From Malaya:
CHR to probe violent Iloilo capitol takeover;‘Cops acted like they were in war zone’
by Reinir Padua
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) yesterday ordered an investigation into the police takeover of the Iloilo provincial capitol Wednesday for possible human rights violations.
CHR chair Purificacion Quisumbing said she issued the order after seeing on TV a “very shocking view” of the incident.
Some 200 members of Western Visayas police command, in full battle gear and carrying high-powered firearms, forcibly entered the capitol Wednesday afternoon to serve a dismissal order on Tupas.
They were seen manhandling some of Tupas’ supporters, including his children, and pointing their firearms at them. TV footage also showed a policeman smashing with a sledge hammer the rear glass panels of the building.
Local reporters said they were also harassed by the policemen who shoved them out of the premises.
The operation took place before the 48-hour deadline set by the interior department for Tupas to vacate his post lapsed. The deadline would have lapsed Thursday.
Tupas on Wednesday obtained a temporary restraining order against the Ombudsman order dismissing him from office for alleged involvement in graft.
Tupas’ son, provincial board member Niel “Jun-Jun” Tupas Jr., said they were kicked, shoved aside and threatened with M16 rifles by the policemen in full battle gear.
Tupas said his lawyers are preparing criminal and civil cases against the PNP and the Department of Interior and Local Government for the assault which hurt dozens of people, including his four children.
“They should pay for it,” he said.
Senators denounced what they called the “brutal” dispersal of Tupas’ supporters.
Sen. Franklin Drilon said the Senate committee on public order and illegal drugs which he chairs, would investigate the “unnecessary raid and excessive use of force” by the PNP.
Quisumbing said there was “unnecessary use of long firearms” by the police that posed threats to the life and security of the persons gathered at the capitol.
Quisumbing said she was “concerned about the behavior of authorities.”
She said government officials must act in accordance with their legal obligation to protect citizens and to make sure that due process is followed and that security of persons is respected.
Conflict area
The CHR investigation can start even without a formal complaint filed by Tupas’ camp. “The CHR has authority to conduct investigations on cases of violations of civil and political rights,” she said.
Quisumbing also said she has instructed CHR regional director Dave Bermudo to conduct an “independent investigation.”
Quisumbing said the police during the incident were “acting like soldiers in a conflict area.”
Tupas, in a radio interview, accused Gonzalez of being behind the order to assault the capitol.
He said Chief Supt. Wilfredo Dulay, Western Visayas regional police head, refused to grant his request for the maintenance of the status while a copy of the TRO, issued by the Court Appeals, was being secured.
“I think he (Dulay) was following the instruction of the acting secretary of justice. It’s the department of injustice … Probably they had a hint a TRO would be issued so they wanted to install an impostor governor So they wanted to push me out of office. Sabi ko, no, it could not be,” he said.
Political persecution
He said his political rivals, including Augusto Syjuco, head of the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority, might also have something to do with it.
“So it is a political persecution, political harassment … Acting Secretary Gonzalez, he wants to be king of this city, not only king of the city but of this province. As long as I am governor of Iloilo he cannot say he is the king of the province,” he said.
Tupas said the policemen not only destroyed glass windows and panels to enter the capitol, but also aimed high-powered firearms at his children and supporters.
Drilon, president of the Liberal Party which to which Tupas belongs, said TV footage showing policemen in full battle gear, armed with high-powered rifles, manhandling unarmed civilians inside the Iloilo capitol building were shown in international TV “giving the impression that the Philippines is under an undeclared state of martial law.”
“The use of excessive force against unarmed civilians, including women, is completely unjustified. This fiasco at the Iloilo capital has given the Arroyo government another black-eye before the international community,” said Drilon, who is in Geneva presiding over a regular meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union Human Rights Committee.
Minority leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. said: “The brutal dispersal by heavily armed police officers of unarmed Ilonggos who were merely protesting the high-handed ouster of Governor Tupas is highly deplorable.”
Abusive use of force
Pimentel said Wednesday’s scenario was reminiscent of “tactics used at Beijing Tiananmen Square and Myanmar against peaceful demonstrators.”
Sen. Ralph Recto said: “The firepower of 200 hundred cops to serve an order of dismissal is an abusive use of force.”
“A man who submitted himself to the public’s verdict in an election involving millions of voters seems more than just a reasonable man. It did not do any good that his family was subjected to such intimidation,” Recto said.
“The action-packed service of the order of dismissal is now a melodrama with the governor gaining public sympathy,” he added.
Recto said “it may be a very thin line that divides reasonable force from excessive force, but cops, and certainly their chiefs, ought to know it.”
Sen. Edgardo Angara said Tupas’ dismissal was a grave abuse of the judicial process for partisan political interests.
He said the siege at the Iloilo capitol and the breaking down of glasses were “lawless (acts) on the part of the law enforcement officers.”
“The process of decimating, liquidating practically the whole elected official of a city like Pasay right in the middle of Metropolitan Manila is to me a barbaric process. It’s a grave abuse of the judicial process,” he said.
Desperate Move
Pasay Mayor Pewee Trinidad was served a dismissal order on Monday, the same day Tupas’ was served
“What’s happening is that they’re trying to eliminate through judicial process, through the abuse of legal process, potential political opponents,” Angara added.
LP leaders condemned the Ombudsman’s order against Tupas, saying it was a desperate move on the part of the Arroyo administration particularly with the coming elections.
Former LP president Florencio “Butch” Abad said Malacañang was trying to eliminate some of its strongest opponents like Tupas, who has the support of his province with no serious contenders for the governorship.
Drilon said several Malacañang “political operators” have been trying to convince Tupas in the past months to abandon him and the LP and join the Arroyo administration. However, the Iloilo governor has remained steadfast with his political convictions, he said.
Drilon said Malacañang was applying “unlawful and shameless political bullying” tactics against Tupas after realizing that the administration-backed Lakas and Kampi political parties could not find a legitimate candidate who can defeat Tupas as Iloilo governor in the coming elections.
Rights Violation
Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay, who flew to Iloilo to show support to his “kumpadre,” said there was clear violation of human rights when police assaulted the provincial capitol.
“I also ask the PNP to review the rules on engagement to prevent a similar incident here in Iloilo…Yung ibang tao dito ay kinulata pa nila,” Binay said.
Binay said that the assault team should have instead waited for the temporary restraining order before they barged in the capitol.
Iloilo Rep. Rolex Suplico, Tupas’ nephew, called for the immediate relief and transfer of the raiding policemen and a subsequent investigation.
“I condemn in the strongest possible terms the manner by which the PNP forcibly overran the Iloilo provincial capitol,” he said.
“I have never seen a blitzkrieg takeover of a government facility as what happened in Iloilo yesterday (Wednesday), not even in the Cory era when officers-in-charge were installed nationwide. It was simply an overkill,” he added.
House minority leader Francis Escudero, secretary general of the United Opposition, said the Ombudsman should explain why “the wheels of justice grind faster for the opposition members than the allies of the administration.”
“I condemn any and all forms of violence inflicted by the state and government on pour people,” he said.
Party-list Rep. Joel Villanueva of the Citizens Battle Against corruption (Cibac) said the administration’s move is a “show of panic.”
“It’s payback time for the administration. It’s a show of panic and an admission that it lacks confidence that their men will make any good showing in the May polls so they want to ensure all posts are covered for them,” he said.
I’m sorry, but…
Interior Secretary Ronaldo V. Puno apologized for what happened during the entry of the policemen into the capitol building.
“We’re sorry if people were hurt… There were some disturbing footages during the operation but it’s normal in clearing operations and that there will always be pushing and shoving,” Puno said.
Puno said there were specific guidelines issued by Dulay to the Regional Mobile Group and other PNP units tasked to carry out the clearing operations at the capitol.
“The PNP will take the necessary action against those who may have violated police operational procedures in carrying out their orders,” he added.
He said the move by Tupas’ men to padlock and barricade the provincial capitol building, along with reports of the presence of firearms inside the capitol and of armed provincial jail guards who were taking orders from the governor, were taken into account when the PNP made the decision to clear the building.
Puno has advised local chief executives to fully comply with the orders issued by competent authorities, such as the Ombudsman, on their suspensions or dismissals instead of defying these directives and resorting to disruptive acts bordering on sedition.
“If you look at the definition of sedition, these are seditious acts. Whenever we see a takeover of local facilities the refusal to heed orders is a clear textbook definition of sedition,” Puno said. – With JP Lopez, Raymond Africa, Wendell Vigilia, Regina Bengco, and Gilbert Bayoran
Related article:
Raul Gonzales: moro-moro. Click here.
Ellen,
This is a declaration of war indeed. Puno has no right isntructing the police to do “clearing up operations” in that over kill fashion.
Where does he think he is, in Baghdad?
And then he apologizes, promising to “punish” the anti-terror police look alikes? If he cannot manage the DILG in war-less fashion, he should resign and allow someone else with his head on his shoulders to do the job.
If he panics that easily, who knows what he might do next.
Damn idiot!
This is one government where members lose their heads so easily, they panic, they say one thing and do another, they have absolutely no notion of government as in TO GOVERN; they don’t have an iota of notion of what right governance is all about. They resort to legalities because they have no notion of what is right from wrong.
From one at the top who believes God has put her as ruler of the Enchanted Kingdom down to the pencil pusher in the AFP…they are pathetic and despicable!
They ought to hang their heads in shame.
Ellen,
What is going on?
Nueva Ecija mayor given until Friday to vacate office according to the Inquirer.
Why are local government officials being ejected from office months before the mid-term elections?
So Gloria can put in place her own band of ballot fixers?
Here’s another one: DILG gives Batangas governor 24-hour reprieve
Geez! If those guys that Puno, who by the way ain’t an elected person, has been ejecting are really bad, why, am all for it provided the ejector aren’t Gloria and Puno.
Isn’t Puno himself the father of all election fixers?
To say that the “‘Cops acted like they were in war zone’” is good description. But, watching it on TV, wow, I was fuming mad. What kept going through my head was, “Oh my God, I think it’s anarchy..the Human rights group would deplore this move !”
Chabeli,
They watch too many TV movies! They are incapable of knowing reality from fiction.
Geez, I wonder where they learn their law? By watching LA Law (is that the title of the a TV sitcom?)
When I said that the AFP leadership are a bunch of apes, I now want to modify that: guys in government, Puno included as well as the PNP and the AFP are a bunch of apes. Good at mimicking, immitating but not really at thinking.
Why Cheetah probably has a higher IQ than most of these guys.
Not only the violation of Human Rights, but also the violation of Constitutional Rights. Everyone is presumed innocent and can not be denied the rights of an innocent person, until convicted by a competent court of charges against him or her. That is a Right. And no law, not even the make-believe power vested on the office of an Obbudsman, whose duties is that of the prosecutor and investigator of complaints, can violate the Spirit and Provision of the Constituttion. This another perversion of the Constitution.
Regardless of the guilt or innocence of these political leaders, the governor of Iloilo (my province) or any other jurisdiction, they are entitled to Due Process, before they can be suspended or dismissed from their elected office, just like the President Herself, who is so scared to face her Impeachment Proceedings and Trial. Chicken…
To my mind, the passion & devotion the people in the provinces have towards their leaders are stronger than those in Metro Manila. If it means that they will die for their leader, they will. And should the worse happen-God forbid-what would the, if I may borrow the words of Anna de Brux, “Damn Idiot” say ? As of late, the “Damn Idiot” Puno says what they did was correct in Iloilo.
GLORIA is now being boxed in because it is pay-back time. For all the times that the IDIOTS stood by her during the “Hello..Garci” scandal, to the Fertilizer Scam, to the ditching of the 2 Impeachments-to name a few-now, GLORIA HAS to pay back. Look at what is happening in Pampangga-its the Lapids versus the Pinedas. What I hear is that GLORIA would prefer to support the Lapids.
Unless GLORIA can pull out a rabbit from her magic hat, she’s in trouble. Pay-back time in politics in sccarry ! & she knows it all too well.
can anyone tell me where these videos can be seen? it would to wonders if the world saw how this is happening. youtube anyone?
Anna de Brux,
That’s a good one ! Ha ha hah.
“Why Cheetah probably has a higher IQ than most of these guys.”
Anna,
You said it. These crooks in the AFP have been watching too many TV programs and even movies. Even the burlesque show during the ISAF Christmas party was copied from a scene in the movie, “The Good Shepherd” where Matt Damon was doing a drag queen act.
Even the way the Pimp rose to power must have been copied from some Hitler movie clips!!! Walang originality! Nanggagaya pa, palpak pa! Puro yabang lang! Pwe!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Shade of the revolution in the last 19th century! Iloilo, in fact, was one of the first provinces that produced brilliant leaders of the revolution.
Remember Graciano Lopez-Jaena of Jaro, Iloilo? About time that someone of his calibre should lead the revolution against the Great Switik there. People of Iloilo, arise!
Mayors of cities and towns not willing to be under the dictate of the Great Switik should now bond together and demand for the removal of this creep and her lackeys before she succeeds in replacing those who oppose her with all her puppies especially in the military that has now control of the police that should not have been the case.
I wonder why the lawmakers who framed the Constitution of 1987 and revised the laws of the land after 1986 failed to see this happening. It’s disgusting!
Chief Supt. Wilfredo Dulay Sr. is trying to fool the people with fake intelligence report of NPA partisans had infiltrated Governor Tupas’ civilian supporters. There’s no valid reason for excessive use of force and arrogant display of fire power to disperse unarmed civilians. When there’s no rule of law, there is the rule of force-the bully Malacanang way. Gloria Arroyo and Acting DILG chief Ronaldo Puno are held responsible for Gestapo-like assault. Iloilo Governor Tupas has a true mandate of the people while usurper Gloria Arroyo has a fake mandate.
Dieg said, “There’s no valid reason for excessive use of force and arrogant display of fire power to disperse unarmed civilians. ”
TOTALLY AGREE! Those guys watch too many TV films.
And if as you say, “Iloilo Governor Tupas has a true mandate of the people while usurper Gloria Arroyo has a fake mandate.”
Puno(ng katangahan) HAS NO elective mandate and should pipe down as in pipe down, to zip it and zap his goddamn brain!
Chief Supt. Wilfredo Dulay Sr. bragged that he is one of the authors in PNP’s rules of engagement kuno. Did they really follow the rule in engagement by the book? Akala siguro ang mga pulis na panis S.W.A.T. sila ay si Rambo.
Non-elected people ejecting elected people! What the hell is this?!
Gonzales, Puno, Ermita, Bunye, Defensor and the whole bunch should in fact not be called Secretaries. They’re merely “temporary acting aides”. And I think they should be called that..Malacanang Aides.
Remember last year during the impeachments and Cha-Cha? These mere “aides” had the gall to insult and call elected Senators names and arrogantly sneering at these nationally elected officials as if they were the elected ones.
Diego,
Ganoon ba? Rules of engagement daw siya ang sumulat, kaya pala mali. Pati ba naman ang rules of engagement, kokopyahin na lang mali pa. Siguro dahil kopya sa TV.
Hehe!
Aye, aye Phil!
Nowhere in the democratic world can you see non-elected officials lording over the people elected by sovereign will!
‘Gonzales, Puno, Ermita, Bunye, Defensor and the whole bunch’ should be fed to the paper shredder in Malacanang and the earlier the better so there would be no prints left.
Dumb jerks!
Does anybody know whether the CHR has authority to have one of those dumb jerks jailed, particularly the one who styles himself DILG chief (chief ng mga fixers, yeah!)
It’s a war of the Ilonggos. Malalambing ang mga Ilonggo kahit galit. That should serve as a warning to all. Isa lang ang alam kong Ilonggo na suplado, si Raul Gonzalez.
You might be surprised to know that Manila Mayor Lito Atienza has condemned the way Malacanang’s men enforced the suspension order on certain officials like Gov. Tupas. Sa tinagal-tagal, ngayon lang naging critical si Atienza sa Malacanang. Of course if you critize Malacanang, you also criticize Arroyo. Why is Atienza doing this now? Political fever is brewing. Baka may ibang manok ang Malacanang sa Manila na hindi nagustuhan ni Atienza. O baka naman naaamoy na niya ang pagbagsak ni Arroyo. In fairness to Atienza, he stayed with President Erap until his last day in Malacanang. Medyo may kaunting loyalty din ang taong ito.
It’s an election season. Mayor Lito Atienza is just playing politics. He even supported the immediate release of jailed President Erap. What else is new?
Ka Diego, hindi lang po si Atienza ang nag-react ng ganoon pati na si Quezon City Mayor Sonny Belmonte na kaalyado din ni Arroyo. Ang palusot naman ng PNP sa Iloilo, they said they were forced to use force because of reported presence of NPAs inside the Capitol building. Panginoon ko po, NPA na naman ang ginamit na dahilan.
The dogs of DILG are barking up the wrong tree. They should be unleashed to malacanang instead where the occupant has commited more crimes than the elected officials of Iloilo. In no other country would a bogus president be allowed to be running around free, much less to loot the government. Where are the sons of Bonifacio, Silang, and Dagohoy??
Wala na bang alam kundi “I am sorry” si bansot at mga tao niya tuwing mabulilyaso?! It’s already overused by these “hinayupaks”. Bansot and minions have turned “I am sorry” to an empty, meaningless, worthless and ridiculous expression.
Iyang si Atienza at Belmonte kung talagang ayaw nila ang ginawa kay Tupaz ay lumayas sila sa poder ng bogus nilang pangulo. Unless they do this, lahat ng kanilang salita ay walang katuturan!!! Bwisit!
Rules of engagement, my ass. The police should not be under the dictate of the president especially one who is fake. They should be the keeper of peace and order, not the cause of this kind of chaos and anarchy!
This is what happens when the police is functioning more as MPs than enforcers of peace and order. They should have an independent police commission there that will not be under the mercy of a criminal posing as president. Tonguena, magkano kaya ang ibinayad kay Dulay?
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Kabayang Chi, I think that’s the proper way to do. Kung ayaw na kay Arroyo, di umalis sila. Pero alam mo ba kung ano ang madalas na gamiting dahilan sa mga alanganin ang position? They would claim they would prefer to act as fiscalizers. Mananatili sila sa grupo pero hindi magdadalawang isip na bumatikos kung kailangan. Did we hear this from Senators Santiago and Enrile too? Hindi saw sila pro or anti. They call themselves as “independent”.
They are oppotunists. In this time of chaos, politicians we voted into office have no right to be gray. They should serve the people who pay their huge salaries. Kaya kailangan ay tingnan munang mabuti ng mga botante ang mga kandidato. Otherwise, pinas is stuck forever with these opportunists.
Rule of engagement? Siyempre kung engagement ng dalawang magsyota, dapat may mga patakaran sa engagement. Halimbawa pupunta sa tahanan ng babae ang pamilya ng lalaki.
Ellen: I posted this in the wrong thread, sorry.
Iloilo:
The administration has lost control, this raiding team with high powered arms, nobody seems very sure who they are, but because of this fake evil woman tramplimg all over the rule of law and the Constitution, these guys are copy-cats following her lead. Does she consider this to be her private army.
What unfolded in Iloilo on our television screens was a copy-cat of a ‘B’ rated Action Movie. They’re training consist of watching too many Action Movies. No other civilized country over reacts in this way, who are they really, can anybody name these men.
Maybe they are the same hooded men on motorcycles shooting and killing innocent people tagged as destibilisers by this administration. Someone must be able to name the men in this team of thugs. Its important we know who they are.
This evil woman has lost the will from the people, the respect from the people & International leaders of any standing. She is doomed and knows it, but is prepared to fight dirty, using the peoples money, because she belongs in the gutter. What a legacy this evel woman has to leave her country. God help us all.
The result of this raiding team is similar to the party game, pass the parcel. When Puno DILG is asked who’s responsible he says they’re acting under instructions of the Ombudsman. Hello! its a police function therefore the buck stops with DILG and that you Mr Puno.
But the question I ask, where they PNP? they were acting like a second rate military from what I saw on television. Who was at the scene directing this event, do we know who that was his name& rank, if not why not.
anna:
If these apes at the zoo, (real animal apes) knew you were comparing them with the brain power of these gloria goons, my guess is the apes in the zoo would be really pissed off Laffin
“Tupas and Board Members Oso and Cecilia Capadosa were ordered dismissed by Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez in connection with the governor’s financial assistance to a board members’ convention in the absence of an appropriation.”
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=63650
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Whoa! If this was the only “sin” committed by Tupaz et al, it should not warrant 200 force to bodily take them out of the municipal hall.
The woman Pidal in Malacanang wasn’t even elected, so she’s not entitled to any appropriation. Acting Ombudsman Maldita G should run fast after her, not those local officials voted by the people whose sins are negligible compare to the excesses of the bansot!
Tupaz et al deserve a punishment if they committed any wrongdoing, but this action of the powers that be was overkill. Overtrained by the US, heheh!
chi:
You got it, over-trained by US is the answer. Looking back I can see the similarity in the training of a team to raid a terrorist hideout and not a municipal hall.
But as quick as a flash the AFP leadership place the NPA inside the municipal hall as a Standard Procedure excuse. What a bunch of apes (sorry zoo apes I know your IQ is higher than these goons) just an expression. Laffin
Last time I saw Sir Raul O. Gonzales on TV, he was mumbling something about Tupas not getting his lollipop. I heard him say, though, that he DID NOT ORDER THE COPS to point their guns at people. Does that mean that he DID ORDER the cops to raid the capitol?
He added that Tupas has armed supporters from the NPA and that they are taken to the capitol at night by truckloads! He said he also instructed Dulay to conduct checkpoints en route to Iloilo. This old fart has again used red-scare tactics against his opponents in Iloilo and those of his queen in all islands of the country. Did I get it right he is now ordering policemen around?
It was also his stupid opinion that is now used by the ombudsbitch and DILG’s Puno for this mad rush to dismiss or suspend admin-unfriendly candidates for the elections. Trinidad is hands-down sure winner in Pasay, ditto for his councilors. The ombudsbitch, like Vic said, is wielding its make-believe power to thwart any possibility of total wipeout in any LGU as may happen in Pasay or Iloilo polls. They wiped out the whole opposition slate in Pasay, even disqualifying them from future elections. What is there that is more brazen?
Never mind the law that prevents suspension during the election period. Gonzales says it doesn’t apply to graft cases, that is the law. He is the law.
Never mind that the ombudsbitch has judged the cases without filing them in court, she has even passed the sentence of disqualification. Gonzales says the law is silent on this. That is the law. He is the law.
Namfootah, paanong hindi masisira ang ulo nitong si Tanda, e ang laging hinahanap yung loopholes, yung hindi specified, yung inexistent. Sa madaling salita, naghahanap ng wala.
Kundi ba naman imbisil!
TT, talagang nakakagigil yang si siRaulo gonzales, kita mo naman ang katusuhan, he’s quick to twist what happened saying it was a “moro-moro” lang on the part of the Iloilo governor and the regional/provincial director of the PNP. Kita mo ang kawalanghiyaan ng hayop na matandang iyan, kasalanan pa ngayon ng mga biktima ang pangyayari dahil palabas lang pala nila iyon? Ang sarap palakulin ang ulo nitong si siRaulo gonzales at ng makita kung anong klase ang utak na meron siya, masyadong demonyo ang pag-iisip.
TongueTwisted
At ito pa ang maganda kung nabasa ang huling statement ni Sir Raul G. Magkaibigan daw si Gov. Tupas at si Chief Supt. Dulay kaya moro-moro lang ang nangyari sa kapitolyo.
Sir Raul o, nagpapatawa.
The Philippine Star quote:
Sen. Ralph Recto also condemned the attack on the Iloilo provincial capitol, where police commandos smashed the glass doors to gain entry into the barricaded building.
“The firepower of 200 cops to serve an order of dismissal is an abusive use of force,” he said. Recto said there is a “very thin line” that divides reasonable force from excessive force. (COORECT)
“We need to warn police officers against use of excessive force,” he said. (WRONG they should be charged with a criminal offense) a warning is not justified in this case, its a weak kneed reaction.
“A cop may have the right to use force as is reasonably necessary in the performance of his duties, but his right is limited by a citizen’s right, and that includes Governor Tupas, to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.”
Despite these criticisms, Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno lauded Thursday the police commandos who assaulted the Iloilo provincial capitol on Wednesday.
“All the members of that group deserve commendation,” he said. (WRONG and you know it, if you don’t know it then you should resign)
This government will never ever admit they are wrong, they will take it to the wire and beyond. Why because the Filipino people allow them to, thats why. Its time to stand up and be counted, as often said, things will become worse and thats whats happening, its becoming worse. This evil woman won’t stop until the people stand-up and make her stop.
Ang nangyari sa Iloilo ay dagdag na naman sa napakahaba nang listahan ng kasalanan ng abusadang babae na kapit-tuko sa Malakanyang. Dahil sa napakalaki niyang pagkakasala, iyon ang pag-agaw sa kapangyarihan ng presidensya, at pandaraya sa taumbayan upang mapanatili ang sarili niya sa puwesto, lahat ng hakbang na ginagawa niya upang patuloy na ikapit ang sarili niya sa nasabing kapangyarihan ay nagreresulta lamang ng patuloy na pag-gawa niya ng mas marami pang kasalanan sa taumbayan at sa Inang Bayan. Si gloria ay uukit na ng kanyang kasuklam-suklam na parte sa ating pambansang kasaysayan na pag-aaralan ng ating mga susunod na henerasyon. Her infamy would surely eclipse the late Ferdinand Marcos’ part in history. At iyon ay nagawa ni Makoy sa loob ng humigit kumulang na dalawang dekada ng pananatili sa puwesto, kumpara sa anim na taon pa lamang sa puwesto ng aleng may bangaw sa mukha, may boses na napakasakit sa tenga, may gilagid na maitim na kitang-kita sa kaniyang pagsasalita, at ubod yabang na pagtayo. Yan si gloria, makapal ang mukha, at dorobo.
Walang kupas si Gobernador Tupas kung sa tapang ang pag-uusapan. Eto naman si Gen. Dulay hanggang Tulay lang ang kayang daanan.
Pero salamat din sa ginawa ni gloria, ngayon ay mas magiging matalino na ang mamamayang botante, dahil nakita na nila na ang isang tulad pala ni gloria macapagal arroyo, na nuong unang lumitaw sa larangan ng pambansang pulitika ay maikokosiderang isang matino, elegante, at kyut na Pinay. Na para bagang ni hindi kayang pumitik ng langaw o lamok. Siya ay larawan ng fragility, malumanay magsalita, mapagkumbaba sa mga tao. Pero tulad na ng nasabi ko, siya pala ay isang Gremlin na ipinakita sa pelikula ni Steven Spielberg, cute and cuddly, but ones it was fed late in the evening, they turned into hellish monsters. At iyan ang ibinibigay ngayon ni gloria sa Pilipinas, impyerno. At siya ay larawan na ng kasuklam-suklam na babaeng arogante, mataray, mapang-abuso, at walang pagsisisi sa kaniyang mga pagkakamali.
The Philippine Star:
The Senate will investigate whether police commandos used excessive force when they stormed the Iloilo provincial capitol on Wednesday to drive out Gov. Niel Tupas, who had been dismissed on orders of the Office of the Ombudsman.
In a statement, Sen. Franklin Drilon said television footage showed heavily armed police commandos in combat gear manhandling unarmed civilians inside the capitol.
Ellen: I wouldn’t be surprised that this team of 200 men have been trained for the purpose of showing force simply because the AFP cannot be completely relied upon by this administration, but it would take more than a team of 200 to control a very large hostile crowd.
This is the reason this evil woman sets up road blocks to stop crowds coming into Manila. She is sooo.. afraid of large numbers of people because she knows its hard to control them, certainly not with only 200 men. Why not rely on her AFP, simply put she can’t be sure how many are loyal to her. But sooner than later, it will happen as sure as night follows day, they will turn against her.
Ang kaya lang nilang galawin ang mga taga-opposition. Doesn’t Gov. Chavit Singson have tons of pending cases? Not even one case prospered. Imagine this scenario: Nagpadala ng PNP ng mga Police para paalisin si Singson sa Kapitolyo. Guess what would happen? Mas marami ba ang private army ni Singson at matataas na uri ng armas. I have not seen one official closely allied with Arroyo who has been suspended and treated the way Tupas was treated.
The senate should investigate if the executory, arbitrary power granted the ombudsman is Constitutional instead. The force used was not only Excessive, but not supposed to happen in a country who pride herself to be Democratic under the Constitution. That was in itself is a violation of the rights of the Citizen to be presumed innocent and not be subjected to Arbitrary Arrest or Detention or Punishment without Due Process. The country is not under the Declared Emergency or War, and no Civilian Authority without the Legal Order of the Competent Court can Carry the attack on its own Institution, unless otherwise we now become a Banana or worse a Lawless Republic…
This is a wrong move of the governance of the Arroyo regime.They are digging there own grave deeper and deeper. Suspending and evicting elected public officials in their office by force is a very good news for the opposition. The Arroyo are sowering sympathy to the people instead of fear and she’s creating a lot of nemesis.That’s a pogi point for the opposition this coming election.
What rule of engagement? The Great Switik cannot even follow simple rules like not entertaining overstaying Filipinos in countries they are being shamelessly sent to steal jobs from the natives!!! There is only one way to describe the Great Switik and her lackeys, BASTOS!!!
PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
this is a leadership less than that of a stone age’s. one can not imagine how the foolish police acted and treated those people inside the provincial capitol that way when they were not even armed. pointing their high powered firearms to unarmed civilians while shoving them was an indication and proof that they were instructed to use the full extent of force to scare away the supporters of gov tupaz and everyone inside the capitol.
it was a clear act of harassment and unlawful display of force and the filing of criminal charges made by gov tupaz and his family was fully supported and justified by evidence(s).
another kapalpakan of the pansamantalang permanenteng prangulo (praning na pangulo) ng republika makapal-dorobo.
This last attempt to eliminate local officials in the opposition prior to the May 2007 elections will definitely give pogi points to the opposition. Tiyanak thinks everything is under her control. The Iloilo incident shows otherwise. SHE IS LOSING GRIP! Look at the other suspended officials, some of them have gotten TROs. Belat Tiyanak (with my toungue out pa!)!. The people in all places are waking up. Thank God, there are video tapes now. Everything was recorded in the Iloilo incident. This show of arrogance will forever be etched in peoples’ minds. Come election time, if cheating will not be resorted to, the judgement will be harsh!
To make it appear that this administration is unbiased in the suspension of local officials, some admnistration allies were also suspended. Ganyan ang mga serial killers, they sometimes break the pattern of their killing so the authorities will be thrown off. But in the end they get caught anyway.
Update:CHR rejects joint probe with DILG on Iloilo assault
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on Friday rejected the proposal of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) to conduct a joint probe into the police assault on the Iloilo provincial capitol earlier this week.
CHR Chairwoman Purificacion Quisumbing told ANC’s Dateline Phils. that the commission would be in a better position to determine if there had been human rights violations during the assault if it conducted its own independent investigation.
“We define our independent investigation as one where we ourselves have to examine the facts and the circumstances,” she said.
Click here.
Ay salamat naman at tinanggihan ni Chair Q si Puno. Mabuhay ka Mrs. Quisumbing!
Puno’s mission was actually to mess up the investigation and turn the blame on Tupas, if he can. Tapos, heto naman ang isa pang amoy-bangkay na SiRaulo at nagwawala at si Tupas pa ang idedemanda.
Hah! Point of no return na itong administration ng acting permanent pangulo. They are burning, not just feeling the heat of doom!
WWLN,
Yeah, with what I saw on TV, these overtrained special goons of PNP have lowest IQ among the primates.
We all know that the PNP is civilian in nature, it being under DILG. For all intent and purposes, it’s GMA who’s responsible for creating a war zone at the provincial capitol of Iloilo.
Please read a portion of the column by Cito Beltran at Philippine Star.
Watching the conduct of the Special Action Force or SAF of the police in Iloilo, it is clear that the PNP has forgotten that the police is a CIVILIAN organization.
It is clear that the SAF contradicts and opens to abuse, the civilian character of the PNP. Automatic rifles, combat uniforms, and a very combative and violent state of mind that comes with their training has no place within a civilian force. The indoctrination and training of these forces are reminiscent of Hitler’s Nazi Germany!
According to Ermita, their senatorial ticket, from a low of 8-4, may even score a 12-0 in the coming elections. The dream team is really dreaming!
This is a what Fel Maragay wrote in part at the Manila Standard Today:
Given the administration’s gains in stabilizing the economy and the peace and order situation, Malacañang is targeting to capture at least eight of the 12 senatorial seats at stake in the May election.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said this election objective is achievable considering that all that the opposition is peddling to the electorate is rhetoric against the concrete gains of the administration.
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Noon kauupo pa lang ni Cory Aquino ganoon din ang ginawa sa mga elected officials. After the 1986 Edsa Revolt, Cory kicked out those local officials mostly those identified with Marcos and replaced them with OIC or acting. Diyan nagsimula ang magandang political career tulad nina Mayor Binay. Pero noon hindi ganoon naman ka-brutal ang ginawa ni Cory. Kahit na mga kaaway ni Marcos ngayon sinasabing hindi ginawa ito ni Marcos noong Martial Law. Palibhasa kasi isa ding abogado si Marcos and he knew what the rule of law meant. But,I’m now fan of this dictator. Naging biktima din ang mga kaanak ko na napilitan umalis ng bansa who are mostly residing now in the US, Canada and UK. I’m just comparing between now and then.
Excuse me, I mean “I’m no fan of Marcos”. Nagkamali ako sa pagsulat ng no at ginawang now. Baka isipin niyong fan ako ng diktador na iyan. Sa tutoo niyan, namatay ang uncle ko sa matinding sama ng loob. It had something to do with business. Ang sumalbahe sa kanya si Benedicto.
From Rep. Roilo Golez (who is an Ilonggo):
I join the bipartisan resolution to investigate the PNP assault on the Iloilo provincial capitol. There’s a need to re-orient, re-indoctrinate and, if deemed necessary, remove PNO personnel who don’t understand the meaning of restraint and maximum tolerance and behave instead like gestapo strom troopers.
Those graphic TV images of the Iloilo provincial capitol raid made the police assault team look like a herd of rampaging bulls in a China shop, breaking, glasses and cups in their way.
They have hurt the good image of the PNP whose motto is to SERVE & PROTECT.
Ellen, That is an excellent statement from Rep Roy Gloez!
I agree with him. And coming from him, the band of terrorist like police who trooped to the Iloilo provincial capitol can only say Aye, Aye, Sir.
Golez was a good military officer and a distinguished graduate of Annapolis. I might not like his political stand all the time but he ain’t a bad military officer.
As they say in Leeds, “He certainly can learn ’em!”
Joeseg,
I read Ermita’s marching orders in The Tribune!
How pathetic! He now believes he’s Hermann Goering, eh?
Poor Ed! What happened to him? Has Bengzon so perverted him that the poor fellow no longer knows when to stop digging holes for himself? Gosh, what a waste!
Update: Metro Manila mayors join condemnation of Iloilo violent attempt to takeover capitol. click here.Do they fear for themselves?
RE: “Do they fear for themselves?”
Looks like it. They’ve allowed Gloria to mess up with the law that they fear Gloria might turn around and hit them too.
Kapag nagkagulo ng tuluyan sa Iloilo, ang labanan ay Ilong sa Ilong, kung sino ang may pinakamatangos ang ilong panalo.
GMA’s mother-in-law is planning on running for a political post so Tupas have to go.
Is that so? Kaya pati sa Pampanga nilalaglag nila ang mga Lapid to accommodate the Pinedas. I think it’s betrayal time. Expect worse things to come.
darn this alzheimer’s ….
it’s either GMA’s Mother-In-Law or Sister-In-Law
maskin sino pa ina … madugangan na naman ang mga Ilonggo nga kahuluya
mandirigma, sabi mo betrayal time? Kabayan, hindi yan nakakapagtaka sa asal ni gloria. Kita naman natin, si el tabako na siyang pasimuno sa pagluluklok sa aleng may maitim na gilagid na ito, tinaraidor niya sampu ng mga NGOs at civil societies na ginamit niya nuong Enero 2001, ito pa kayang si Mark Lapid na anak lang naman ni Ben Tumbling/Leon Guererro? Isa pa, sina Bong Pineda ay taga Lubao, Pampanga, mekeni todits talaga para kay gloria…hehehe.
Tumpak Ka Spartan. I notice that most if not all what you said were similar to mine. Ganyan din ang analysis ko. Ewan ko lang kung tuloy ang pagtakbo ni Lito Lapid sa Makati. Maraming pagbabago ngayon at sa mga darating pang araw.
joeseg says: “Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said this election objective is achievable considering that all that the opposition is peddling to the electorate is rhetoric against the concrete gains of the administration.”
naman! naman! concrete gains? baka naman sila ay concrete faced? ‘langya talaga ‘tong ermita na ito. mas mabuti pa ang bagoong balayan, mas masarap ang lasa, pero siya (ermita) amoy imburnal na’y sobra pa ang pakal! nakakahiyang batanggenyo! kakulay nina perez at mendoza.
bayonic,
naintindihan ko yung sinabi mo. mas lalong magiging kahiya-hiya ang mga ilonggo kung iboboto nila itong kesehodang ina o kapatid ng kung sinumang demonyo. dapat lang na suportahan ng buong iloilo si gov. tupas. babaha din ng pera diyan sa iloilo mula sa sindikato ni arroyo gaya ng ginawa nila para manalo si iggy sa bacolod, yung mga hindi makuha sa salapi, dinaan sa takot lalo pa’t nakipagsabwatan sila sa mga landlord at mga warlord.
Alam nyo mga igan, sana magkakaroon ng magandang resulta ung imbestigasyon ng CHR sa ILOILO. Ako kasi nababahala na talaga sa mga ipinapakitang karahasan ng militar sa atin.Alam ko nakikita nyo sa TV kung gaano sila kadami, kabagsik at full battle gear pa akala mo giyera na ung susuungin komo ba si TUPAS ay belong to the oposisyon ganon na lang sila umasta? Tanong ko, papano na kaya ung maliliit na tao at walang kakayahang ipaglaban ang kanilang sarili?
Sasang-ayon na lang ba tayo sa ginagawa nila? In broad daylight ay nagawa nila ang gusto nila paano tayo na isang tahimik na mamamayan lang. Wala na talaga akong tiwal sa mga militar natin. Mga abusado at mapgsamantala sila. At eto namang si PUNO ay puno ng kasinungalingan sa pagdedepensa ng mga tauhan niya. This administration is run by paranoid people.
Bayonic, it’s sister-in-law, the sister of Mike Arroyo, who is rumored to run in Iloilo. I think the name is Marilou. If I’m not mistaken, she was the former wife of RJ Jacinto.
RJ Jacinto used to be the Flagship Projects secretary in Erap’s govt.
Seriously, he had no notion of how to run the department!
Ka Ellen, the hand behind all the chaos in Iloilo is no other than this Raul Gonzalez. RJ? He’s a 100% Corysta. I don’t think he was close to President Erap. Ang alam ko buddy-buddy siya ni Chavit Singson. Uso ngayon ang buddy-buddy system. Tulungan sa kalokohan at pag-atake ng kapwa.
Constrution Time Again – Depeche Mode(Fast Fashion) DEMOCRACY
Noong 1989, may hawak na MASO ang mga Berliner para gibain ang Berlin Wall.
Ngayon naman Enero disi-syete,2007 – iba na ang may hawak ng maso , mga masokista , at gustong gibain ang mga salamin ng kapitolyo ng Iloilo.
Kitang kita sa video footages, kulang sa training ang mga masokista , naka-apat na pagbayo pa , bago nabasag ang mga salamin!
KALUHUYA!
Reagan’s message to Gorbachev June 12,1987: “TEAR DOWN THIS WALL”
CIA’s message to Egon Krenz: “Are you listening”
What does Norman Black and Kobe Bryant jersey stands for? Is it CBB’s Shilpa Shetty or Akiko Morigami?
wake up Guiakcapanilo!!!
Channel 4 chief executive Andy Duncan:
“The debate has been heated, the viewing has at times been uncomfortable but, in my view, it is unquestionably a good thing that the programme has raised these issues and provoked such a debate.
“These attitudes, however distasteful, do persist – we need to confront that truth.
“We have reached the view that we cannot with certainty say that the comments directed at Shilpa have been racially motivated or whether they stem from broader cultural and social differences.”