you.
nakakainis!
These “libel cases” being filed by TABAng LAMIG are just “nuissance cases” the main purpose of which is to try and “harass or gag” the media people critical to all these crooks’shenanigans. The problem is, we all know it’s not “cheap” to fight it in the court, for both the complainant and the respondent….kaya lang ang HAYOP na “LUMBA-LUMBA” na mike arroyo na ito, maraming kuwarta dahil “NAKASAWSAW ANG KAMAY” sa KABANGBYAN. Sarap tusukin ng sanlibong aspili ang TABATSOY na yan, ng makita kung ano talaga ang laman ng katawan ng WALANGHIYA!
Ingat lang Ma’m Ellen…gusto lang kasi ng HAYOP na iyan ay “ma-picture-an” ka.
ayup talaga!
Yup! Double jeopardy iyan. Anong klaseng batas ba ang meron ang Pilipinas ngayon? Bobo ba iyong judge na sunud-sunuran lang siya doon sa siguro nandaya sa bar kaya nakapasa? Where is justice there? Dapat kumilos na ang ICJ diyan.
Ellen, better get hold of Atty. Roque, et al to represent you versus this double jeopardy case.
Point is bakit ba takot na takot sila kay Fatso. Sino ba ang kumag na iyan na magnanakaw naman!
Ellen: I hope you beat this lawsuit decisively.
taipan88 Says:
October 16th, 2006 at 12:28 pm
ayup talaga!
taipan88…nawala ata letrang “H” mo dyan sa sinabi mo…I hope “nalaglag” lang dahil sa gigil mo ke TABAng LAMIG…hehehe. Kundi, iisipin kong si “cabalen gloria” ka…LOL…LOL 😉
ystakei Says:
October 16th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Point is bakit ba takot na takot sila kay Fatso. Sino ba ang kumag na iyan na magnanakaw naman!
“Manang” Yuko…ikaw na ang “maging kutson” ni gloria..hehehe Para ka na ring “prisidinti” 😛
Pinalaki kami ng Nanay ko na “bawal at masama daw ang manalangin ng hindi maganda sa kapwa”…pero sus malosep! Sana po si TABAngLAMIG mike arroyo, sa sobra “KASUPANGAN” sa lahat ng bagay…MAHIRINAN AT MABULUNAN NANG HINDI NA MAKAHINGA!!!
Ewan ko nga rin, Spartan, bakit hindi pa maatake ang Fatso na iyan. Pero alam mo palagay ipinagdarasal iyan ng mga madre daw na kamag-anak niya na humaba pa ang buhay para maghirap siya. Kaso, abusado ang lintik na akala mo siya ang may-ari ng Pilipinas.
Baka sabihin na naman ng anak niyan na iyong pinakalolo nilang intsik e sumakay na kabayo at nilagyan ng marka ang lahat ng lugar na inabot ng kaniyang kabayo mula Babuyan Island Hanggang Tawi-Tawi. Ang tindi talaga ng kuliglig sa utak ng animal na magbobote lang yata iyong lolong intsik!
You bet, Cory, malapit na iyan! Kulang lang siguro sa dasal iyong mga nagbebenta ng kidney sa Baseco! 🙁
Just a thought, why not all the defendants in libel case filed by the “First Gentleman”, come together and return the favor and file a case of criminal Harassment and we’ll see if there is a Judge who has a set of balls to issue a warrant of Arrest to be served to the ‘Master of the House’.
‘Master of the house’
‘Isn’t worth me spit’
‘Comforter, philosopher-and lifelong shit’
Cunning little brain
Regular Voltaire
Thinks he’s quite a lover
But there’s not much there
What a cruel trick of nature
Landed me with such a louse
God know how I lasted
Living with this Bastard in the House.
Madame Thenardier -Les Miserables
**Should have fit for Gloria to sing about her own Master..
Good morning friends,
Am sorry to hear about the warrant of arrest against Ellen.
Fatso was getting really crazy with anger because his Junior has been telling him that Ellen is allowing commenters here to call him, the greediest fatso in Malacanang and Mrs Fatso seriously humiliating names – hence, one call to the judge and presto: Warrant of arrest for Ellen!
Two weekends ago, a mother and daughter friends from Manila visited. When the mom told me that she finally had her marriage annulment (her hubby was philanderer), I was stunned because it took less than 2 years to do it – pretty short!
Long and short of story is: She admitted pointblank that she bribed the judge with lots and lots and lots of money and trips (plural) to the US (she’s an extremely wealthy Chinese Pinay.)
Re Ellen: I am not saying that the the judge in Ellen’s case was bribed by Jose Miguel Fatso Pidal Arroyo or his immoral midget of a wife to re-include Ellen in his dastardly complaint – but in the Philippines, I am more and more sceptical of the thing they call JUSTICE… I think our justice system is anything but just. I may be wrong but there you are.
Anyway, what I do believe in is that Fatso and his midget wife are corrupt to the bone, they are evil and will do anything to hold on to power which is not midget’s by right!
Justice would be best served if the Filipino people skewered the fatso in his own fat!
Anna,
Even when I heard all these kawalanghiyaan even before we left the Philippines in the mid-60’s, I still find myself oftentimes astonished and bewildered that this kind of anomalies still exist in the Philippines, especially in the court. Over here, it will mean a lot of resignation, even suicides for that matter especially with a powerful media backed up by a power press club and the deferation of lawyers.
I’m glad that at least, despite the corruption (almost nil by Philippine standard as a matter of fact), we have real honest to goodness upright and very proper judges in Japan who will be willing to die to uphold the rule of law. I cannot help in fact to take my hats off to these wonderful men of the law in Japan.
Lamentably, the kind that we have in Japan are very rarely found in the Philippines where perjury is only a crime in paper and if you are not part of the abusive crowd!!!
Yup, I’ve heard of the bribery. Imelda is in fact the number briber of these judges I’m told because of mountains of graft and corruption charges against her and family. But the Bansot is probably helping her get out of her court troubles to get the Marcos Loyalists’ support. Pathetic, eh?
Sus, sa inis ko pati daliri ko nabulol na! This should read:
Over here, it will mean a lot of resignation, even suicides for that matter especially with a powerful media backed up by a power press club and the FEDERATION of lawyers!
Talaga, Yuko!
Even my own mother had told me that it’s difficult to trust the Philippine justice system, that even if you are right you might not win a case unless you have the money to bribe someone in judge’s office, etc. or to spend for lawyers’s fees.
I almost fell off my seat when she told me that a couple of years ago!
In Europe, justice is blind (Lady Justice is blindfolded, remember?)and will render justice regardless of one’s creed, color, race, wealth, political position, status, etc.
Not even a question of having the money to pay for or hire lawyers! The Bar Association and State will take care of that if plaintiffs or defendants don’t have the money to pay for lawyer’s services.
And boy, you try bribing a judge here! You end up in prison right away!
Ano ba iyan, Anna? Onli in da pilipins, puro kurakot! This culture of impunity being imposed on Filipinos by the Pidal couple should be stopped. Pronto!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA.
spartan says: >taipan88…nawala ata letrang “H” mo dyan sa sinabi mo…I hope “nalaglag” lang dahil sa gigil mo ke TABAng LAMIG…hehehe. Kundi, iisipin kong si “cabalen gloria” ka…LOL…LOL
Yuko,
Frankly, the Philippine situation is getting to be a bit EMBARASSING!
Am not one to be easily embarassed about Pinas at all BUT Gloria and her husband, their disciples of doom, their band of thieves and cheats and what have you, have turned democracy into a real travesty of sorts that one is almost embarassed about Pinas – it’s become another Zimbabwe in that regard!
SADYA yun, kaibigan…
sadyang nilaglag ko>para malglag na rin si gloria sa upuan nya! SANA!
Ganun kasi magsalita ang mga kaPAMPAMngang kilala ko…
AYUP ang mga sakim! AYUP ang mga bogus!
AYUP!
Taipan says “ayup”!
ha ha ha ha ha (LOL)
Tama si Spartan! Heheheheh!
WHAT, pray do tell, is happening in the Philippines?
KANILA na ba ang PILIPINAS?
Ellen says it was dropped, tapos binalik!
HANOYAN!?
HANOBA, gloria?
Onion-skinned ang asawa mo, pati na ikaw….
Eh kung wala ba kayong atraso sa bayan, magsusulat ba o may papansin ba sa inyo? May pupuna ba sa mga katiwalian sa gobyerno kung ayos naman at walang anomaliya?
SENTIDO-COMMON!
MGA AYUP!
Oct. 12, 2006. 02:54 PM
CANADIAN PRESS
A refugee judge has been charged by the RCMP after a South Korean woman alleged he offered to assist her in her refugee claim in return for sexual favours.
The woman and her boyfriend secretly videotaped a conversation she had with a man she said was 47-year-old Stevan Ellis, a Toronto-based adjudicator with the Immigration and Refugee Board.
A copy of the tape was sent to IRB chair Jean-Guy Fleury, who suspended Ellis and forwarded the information to the RCMP.
Ellis, who has adjudicated 1,279 refugee claims over his tenure, has also been banned from IRB premises.
The RCMP charged Ellis with breach of trust, knowingly making or issuing a false document or statement, or accepting or agreeing to accept a bribe or other benefit in respect to a refugee application.
Several weeks ago, Toronto Starreporter Nicholas Keung reported that the woman and her boyfriend, Brad Tripp, met with the Mounties to give a statement on her allegations of sexual misconduct against Ellis and a copy of the videotape that was broadcast by CTV.
On the tape, Ellis, a lawyer and former Toronto city councillor, told the woman known as Kim: “Let see what I can do. I’m going to work on it. I really want to be friends with you.”
He allegedly suggested he could approve her refugee claim if she had an affair with him, but warned her not to tell her boyfriend.
The couple told the Star that a copy of the tape had been mailed to IRB chair Fleury two weeks previous.
In a statement posted on the IRB website, Fleury said he became aware of “allegations of a serious breach of the member’s code of conduct” and removed Ellis from hearing cases, pending an internal review.
“The allegations of misconduct in this instance are very serious,” wrote Fleury, who was not available for an interview.
“Canadians have a right to demand that the IRB’s processes are conducted in an ethnical and fair manner. There is no tolerance for abuse of any kind in this institution.”
Tripp told the Star that Ellis first met Kim at a refugee hearing in July and subsequently visited the restaurant where she was a waitress five times — but only twice while she was there.
“The first time, she called and told me the refugee judge was here. I thought that was coincident. But at the second time, he actually asked her out for a coffee to discuss her case,” recalled Tripp, who has been seeing Kim for 15 months. “We talked to some people and thought it was odd and we decided to record it.”
This is believed to be the first time allegations involving sexual favours between an IRB member and a claimant have occurred since the board’s inception in 1989.
Ellis, a two-term member of the old Toronto city council, was named to the IRB in October 2000 and renewed in 2002, two years before rules were changed to “professionalize” the board and eliminate patronage appointments of people poorly qualified for the job.
Refugee lawyers who have dealt with him describe him as professional and knowledgeable, though a “maverick” at times.
“He’s less formal in his manner than other members and … he’s said he’s been in private practice before and he doesn’t wave the rule book at you,” said one.
Acceptance rates for South Korean refugee claimants are low — about 11 per cent compared with an overall 40 per cent of the 20,000 annual claims.
Kim, 25, came to Canada in 2004, claiming she’d been a victim of domestic violence, the grounds most commonly used by South Koreans, said Soh Young Jeong, a reporter with the Korea Times, a Toronto-based community paper.
With files from Bruce Campion-Smith
and Dale Brazao
In case you do not know:
wala po akong dugong aw-aw!
Thank you.
May lahi po kami….
My “breed” kung baga….hindi askal!
mwehehehehehehh…….
Kapal ng mukha ano?
Lakas ng apog ni fg(FG daw oh!?) na i-insist na ibalik ang ngalan ni Ellen sa defendants.
May araw din yan…Malapit na!
Let’s see kung kanino ang huling halakhak!
Sige lang,. mang-ipit kayo ng tao….NGAYON!
BUKAS, taumbayan ang sisingil sa inyo!
“And boy, you try bribing a judge here! You end up in prison right away!” (‘here’ refers to a foreign country)
Right.
lets take it easy for a while. don’t worry ellen will be acquitted. just a quick comment on what appears as the Philippines being the only place where bribing happens.
Injustice (as perpetuated by the ruling power) knows no race, gender, nationality, religion. It is present anywhere. It is disputable that corruption in Europe and Japan is almost nil (using Phil standards). Why is the Japanese underground still existing?
The Philippines is the only remaining country in the world that has yet to decriminalize libel.
So hold your hasty generalizations for the meantime. If Ellen is convicted, then that’s the time you resume your spiel on injustice blah blah etc etc
(though admittedly being an accused in a criminal case is a big big hassle. mike arroyo wins round 1)
Sa Pilipinas iyan, Vic, huhulihin hindi iyong erring official kundi iyong nagsumbong! Kaya nga walang maglakas ng loob ngayon na magsumbong sa takot! Kaya nga iyong mga tuta ni Ayup na babae, ang tapang magsalita na hindi matatanggal si Ayup na babae at mga ayup na kasama niya pati na iyong civiliang Fatso.
Ellen, sabi ng kaibigan kong kanong lawyer dito sa Tokyo, double jeopardy daw dapat, off the hook ka na!!! Bobo din ang nag-issue ng warrant of arrest mo, ‘no? Dapat bumalik iyan sa law school.
Tangna, pati criminal procedure sa Pilipinas nagkandaloko-loko na dahil dito sa kriminal na nakaupo! 🙁
How about a petition for Ellen condemning the incompetent court that does not seem to realize that hers is a case of double jeopardy, and that the Fatso has no right to act like a king?! Ipapakalat namin dito tapos sabay sampa sa UNHRC, EU, at mga organization ng mga periodista around the world.
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Thought ellen should know that journalists are free to puiblish “allegations” in the UK and not be prosecuted for liberl.
Landmark vote last week in UK House of Lords.
Times Online October 11, 2006
Landmark ruling heralds US-style libel laws in Britain
By Frances Gibb, Legal Editor of The Times
Comment: ‘A resounding victory for newspapers,’ writes WSJ lawyer
Read the judgment in full
Media lawyers welcome ruling
The British media won the freedom to publish allegations about public figures free from the threat of libel laws in a landmark House of Lords ruling today.
In a ground-breaking unanimous judgment, the law lords ruled in favour of a public interest defence that brings English law more into line with the freedom enjoyed by the US media.
In future, journalists will be free to publish material if they act responsibly and in the public interest and they will not be at risk of libel damages even if relevant allegations later prove to be untrue.
The law lords, Britain’s top judges, said that the media was entitled to publish defamatory allegations as part of its duty of neutral reporting of news, or if it believed them to be of substance and they raised matters of public interest.
The ruling came in an appeal by the Wall Street Journal Europe against a High Court decision, backed by the Court of Appeal, that it should pay £40,000 damages to a billionaire Saudi car dealer, Mohammed Jameel, whose family owns Harwell Motors in Oxford.
The story, published in February 2002, said that bank accounts associated with a number of prominent Saudi citizens, including Mr Jameel’s family and its businesses, had been monitored by Saudi authorities at the request of US authorities to ensure no money was provided intentionally or knowingly to support terrorists.
Lord Hoffman, giving the lead judgment, said that the article was a perfect example of journalism for which the public interest defence should be available.
It was for judges to apply the public interest test but that publication easily passed that test, he said. Its thrust was to inform the public that the Saudis were cooperating with the US Treasury and monitoring accounts. “It was a serious contribution in measured tone to a subject of very considerable importance.”
It could not be proved true because the existence of covert surveillance would be impossible to prove by evidence in open court. But that did not mean it did not happen.
The newspaper was entitled to report even serious defamations against individuals, so long as they “made a real contribution to the public interest element in the article”.
The ruling also said that judges, with “leisure and hindsight” should not second-guess editorial decisions made in busy newsrooms.
The key test was whether a media organisation or newspaper acted fairly and responsibly in gathering and publishing the information, the judges said.
If the reporter and editor did so, and the information was of public importance, then the fact that it contained relevant but defamatory allegations against prominent people would not permit them to recover libel damages.
Baroness Hale of Richmond in her judgment said: “We need more such serious journalism in this country and our defamation law should encourage rather than discourage it.”
Law
The Times October 12, 2006
Libel ruling heralds new era for British journalism
By Frances Gibb, Legal Editor
Lords agree to allow journalists new freedom to make public interest allegations without fear of libel
THE freedom to publish allegations about public figures free from the “chilling” threat of libel laws was won by the British media in a landmark House of Lords ruling 11th October 2006.
See you tonight folks – gotta go to work!
Hope Ellen isn’t too worried or feeling too down and that her health is not gonna get a lot of beating.
double jeopardy can only attach if an accused
(1) had been arraigned, and
(2) his case had been dismissed, either by settlement or by acquittal
(3) and the accused is sued again for the same act that was the subject of the dismissed case
i don’t know if there are other details in ellen’s case. but she won’t lack in defense lawyers willing to volunteer for free. if double jeopardy has attached, her lawyers will discover it
Yuko, your friend may have not all the info about the case. Ellen case was dropped by the prosecutor and re-instated on the insistence of Mike Arroyo the Complainant. Double Jeopardy is, you can not be prosecuted for the crime that you have been already acquited by the Court after a trial. That simply means that even if OJ Simpson will confess that he murdered his wife and her friend, he could no longer be charged for that crime. Maybe he could go to hell for his sins, but not to jail..
talaga naman. palibhasa, abogadong walang kayang ipagtanggol kundi ang sarili niyang reputasyon (pasado ba sa bar?) o walang gustong kunin ang serbisyo. saan ka ba naman nakakita ng ganito kundi onli in da pilipins? tapos yung brilliant usher dito ng mag-asawang maligno kunyari me pakunswelo de bobo pa.
talagang ma-a-acquit si ellen dahil wala namang basis para mag-prosper ang kaso. isa pa tanga lang ang judge (o nabayaran at tinakot) para i-revive o i-reinstate ang kaso. siguro laging absent si tabang baboy sa klase at binayaran lang ang diploma kaya naka-graduate sa (ka)law (kohan) school.
Aaaaaaaaaaa, walang ganyanan!
Grabe na ‘to si Mike Arroyo!
Let face it, Philippines has a culture of corruption in their government. When someone obtains ultimate power, where there is no checks and balances, they can do whatever the want. We can only bitch about it, and still we won’t find ways of stopping it. And now, Mike, the most powerful person in the Philippines next to no one, tries to kill all criticism of him. This is another nail in our coffin.
Journalists, such as Ellen, not only have right, but the duty to say what we all are thinking about this man. And hopefully sometime, we can wake up and stop this corrupt culture because of what they wrote.
Same here, Anna. When there is this kind of libel suit and the one accused is one of the calibre of Ellen, surely the press club will come to her rescue, and you will see a dozen of lawyers tailing them to protect her right to expose the crooks. No one can be forced over here likewise to reveal his/her source as guaranteed by some international rule applicable to journalists.
And they call the Philippines a democracy. Puwit ni Bansot at ng asawa niyang hambug. Ang bobo naman ng mga ayup na ‘yan!
Ellen:
Sorry to hear the bad news. It’s my hope that nothing will come out of it, but just a waste of your precious time. Only in the Philippines when the abuse of power has become the tools to harass good citizens of the Philippines, like you Ellen. You’ve nothing to be ashamed of, you’re just exercising your right as a professional journalist. Just keep in mind, your battle cry when you enter the kangaroo court of abusive Mickey Arroyo. Keep your head high, and don’t let him get the best of you, you’re three times better than abusive Mike will ever be, including the illegitimate wife combined together. Never let your guard down, the law is in your side, a lots of people will be praying for you, I for one.
You’ve become a name recognition among all of us and I’ll never forget such phrase that you instill on us, “making life worth living”.
Remember what you told me, “justice will prevail”.
Vic,
Over here, when the case is presented in court and the case is dropped, it is as good as being acquitted. So by our standard, it is double jeopardy. In another loop, I have actually explained how cases here are indicted in court. Civil cases are treated differently, and the libel suit of the Fatso is more or less in a nature of a civil suit since there is no crime committed, but that the Fatso simply finds the things written about him annoying, especially when his secrets are revealed like the philanderings, etc. that their propagandists even wrote caused shock to the daughter even when we know for a fact that it is impossible that she would not know about the other children by the kabit even before the revelation in media there!!!
Over here in fact, the spouses do not have power. They are not allowed to meddle in politics or they become the subject of investigative journalism that may lead to their downfall together with the politician spouses. Iyong mga private parties sa Malacanang, kung sa Japan iyan, matagal nang nasibak ang mga squatters diyan.
Walang patawad ang press dito kapag tumira ng mga kurakot sa gobyerno. Kaya ingat si Pandak na gumawa ng kalokohan dito with her lobby group. Hindi iyan papasa dito.
Ellen’s lawyer should know what to do even based on some journalistic code. Sampahan na ng kaso ang mga walanghiyang iyan! Sobrang abusado! PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
The big question is, why abusive Mike Arroyo is suing Ellen Tordesillas? Does anybody here know? What are the particulars on the case or what slander remarks that Ellen published that pissed him off? Can anyone help on this?
“To announce that there must be NO criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President Right or Wrong, is not only UNPATRIOTIC and SERVILE, but is Morally TREASONABLE to the American Public.” [Former American President Theodore Roosevelt] In this case, to the FILIPINO PUBLIC.
This is part of the strategy of a regime gone mad. Obssessed with power, it wants some more, and MORE, and MORE. “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” acording to someone. Wannabe dictators always find ways to entrench themselves in power. They demolish everything in their way to achieve that goal. Silencing media and other critics, aligning the judiciary to the thinking of the executive, corrupting the military, dividing men/women of goodwill (e.g.,bribing bishops), tampering with the constitution, etc. are all part of a PATTERN. That is, to destroy all democratic institutions. Glue and her fatsoman are clearly doing that, and they have already succeeded in many ways.
You are right, Josephs. Culture of corruption is its distinct face (all dictatorial regimes are corrupt). Soon, it will also show up, or mutate, in uglier faces – culture of impunity, and DAMAGED CULTURE.
Para ano pa yung law firm nila kung hindi magagamit yung mga abogadong “de kampanilya”. Mike is maximizing the services of his lawyers kaya kabila-kabila kung magdemanda -sayang yung binabayad kung walang ginagawa. That’s only one of the Firm’s uses. Pinag-aaralan din nila kung papaano lulusot sa mga kaso nila sa gobyerno, kung anong gagawin nila kapag wala na sila sa puwesto, kung saang govt. depts. maraming pera na makukurakot, atbp. But as everyone knows, everything has its end. The Law of Karma will always be in effect. Sa dami ng taong bayan na galit sa kanila, maraming nang negative vibrations ang tumatama sa kanila. It’s just a matter of time and the karma effect will overcome them. So, Ms. Ellen, peace be upon you and let’s wait for the Supreme Being does what is rightly so. More power to you.
“The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest enemy of the State.” [Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels]
Quoted from the head of Hitler’s propaganda machinery. Doesn’t this seem familiar in the Evil Regime of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo? She’s a NAZI!
hawaiianguy:
It appeared you survived the 6.6 earthquake, I’m glad. Any major damages where you are located? Have you felt the tremor?
Anna,
I wish the case in UK you posted would hold true to form in RP. But UK judges are rational, and over there the judiciary is unmistakably independent. I doubt if it will happen in the Philippines now, knowing that some judges could be brazen because of their dogged loyalty.
Chabeli,
“She’s a NAZI!” The Glue is probably a twice-incarnate of Hitler and Marcos.
I still think it would be a good idea to turn the table on abusive Mike to keep his time occupy in courts. All, as in unanimous, those being sued by abusive Mike Arroyo should combine their effort and bring on-board the best lawyer(s) available and counter-sue abusive Mike for harassment and intimidation. Also for denying them of their rights as journalists the freedom of the free press. At least, it will give abusive Mike something to think about. That, we no longer be taking shit from you abusive Mickey. Get him busy with libel that he doesn’t the time to enjoy anything, even visiting his San Francisco Mansion or German Strong Vaults.
Abusive Mickey is not the only one knows how to play the game, the journalists can get in the game.
Toney,
You bet I did. In my apartment, my only plate and drinking glass broke, also missed lunch and dinner because I couldn’t cook without electricity. All establishments in the Waikiki area are closed. But the epicenter of the quake is in another island, have yet to listen to the news about it. It is now 3:39am in Honolulu.
Toney Cuevas, check pcij.org blog site. Isa Lorenzo on 16 October 2006 at 4:57 pm posted an entry explaining the background of the Ellen’s case and all the appropriate links. It’s quite a good investigative report itself. thanks..
Thanks vic! Will do. Very curious.
There is a consequence to what Mike Arroyo and his Gloria have done to the journalists. Many leaders or, influencial persons, who have fought, or gone against media, paid a heavy price. Media doesn’t need Mike and Gloria Arroyo. It’s more like the other way around-Mike and Gloria Arroyo need media. What if these journalists decide to stop writing about the couple-good or bad-who will suffer? Media? Nah, there are more interesting topics to write about other than them, after all Gloria’s recent approval rating is a mere -11. After Napoleon, nobody is really interested in a short tyrant; much less a fat slob!
If it is not total arrogance and intransigience of the Fatso, I don’t know now what it is.
I hope, Ms. Ellen is ok after posting her bail.
taipan88 Says:
October 16th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
HANOBA, gloria?
Onion-skinned ang asawa mo, pati na ikaw….
…
gloria’s reply:
I ave no art … I ate you hall … ‘nay da na keka yu
Abaw, ang ang bulldog nga Ilonggo nga ini, sobra gid katonto. Wala siya sing gusto tuntohon kundi pareho man niya nga Ilonggo! Naakig gid ako kag nagakasubo nga daw indi na makaon sang sapat ang batasan sang Bulldog nga ina! Ti, ano ang mahimo ta sina sa iya kundi batuan gid! Siguro maayo pa, pakan-on sang puro tambok sang baboy para magburagwet sang husto kag atakakehon sang Alta presyon! Kay man waay gid katapusan ang kalain sang batasan! Whoever is an Ilonggo blogger would understand whatI have just written.
Pero si Ellen, intindihan niya gid ang mensahe ko!
P:S: Ano daw ang sabi ng Ilonggong lasing? “Patay kon patay..tutal law-ay..mango na..dungol pa..imol pa! Sin-o mabato sa inyo dira?
Elvira,
Bwa ha ha ha! You lightened up my day. (Never mind the 6.6 Richter scale quake.)
hg: It’s nice to see you posting which means you personally were not affected badly by that big earthquake.
Inday Elvira, patawhay lang ikaw anay.
Elvira,
Copy, loud and clear!
“Sin-o mabato sa inyo dira?” AKO (voice of the people)
A. “Keng leyon keng tigre ale ko tatakot, ketang babe pa? aruko!” (Pampango)
B. “Unsa ka diha? wa ka kuyapi? Gikaon na nimong tanan, dayon gikalibang pa gyud, nanimaho na ka ug kagwang Dong. Uwata ang imong lolo.” (Cebuano)
C. “Abaw ah, sa amo gali sa Negros ang kuwarta ginapala ug ginapiko. Malacanang? Sinsilyo!” (Ilongo)
D. “Siyak manang! Awan bain da dayta nga BATSOY ken BONSAY. Uray anya ibaga da, haan da tayo maloko.” (Ilokano)
E. “Ara ren, nabuang na. Ang kuwarta kuno ara digi ara duto, din na pakon?” (Cuyono-Karaya)
Any other challenger?
Tom, not badly enough. But the quake took away my focus from the stuff I’m doing now.
Got to go somewhere and this may be my last posting. Can we email later? You can leave your addy to Ellen if you don’t mind, will pick it up there.
hg: If you are interested in private emailing, I’d welcome that. Didn’t you leave your email with someone in this blog before? If you have one you feel free to leave here, we can correspond that way. Hope you recover right away from any damage you sustained from that earthquake.
hawaiianguy Says:
October 17th, 2006 at 4:01 am
Elvira,
Copy, loud and clear!
“Sin-o mabato sa inyo dira?” AKO (voice of the people)
….
………
………..
……….
AAny other challenger?
—–
Anggapoy baing mo, gloria
(walanghiya ka gloria) pangasinan
Ayti ka mako, fatso?
(where are you going fatso?) Zambal
If you speak ifugao, I give up…..
Elvira, hat was fun.
HG, you have not told us about how it was with the 6.6 tremblor. I suppose you were not badly affected?
Elvie:
I am not Ilongga, but boy, did I understand every word you wrote. Hala, bira, tira!
GADAOG KITA ELLEN!!!
Ellen,
Generally, it was ok. People got hurt all right, but nobody paid his/her life for it. The epicenter was tracked down on the Big Island (also called “Hawaii”), and reverberated in those islands next to it, including Maui and Oahu (Honolulu is here). It registered 6.7 on a Richter scale (upgraded from 6.6 as reported earlier). The last time Hawaii had a quake of this magnitude was in 1983.
In the Waikiki area, we felt the tremblor a little past 7:00am yesterday, Oct 15. I guess it was about 4 or 5 on the R-scale. Not much damage, but a few old houses reportedly came close to collapsing. My apartment shook in all directions, a couple of plates flew like projectiles. We had no electricity for 15 hours, and many missed their dinner as all restaurants closed. Ala Moana Center, the largest mall in USA before Bloomington’s Mall of America took the crown, was practically empty. As expected, no tourists could be seen moving around, partly due to the rain, and to their residing in high-rise hotels with no functional elevators.
No damage inflicted to me and thousand others, except a forcible “puasa” (fasting) last night. And, oh, it also stopped my blogging here yesterday.
taipan88..si mike arroyo “onion-skinned”? Hindi ah….”blabber-skinned”, you know like those of the whales, walruses, and “pigs”…hehehe. AYOP talaga! 😀
Ikaw ang pinaka-walanghiya Gloria (Tagalog)
Already dropped from the case and the FG were able to reinstate it. That shows not only how powerful he is but also his grip on the some judges’ neck.
Toney Cuevas Says:
October 16th, 2006 at 8:59 pm
The big question is, why abusive Mike Arroyo is suing Ellen Tordesillas? Does anybody here know? What are the particulars on the case or what slander remarks that Ellen published that pissed him off? Can anyone help on this?
toney, with so many sipsip around this abusive beast, nakapagtataka ba kung pagbalibaliktarin nila at gawing circus ang (in)justice and (ka) law (kohan) system sa pilipinas? kita mo nga merong ilang espiya dito na ayaw lang tanggaping tagasunod din sila ng mag-asawang abusado. huli na sa mga bibig, gusto pang makawala!
Tom,
This is my addy: hawaiianguy_2006@yahoo.com
Other bloggers are also welcome.
Thanks, hg. I just sent you an email.
Alitaptap:
Para rin palang Ilocano ang Pangalatok. Kaya lang sa Ilocano, it’s “awan bain” for “walanghiya.” Awan bain na data nga sarampingat na agtactacao! I hope I got it right. I’m actually just typing out what I learned by ear.
“Kusottare! Shine! Dorobo! Bakayaro!” Ordinarily, I don’t say these words in Japanese! Magagalit si Mr. 😛
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
it is a shame to call this guy fg when it is quite ungentleman to sue a sick person as well as a lady.
nangingibabaw ang kapangyarihan ng mga halang ang kaluluwa, gahaman sa kapangyarihan at walang kabusugan sa pagnanakaw sa kaban ng bayan. sila rin ang mga taong galit sa mga nagbubunyag ng kanilang mga umaalingasaw na kabulukang parang halimuyak ng mabangong bulaklak para mga sipsip na espiya nilang tagapagtanggol na bayaran.
ingat tayo, merong ilan dito.
anna de brux Says:
October 16th, 2006 at 3:16 pm
In Europe, justice is blind (Lady Justice is blindfolded, remember?)and will render justice regardless of one’s creed, color, race, wealth, political position, status, etc.
anna, sa pilipinas, ang babaeng nakapiring ay nakakasilip pa sa laman ng kanyang timbangan. kung alin ang mas mabigat ang laman sa kanyang timbangan, yun ang kanyang pinapanalo at pinapanigan. eh, laging mga hunyango at dorobo ang may kakayahang maglagay sa mga huwes, kaya mas nagkakaganito ang (ka)LAW (kohan) and (in) JUSTICE system sa pilipinas.
Mrivera, “anna, sa pilipinas, ang babaeng nakapiring ay nakakasilip pa sa laman ng kanyang timbangan.”
Hahahahah! Baka si Gloria may ilinagay na camera doon sa mata ng lady justice sa Pinas para makita niya in advance ang resulta.
Norpil,
Re “it is a shame to call this guy fg when it is quite ungentleman to sue a sick person as well as a lady.”
I agree. But the truly disgusting thing is Fatso is his pure, unfounded harassment of Ellen. He is a bully of the lowest category.
And as to the word “gentleman” – the First G(ago) in Malacanang doesn’t even know what that means. He is CRASS personified.
anna: your name tag for this person is quite appropriate. i am actually more worried on the effect of this harassment to ellen, knowing that even healthy people got sick when subjected to prolonged ordeals.i hope ellen is less fragile than she looked in the pictures i saw.
Thanks for all your concern. Okay lang ako. I don’t allow Mike Arroyo to stress me out. I say what I want to say of him. Problema na nya yun.Let him be the one to be stressed out.
ellen did you receive a copy of the resolution of the prosecutor dropping your name? i was wondering because you were telling us about a court petition of arroyo seeking reinstatement of your name in the charge sheet and yet it seems you were not aware about that petition until you learn of the warrant already issued. if there was a petition, you should have been provided a copy for that to be able to give your comments or opposition -this is very basic requirement of due process.
anyway, since your position as chief of reporters is more of a nominal position and does not involve any policy decision making process about what should and should not see print in the paper. this could have been highlighted in your counter-affidavit as proof of absence of probable cause to hold you for trial of the crime as charged. but you really have a hundred per cent chance of getting acquittal as i see it.
on persons liable for libel, the law talks only of the reporter, the editor and publisher because they have a direct hand in the printing, publishing and circulation of the paper where libelous article was printed.
ellen, some are hinting on double jeopardy. i don’t want you to dwell on that area because you cannot utilize it in your case in anyway. anthony scalia (namesake of a US supreme court justice) has already enumerated the elements in order for double jeopardy to attach. your case does not fall under it. the more substantial elements your lawyer should pound, emphasize and prove is the absence of malice or the total absence of the crime charged against you. then when you have established these and you win your acquittal, get back at mike and give him a dose of his own medicine by slapping him with a multi-million damage suit (malicious prosecution which i lengthily discussed in previous posting).
get a good sleep and we pray you get over with this very soon.
Fencesiter, the reason I don’t know all the details of this case because it’s the office and the lawyers who are handling this. I didn’t give this too much attention.
They (Malaya) have the copy of the resolution. They informed me about my having dropped from the case by the fiscal but they also told me “but you are not out of the woods yet because Mike Arroyo petitioned for your and tatad’s reinstatement.”
I don’t bother kasi with these things. Now maybe i should give it more attention.
I don’t think the lawyer is invoking “double strategy”. I have not talked with malaya lawyer yet. Arraignment will be on the 25th. I will know by then the details of our legal strategy.
Thanks a lot Fencesitter.
ellen plus the fact that the alleged libelous news report was published during election time. the court could take judicial notice that politicians during election time have all the fun throwing muds and brimstone against each other. all is fair actually. one should not throw stone if he lives in a glass house or if one does not like to get burn, he should stay out of the kitchen. i have heard and read far worst articles written against contending politicians during election time, but i am not aware anyone of them filing libel suit because of it. the whole country have seen and knows fully well that mike arroyo was very active and highly visible in the campaign during that time. so the allegations against him was only fair. that accussations could not have been made if he stayed behind and be contented to remain in the background. so mike arroyo move one step a little farther with these libel suits because of that newsreport related to his conduct of election campaign for his wife.
make it sure you have all the papers, resolutions and orders coming from the court on this case. you can share it with me so i can help you with the analysis, research work and some suggestions. i have a very limited law practice and i cannot claim to be good in criminal law but certainly i can give you some suggestions every now and then so you can discuss with relative ease every aspect of your case to your counsel handling the trial in court.
i wish you all the luck because i know you are in the right side of this legal controversy.
Ellen,
Fencesitter’s advice sounds OK to me – good to heave blogging lawyers on board. Yeah! Slap Mike Fatso with multimillion peso damage suit, for causing damage, stress and all that stuff to your health among other things.
hi everyone…Ms Ellen, we will all be praying for your safety and passing thru this storm! all the gods in heaven am sure are looking after you….
Meanwhile, we here have to make our cause and fight a firm one..in whatever way we can in our simplest way we can…the arm of this bogus admin will is not that long..we can reach our relatives in the far-flung regions..am sure they are all being brainwashed by the trapos in their areas.
meanwhile the ugly fatso guy will have his day in the real court of justice where the blindfolder lady will not be the one to judge him but the holder of the pitchfork who will surely welcome his kinship with open arms.
sori, my msg was cut…
as i mentioned, we can always make something in order that relatives in the provinces will get to know the truth of what this sickening admin is really up to. the simple minded folks are thinking that MetroManila is all loving arms to the pandak bruha. for all we know, they are raring more to get their hands on the bitch witch with her legion of doom.
a little off topic but reloated in some way maybe – the court has junked the libel case and rehab of pacific plan inc…we can alway hope that there will be a judge who will have his conscience back and be afraid for his own judgement day…and will not be influenced by the ugly fatguy
Thanks again, Fencesitter and everybody for your support.