The rebellion case against 49 persons in connection with the supposed coup plot last February was reduced last Monday to arguments over lack of photo-copying machines.
One has to give credit to state prosecutors Deana Perez and Geronimo Sy for trying to put order and sense in the preliminary investigation hearings. In the first place, the affidavit complaint signed by NBI deputy director Reynaldo O. Esmeralda and Jesus A, Verzosa of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group was neither here nor there.
One example was the stupid mistake in referring to Francisco “Dodong” Nemenzo, former president of the University of the Philippines as Prudencio Dodong Nemenzo.
Nemenzo’s lawyers Marvic Leonen and JV Bautista as well as lawyers of the other defendants like Atty. Noli Panganiban, counsel for Sr. Supt. Benjamin Magalong and retired Chief Supt. Victor Batac, sought dismissal of the charges during the first preliminary hearing last Nov. 13 because the complaint affidavit was not even subscribed to. They were just referral letters, they said. “There’s no case,” Panganiban emphatically said.
Leonen and Bautista were at a loss to what they were going to do.” “There’s nothing to be counter-claimed,” they said.
Not surprisingly, the respondents’ motions were denied. Perez allowed the “technical flaw” to be remedied and a grim-looking Versoza was at the hearing last Monday to subscribe to his complaint affidavit. I tried to ask him who was “Prudencio Dodong Nemenzo” but he ignored me.
In the Nov. 20 hearing, a lot of time was spent on another serious technical problem: lack of copying machines. The lawyers of those charged complained that they have not received complete copies of the complaint. Perez replied that the affidavit complaint and its annexes would be made available to the respondents “to be copied”.
Who will do the copying? The affidavit complaint which is eight pages has for one of its proof the so-called Lopez report which is some 600 pages which has annexes that run to more than a thousand pages.
Perez said the DOJ has no resources to copy all those voluminous documents for all the 49 respondents. She said their office has only one copying machine and they have to queue for their turn. So, could you please shoulder the copying, she asked the respondents and their lawyers.
The respondents and their lawyers were aghast. One lawyer said, “These voluminous documents are accusations against my client. You are asking my client to spend for something that would be used against him?”
I heard one respondent say the case is already a financial, aside from emotional, problem for them. It’s additional burden for them to be spending for copies of the complaint.
Another lawyer said five government offices are involved in the case. The PNP and NBI have their huge intelligence fund. Why could not the expenses of photocopying the documents be sourced from it?
Rene A. V. Saguisag said, “Due process requires that the government give us copies of affidavit complaint complete with its annexes.”
In the midst of argument over photocopying, the straight-talking Lt. Col. Achilles Segumallian stood up and addressed the state prosecutors. “I’m not a lawyer,” he said. He asked that the court do something about their lack of preparedness. He said his lawyer, Atty. Romeo Gerochi, is based in Iloilo. “I have to spend for his fare every time we have a hearing. It’s a waste of time and resources to be just arguing over photo-copying of documents.”
Embarrassed by the discussion on photocopying of documents in front of national media, state prosecutor Geronimo Sy said they will take care of that problem.
Ellen wrote, “Nemenzo’s lawyers Marvic Leonen and JV Bautista as well as lawyers of the other defendants like Atty. Noli Panganiban, counsel for Sr. Supt. Benjamin Magalong and retired Chief Supt. Victor Batac, sought dismissal of the charges during the first preliminary hearing last Nov. 13 because the complaint affidavit was not even subscribed to. They were just referral letters, they said. “There’s no case,” Panganiban emphatically said.”
Ellen, over in more progressive societies, this type of a mistake is enough ground for dismissal of a case. It’s called “justice.”
Worst is when they show that this court trying these men of honor is topsy-turvy and incompetent. Copy lang hindi pa magawa! Yuck!
Why should lawyers of these men allow this incompetent court to put these men into a lot of not just harassment but also embarrassment? it is enough ground for losing faith in Philippine justice system under the reign of a bogus president.
Enough is enough! The charges against these 49 great Filipinos should be dropped, and they be sent home pronto. Halatang-halatang gawa-gawa lang naman ang mga charges sa kanila.
Who knows? Baka pa sila magpasalamat kay Bansot if they are set free! Sila ang may reklamo. Bakit hindi sila ang pakinggan.
Time to free the courts in the Philippines from the boba and her bobos, who have no business telling the judges what to and what not to do!
A copy machine problem?! This is just horrible, or is it just plain stupidity? What a joke! What a mockery!
Sana i-xerox iyong mukha ni Siraulo Gonggongsalez para matauhan. Baka ibinulsa ang pera para sa photo coping machines at pati bond papers hindi pinatawad.
Re Diego’s “Baka ibinulsa ang pera para sa photo coping machines at pati bond papers hindi pinatawad.”
Hahahah! I wouldn’t be surprised at all, Diego, not at all…
Yuko said:”Time to free the courts in the Philippines from the boba and her bobos, who have no business telling the judges what to and what not to do! ”
Perhaps Yuko meant …”no business occupying space” …anywhere.
not even kafka had imagined this in his fictional trial.
This is the type of news I thought I would only read in websites like emailjokes.com or totallyweird.com or rotten.com. It qualifies as major, major entry in any of the three!
There goes the case. It’s gonna be decided by technicality once it’s raised in the higher courts, I’m sure.
This is totally sick, I’d suggest a name for a new website category “sickgovernment.com”.
Puro kalokohan! Walang iba iyan sa ginawang desisyon ni Davide sa pagtalsik kay Erap na ang ginamit na basehan ay ang diary ni Angara at biblia.
Alitaptap:
The bobos and bobas do not sit in the bench at the court. They just dictates on the judges who should be free of them.
By bobos and bobas, I mean the Ale Boba, Fatso, generals of AFP, et al who are trying to be over and above the judges of the courts and the law!
Tama si TongueT, it’s a sign of a sick government under a bogus president. Mapapa-Tongue na tuloy!
Sorry, still sleepy. This should read: The bobos and bobas do not sit ON the bench at the court. They just dictate on the judges who should be free of them.
Back to sleep. Oyasumi nasai. Schumey, this is the proper way of saying “Good night” in Japanese.
This is a indeed a big joke…onli in da Pilipins! I’d like to laugh but I can’t! Sige na nga , mag-abuloy na nga tayo..in advance, para sa Copy machine! Gute Nacht to all!
Ah love this blogsite. It is 5:30 AM and posters are bidding good night.
Sweet dreams ystakei
Sleep tight Elvira
If you don’t sleep, you can’t dream.
Ahhh, sumasakit ang puso ko sa katatawa! Omigod, nasa Fantasy Kingdom sila talaga. This is an excellent sitcom script!
This justice system could be called Micky Mouse but thats an insult to Walt Disney cartoons. Do they not realize the whole word is watching…
Someone blogged a few days ago that we were becoming a Banana Republic….. sorry to inform you its already here; its a laff.
Ay talaga, Chi.
If not for the fact that lives and career are at stake in this case, you could treat this as fine comedy.
I was not able to include it in the article but the lawyers of Nemenzo “asked permission to leave” when the state prosecutors declared that the affidavit complaint of Esmeralda and Versoza was now in order after it had been “remedied”.
Atty. Leonen said something like, that means it’s another affidavit complaint on top of the first affidavit complaint. He said they would have to wait for the copy to be furnished them before they decide their next move.
But these state prosecutors have a boss; whats his name umm thingy, you know the old grumpy man with many files piled high on his desk (cluttered desk top; cluttered mind is the saying I seem to remember). You know the one I mean …. oh! whats his name; the one who has opinions and answers to ALL problems in government.
As the boss of these state prosecutors this sour old man who knows so much should spend more time sorting the malfunctions of his own Dept. and make us, and no doubt the state procecutors, proud of the judicial system in this country.
Now there’s a word thats been lost ……. PRIDE. Few have any pride left in their souls, but can you blame them!
Kangaroo court ng DoJ (Dept. of Joke)… hahahaha. Pati pang xerox wala sila. Baka naman ginagamit ni Lambino sa Singaw yung xerox nila. Por diyos porsyento, sa porsyento lang magaling yang siRaulo.
Puro shortcut kasi ang alam ng mga liko, ayan, dapat dalhin agad sa Supreme Court para ma-dismiss on technicality. Ang dali nila mag-akusa, sablay naman.
Right, Ellen.
This is the most outrageous and hilarious incident involving a gov’t office and officials so far. This fake administration has just validated that it should not be taken seriously by sensible people. Pang SiRaulo lang talaga ang dating nila. Onli in da Pilipins!
that was the huge problem created by angelo reyes. the try-hard-to-be-popular guy is the reason for all these legal issues within the afp. if only they stuck it out with erap, it would not have been as disgraceful as it is now. i wonder what reyes is thinking, he has been so silent about his stand on the alleged withrawal of support that he himself shamelessly did. this reyes guy talaga… you should see his house in makati. massive talaga! and the lifestyle of the family! whoa! anyway, konting tiis at konting dasal mga pilipino. we cannot just rise up in arms and fight, i promise you, pag ganito tayo kagulo, di tayo mananalo. plan, and organize and build bridges… kulang to… let us not be too hasty about it, instead, let us strategize and create a feasible gameplan. this gloria has got to go, i agree… in parliamentary debate and argumentation, we are taught: if you destroy the proposal, thre must be a counter proposal to replace it. otherwise, no matter how great your arguments are against the porposal, if u do not have an alternative, you can never win the debate. in the world of ideas, ganito ang labanan. sino pinaka matanda sa tin dito o pinakamayaman? dapat siya ang magsimula at susunod kami. we need you to lead us, then finally, we could plan more effectively. to be honest, based on what ive been hearing, the soldiers are just probably waiting. waiting for the us the people to express legitimate do or die dissent. if we remain passsive, what else can we accomplish? i doubt if its anytime soon. manny pacquio’s victory helps gloria eh. pero after christmas, people will run low on cash, they will become restless, and they will want her out. ngayon palang, plan in anticipation. strategize. but most of all, discern and pray. kahit ano gagawin natin pag walang basbas ng itaas, wala din.
ellen, can you also do a story re UP tuition increase. i feel for the up students very much. i know how difficult it is to afford access to decent education. if they can corrupt a lot for fertilizer and afp funds, why cant they allocate some for education? i feel for the students. ano ang gustu nila? magrebelde na lang mga students? this is too much. roman is a very irresponsible president. instead of asserting herself more in the national budget, bat niya ipapasa sa students who are in up because they cant affort other schools (thats the assumption)? the students cannot afford such a drastic increase. dapat, slow increase lang, or little by little… the president naman of the country couldnt care less. siguro ang saya niya kasi wala ng destabilizers… im not from up, never was… pero i know how they feel… tulungan natin sila ipaglaban ang kanilang problema… salamat
Schumey wrote, “Baka naman ginagamit ni Lambino sa Singaw yung xerox nila.”
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This reminds me of the computer of the Manila Archives Manapat was reported to have taken home, desktop and all to finish the homework the Bansot and Company asked him to do.
Remember how he produced an old looking document that was supposed to be a marriage certificate to prove that FPJ was born out of wedlock in an attempt to embarrass him even when he in fact admitted that when he was born his parents were not married but had the capacity to get married, thus making him a natural born as defined even by the present Civil Code of the Philippines, but after his birth they did get married, and made him and his siblings legitimate children of his father?
Unfortunately, FPJ did not have the same dirty mind as the squatters at the palace by the murky river that he did not attempt to retaliate by revealing likewise that the Bansot was also born out of wedlock because her mother could not marry Dadong at the time of her birth by virtue of the fact that her mother was said to be married then to another man, and there was no way to annul the marriage nor divorce him as there was no divorce in the Philippines, nor even perhaps declare the husband dead because it was impossible to say that he could not be found and there was no communication between husband and wife for at least 7 years because he was a well-known physician.
Frankly, I find this thing about annulment of marriages in the Philippines to justify an adultery a big lie and a matter of fornication unforgivable in the eyes of God.
Now, how the Bansot had become legitimate is one thing that will be nice to dig in as a matter of fact. Ang hirap lang kasi sa mga journalists sa Pilipinas, mabayaran lang, kasama na sa takipan!
Puro pagnanakaw na lang at kasinungalingan! How can we expect the Philippines to be any better under the reign of these cheats and liars led by a bogus president? Kawawang bansa!
Emilio,
here’s the ABS-CBN news re Max Soliven’s death.
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National (as of 10:52 AM)
Max Soliven passes away
Veteran journalist and Philippine Star publisher Max Soliven passed away Friday morning at a hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Soliven succumbed to complications arising from pneumonia.
He was 77 years old.
Soliven was with his wife, Preciosa, on a business trip to Japan at the time of his death.
Star news editor Marichu Villanueva said Philippine Ambassador to Japan Domingo Siazon was with Soliven in the hospital before he expired.
His remains will be flown in today from Tokyo.
Thanks Chi – I choose to post my earlier comment in the previous article because GMA is in it.
Going back to this topic, xerox problem – my golly, with a miniscule amount of Pnp45,000 – the DOJ can have a top of the tine copy machine!
I suppose it is an oversight on the part DOJ office services chief which makes their office a laughing stock to both the lawyers and the defendants.
Or there’s no more funds in DOJ penny jar?
A shame isn’t it?
Chi,
There is an epidemic here, I guess of pneumonia. I was sick of it a week ago. Buti na lang nakapunta ako sa hospital, and in between blogging, I tried to take as much sleep and needed precautions plus the prescribed medication.
Golly, first time ako nakaranas na sumuka ng buo-buong plema! (Sorry for the vivid description!) Isang bata na hindi ko naman hinawakan pero malapit na nakaupo sa akin sa church, nagkasakit two days after. Now, the baby is in the hospital. Buti na lang ako hindi naman naospital kasi naagapan!
Re Max Soliven : I appreciate that at one time he wrote something nice about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. May God forgive him for whatever wrong he committed in his lifetime!
Yuko,
Well, death is like a lightning, can strike anywhere, anytime.
It doesn’t choose its victims, kaya dapat palaging good. Kinakabahan na kaya ang Reyna Pandakekang?
Well, one adviser less si Bakekang ng Malacanang!
yang si angelo reyes ay nakita ko na meron palang concert kasama si bayani fernando at lina, siguro meron namang nanood sa kanila at may ibubuga di lang sa kabalbalan.
kung ganon eh di si chanak, pwede rin siguro kumanta at magconcert, kasama si mahal at mura. bagay na bagay silang tatlo, mukhang triplets.
Sinabi mo pa, Chi, but the sad thing is that most Filipinos just live for today for tomorrow may never come. Enjoy what they can enjoy for now regardless of whether they transgress God’s laws or not. Nangangatwiran pa nga na mabuti o masama, lahat galing sa Diyos. Patawarin sila ng Diyos!
Si Pandak nga, sabi pa kagustuhan daw ng Diyos na maging presidente siya kahit na magnakaw siya ng posisyon o ng botong hindi naman para sa kaniya.
I wonder what the priests and nuns in the Catholic schools she went to taught her that she does not seem to know how to distinguish between good and evil, true and false, virtue and vice, and pleasure and pain. Kung may konsensiya ang babaing iyan, matagal na iyan na bumaba at hindi na dapat pang gumagamit ng pera ng bayan para mangsuhol ng susuporta sa kaniya.
God forgive them all!
Lupang Hinirang
Bayang magiliw
Perlas ng Silanganan
Alab ng puso
Sa dibdib mo’y buhay.
Lupang hinirang
Duyan ka ng magiting
Sa manlulupig
Di ka pasisiil.
Sa dagat at bundok
Sa simoy at sa langit mong bughaw
May dilag ang tula at awit
Sa paglayang minamahal.
Ang kislap ng watawat mo’y
Tagumpay na nagniningning
Ang bituin at araw n’yang
Kaylan pa ma’y di magdidilim.
Lupa ng araw ng luwalhati’t pagsinta
Buhay ay langit sa piling mo
Aming ligaya na ‘pag may mang-aapi
Ang mamatay ng dahil sa’yo!
Yeah, I heard about max soliven’s death in Tokyo.Death comes like a thief in the night, and people do not know when, or where the final moment comes.
I used to like soliven’s columns, until he walked with a thief and a fake!
24 November
Why is it that jdv is supporting the impeachment against the SC justices who voted to kill the PI??? the answer is in his statement “according to him he almost lost his speakership in the davide impeach try” that’s it. stupid is as stupid does, his burning ambition to become the PM is so high that he will do everything to become the PM. Tsk, tsk, tsk…Dahil sa ambition ay ibebenta ang kaluluwa sa dimonyo. PEro teka muna, ingat ang mga dimonyo at baka maagawan sila ng pwesto sa impyerno.
prans
Prans:
This JdV is in fact playing God. Naulol na siguro nang mamatay ang anak sa sunog na siya rin ang puedeng may kasalanan dahil ninakaw nila sa Congress ang perang pambili ng mga gamit ng mga bombero sa Makati! Siguro sa galit niya, nakipag-deal siya kay Taning! Kaya nakita mo ang PI nila. Quoted pa ang pangalan sa Biblia na salita ng legion ni Taning! Hindi kaya nakikilabot ang mga miyembro ng grupong ito sa ginawa nila? Hindi ba nila alam na mabilis sumagot si Taning sa mga gustong makipag-deal sa kaniya?
Kaya tignan mo naman ang mukha ni De Venecia. Kulang na nga lang lagyan ng sungay at buntot!!! Ngeek! 😡
Hehehehe.What can we expect from this bungling gov’t prosecutors, but pure nincampooperies!Just look at their siRaulo boss and you’ll know what I mean!Photocopies lang yan ha!Talagang wala tayong maasahang hustisya sa gobyernong ito!Ang tatanga eh, gaya ng siRaulo nilang bossabos!Gov’t. of lies,cheats and morons indeed!!!Hehehe,lapit na sumunod si siRaulo kay soliven,bibigay na ang prostate at kidney niyan dahil connected sa utak niya, utak garapata, hilig sumipsip!Oh by the way, nakakasuka ang mga pinagsasabi ni jokejdv, nek nek mo trapo!!!Akala niya tanga ang mga Pilipino para paniwalaan ang mga bullshit “dreams” niya!Sana bumigay narin ang kidney niyang sinungaling na tengang daga jdv.Kapal ng mukha ng gobyernong ito sa mga pinagsasabi nila!
Mga sundalong may honor and integrity diyan, kumilos na po kayo!Tulungan niyo po ang bayan natin sa mga buwayang ito!Dapat may bago na tayong pangulo before the new year!
Huwag si noli,pls lang,nandaya at sinungaling din yan, walang paninindigan,no balls to stand for the truth!Personally,I would go for Oscar Orbos as a leader we can look up to, for starters!
To all my fellow OFWs, civil disobedience/protest tayo against this bogus dispensation!Padala natin ang mga remittances natin sa mga informal channels(door-to-door), and not thru the formal banking system!Kailangan natin magsakripisyo ng konti para sa bayan, para mapalayas ang huwad na pangulo at gobyerno!
Tulong narin natin ito sa mga iniipit na journalist natin at sa mga sundalong may paninindigan sa bayan!Batuhin natin ng bugok na itlog sa 2007 si pandak at ang mga aso niya, gaya ng ginawa kay assperon sa UP!
Hoy!abaloshit,alis ka diyan at mga walang silbi mong komisyoners, para malinis ang botahan sa 2007!Kung may powers lang ako tulad ni Professor X(Xavier of X-men),able to do mind-control.I’ll control the mind of the fake president and her dogs, and stop their breathing!Oh joy for the people!We will be free again to choose a leader we can trust!Patalsikin ang pekeng nakaupo, now na!!!!!!
How thick-faced can one be?
Gloria and her Legions continue to literally PUSH for Cha-Cha.
If THICK-FACED has a face, it would be Gloria and her Legions.
Chabeli:
Someone in SFO wrote that Gloria is not “nangagantso” and that Filipinos stop berating her but emulate the example of Max Soliven, who was not sued, etc. by the Fat Couple unlike what Marcos did to him. Really? Was Soliven one of those sent to jail by Marcos? Pero si Gloria hindi nangagantso? So, I asked this guy, “How then do you explain about the missing OWWA and other funds!” Pati iyong mga para sa bigas ng mga mahihirap, natakaw na nga!
Iyan, Mrivera, ang sinasabi kong walang tunay na pagmamahal sa bayan!
Ellen,
Sorry kung off-topic ito, Arbet, another blogger is suggesting a different PI. Its worth checking out and he would love to have your inputs. His blogsite is: http://awbholdings.com/blog//. Its novel and very informative.
I hope you guys check it out. Thanks Ellen for the accommodation.
Here’s another case of court incompetence in the Philippines.
From Inquirer:
RP won’t press custody of GIs in case of conviction — DoJ
Separate cell with amenities if sentenced
By Tetch Torres
INQ7.net
Last updated 07:31pm (Mla time) 11/24/2006
THE Philippine government will not insist on taking the custody of the four US servicemen accused of raping a Filipina in 2005 in case of a conviction and they decide to file an appeal, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said Friday.
And in case of a final conviction, Gonzalez also said the government will allow the construction of a separate cell with amenities such as air conditioning, a television and a refrigerator inside the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City.
“But everything has to be shouldered by the US government,” he added.
Assuming conviction, Gonzalez said Marine Lance Corporals Daniel Smith, Keith Silkwood, Dominic Duplantis and Staff Sergeant Chad Carpentier will be allowed to remain under US custody while the case is on appeal.
But he added: “If they lose the appeal, they have to be turned over to us.”
The four Americans are accused of raping a 23-year old Filipina at the Subic Bay Freeport on November 1 last year. The verdict in the case is expected to be handed down on December 4 after Makati Regional Trial Court Judge Benjamin Pozon pushed back the original schedule by a week saying he needed more time to study the evidence and make a decision.
The complainant, known publicly as “Nicole,” accused Smith of raping her inside a moving van as his three comrades cheered him on.
The prosecution presented 23 witnesses who testified Nicole was too drunk to have consented to sex, and that she was later unloaded from the van and dumped “like a pig” at a pier near the Marines’ ship, the USS Essex, which was docked at Subic.
Smith said he and Nicole had consensual sex, a claim backed by the three other Marines.
Pozon held four-hour hearings four times a week from June to October to be able to deliver a verdict within 12 months from the start of the trail, which is required by the Visiting Forces Agreement, or else the Philippines loses jurisdiction over the accused.
With a report from Tarra V. Quismundo, Inquirer
Copyright 2006 INQ7.net. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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No wonder the Americans do not trust the legal system in the Philippines even when the language used is English that they can understand. They trust the more conscientious and law-abiding Japanese, who do not speak English, but are fair and abide by the rules.
Amazing talaga ang kabobohan! Just why is the Bansot quacking there as if to tell the courts there not to convict the horny US soldiers on the pretext that she and her appointee cannot provide them with a clean cell as requested probably by the US Embassy knowing the unsanitary state of prisons in the Philippines, nothing in comparison with prisons in the US and Japan!!!
Sending these soldiers to jail is no longer her problem. It is under the jurisdiction of the court. She should put that in her head and stop meddling in the running of the court, especially because she is not a lawyer, a prosecutor or a judge. She is just a bogus president!!!
Over here, for example, it is enough that the cells are clean. The prisoners themselves have to see that their rooms, etc. are clean, and kept spic and span. No other amenities like an airconditioned cell during the hot months or a heater during Winter. Magtiis sila. Gumawa sila ng kasalanan, dapat lang na maghirap sila.
So, why are these crooks worrying about providing these horny US soldiers luxuries that they do not deserve to have. Why treat them like VIPs who should be put in deluxe hotels even when they appeal their cases in the high court.
They should have prepared clean and sanitary rooms to put in detainees there when they are on trial or appeal their conviction in the higher courts. Palibhasa salaula kasi!
It makes me really mad to hear this that is typical of Filipinos, who still suffer from some colonial mentality, Look at how the Bansot would even worry about the facility to put in these horny Americans, while she does not even bother to ask nor listen to complaints by native Filipinos being packed like sardines in dirty and unsanitary cells at Muntinlupa! Plastic talaga ang mga kumag! Gusto pang magsipsip sa mga kano.
Iyan pa ang isang sinasabi ko Mrivera about the half-baked nationalism and patriotism of lots of pinoys. Dito, wala silang pakialam ke magreklamo o hindi ang mga dayuhang nakagawa ng kasalanan sa batas sa Japan. Kung ano ang trato sa mga kriminal na hapon ganoon din ang trato sa mga kriminal na taga-ibang bansa. Katwiran kasi, kung ayaw mong makulong di huwag kang lumabag ng batas!!!
By the way, based on the recent Pulse Asia survey that was released last November 22, the following are the top 12 Senatoriables (a tie for #12 & #13, so I included #13):
1) Loren Legarda (56.9%)
2) Ping Lacson (41.1%)
3) Kiko Cuneta “NOTED” Pangilinan (36.6%)
4) Manny Villar (31.4%)
5) Alan Peter Cayetano (30.5%)
6) Tito Sotto (30.3%)
7) Ralph “I’LL PLAY BOTH SIDES” Recto (28.7%)
8) Korina “MAR” Sanchez (27.0%)
9) Koko Pimentel (24.8%) Note: He’s Nene Pimentel’s son
10) Gringo “COUP PLOTTER” Honasan (24.1%)
11) JV Ejercito-Estrada (22.1%) Note: He’s actually the more matino son of Erap
12) Benigno “Noynoy” C. Aquino, III (19.3%)
13) Chiz Escudero (19.3%)
I’m warry about these men making it to the list. It has been proven that they have compromised the country for their own benefit:
Mr. Noted PANGILINAN-CUNETA (#3)
Mr. I’ll-Play-Both-Sides RECTO-SANTOS (#7)
Mr. Coup Plotter HONASAN(#10)
I wonder what the Congressmen list would look like…
May his soul rest in peace. But, we all know that Soliven was among the journalists who kissed Gloria’s ass. Who knows how much and what he benefited from Malacanang. As far as I know, the latest favor was his successful lobby of his good friend Willy Gaa to the much desired US ambassador post. It was Soliven’s effort and influence that made it possible for Gaa to get the post.
Chabeli,
Makakapal ang mukha not making it to my list:
1)Kiko Noted Cuneta Pangilinan
2)Ralph Recto-Santos Both Sides
3)Korina Mar Sanchez
4)Manny Villar Palundag-lundag
Still thinking: Honasan
Add to my list of iboboto ng buong angkan: TRILLANES
ystakei said:
“Look at how the Bansot would even worry about the facility to put in these horny Americans, while she does not even bother to ask nor listen to complaints by native Filipinos being packed like sardines in dirty and unsanitary cells at Muntinlupa! Plastic talaga ang mga kumag! Gusto pang magsipsip sa mga kano.”
Oo nga, very colonial mentality at sobrang kapalmuks, singkapal ng berlin wall.
MALALA NA ANG CANCER NG CORRUPTION SA BANSA NATIN.
KAILANGAN PA BANG MAGHINTAY NG ELEKSYON, O ELEKSYON BA ANG INAASAHAN NATING MAKAPAGBABAGO SA LAHAT?
O, KAILANGANG MAGUMPISA SA PAGSUNOG SA SISTEMANG BULOK NA AT SA NAGPABULOK NITO?
KUNG SA PALAGAY NATIN AY ‘DI TAYO KASAMA SA NAGPAPABULOK NITO, MAKIRAMDAM NA LANG BA TAYO SA TABITABI NA WALANG PAKIALAM AT HANGGANG KOMENTO NA LANG?
KAILAN KAYA TAYO MATUTONG UMAKSYON PARA SA TUNAY NA PAGBABAGO?
KAILAN KAYA NATIN MAISAISIP NA TAYO AY INUUTO LANG, NILILIBANG, AT GINAGAGO NG HARAPAN?
KAILAN KAYA, KAPATID?
Mrivera,
Thanks for “Lupang Hinirang”. Paki naman ang “Panatang Makabayan”. I love reading it coming from you :).
I doubt if Esperon knows the lines of the Pinoy National Anthem and Pledge by heart. Oopps, wala nga palang heart ang bwisit na ‘to!
Di ba yan ngang mga lack of equipments and old dilapidated facilities ang rekalmo ng mga courts natin. Ang nakikinabang lang sa pondo ay ang DOJ at Supreme Court. Sila ang umuubos ng budget para sa mga courts. may mga korte nga lalo na sa mga probinsiya na walang computer at mga lumang makinilya ang gamit. Nakakaawa talaga. KURAKOT AT THE HIGH LEVEL! Mas maganda nga kung may mga media na mag-iikot para ipakita kung ano ang kalagayan ng lower courts kumpara sa opisina ng DOJ at Supreme Court!
“Oo nga, very colonial mentality at sobrang kapalmuks, singkapal ng berlin wall.”
Tumpak Alitaptap. At gaya ng makapal na Berlin walls, babagsak at magkakapira-piraso rin ang mukha ng Pidal woman na ‘yan!
A court proceeding delayed by Xerox Problems? Comedy of Errors or Stupidity? Or no-more funds for functioning equipments? I’ll have some Banana for Breakfast, but don’t you tell, that’s what befalls my dear Philippines? Are we there yet?
De rien, Npongco. What you say about Max S. is true nga. In the meantime, before my blood pressure goes up thinking about Gloria’s dogs, rest in peace nalang sya.
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Chi,
You’re right about “Manny Villar Palundag-lundag”. We should come out with a “Dream Team” list to help voters. It may be a little help, but at least however small, it’s worth a try, diba?
Mga kablog, huwag na tayong magtaka kung bakit UUUUBBBBODDDD NG SAMA ITONG SI GLORIA ARROYO DAHIL ang pangalang ARROYO ay KATUNOG din ng … DEMONYO!!!ARROYO-DEMONYO!!! DEVIL PERSONIFIED!!!
ILIGTAS MO PO KAMI O LORD SA MGA DEMONYO AT MGA KAMPON NIYA, AMEN!!!
GLORIA is the PROBLEM…THE FILIPINOS are the SOLUTION.
Filipinos should decide NOT to compromise thmselves by tolerating wrongdoing. NO MORE of EVIL. Enough IS enough.
What your are saying here Chabeli is send All Evils to Hell, that is where they belong!!!
Kagaguhang…xerox lang? Papuntahin mo nga si Sir Raul O. Gonzales kay FG. Maraming xerox machines na ipinamigay siya nung 2004 elections sa Cebu, Iloilo, Mindanao, di ba? Di naman niya binili iyun, e. Inarbor lang sa supplier na laging kinokotongan.
Pag sa panloloko may xerox, pag sa hustisya, wala?
Vic{
Sad to say we have already been a Banana Republic but only realized it lately.
General comments regarding Max. I was told by my parents that if you couldn’t say something kind about the dead it is better to stay silent.
Should have said:
Sad to say we have already been a Banana Republic for the past six years; but only realized it lately.
we-will-never-learn,
Will this apply also to the Fake President if she died?
WWNL said, “General comments regarding Max. I was told by my parents that if you couldn’t say something kind about the dead it is better to stay silent.”
This is the reason why I had to delete SOME of the comments on him here.
Luzviminda wrote, “Ang nakikinabang lang sa pondo ay ang DOJ at Supreme Court. Sila ang umuubos ng budget para sa mga courts. may mga korte nga lalo na sa mga probinsiya na walang computer at mga lumang makinilya ang gamit.”
This is true. A former prosecutor has asked me to donate some computers that he heard I was collecting for donation to some charities in the Philippines. I have sent one or two through a friend, but the computers are nowhere to be found now. So, I’m asking offices here I know that are throwing their old computers away, and our city hall where a lot of these recycled computers are turned in to spare me some to give to the courts in the Philippines.
And this is my proof likewise, Luzviminda, that the Bansot is telling a lie about prosperity that she claims she has achieved as bogus president. Golly, schools for example are being built now with donations from Japan in Leyte through the GK, pero tignan mo naman ang pangalan nakalagay! Pangalan ni Bansot as if it is her accomplishment that those schools are being built! Lahat na lang inaangkin ng hinayupak na bogus president!
Now as for saying bad things against the dead, in a way, we are told by the Lord not to judge that we be not judged (Matt. 7: 1-2). But to make comments on one’s culpability in messing up the affairs of his country is not unkindness. It is reminding his other companions who have contributed to the mess that their time will also come so they’d better watch out.
I’m telling this to myself also that if one does not want to be hated and condemned in death, he should lead an exemplary life with kindness and in accordance with the teachings and commandments of God. One does not even have to try to be in the limelight just to be noticed. He can do charity likewise in silence and be remembered for it.
Over here in Japan, one reason why most Japanese would opt to commit suicide when they do wrong is to make those who condemn them to stop condemning them, for like the mother of WWNL, people here tend to be kinder to the dead, and let his God send him to heaven or condemn him to hell.
Good advice from the Bible: ” Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather, that no man put a stumblingblock or an occasion to fall in his brother’s way.” (Rom.14:13) Or, “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead:” (2 Cor. 5: 14) Or, “But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.” (1 Cor. 11:32)
I may dislike the above author but this time, I appreciate the way she elaborated about the dead using the bible as basis. May I add that the Bible teaches that when a person dies, everything dies with him. That’s why prayer for the dead and so called “mass” are practices done in vain because the ones to benefit from such are the officiating priest or minister; the candle vendors and others who profit from such activities. In fact, it has become a very profitable business. After a person dies, we pray not for the dead person but for the living. It is also the reason why I don’t believe in baptism by proxy or baptising the dead.
My parents neither attended a church or read the Bible but spoke good common sense teaching me to be more christian in my outlook than the ‘Christian’ who thinks it all ends after attending a church mass service.
Common sense and disipline was installed in me such as being encouraged to read the poem ‘IF’ by Rudjard Kipling.
That’s why you will never learn. Serving God and attaining salvation is not merely using common sense. One must live by the words of God. If you only use your human wisdom and not God’s…you end up in destruction.
npongco:
My advice to you would be to study the actual words I used
which were “my parents neither attended church or read the Bible” as for me I’ve entered Buddism, Muslim, West Indian Churches and Christianity, even read the Bible but I was refering to the teachings to me by my parents.
Before becoming personal try to digest and understand what the writer is saying.
All the more reason npongco, I suggest you go to your search engine and enter ‘Rudyard Kiplings Poem IF’ then you know where I’m coming from.
WWNL: My parents neither attended a church nor read the Bible but spoke good common sense teaching me to be more christian in my outlook than the ‘Christian’ who thinks it all ends after attending a church mass service.
Common sense and disipline was installed in me such as being encouraged to read the poem ‘IF’ by Rudjard Kipling.
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Exactly, my point, too, WWNL, when I mentioned about the poor in the Philippines who cannot afford to go to school and are ridiculed by those who have. Oftentimes, they are wiser than those who have strings of degrees to brad about or titles they want added to their names as one braggart from the Philippine Military who came to Japan and wanted me to book him on a return flight to Manila with his rank specified before his name in his ticket! If that is not being stupid, what is?
I have two degrees as a matter of fact, and several certificates for attending a lot of special schools, seminars, etc. to improve myself, but in the end I have realized that a lot many things that we learn from other fellow human beings are not even wisdom coming from God, and that perfect knowledge does not come from imperfect minds but only from the Lord.
This is why I am concentrating more now in the study of the Scriptures, and why I love to quote from them. As Job said, ” But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding? • No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies. • Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of understanding? • And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.” (Job 28: 12, 18, 20, 28)
True wisdom in fact comes from the power of God. (1 Cor. 1: 19)
Sorry, this should read, “Oftentimes, they are wiser than those who have strings of degrees to BRAG about…”
ystakei,
Before I started to blog on Ellens site, I visited it several times a day for many months. So I have a good idea how the regular bloggers here tick.
The only one who knows my pedigree here is Ellen and then only because I told her out of respect to her as the owner of this blog site.
I have had the privilege of meeting people from all walks of life, the good, the bad; and just evil, in a professional career.
I assist people on a daily basis and mainly the poor. I don’t suffer fools easily.
This is my chance to compliment Ellen’s blog (smile).
“The accused and their lawyers were aghast. One lawyer said, “These voluminous documents are accusations against my client. You are asking my client to spend for something that would be used against him?””
it’s like accepting a rope to hang one’s self. ganito na ba “katalino” ang mga appointed state prosecutors ng administrasyong ito? sa pilipinas lang at sa palpak na pamamahala ng reynang anay nangyayari ang ganito. lahat ng tao gustong gawing tanga. sana naman huwag na nilang itulad sa kanila. sila na lang ang magmukhang dakila!
Mrivera:
These State Prosecutors wouldn’t last a day working in the western world professional courts, only in the Phil!
Sinabi mo pa, WWNL. Dapat ngang bumalik sa law school. In fact, not just the law school but some finishing school where they should learn good manners and right conduct, even some professional ethics!!! 😛
Prosecutors in the Philippines seem to confuse their position as defenders of the accused in a criminal case (no prosecutor in a civil case in Japan as a matter of fact) as in the case of Nicole, et al that I have followed up depending on who can give them better compensation.
I don’t also see the logic of victims having their own lawyers fighting with the prosecutors who should in fact fight to prove the case against the accused to convict them not really for the sake of the victim but for justice to prevail.
I find the attitude of the prosecutors in the case of Nicole really amazingly stupid, and she was right to demand for their removal from her case because they are not protecting her right to seek redress for the wrong done her. A crime was definitely committed. Why these crooks in the government would not even want justice to prevail and be served in this case is disgustingly, nauseatingly, and repulsively revolting and unbelievable!!! Takot na takot o taeng-tae sa mga kano! Pwe!
Unrelated topic, but I’m actually watching this movie clip now related to what Vic has told bloggers here about Canadians in Afghanistan. He should watch this.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15724.htm
I’m keeping this movie clip as a matter of fact for our educational campaign on the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan! Talk of signs of the times like evil now being taken for good!
This is unrelated to the topic in this loop, but it is related to what Vic has been writing on the Canadians in Afghanistan. I’ve just finished watching it, and it kind of amusing but VERY educational indeed:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15724.htm
I should save this movie clip for educating Filipinos on this issue of the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.
hi guys,
we have to look at this with a broader sense of scrutiny. The people who are behind MIDGET are all clever and tricky (they have proven that many times).. so, my take on this “xerox machine” problem is that, it is a ploy to delay the hearing itself.. because as of now, they cannot prove beyond reasonable doubt that the people they are charging with “rebellion” are really guilty. They are “extending” their time to fabricate and make stories…
because mispelled names and lacking of copying machines are not the kind of stupidity the likes of Raul Gonzales, Mike Defensor, Norberto Gonzalez, Toting Bunye, Eduardo Ermita, etc will commit.. they are far, far, far more clever than that.
MIDGET is at St. Luke’s Hospital AGAIN!
That reminds me to send a case of wine to St. Luke’s
It’s the week-end naman ngayon ha! Na-overdose na naman ng diet pills siguro! By Monday, she will be out, pihado! Nagsa-sag naman kasi ang mga pileges niya at mga taba sa baba niya!!! Nice try!
I bet may handaan na naman sa Malacanang for Pacman kaya naimpatso na naman!
Oops, tama nga ako, may handaan sa Malacanang but not for Pacman but for Prince Andrew of GB! Still, it is all about impatso, I guess.
Funny that everytime she goes to St. Luke’s, it’s the male Bansot who checks her in and follow her up at St. Luke’s. Hmmmmmmmm!
As for the kidney trouble suspicion, puede din. St. Luke’s kidney center is quite well-known to the Japanese who have had kidney transplant in the Philippines. Most of the Baseco donors interviewed by Japanese media talked of the kidney center there as the place where they donated their kidneys.
Morning daw dinala sa St. Luke’s. Siguro paggising ni Bansot, nagtimbang ng weight niya. Biglang shoot up ang weight. Uminom ng dobleng diet pill siguro, o di napurga na husto. Tawag agad iyong male version niya. And she’s back to the same room maybe at St. Luke’s!
Just echoing my friend’s conspiracy theory!!! 😛
huwag na kayong magpapaniwala sa sakit sakit na ‘yan ng reynang anay! kunyari lang ‘yan! nagpapansin at nagpapaawa tulad nang sinabi ‘nung manugang niya (jun)na “nagkakasakit na nga ang pangulo sa pagtatrabaho para sa kapakanan ng bayan”.
ang ganyang sobrang itim ng budhing mas madilim pa sa pusikit na gabing wala kahit isang bituing tumatanglaw, hindi na tatablan ng sakit! burak na ng katulad ng pagkataong pawang kabulukan ang laman!
Mrivera, dito ako sa theory mo :).
For all those who are so inspired by the soldiers who thought less of themselves and who are now in incarceration,
your assistance is needed. If anyone of you has any ideas of winning the case in Esperon’s Kangaroo court, please note your suggestions in this blog or directly to Ellen so she can forward it to me. If anyone is knowlegeable in the military justice system and can suggest organizations both national and international, contact people, websites etc.. it will be very appreciated. Time is of the essence. Once Esperon appoints his five military “judges” who knows what will be in store for these soldiers! It will be injustice all over again! Let us help the military housewives whose husbands are incarcerated and the “accused AFP officers”. How can there be a fair trial in a court appointed by an unfair officer?
Parasabayan,
As I had commented to Military Wife in a post of Ms. Ellen,
Because of the group’s sensitive position, I feel that they would all be better off approaching international organizations muna, because they are politically impartial, & can protect themselves more than those based here. As many have come to know, the ENEMY is in the Philippines, this is their home turf, and they have spies ALL OVER. The group can try to go over 2 websites. They may be able to assist them:
http://www.humanrightsfirst.org
http://www.amnesty.org
FYI, from what I understood from Military Wife, she has already approached one of these organizations.
The wives should seek the help of such group of lawyers as Atty. Roque’s or that of CODAL. I know Nicole got a lawyer from GABRIELA. Matatapang ang mga iyan kasi may backer from overseas. Romy Capulong for example is backed up by a lot many international organizations of lawyers. Kaya huwag magyabang ang mga kumag kasi kapag na-exhaust ang lahat ng options diyan sa Pilipinas, pihadong babanat na ang international community.
At least, this blog is helping a lot of us supporters abroad keep abreast with the events back there.
Thank God for the Internet that we can easily link up now with groups in the Philippines in a twinkle of an eye. Hindi ito kayang supilin ng mga kurakot as a matter of fact.
Thank you Chabeli and Ystakei for your input. This website had and still is giving me hope to somehow help these soldiers. They need us more now than they ever did before. I just read in todays papers (Malaya and Tribune) that Esperon is saying that the Court Martial is a welcomed process to clear the accused soldiers. Maybe if we do not know that the prior pre-trial investigation did not find enough evidence for sedition and mutiny charges. Also, the fact that he is hand picking the panel for the court martial as well as the witnesses. Even if he says he is withdrawing from being a witness( I wonder why?), his fingerprints are still all over in the prosecution of the accused soldiers. Isn’t this a clear indication of an abuse of power?, or simply an act for self preservation(eyeing at a juicier post after retirement) or simply an act to please his “queen”?. Justice will definitely not be delivered. Maybe it is time for those who had just been sitting and watching previously,to actively participate in helping our soldiers who had devoted almost all their lives in protecting our country and making sure that our children’s children will have their freedom tomorrow. These soldiers have families too and with the holidays coming, I can imagine the void caused by the absence of their fathers. These soldiers have families. I heard that Col Querubin have younger children aged 14,13,9,8 and 7 respectively. What a blue Chistmas for the family. I wonder how Esperon’s family celebrates this holiday. I wonder if he is even sleeping well at all. I wonder if he even has a soul.Contrary to inculcating discipline to the AFP, he is actually reinforcing dissent amongst the ranks by his actions. He is surely just pleasing himself and his “queen”. He knows that the support of the junior officers are with these incarcerated officers. RESPECT IS EARNED AND NOT FORCED UPON PEOPLE! He will surely be the most hated officer of the AFP along with his “queen”!
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek.He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound.
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn..
To appoint unto them that mourn in ‘Zion’, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called ‘trees of righteousness’, the planting of the Lord that He might be glorified.
And they shall build the old wastes,they shall rise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolation of many generations.
sinira na ni asoperon ang panata ng kawal pilipino:
ako’y nanunumpang magpapakatapat sa watawat ng pilipinas,
at sa republikang kanyang kinakatawan.
isang bansang nasa kalinga ng diyos, buo at di mahahati
at may katarungan at kalayaan para sa lahat.
Ang galing ng tula ni Apoy…kaya lang baka sa dagat-dagatang apoy siya bumagsak.
HAIL! Hitler Gloria Pandaka. She planned to perpetuate herself in power by silencing dissenters of her bogus regime. It’s not a surprise why AFP chief General Esperon wants to persecute patriotic soldiers for their participation of a just cause. Of course, Malacanang spin doctors deny such dubious plan.
Cruz: Arroyo planned on declaring martial law
President Arroyo considered placing the country under martial law in January but the plan was failed to push through after the United States government warned it would not support the declaration, Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz said Tuesday.
“I was able to talk with [former defense] Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and he was explicit to me that the United States is of the position that the Philippines should take the course of democracy and republicanism,” Cruz told ABS-CBN correspondent Ricky Carandang.
Cruz, a former lawyer of the President, filed his irrevocable resignation and will step down from the defense post on Thursday.
Cruz’s statement confirmed information from other ABS-CBN sources that the administration wanted to declare martial law as early as November last year to quell alleged plans of military adventurists to oust Mrs. Arroyo.
The defense chief said: “We cannot talk about [the discussions in the Cabinet] because of the principles of executive privilege.”
He, however, added: “What I can tell is that personally and professionally I am against any form of emergency rule.”
The supposed plan to declare martial law followed a visit to Manila by John Negroponte, US director of national intelligence.
Negroponte’s arrival came as a surprise though both Malacañan and the US embassy in Manila declined to issue statements about the details of the visit.
Former Senate president Franklin Drilon, meanwhile, said he was informed of the plan last December.
“I was informed that there was really a plan to declare martial law on January 15 of this year and therefore I was preparing to take it up in a joint session which the Constitution requires to be held in order to act on a martial law proclamation,” Drilon said.
The senator said he was even prepared to bring the matter before the Supreme Court.
But Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita denied that the President had wanted to declare martial law.
“That has never been a plan of the President. Wala akong nalalaman (I don’t know if such a plan existed),” Ermita said.
He said that Negroponte visited Manila to meet with officials of the US Institute of Peace.
ABS-CBN NEWS 11/28/2006
I’ve said it before, in another loop, that Negroponte was here to send stern warnings about Gloria’s plan to declare martial law. He was being sought by dimwit Romulo in Foggy Bottom who was clueless that Negroponte was already here. He arrived the night after a bomb scare sent the US embassy staff crazy. The same time 2 F-14 jets were seen in the NAIA hangars. That was the night before Garcilliano was going to testify in Congress. Also, the day Mike Arroyo paraded his SEA Games medalists in Ayala Ave. An afterthought, were these athletes supposed to be sacrificial lambs to justify Martial Law that day, in case Garci decided to turn the tables on the Arroyos?
Parang marami kang alam tungkol sa planong martial law ni Pandak. Detalyado ang mga sequence of events. Conclusion: Martial law declaration will save Gloria’s ass and her loyalist military-police generals for their cheating and stealing the 2004 presidential election.
Update on the court martial of 30 officers:
Solcom chief to chair trial of 30 ‘plotters’