Nagsampa na naman ng panibagong kaso si Mike Arroyo sa Inquirer.
Ito ay kaugnay sa artikulong “Mike A didn’t go to Marawi? Tell that to the Marines” na sinulat ni Fe Zamora noong March 2, 2006.
Kaya pang-46th na si Fe Zamora sa listahan ng mga journalists na sinampahan ni Arroyo ng kasong libel. Ang ibang mga kasama niya ay dati ng nasampahan ni Arroyo ng libel suit tungkol naman sa sinulat ni Ramon Tulfo tungkol sa smuggling ng isang babae na malapit raw sa nakatira sa Malacañang.
Maganda ang timing ng pagsampa ni Arroyo ng kaso dahil ang artikulo ni Fe ay tungkol sa paggamit ng marines sa pandaraya sa election noong 2004. Maganda kasi habang pinipilit ni Arroyo patayan ang issue ng “Hello Garci”, lalong nabubuhay..
Nagtestify kasi si Brig. Gen. Francisco Gudani na pumunta si Arroyo sa Marawi noong panahon ng election 2004 na may dalang P500 million na nakalagay sa mga bag. Siyempre deny to death si Arroyo noon. Gawa- gawa lang yun, sabi pa niya.
Sinulat ni Fe ang mga reaction ng mga sundalo sa denial ni Arroyo. Namumura raw ang mga sundalo kapag makita si Arroyo sa TV. Gusto nga raw nila batuhin ang TV.
Marami rin akong nakausap na mga opisyal sa military at ang kanilang kwento ay tugma sa sinulat ni Fe. Ang mga hindi pumayag gamitin sa pandaraya ay nakakulong ngayon.
Ang mga pumayag naman, ayan ngayon sila ang mga namamayagpag sa military. Unang-una na si AFP Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon. Siyempre na premyuhan din si Gen. Gabriel Habacon na pinintasan ni Comelec Commissioner na hindi maayos gumawa ng pagpalit ng mga boto sa Certificate of Canvass.
Itong kwento ay alam sa mataas na opisyal ng military. Mayroon isang mataas na opisyal siyang namigay ng pera na galing sa mga bag na dala raw ng isang matabang mama na nakasakay sa helicopter noong bilangan ng boto noong 2004 elections. Inamigay raw niya ang pera sa mga sundalong kasama sa operation pandaraya.
Nagkaroon ng okasyun sa Malacañang noong isang taon na dinaluhan ng mga matataas na opisyal ng AFP. Dahil alam nila na binibiyayaan ang mga sumali sa pandaraya, nang lumapit ang opisyal kay Gloria Arroyo, nagpakilala siyag, “Ma’am isa po ako sa nagtrabaho sa ‘Hello Garci.’.
Shocked daw ang mga ibang opsiyal na nakarinig. Deadma lang daw si Arroyo.
Ngunit na-promote nga ang opisyal.
The AFP is being used by Gloria and her fatso husband Arroyo and qualify as state-sponsored terrorists.
Ellen:
I understand that IpDye is also now responsible for the lutong makaw election being cooked up in the Mt. Province and the Angara and Enrile bailiwicks. Local government officials are said to being promised to receive big sums of money for their cooperation. That is also why Angara sounds confident he will win! Heaven forbid!
I have already mentioned about the projects being reportedly sold by this bayawak! Golly, parang katulad noong kakilala ko sa SFO na palaging nasa korte kasi mabunggo lang sa braso, nagdedemanda na! Doon kasi nagkakakuwarta kung manalo ang kaso. Iyan ang gustong mangyari pihado ni IpDye! Kumita sa mga libel suits niya kasi ang laki ng hinihingi niya as if honor and dignity can be bought with money, and that if the people he sued will pay, malinis na naman siya!
PATALSIKIN NA,NOW NA! IBASURA ANG ADMINISTRASYON! IBOTO ANG OPOSISYON! 11-1 LANG PLEASE!
What Gloria & Mike are creating is a military made up of Dogs & not Men !
The recent comments of Prof. “Philip Alston, an Australian law professor and UN special rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions” regarding the AFP being “behind ‘many’ killings” (as reported in Malaya (02/22/2007) by Reinir Padua), is yet another fact how Gloria & these Military Dogs, who according to Prof. Alston are in a “..state of almost total denial”, have destroyed an institution that is suppose to protect the people & uphold the Constitution.
Right on Chabeli!
And when the AFP becomes no less than state-sponsored bodyguards to keep her bansothood perched on a Malacanang high chair, Pinas will be no more no less the Zimbabwe of Asia!
The Arroyo government is just doing a lip service to stop political killings. The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) has a constitutional mandate as protector of the people not annihilator of the Filipino people. The military top honchos are untouchables. Military support is the key factor for the political survival of discredited Gloria Arroyo regime. Defense chief Hermogenes Ebdane and AFP chief of staff General Esperon are involved in massive electoral fraud in 2004 presidential election and its subsequent cover-up operations.
The next time Fatsu file a libel suit are all Ellen blogers.
We are too powerful and universal.We are all gathered in one.
When a scandal hits Gloria, I notice her style is minimum compliance, para good faith saw sya.
It took an international body to confront Gloria & her Military Dogs to shove the truth into their faces. Of course their reactions were negative toward Prof. Philip Alston, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. Listening to the comments of siRAULo Gonzalez saying that the Professor took the side of the Leftists, made me want to throw up on the old man’s face !
Gloria & her Military Dogs, including her Lapdogs, have extreme difficulty handling the TRUTH. Well, it’s just too bad for them ! They had enough time to come out w/ the truth & level w/ the people. But they chose not to. Surprisingly, it was Gloria who invited the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions. W/ the negative reaction from Malacañan on the Professor, may lead one to believe that Gloria’s gesture was all political !
Instead what Gloria & her Military Dogs & Lapdogs got was the truth shoved into each of their faces. They are now in a situation where they must bear w/ the truth until they are blue on their faces, & suffer the consequences of international isolation & sanctions. Whether they like the food on the table is NOT AN OPTION.
Taken from inquirer.net (02/22/2007):
“Arroyo: ‘Choice in May between builders and breakers’”
She got that right, this time ! Gloria is most certainly the breaker !
Ellen,
Re: Shocked daw ang mga ibang opsiyal na nakarinig. Deadma lang daw si Arroyo.
Ngunit na-promote nga ang opisyal.
Question: Who might that opisyal be?
Yikes, bastusan and babuyan na talaga, eh?
Itong si Gloria is the mother of all baboys ‘xcept for her hubby who is the baboy of all baboys.
DEEP THOUGHTS……..learn from the pst
Philippine press freedom under threat
HISTORY REDUX: The administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has been introducing curbs on freedom of speech that have some parallels with the Marcos era
NY TIMES NEWS SERVICE, MANILA
Tuesday, Apr 04, 2006, Page 5
The Philippine news media, among the most exuberant and freewheeling in Asia, is coming under serious government pressure for the first time since the rule of Ferdinand Marcos more than 20 years ago.
Along with hints that the government may restrict public assembly, the campaign against the press strikes at the heart of the freedoms won in 1986 when Marcos was driven from the presidency by a popular uprising.
The pressure involves warnings, watch lists, surveillance, court cases, harassment lawsuits and threats of arrest on charges of sedition. No members of the press have been arrested, although three journalists have been charged with rebellion. No news outlets have been shut down, although troops surrounded several television stations for more than a week recently.
Journalists say the situation is particularly unnerving because of the uncertainty of what is happening or may happen to them.
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/04/04/2003300871
DEEP THOUGHTS……learn from the past
Despite enjoying one of the freest presses in Asia, a number of Filipino journalists critical of President Joseph Ejercito Estrada found themselves in bitter conflict with the presidential palace in 1999. Those conflicts led to renewed fears that the media could find themselves under official assault, despite constitutional guarantees protecting a free press.
In July, The Manila Times, the country’s oldest newspaper, changed hands amid charges that Estrada had engineered the sale because of the paper’s critical coverage of his administration. In March, Estrada sued the paper for 101 million pesos (US$2.6 million) over a story alleging government corruption in the awarding of a public works contract. When the paper apologized, the suit was dropped. But sources inside the paper said that the government threatened to retaliate against the substantial industrial holdings of the Chinese-Filipino family that owned the paper unless the paper’s critical tone changed.
When The Manila Times was finally sold to a housing magnate with no previous newspaper experience, the paper’s former editor Malou Mangahas accused “a group of persons closely identified with President Estrada [of seeking]…to tame a critical press, through the back door.”
The presidential palace was also widely implicated in an advertising boycott organized against the country’s largest daily, The Philippine Daily Inquirer, which had covered a wide range of government scandals. In July, virtually all Filipino movie producers canceled their advertisements in the Inquirer following a meeting with the president, who was a popular film star before entering politics. Sources present at the meeting told Manila newspapers that Estrada asked them to withdraw their ads as a quid pro quo for granting tax breaks to the movie industry.
At around the same time, a number of government corporations and pro-Estrada businesses also pulled their advertising from the paper, leading Inquirer publisher Isagani Yambot to tell CPJ in a letter, “This is a blatant case of intimidation: [The president is saying] stop publishing negative stories about me and my administration or my movie and business cronies and government financial institutions will pull out their ads from your paper.”
“Instead of Marcos-style tactics to control the press, more sophisticated methods of influencing media reportage are being used,” veteran journalist Sheila Coronel, of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, told an audience of prominent business leaders in August. “Instead of the strong arm of the state, market mechanisms are being employed to put the squeeze on critical reportage…. But whether done directly through the state or through market mechanisms, these tactics undermine the independence of the media and reduce the diversity of voices offered to the public,” said Coronel.
Maganda sigurong iparinig muli sa tao ang “Hello Garci” upang di makalaimutan ang pandarayang ginawa nuong 2004. Hindi na dapat maulit ang pang-gagago sa tao ni Gloria Engkantada at ng Comelec. BANTAYAN ANG BOTO!!!
IBAGSAK ANG ADMINISTRASYON! IBOTO ANG OPOSISYON! (minus “Mr. Noted” Kiko Pangilinan) Tsaka na natin pag-isipan ang pang labindalawa. Pwede ba si Gringo Honasan?
Walang ibang pagpipilian si mike kundi ang magsampa ng magsampa ng libelo sa mga kumakalaban sa kanila. Una,ito ang trabahong ibinigay ni gma kay mike upang magkaroon ito ng silbi sa halip na gumala ng gumala kasama ang kanyang seretarya daw. Pangalawa, ano ang sasabihin ng mga kaututang dila nila,,, nagpapalaki ng yagbols si mike habang ang asawa niya ay hirap na hirap na takpan ang mga butas sa kanyang administrasyon. Pangatlo, ito ay tulong din sa industriya ng mga companero at companera, bigyan natin ng trabaho ang mga abogado ni mike at ang mga abogado ng idinedemanda niya. Pang-apat, kapag hindi nagsampa ng kaso si mike sa mga bumabatikos sa kanila magagalit sa kanya ang mga heneral na kaalyado nila dahil baka mawalan sila ng delihensiya kapag nawala sila sa puwesto kaya kailangan nilang magsiguro na matatakot nila ang mga gustong kumalaban sa kanila.
Luzviminda,
Very NOTED! Heheheh!
“IBAGSAK ANG ADMINISTRASYON! IBOTO ANG OPOSISYON! (minus “Mr. Noted” Kiko Pangilinan) “
Kung si Kiki este Kiko Panggigilan may “Noted”, ako naman may “Nota”. Kayo na ang bahalang mag-isip…
Titser,
Shiela Coronel herself has succumbed to the pressures and left her chair in PCIJ before flying to the States to become – guess what – a teacher.
Tongue,
who knows if she really has succumbed. As we know, one of PCIJ’s purpose is to train journalists in investigative skills, so I guess she’s still ‘TRAINING’ or teaching, as you say. And she’s not only a teacher but a Director as well.
——————————
Sheila Coronel
Professor of Professional Practice
Director, Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism
Sheila began her reporting career in 1982, when she joined the staff of Philippine Panorama, a widely read magazine. As Ferdinand Marcos gradually lost political power, Sheila reported on human rights abuses, the growing democratic movement, and the election of Corazon Aquino as president. She later joined the staff of the Manila Times as a political reporter, and also wrote special reports for The Manila Chronicle. As a stringer for The New York Times and The Guardian (London), she covered seven attempted coups d’etat against the Aquino government.
In 1989, Sheila and her colleagues founded the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ) to promote investigative reporting. The PCIJ trains journalists in investigative skills, and has provided an environment for in-depth, groundbreaking reporting. The Center has investigated and reported on major social issues including the military, poverty, and corruption. Under Sheila’s leadership, the Center became the premier investigative reporting institution in the Philippines and Asia.
Sheila is the author and editor of more than a dozen books, including Coups, Cults & Cannibals, a collection of reportage; The Rulemakers: How the wealthy and well-born dominate Congress; and Pork and other Perks: Corruption and Governance in the Philippines. She has received numerous awards and widespread recognition of her work.
She received an undergraduate degree in political science from the University of the Philippines, and a masters in political sociology from the London School of Economics.
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/faculty/coronel.asp
This Sec Dept of Justice gets worse with his comments day in day out. Even though Haemorrhoid Assperon was boo’d in one of his own military establishment in fron of visitors, then within a week Philip Alston gave a news conference where he said that Assperon was in ‘denial’ as far as the military involvement in extra judicial killings the Sec D-of-J verbally attacks Philip Alston.
Its about time that the administartion told the Sec D-of-J publicly to shut his mouth. The tail is wagging the dog! because his evil boss has lost control of the situation. Assperon is out of his depth and should resign. In fact better for both of them to resign, what a disgraceful display of ignorance, by both, to the UN official who was, after all, invited to investigate.
Titser:
Let me interrupt your posting about Sheila Coronel, if you don’t mind.
I want to comment on the topic about the libel suit of Mike to Fe Zamora.
Journalist make a living through their talent and expertise in writing, if they don’t scribble their pen they won’t have a food in the table for the family. Writing are the main source of their bread and butter. They wrote base on what they saw, and, an accurate information provided to them on the current events, which the freedom guaranteed to them by our Constitution under the Bill of Rights. They are trained professionally.
Because the critics were so detrimental, the unethical first gentleman is curtailing there noble freedom by filing a libel suit one after another. He is a bully twisting there arms for his own selfish regards. So far more than forty journalist were dragged to court and counting, because they don’t want the general public to know the anomalous transactions, scandalous behavior, cheating, lies and deceptions they committed.
He could win the battle because the court of injustice bow on their request, and that’s of course! a brown envelop pass under the table. But, on the public eye he will lost the war. Whom the public believe? A one liar! Or more than forty journalist who have written an accurate truthful expose. This kind of case will not prosper, and they know it! You know it! I know it! And we all know it!
This is a case of implying intimidation and a harassing tactics, and if anyone fell into a prey, they love it so much if someone will give up writing an expose. I hope some journalist be brave enough not to give him any satisfaction.——Kudos!—
Garapalan na talaga ang ginagawa ng mga kampon ni Gloria. Kung anu-anong dirty tactics against the opposition. Ang daming perang pansuhol. Umpisa na sa Comelec. Halatang-halata kung sino ang pinapanigan. Sayang itong si Abalos. Ang ganda na sana ng record as a local government official. Mukhang magiging madugo ang halalan dahil sa napipintong dayaan! Kung hindi magiging malinis ang eleksyon, maybe this will be the tipping point! Kailan kaya tayo makakaahon sa kumunoy ni Gloria! Parang ilong na lang natin ang nakalitaw para makahinga sa kumunoy na kinasadlakan natin sa ilegal na pamumuno ni Gloria.
Earlier, Alston was said to have briefed several Philippine officials, among whom was presidential legal counsel Sergio Apostol, whom sources told the Tribune reportedly asked of Alston if he could defer making public his findings after the May elections, to which Alston reportedly replied that he was not here to engage in politics.
COMMENT: They don’t get it do they, this administration don’t know an honest man when they’re looking at one, in Philip Alston. It shows in his precise, clear wording and calculated manner when he gave his press conference.
It just shows the administrations intention is to cover up until after the election.
Point is why is the Philippine Court still entertains the whining and wailing of the Fat Guy? Golly, parang reklamo naman ng isang ulol ang reklamo ng taong iyan. Ang lakas ng loob as if he can really deny all the accusations, etc. against him like what he has sued Lito Banayo for—called him “El Grande Gordo” or “The Great Fat Guy” which he is kasi hindi naman siya payat kaya nga sabi ng doctor doon sa St. Luke’s mag-reduce siya. Sabi nga niya hindi na raw siya kakain ng lechon na baka hindi lechon ng baboy ang kinakain ng loko, literally and figuratively, gaya ni Idi Amin na kumakain ng utak ng tao! Yuck!
Anyway, sabi nga kahit na anong takip nila ng butas nila, bubukas at bubukas din ang lupa sabi nga. Walang lihim na naitatago! Ang baho ay aalingasaw at aalingasaw!!!
Gosh, naglalabasan ang alam kong tagalog. So, who says that Tagalog (Pilipino) is not rich? Gago lang ang nagsabi niyan. Akala niya kasi hindi na siya pilipino e lahi naman yata siya ng ita, the aborigines of the Philippines!!! 😛
The history of the Aeta continues to confound anthropologists and archaeologists. One theory suggests that the Aeta are the descendants of the original inhabitants of the Philippines who contrary to their sea-faring Austronesian-speaking neighbors arrived through land bridges that linked the country with the Asian mainland about 30,000 years ago. Unlike many of their Austronesian-speaking counterparts, the Aetas have shown resistance to change. The attempts of the Spaniards to settle them in reservations all throughout Spanish rule failed.
Scientific research on the indigenous populations isolated on islands like those in South East Asia (Fiji, Japan), New Guinea, and Australia has shown many similarities to the way human beings adapted and evolved in a closed environment very similar to Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.
Mining, deforestation, illegal logging, and slash-and-burn farming has caused the indigenous population in all parts of the Philippines to steadily decrease to the point where they number in the thousands today, but unlike the federal laws granting Native Americans land and protection, the Philippines affords them no protection, but this is just as well, as the Aeta have become extremely nomadic due to social and economic strain on their culture and way of life that had previously remained unchanged for thousands of years. The Aeta have no sense of money or land ownership and sometimes can be seen camping out in city parks or panhandling although this is done out of boredom rather than out of a need for food or money.
While resisting change from the other society for hundreds of years, the Aetas have adjusted to social, economic, cultural, and political pressures with remarkable resilience; they have created systems and structures within their culture to cushion the sudden impact of change.
Sorry, this should read (my staff typed my previous note!): Point is why DOES the Philippine Court still ENTERTAIN the whining and wailing of the Fat Guy? Answer according to my staff is that some crooks in the Philippine Court must be benefitting from the Fat Guy, too. “Ma’m, marami sigurong balato!,” she says! Nam-Puchay talaga!
Kaya Titser, dapat gumawa ng paraan si tiyanak para tulungan ang mga Aeta kasi isang Aeta din is tiyanak.
Tell you what, Titser, baka lahi pa ni Cain, the first murderer, iton mga ito!
On the land bridges, there is now a theory that they actually never existed. I would believe more the similarities between the Filipinos and the tribe that crossed the Pacific from the Americas by boats, and inhabited the islands there like Hawaii, Tahiti, etc., including the Philippines. The language is the lead. If we believe Otley Beyers theory, then there is a need for a thorough research of the similarities with the language of the Aetas with the languages of Africa.
ystakei says: “Anyway, sabi nga kahit na anong takip nila ng butas nila, bubukas at bubukas din ang lupa sabi nga. Walang lihim na naitatago! Ang baho ay aalingasaw at aalingasaw!!!”
yuko, dapat “bubuka at bubuka din ang lupa” at “ang baho ay sisingaw at sisingaw”. ‘yan ang mas angkop at tama.
ystakei says: “Point is why is the Philippine Court still entertains the whining and wailing of the Fat Guy?”
dahil ang Do(in)J secretary ang sulsol sa baboy. sipsip nang sipsip sa mag-asawang baboy at daga ang huklubang gagongonzalez sapagkat ito lamang ang pakinabang sa kanya ng mga hunghang!
‘tadong siraulo ‘yan. sarap tadyakan.
tongue, di ba nilibing mo na ‘yan? bakit buhay pa?
How can you hide a humungos body like that of the Fatso’s? How can people not recognize him? The witnesses are not talking now for fear of their lives and their family’s security. Or maybe they are forever silenced by money or promotion to a higher rank. Once the tiyanak goes down( and it is becoming more evident that her end is near), all these witnesses will be out in the open to testify against her and her fat pig hubby.
The truth will always find its way. In the case of the spate of killings of the so-called leftists, the soul of the murdered are crying for justice. The invitation of the International body to look into this murder spree just opened up a can of worms for the tiyanak! This is even a bigger problem for her than the 2004 election cheating.
I wish tiyanak has the same transparency with the Mayuga report. But maybe when she finally goes down, the report will find its way to our justice system or maybe in the international courts. It looks like this tiyanak only succumbs to international pressure. Locally, she can pay off anybody. Unfortunately ,for her, people from the first world countries can not be corrupted. She probably thought she can get away with murder. She is damn wrong! This time she just tightened up the noose around her neck! Let us see how she can wiggle her way out of this heinous crime!
Artsee, in fairness to the Aetas, they are not comparable to the tiyanak. They are pure human beings. Tiyanak is not even human anymore!
Salamat, Magno. At least, nagsasalita tayo ng Tagalog. Hindi ko naman nakakalimutan sa totoo lang. Medyo barok nga lang kasi Ilocano naman ang nanay ko pati na iyong mga katulong na nag-aalaga sa aming magkakapatid nang maliit pa kami.
oo nga ano, mga tao ang mga Aeta at di tiyanak hindi. Ano ang itatawag natin kay tiyanak kung hindi Aeta? TAEt na lang>
Mrivera,
Di pa naililibing si Raul O. Gonzales. Pero sisiguruhin ko sa iyo, kahit saan pang lupalop iyan ibabaon, selyadong konkreto ang vault na paghihimlayan niya. Mahirap na, baka ma-contaminate ang lupa e kung makain yan ng mga bulate? At kainin naman ng mga manok, e kung tayo ang makabili ng manok? Nalintikan na.
Maiba ako, mahusay ang propaganda style ni Trillanes, hirap nga lang sa pondo. Hamunin ba naman ng debate ang pinakamahusay na debatero ng grupong T.U.T.A. pag nagkataon, di pa nagsisimula ang debate, panalo na siya. Siguradong tatanggi si Joker dahil, mahirap masilat ng dehado. Matalo man si Trillanes, siguradong matindi ang laban niya dahil focused siya, walang istorbo sa kanyang isip, matagal na niyang inipon sa loob ng selda ang mga sasabihin niya. Kaya siguradong tanggi ang Joker. Lalabas lang na duwag si Joker sa huli. Kung pumayag naman, libreng poli-infomercial pa na hindi niya kayang pondohan sa ngayon. Win-win!
Si Joker? Lose-lose! (o Artsee, tignan mong mabuti ang spelling, hindi luslos, ha!)
tongue, si sonny trillanes, dapat tulungan ang ginoong ‘yan. merong prinsipyo, kayang manindigan. panibagong pag-asa at magandang halimbawa para sa kabataan.
Tinutulungan natin siya actually. Nakausap na namin ng Kuya ko si Tiny na kuya naman ni Sonny at kumpleto na ang materyales. Kaya sagot ko na ang gawgaw at walis tambo, pati taga-dikit. Yung mga chicks namin ang magdidikit ng sticker sa mga kotse, jeeps at tricycles.
tongue, kung magkakaroon ako ng pagkakataon, “hahantingin” kita d’yan sa pasay sa aking pagbabakasyon….. pagkatapos ng pag-aaral ng mga anak ko. kaya lang medyo matatagalan pa.
sa masugid at taos pusong pagtulong ninyo kay sonny trillanes, tinutulungan n’yo rin ang ating mga kawal na matagal nang ini-exploit subalit pinapabayaan ng huwad na administrasyong arroyo. sa sandaling mahalal sa senado ang mamang iyan, umpisa na ng malawakang paghalukay sa puno at ugat ng talamak na kurakutan sa pamunuan ng sandatahang lakas at “paglaya” sa pagkagapos ng paa’t kamay ng magigiting at mararangal na tagapagtanggol ng ating karapatan.
mabuhay ka!