By Evangeline de Vera in Malaya:
Update: Satur to be transferred to Leyte sans SC order. Click here.
BAYAN Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo appeared yesterday at the Supreme Court to file a petition seeking to stop court proceedings in connection with the murder charge filed against him in connection with communist purging operations.
Immediately after the filing, Ocampo was served by Manila policemen an arrest warrant issued against him March 6 by a Leyte court.
Ocampo, who went into hiding after the arrest warrant was issued, was allegedly among those who ordered the killing of scores of suspected military deep penetration agents in Inopacan town in Leyte in the 80s.
In a two-page en banc resolution, the high court did not act on Ocampo’s petition for the issuance of a temporary restraining order, but took cognizance of the case by setting it for oral argument on March 23.
The SC required respondents Judge Ephrem Abando of the Hilongos, Leyte regional trial court, branch 18; Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez; Cesar Merin, approving prosecutor; and Rosulo Vivero, investigating prosecutor, to comment on the petition within the non-extendible period of five days.
The SC’s ruling was issued by Senior Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing, who accompanied Ocampo when he filed his petition at the docket section.
“These cases, especially involving cases of habeas corpus, are usually given priority by the court,” Quisumbing said in an interview.
Chief Supt. Samuel Pagdilao Jr., PNP spokesman, said Ocampo’s “act of submitting himself to the jurisdiction of the law is a fitting gesture of a man of his stature.”
“We assure him of adequate security and protection while being processed for eventual delivery to the custody of the RTC Branch 18 of Hilongos, Leyte,” Pagdilao also said.
“As to where Ocampo will be detained is for the court to decide, but surely security and safety concerns must be addressed,” he added.
The arrest warrant was served by Senior Supt. Eduardo Sierra of the Manila Police District’s Criminal Investigation and Detection Unit.
Ocampo, under tight security, was then brought to the MPD headquarters on UN avenue.
In an interview, Ocampo said he expected that his appearance at the SC would lead to his arrest.
He accused the military and national security adviser Norberto Gonzales of concocting the allegations against him.
Romeo Capulong, Ocampo’s lawyer, said they will file counter-charges against AFP chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon and Gonzalez for “manipulating” the evidence against his client.
He said they have information showing the military recycled the remains in a mass grave that was discovered earlier to pin the respondents down.
“We will slap them with charges of perjury and incriminatory machination, otherwise known as malicious prosecution,” Capulong said.
Ocampo has asked the SC to nullify the order of the Leyte court as well as the arrest warrant issued by Abando and hold it in abeyance until the SC has considered his petition.
He went into hiding after the issuance of the arrest warrant of the Leyte court against him and Communist Party of the Philippines leaders Jose Maria Sison and Luis Jalandoni and 50 others in connection with the 15 counts of murder allegedly committed during the so-called purge, “Oplan Ahos,” to cleanse the ranks of the party and its military arm, the New People’s Army, of “spies and counter-revolutionaries” between 1985 to 1991.
The remains of 15 people believed to have been executed were among the bodies exhumed for forensic investigation in Inopacan.
One of Ocampo’s co-accused in the multiple murder case, Noli Narca, a member of the CPP/NPA Samar-Leyte Regional Party Committee, was arrested last Friday in Catarman, Northern Samar.
Outside the SC, some 100 members of Bayan Muna and other militant groups held a rally to protest the arrest, but they were driven off by police who had been tipped off of Ocampo’s plan to file his petition.
Ocampo arrived at the Supreme Court about 4 p.m. accompanied by lawyer Capulong and wife Carolina Malay-Ocampo.
Several opposition figures like former Vice President Teofisto Guingona, Genuine Opposition senatorial candidate Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel and Sen. Jamby Madrigal, and leaders of militant groups accompanied Ocampo.
As if Gloria’s international problems are not enough, this recent arrest of Rep. Ocampo may force the global community into condemning Gloria’s government.
Rep. Ocampo’s arrest may only accelerate the sanctions on the Philippines – w/ the U.S. leading the pack.
No amount of spinning can hide Gloria’s international black-eye.
What a moro-moro court they have over there in the Philippines, Ellen! Unbelievable!
Shocking really as when I learned from an aunt of mine of the existence of people whose main job in fact is to perjure in court even when perjury should be illegal and punishable by law! No wonder a lot many Filipinos prefer to be tried and punished in Japan than be turned over to their embassy and be punished in their own country and near their loved ones.
Kawawang Pilipinas! My condolence to the people of the Philippines!
Chabs, Ellen,
The Belgian Federal Parliament and the EU have just been apprised of the Satur Ocampo’s arrest. I believe there is a plan to table a motion in Parliament that will culminate in a note verbale to the Philippines. Wait for developments.
Gloria must be ever so careful. If former US DoD Secretary Donald Rumsfeld CANNOT SET FOOT in the EU for fear of immediate arrest (handcuffed at the airport and taken to jail) for war crimes (he’s being accused of war crimes by a group of German lawyers), she shouldn’t push her luck too far – she is much tinier and Pinas has no credibility – she will be stepped on like a little useless bug that she is.
And if that happens, pffft goes all her and her piggy husband’s assets they’re hiding in Europe.
There will be a similar move, I believe, in Japan, Anna, for Ocampo has made a number of friends in the Japanese Parliament as well. One of his children lives and works in Japan. He can lobby here for his father’s release with request for the ODA to the Philippines be stopped for as long as the Tiyanak squats at the palace by the murky river.
Guys,
The Tiyanak says she has created more jobs for Filipinos than her predecesor. What jobs is she talking about? The jobs she has been stealing from natives of countries she allows recruiters to hoard in countries where they are not even welcome as these caregivers now being boasted of being sent even to Japan, where they cannot qualify unless they learn how to read, write and speak Japanese like the natives?
And just what kind of jobs is she boasting of? The jobs of domestic helpers for a meager earning of 100 dollars a month? Not worth losing lives, legs, limbs, honor and dignity as in the cases of those domestic helpers in Lebanon who are getting raped and humiliated or the former Japayukis in Japan who have made a lot many Filipinos not to be proud but ashamed!!!
Ka Satur needs to surrender himself and face his detractors. That’s a good sign for a real man. He is no longer in the armed struggle but more on the parliamentary struggle. We all live in a democracy and he has the right to challenge those who harass, humiliate, underestimate and imprison him again…this time in court…corrupt or incorruptible (only God knows!!). Ka Satur is leading an example for Joc-Joc, Michael Ray Aquino, Joema and those significant and insignificant people who are charged by the people of the Philippines. Hightime for them to show up and defend themselves….para malaman na kung sino ang may itinatago. If they don’t, ano ba ang ikinakatakot nila?
FQS veterans decry cruel treatment against Satur: Victim of Marcos, victimized anew by Arroyo
March 13th, 2007
An organization of veteran activists today said that the fabricated murder charge and arrest warrant against House Deputy Minority Leader Satur Ocampo is a “double victimization” of the journalist-turned-activist.
Ka Satur fought for and won a conviction of the Marcos dictatorship in the landmark class action suit in the US courts for his detention in 1976-1985. He was a victim of the dictatorship which punished him for leading the democratic resistance as a co-founder of the the National Democratic Front, said stage director and playwright Bonifacio Ilagan who is the chairperson of the First Quarter Storm Movement (FQSM).
The FQSM is an assembly of activists from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s who belonged to such groups as the Kabataang Makabayan and the Samahang Demokratiko ng Kabataan which led powerful anti-Marcos mobilizations in the early 1970s.
Ilagan said that the most cruel thing about the Leyte case is that attempt to rewrite this portion of Ka Satur’s life story. The victim that was Ka Satur is now being maliciously tagged as a multiple murderer.
If the incredible story of the Leyte purge were true, it would mean that Ka Satur was not detained by Marcos, said Ilagan. Truly fair and just proceedings by the fiscal and judge should have seen this and acknowledged this historical fact. But they didn’t, and the only feasible explanation is that they are in cahoots with those who want to destroy Ka Satur and Bayan Muna politically.
Ilagan said that Ka Satur’s contemporaries in the media know fully well that he was one of the most celebrated cases of political incarceration, with local and global media groups demanding that Marcos immediately release him.
(continued)
The FQSM leader also scored the Philippine National Police for saying that law enforcers will “treat Ocampo like any other criminal.”
“The PNP should remember that under the law Ka Satur is innocent until proven guilty. We are confident that not only will Ka Satur be found innocent but that Bayan Muna will emerge even more popular among the electorate as the party of the poor and the oppressed,” said Ilagan.
Prior to his activist involvement, Ocampo was a journalist. He was assistant business editor of the Manila Times, vice president of the National Press Club and founding president of the Business and Economic Reporters Association of the Philippines.
The accusers against Ocampo in the Leyte case claimed that he was physically present in the Eastern Visayas province in 1984, 1985 and 1991.
During his 1976-1985 detention, a full military tribunal tried Ocampo for rebellion. “But despite the fact that the martial law was in force and the entire machinery of government was used against him, prosecutors failed to pin him down in a trial that lasted seven years,” said Ilagan.
Ocampo was rearrested in 1989 but was freed in 1992 after charges of murder and kidnapping floundered in court. ###
http://www.bayanmuna.net
bakit kase lumantad pa si Satur eh…?
Doy,
Agee. Satur’s capture is a tactical setback for Bayan Muna – Gloria is not after justice, that’s her pretense – she just wants to WIPE OUT all political opposition and Satur Ocampo who was once her very close friend is a thorn on her side. Nothing to do with her so-called quest for peace or whatever shit she and her DoJ henchmen are saying.
These bastards – Gloria and her henchmen – are not exactly innocent of charges of acts of terrorism.
Gloria and SiRaulo Gonzales and their military partners in crime have absolutely no wish to instaure the rule of law in Pinas because when that happens, Gloria is the first to get it in the neck because of what she’s done to bring down this republic, so she wouldn’t like that now (get it in the neck) would she?
So, let’s stop kidding ourselves about obtaining justice in Pinas and Satur Ocampo can not count on it either – NOPE, NOT WHILE the pint-sized bitch is in Malacanang!
In 5 days the whole country will know on whether the Supreme Court under CJ Puno has the balls to be independent. They better not kid themselves. One wrong move and this country is one step closer to the precipice
sino kaya ang susunod na kilalang tao na magiging martyr at magbubiwis ng buhay para magising at kumilos na ng solido ang mga mamamayan at mapataob na ang bulok na gobyernong iyan.
When Satur gets a bullet in the head, We will hear the same story.That Satur is a military asset.The NPA killed their own.Investigation is going on…Bow ako dyan,Gen Esperon. Another bow-wow- wow.
Nakakulong na ang mga matatapang at ang mga nasa labas, nag-aantayan lang sila kung sino ang unang kikilos. But with the passing of the anti-terrorsism bill, tiyanak and the two hemorrhoids including the siRAULo will have more reason to just pick up and jail all their opponents. The law makers just gave tiyanak and her minions the power to abuse an already over abused system. The lawmakers just put a guillotine on the Filipinos. This is what Filipinos get for putting this tiyanak into power. Nobody ever predicted that a pint sized monster will have the poison potency to annihilate( very harsh word but may be a reality one day if this monster is not stopped) 85 million people! We are back to the Marcos regime and in a worst economic position. A revolution may be inevitable! These tyrants are just pushing their luck. Let us wait until the May election is over. If there will ever be one. The way I see it, this tiyanak is trying to create chaos so there will be no election and she can declare martial law and hand the governance to her already extremely powerful evil and corrupt generals. This reminds me so much of Imelda’s time when she was running everything with her corrupt generals while her husband was in his sick bed. Unfortunately, some of these generals are still in power just in different capacities!
And to top it all, Imelda still keeps on dancing. Now she is allied to the tiyanak to try and get some of her ill gotten possessions.
off topic : mabuti pa na colonized na lang tayo ng british kesa ma-under sa mga pidal, siguro matino at maunlad ang palakad sa ating bayan. Halos lahat ng hawakan ng british ay umuunlad dahil sila ang tunay na israel o naka mana ng birthright o material blessing. sa twelve sons of israel sila ang nakakuha ng blessing ni jacob bago mamatay thru eprhaim at manasseh.(sons of joseph the dreamer). Kaya sila umuunlad without much effort dahil blessed nga, tayo blessed tayo ng mga pidals, na puro kurakutan.
Yung present day israel sa jerusalem ay descendants consisting of only three tribes which are judah,levi & benjamin. Ang tawag na jew ay nickname ni judah, pero kasama rin sa jew ang levi at benjamin kaya pala inamin ni st paul na jew siya pero benjaminite siya. Noong mamatay si king solomon nahati ang israel sa dalawa, naiwan ang three tribes sa jerusalem na tinawag na house of judah at yung sampung tribe na kumalas ay pumunta sa north o samaria na tinawag na house of israel. sa 10 na tribu na yaon isa si dan kaya naging dansmark o denmark pero ang naging dominant sa sampu ay ang lahi ni joseph na naging british. sa ka mamigrate nila nawala ang identity ng sampu at nagkanya-kanya by tribe di katulad ng tatlo dahil hindi sila umalis sa jerusalem. itutuloy… parang komiks
Report in the Malaya news indicates that Haemorrhoid Assperon in a liar.
ARMED Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. on Thursday said the controversial deployment of soldiers in urban poor communities Metro Manila is indeed of the military’s strategy, Oplan Banta Laya II, which is aimed at defeating the 7,200-strong New People’s Army and other threat groups by 2019 Bantay Laya II also calls for the destruction of the terrorist groups Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiah and the containment of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.”In a sense, it (deployment) could be considered part (of Bantay Laya II),” Esperon said at the Night of the Generals hosted by Manila Overseas Press Club at the Hotel Intercontinental in Makati City. Militant party-list groups have alleged that the soldiers harassed their supporters in the urban poor areas and engaged in electioneering by telling residents not to vote for party-list groups associated with the Left. Nobody seems to have picked up that the national security adviser Norberto Gonzales was tagged as one responsible for ordering the extra judicial killings, in the United States Boxer Senate inquiry. At last this evil woman and her Administration, due to the pressure of International Countries, have their backs to the wall. One wrong move could bring her Administration down but they don’t know what move to make. The move they should make is to stand down before it becomes very bloody. Enough is Enough.
“Ocampo was rearrested in 1989 but was freed in 1992 after charges of murder and kidnapping floundered in court.”
When Ocampo was arrested in 1989, I was on my way to visit a former classmate in San Miguel Village in Makati, when I noticed a commotion just outside Makati City Hall, he and Bobbi Malay were being led to a police car. He rented an apartment, literally within spitting distance from City Hall! The soldiers and cops for months conducted a nationwide manhunt, mountains, islands and all and there he was, in a flat along F. Zobel St., just beside City Hall. Whoever coined the oxymoron “military intelligence” probably was a Pinoy.
He and Bobbi had sported different looks, he had grown a lush dark moustache and had his hair colored blonde. Bobbi, too, had an Afro hairdo, wore heavy make-up, the works . A far cry from their appearances we saw from pictures in the office of Bobbi’s hardcore leftist father, UP’s Dean Armando Malay.
This time, Satur and Bobbi did not bother with a makeover. Only criminals, like the Pasig Shabu Tiangge owner, who seems to get favors from DOJ, visit Belo or Calayan Clinics.
“Whoever coined the oxymoron “military intelligence” probably was a Pinoy.”
nakaka-dismaya ba?
Bakit hindi pa ba nakakahalata ang mga pilipino na parang Burma na ang Pilipinas? Look at how this Assperon acts. Siya na ang batas as when he says, “Kung ako lang nga ang masusunod….” Tang….ummmmmmph! Pakimura nga Tongue T.
Iyong Pandak, pang-display na lang. Katwiran niya, basta ako ang may hawak ng susi sa kaban, OK lang na mamuno si Assperon, et al! Madali naman daw na tumakas papuntang Amerika.
Military intelligence? It does not exist actually. Over in the Philippines, military intelligence is nothing but gossipmongering made fancy with hocus-pocus reports, frame-ups and falsified evidences especially under this bogus president. Credibility? Forget it.
Everybody in the Interpol knows this, and reason why they are careful when dealing even with members of the NBI and especially with the Philippine police. ‘Kakahiya!!!
Come to think of it, but the FBI reportedly paid the Ramos and Ebdane in 1995 a big sum of money (in dollars) for the evidences found in the Josefa Apartments where the Pakistani members of the Islamic Fundamentalists responsible for bombing the WTC stayed during the visit of the Pope to the Philippines. However, due perhaps to the bad reputation of Philippine intelligence and Philippine police, those evidences were kept in the storage and ignored. Otherwise, 9/11 would never have happened unless of course the madman at the White House deliberately allowed it to happen and made it an excuse for attacking Iraq and Sadam, who was an enemy to Osama Bin Laden.
‘Tado rin ano?
You bet, Tongue T., Ocampo has become subdued and more burgis than Communists. I sympathize with Bobbi that she cannot enjoy her last years on earth in peace if not in prosperity!!! Hindi pa ba sapat ang parusang tinanggap nila noon?
Sising-sisi siguro sila na tinulungan nila si Tiyanak in 2001. Halatang-halata ang ungas sa mga pinaggagagawa niyang kawalanghiyaan.
My condolence and sympathy to the Filipino people. Matuto na sana sila, at ipakitang hindi sila pauuto pa sa eleksyon!
IBASURA ANG ADMINISTRASYON! IBOTO ANG OPOSISYON! GO 11+0!
BTW, for Japan-based Filipinos, we invite you to attend the Miting de Abanse for the Opposition in Nagoya and Osaka tomorrow, March 18, and Tokyo on March 21 from 1 pm to 5 pm. Please contact Ronnie at 03-3491-2408 for direction.
It is difficult, if not impossible, to police the police/military. There is no rule of law as many would like to believe. The arguments of lawyer Capulong sound very convincing – would be interesting to see how far it can go in the law courts.
There are 863 murdered victims of extra-judicial killings and yet nobody is arrested. Why???
Wala na talaga tayong maaasahang just and fair treatment sa ating bansa. Ngayon kapag nag-ingay ka at kumontra sa mga katarantaduhan, kabulastugan, at kabulukang pinag-gagagawa nitopng sina gloria at ng kaniyang grupo, yari ka. Huhukay sila ng pitumpu’t-pitong kalansay at sasabihin na ikaw ang pumatay sa lahat ng iyon. Kulang na lang ay hukayin din nila ang mga buto nina Limahong at sabihin na ikaw din ang pumatay o nag-utos magpa-patay duon. Kita nyo naman at kapag may sinabi o isinulat ang isang mamamahayag laban kay Ip Dye, libel case agad ang ihahampas sa pobreng nag-sulat. Pinaglalaruan na lang talaga nitong sina gloria ang batas at rule of law sa ating bansa.
Ystakei Says:
My condolence and sympathy to the Filipino people. Matuto na sana sila, at ipakitang hindi sila pauuto pa sa eleksyon!
~~~~~~~~~~~
Yuko, I envy your optimism. You still hope of fair and honest elections – despite HELLO GARCI !!! Your condolence and sympathy could very well be directed to the death of democracy and rule of law. The murderer is walking proud like a peacock and it is a wonder why pinoys allow her to do so.
Welcome back firefly 😉
Alitaptap:
They are just in fact “gathering steam” as the old adage says. Human nature, dear friend. Kapag naipit na ng husto saka na aalma ang mga iyan, and this hold true even in the case of the slowpoke Filipinos. Hintay ka lang friend. Walang mga bala iyan, gutom pa ang tiyan kaya kailangan ang tulong mula sa ibang bansa.
I understand for instance that contrary to what everybody in the Philippines believe, may mga hapon din na tumulong sa pagbagsak ni Marcos. Kasama sila sa EDSA 1 as a matter of fact. Hindi halata kasi mukha silang mga intsik!!! Golly, natoto pa silang kumanta ng “Bayan Ko!”
ang nangyayari sa pilipinas ay katulad ng nangyari sa akin noong nandyan pa ako sa atin, sa loob ng bus nakipagbunuan ako sa mga tatlong snatcher sa bus ngunit walang tumulong sa akin sa mga kapwa pasahero kahit alam nila ang nangyayari sa takot madamay kaya dedma lang, siguro wala lang akong nakasakay na matapang at buo ang loob o nasa ibang bus nakasakay yung mga bayani na dapat tumulong sakin ng mga oras na yon.
it looks like gloria is a hostage of the military judging from these defiant and bold statements of esperon in spite of the growing international condemnation on the extrajudicial killings in the country. it seems esperon has the license to say and do whatever he likes. his latest “demand” to outlaw the CPP has not even received a reprimand from malacanang. instead of shutting him up, what he got just like palparan is a pat on the back. gloria will do anything just to hold on to power.
anna de brux Says:
March 17th, 2007 at 1:00 am
Chabs, Ellen,
The Belgian Federal Parliament and the EU have just been apprised of the Satur Ocampo’s arrest. I believe there is a plan to table a motion in Parliament that will culminate in a note verbale to the Philippines. Wait for developments..
************
That’s gooooood news, Anna !
“siguro wala lang akong nakasakay na matapang at buo ang loob o nasa ibang bus nakasakay yung mga bayani na dapat tumulong sakin ng mga oras na yon.”
valentin, nauna nang bumaba ang matapang na lalaking tutulong sana sa iyo. meron sanang sasakay sa susunod na bus stop pero nakababa kaagad ang iyong nakabunuan.
ganyan naman talaga ang karamihan sa ating mga pinoy. pero hindi naman sa lahat ng pagkakataon. iba na ngayon. galit na ang taong bayan sa mga kawatan mula nang mapasa-malakanyang ang pinakatalamak na sinungaling at mandarayang magnanakaw.
doy Says:
March 17th, 2007 at 3:49 am
bakit kase lumantad pa si Satur eh…?
************
I wondered myself, too, Doy. I thought na seguro Satur wanted to strike while the iron was hot; the U.S. came out w/ their comments regarding the extra-judicial killings & mentioned possible sanctions. Maybe Satur wants the U.S. to make a firm decision on what sanctions to give..just a thought.
no. satur ocampo wants to prove that all those fabricated evidences were only used to pin him down.
the AFP under esperon is always using dirty tactics to silence the “progressives”.
Mrivera Says:
March 17th, 2007 at 5:58 pm
no. satur ocampo wants to prove that all those fabricated evidences were only used to pin him down.
************
My was just a guess. Your reason is better. Thanks.
Chabeli:
Satur Ocampo is no longer the young man that he used to, and together with his wife wanted only to be able to make up for lost times by being a useful and law-abiding citizen even this late.
This is actually the kind of impression I got when I met him in Tokyo, to be exact three or four times. In fact, a friend kidded that I acted and sounded more subversive than them when they were supposed to be the communists and I the socialist! I retorted, “No, pareho lang kasing taga-UP!”
I got a mail from him and his staff yesterday just before he decided to face his tormentors squarely after his wife probably could no longer take the tortures they were being subjected to, even the rumors that he went into hiding when, in fact, he and his wife had to seek shelter elsewhere after some idiots in the military (no doubt about that) on order of the idiots in Malacanang, AFP and the DOJ ordered their house to be burnt down, etc.
I cannot help but admire him as a matter of fact, for he did not think of staying in Japan for instance with his son and his family to seek refuge here that I bet you Japan may grant him. He’d rather go home and die for his principles and his country especially.
That’s what makes the hero as a matter of fact compared to the Internet Brigaders who even have the nerve to insult their own countrymen while they suck their blood, and so with those little brown Americans, who think their American passports have made them better than those who have no choice in fact but to accept without complaint the crumbs the crooks in the Philippine government begrudgingly offer them.
I hope he is not subjected to the usual torture to force him to confess to a crime he could not possibly commit.
Kung hindi pa nagpakita si Ka Satur sa SC, ay hindi pa nila mahuhuli!
Ano ang sinasabi ng Pangulo ng late 1980’s tungkol sa kasong ibinabato sa kanya?!
Wlang magawa ang Tianak na ito. Baka akala niya ay papansinin at “hello buddy” ang maririnig niya kay Dubya!
Pag dinala na si Satur Ocampo sa Leyte, ipagdasal na lang natin siya. Pihadong tetepokin na siya doon. Tapos kunyari sasabihin ng mga sundalong kanin, Waray revenge!!! Kawawa naman siya. Hindi na siya nakapag-enjoy sa buhay niya.
Lalong ayaw na ng apo niyang umuwi sa Pilipinas balang araw. Apo niya lumaki sa Japan at mas marunong mag-hapon kesa magtagalog. Pag nalaman niya ang gagawin sa lolo niya, pihado ko isusumpa ng bata ang Pilipinas! Huwag naman sana.
Tignan natin ang gagawin ni Senator Boxer! Hindi na ubra ang kalokohan ni Pandak. Malapit na siyang maging history!
just like what they did to crispin beltran (sinampahan ng kasong panahon pa ni marcos kahit nabigyan na ng amnestiya sa panahon ni cory at ramos), bubulukin na naman nila si satur ocampo sa kulungan. i expect more arrests to come (casińo, masa, et al.) specially after the election when the anti-terror law will take effect.
Jr-lad;
Your prediction of more arrest coming is absolutely clear, compared to the crystal ball of Madame Auring,they are armed and license with the anti-terror bill.No one can complain and contest what they are doing,except to accept the bad fate in languishing in jail.
pareng cocoy,
tama ka. hindi pa man, ginagamit na nila ang anti terror bill upang i-eliminate ang mga bumabatikos kay gloria. ang probisyon sa bill na ito ay sa hunyo pa ito magkakabisa subalit, gaya ng kinatatakutan, hayan na at inuumpisahan nang abusuhin ng mga galamay ng sinungaling at mandarayang bogus na pangulo.
ang ikinatutuwa ko lamang sa panahong ito ay ‘yung nakalabas na ako sa serbisyo at hindi na madadamay o magiging bahagi pa ng mga pang-aabusong ni sa hinagap ay hindi ko inaakalang mangyayari matapos ang ilang edsa na dapat ang lahat ay natuto na batay sa ating kasaysayan.
nakalaya na ang bayan sa pang-aabuso at pagmamalupit ng mga dayuhan at nakakaqlungkot na sa panahon ng ating kasarinlan ay gayun pa rin ang nararanasan ng ating mga dukhang kababayan – sa kamay pa ng sariling pamahalaan.
..nakakalungkot…..
dapat pala:
pareng cocoy,
tama ka. hindi pa man, ginagamit na nila ang anti terror law upang i-eliminate ang mga bumabatikos kay gloria.
This is the 3rd time Ka Satur is arrested. Underground or aboveground, mahirap ang status niya. Kung si Ka Satur ay namumuhay na tahimik at ordinaryong mamamayan, sigurado wala siyang kaso. But as long as he is in public service, century old cases will haunt him. Dito nakikita kung ano ang motibo ng administrasyon kung bakit siya hinuli.
Gising na Bayan tanghali na naman!
These anti-terror law of Arroyo is unconstitutional, it infringes on freedom and civil liberties. It allows police to detain suspected terrorist without charges, it violates constitutional rights. But, what constitutional right a Filipino has? Which constitution? the 1935 under the freedom of American rule, the Marcos 1971 mockery of justice constitution or the 1986 Cory Aquino’s appointed protegee to ratify the version of constitution.
There is always a brighter side of the coin. Ocampo, Beltran, and the others yet who will be apprehended will end up multi millionaires after everything settles down. At the rate the present justice system grinds at half a million due each per day, we will run bankrupt in no time. To think that I am considering to take the chance of earning that kind of money, too. Thanks to the authors of the anti-terror law.
I hope the forensic science group led by Jerome Bailen takes the lead in the investigation of the exhumed bodies. Aside from DNA samples, carbon dating, and other tests, many circumstances surrounding the supposed massacre will be exposed and those truly guilty shall be punished, whether military or rebel. It will also either prove or disprove Ocampo’s charge that the bodies were exhumed from other sites and reburied then re-exhumed in Inopacan to make it look larger and more offensive.
Its foolish to submit to such eyewitness testimonies, many from recent events obviously and comfortably tailored to fit the official gov’t lines, as the gospel truth.
Remember the military’s “hooded” witness that pointed the accusing finger on supposed military-leftist collaborators prior to PP1017? We now have more hooded accusers, women at that, who claim their husbands were “purged” on orders of Sison, Ocampo, et al.
Scientific evidence can provide the answers to questions in order to arrive at the truth.
Truth is a pre-requisite to dispense justice. Real justice. Not justice as defined in Gloria’s dictionary wherein the words “truth”, “impartiality”, “fairness” are nowhere to be found.