Senator Aquilino Pimentel, Jr., issued the following statement on the intensified presence of military in urban despressed areas and in the project of Gen. Dolorfino for the military to conduct an election information drive in the urban barnagays:
Soldiers: Stay Out of Barangays. Let Civilian Authorities Do the Job
Soldiers in full battle gear are now visibly patrolling barangays in many parts of the land.
They are unsettling the nation’s calm.If there is a problem of law and order in the barangays, it is the duty of Barangay Captains and their barangay councils to assert their right as civilian functionaries to maintain law and order in their areas.
They should do so before the nation becomes fully militarized under a president who is obviously a captive of certain generals in the armed forces.
It is a terrible sight to see soldiers in full battle gear roaming around the barangays of the nation as if they are an occupation army putting order in enemy territory.
The barangay officials are the first line of civilian officials who are obligated to maintain law and order in their barangays. They can assert that authority first by calling on their tanods to do so. If the tanods cannot do the job for one reason or another, the next line of civilian officials they can ask for help are the mayors of their cities and municipalities. The mayors can, then, order the police, another civilian agency, to go out to the barangays concerned and maintain law and order there. If the mayors prove incapable, the barangay officials can always call on the governor and the sangguniang panlalawigan concerned to help them out with their problem.
It is only in the event that the civil agencies that maintain law and order are unable to do so that conceivably the military as military can now make their presence felt in the barangays.
Without availing first of what local government officials can do to maintain law and order in their provinces, cities, municipalities and barangays, soldiers should not inflict their presence in the localities. Unless the local government officials are unable to maintain law and order, soldiers should stay in their barracks and wait until they are called upon to help. Or perhaps, they can help build roads, school buildings, water wells, and sundry other civil constructions to develop the nation..
Their unwarranted intrusion into local government domain raises alarum bells that (a) during this election period, they are sent to the barangays to intimidate people into voting for the administration candidates, or, worse, (b) to condition the minds of the people that the law of the gun or martial law is inevitable and that there is nothing we can do about it.
There is still something we can do about it: denounce and condemn the on-going militarization of the country as totally unnecessary, uncalled for and unconstitutional.
Oooops! Wait a minute! Is it election campaign period now or is the country under a threat of invasion by a foreign aggressor that you said “soldiers are seen roaming around in full battle gears?!?”
What’s the Tianak and Assperon doing with our country? Making it look like a battlefield with the people wanting to vote for the Opposition as their enemies? Are they out of their minds?
Is this Gloria’s definition of democracy? Or is it her vision of DEMONcrazy? C’mon…Tianak …you’re not that CHEAP!
no, elvira.
they are just preparing the places for the safe landing of the queen of thieves, ali boba aka gloria macapagal arroyo de pidal y cabron.
If the elections fail her (which seems headed that way), then there’s the military who are prepared to militarize the country under the guise of maintaining law and order. Remember, the Terrorism Law will be fully effective after the elections. She will definitely use the said law against the opposition who will stand to gain the most in this election.
May mga sektor sa Pilipinas na kumekwestyon sa tunay na ginagampanan ng AFP sa bansa.
Isa na rito ang role na “protector of the people”.
Madalas na binabansagan na komunista ang mga grupo na lumalaban sa AFP lalo na kung ito ay may patungkol na mensahe na “labanan ang militarisasyon” at karapatang pantao.
Tapos na ang coldwar pero ang AFP ay patuloy na inuugnay ang mga grupong nationalist at patriotiko sa maka-kaliwang idelohiya.
Baka dumating ang panahon na pati ang grupo na nagmumula sa mga civil libertarian ay bansagan na rin na terorista.
Ang AFP ba ay para sa ruling class o para sa pagtatanggol ng bansa?
breaking news:
Cebu gets projects worth P2B
Cebu Daily News
Last updated 07:25am (Mla time) 04/28/2007
HER visit to Cebu was brief but President Macapagal-Arroyo was able to inaugurate more than P2 billion worth of projects and campaign for administration senatorial candidates in three cities.
Within six hours, Arroyo led the groundbreaking rites for the North Coastal Road (NCR) in Mandaue City and the inauguration of the newly constructed Hall of Justice in Talisay City.
She was also able to campaign for Team Unity (TU) candidates in sorties including an assembly of Muslim communities gathered at the Cebu Coliseum.
Arroyo arrived past 1:30 p.m. and went directly to Talisay for the inauguration of the Hall of Justice worth about P25 million. She was accompanied by 10 of the 12 TU candidates.
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ano ang tawag dito? para sa kapakanan ng bayan o para sa pagtatagal sa loob ng malakanyang?
Since the above article does not indicate when the statement was issued, I presume that the statement was made very recently, and that the military presence in urban areas had gone on, and probably is still going on, up to now.
Military presence in urban areas were reported and was even the subject of a previous thread. If it is an ongoing issue, this is becoming too sinister to ignore as we head for the election homestretch. At this point, no valid justification except war can be acceptable. I can see specters of a No-El scenario.
I won’t mind having actors and other popular personalities, no matter how stupid they are, being elected to posts so long as they are elected by the people. I won’t mind having a 12-0 sweep by TU if the people so decide through their ballots. But, I would definitely mind having the elections postponed or cancelled altogether just because this dispensation cannot risk losing its hold on power.
Aling Gloria stole the nation’s soul when she cheated in 2004. Is she, this time, out to kill whatever is left of the nation’s soul by murdering the electoral process?
Kung noong July 2004 merong nailuto na Angelo dela Cruz isyu para guluhin ang “hearts and minds of the people” dahil sa lantarang dayaan at paboran ang kagustuhan ng ruling class.
Ano naman kaya ngayon?
Series of concerts para sa kabataan?
Ang pagkakaalam ko ay meron ng naka-abang ng mga concerts para hubugin ang kaisipan ng taumbayan na ang darating na eleksyon sa May 14 ay generally orderly at peaceful.
Hindi nakakapagtaka na ang Pilipinas ay nakakaawang bansa dahil sa sabwatang ginagawa hindi para protektahan ang kagustuhan ng nakararaming mamamayan.
Sabwatan para protektahan ang interes ng ruling class.
Si Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ay iniupo sa Malacañang para pagsilbihan ang ruling class.
Hindi pa handa ang AFP ang itinakda sa kanila na tagatanggol ng bansa.
Makikita ito sa ginawa nila sa pamunuan ni Erap at ang resulta ng eleksyon ng 2004.
Why? Metro Manila barangays are not in war zone. Is the military are experts in election matters? The Hello Garci political scandal revealed that the military top brass were involved in electioneering in favor of Gloria Arroyo. Shameless Defense chief Ebdane, AFP chief Esperon and Comelec Chairman Abalos played key roles in a massive 2004 electoral fraud. The repeat of 2004 election is in place for TUTA’s victory.
Magno:
Ang tanong diyan, magkano ang natiba ni Mandurugas. A lot of the gambling lord supplying the Pidals with funds for the election are from Cebu then and now. Sabi nga 10 fold ang taga ngayon.
Hindi kaya pinaghahandaan nila yong magiging verdict nila kay Erap? Kunyari lang itinataon nila sa eleksiyon pero yon pala ay para walang magiging problema pagdating ng hatol.
I’ve written about the medical check-up of residents of Baseco and other slum areas. Purpose is to check who among them can be used as donors for the new industry the Bugak is thinking of exporting likewise—human organs for sale!!!
Ang daming naluto sa isang hospital ward, no doubt!!!
“Hindi kaya pinaghahandaan nila yong magiging verdict nila kay Erap? Kunyari lang itinataon nila sa eleksiyon pero yon pala ay para walang magiging problema pagdating ng hatol.”
Kung ayon sa matimbang na pagsusuri ng mga katibayan at usapin ay mapatunayan nilang nagkasala si Erap, hindi sila dapat matakot sa pagpaparusa. Kung mahahaluan ng pag-aalinlangan ang hatol, hindi kailanman magiging lunas ang pananakot.
Sa ngayon, dalawa ang sa palagay ko ay kinatatakutan ng pamahalaan hinggil sa usapin ng pandarambong laban kay Erap:
1. Hindi magiging katanggap-tangap sa sambayanan ang hatol kaya inihahanda na nila ang sandatahang lakas upang supilin anumang pagpapahayag ng pagtutol;
2. Maging katanggap-tanggap man ang hatol, tuluyang lalakas ang panawagan sa pagbibitiw ng kasalukuyang pamunuan na maaaring sapitin din ang kapalarang kinasadlakan ni Erap.
Sa isang pagbabalik-tanaw, mahihinuha nating natutunan na ng pamahalaang Arroyo ang sining ng pagkapit sa kapangyarihan. Noong unang bahagi ng 2006, tahasang isinaisantabi ang paggalang sa karapatan ng malayang pagtitipon at pamamahayag bago pa man magsimula ang paggunita sa ikadalawampung kaarawan ng EDSA I. Maaaring ang pagpapakalat ng mga sundalo sa kalungsuran ngayon ay isang maagap na pagkilos upang supilin ang anumang napipintong panganib sa pamumuno ni Aling Gloria.
Alam kaya nilang gaano man kaduwag ang sambayanan, hindi rin mapipigil ang pag-aaklas kapag napuno na ang salop? Alam din kaya nilang higit na karuwagan ang iumang ang dulo ng baril sa mga taong wala ni tirador man lang?
ka enchong,
sa pagtataya ng kampo ni erap, pinipilit impluwensiyahan ni gloria ang mga mahistrado sa sandigang bayan na idiin ang una at palabasing totoong nangulimbat ng pondo ng bayan.
anim na taon. sa haba ng panahong ito ay wala pa rin silang malinaw na pagbatayan kung ano ang kahihinatnan ng usaping ipinapataw nila kay erap gayung lumalabas sa mga aebidensiya na walang sapat na katibayan upang makulong siya. at umaangkop ang kaganapang ito sa pinangangambahan mo.
malinaw na binababoy ng mga baboy na nasa loob ng malakanyang ang naunang kasunduan sa pagitan ng kumolek at hubong sandatahan na hindi papayagang makiaalam ang huli sa anumang eleksiyon maliban sa paggamit ng karapatang bumoto ng mga kawal.
kahit noong panahon ni makoy, walang opisyal na nag-uutos na mangampanya ang mga kawal para sa sinumang kandidato ng administrasyon, pero ngayon, talagang lantaran na ang pagwawalanghiya ng mga walanghiyang alagad ng walang kahihiyang sinungaling at mandarayang babaeng may bangaw sa mukha!
looks like dolorfino is grooming himself to be the successor of espurol to the cheat-of-staff position.
todo sipsep ang buwiset!
Ka Magno:
Sa palagay ko, ganoon na lamang ang takot ni Aling Gloria na sapitin niya ang kapalarang itinalaga niya kay Erap kaya ganoon na lamang ang higpit ng yakap niya sa kapangyarihan. Sa sandaling bumitiw siya sa kapangyarihan, tiyak na tanitanikalang usapin ang idudulog laban sa kanya sampu ng kanyang mga kampon.
ka enchong,
noong 2003 pa ‘yan ginawa ni aleng gloria. di nga ba’t bigla siyang kambyo arangkada sa pagbawi ng nauna niyang pahayag na hindi kakandidato sa pagkapangulo? kaya itong huli ay binubusog niya nang husto ang mga alaga niyang sawa at buwaya upang huwag siya ang lapain?
subalit nakakalimutan niyang amutan kahit mumo lamang ang mga iniisip at inaakala niyang mga karaniwang kawal na tagasunod bilang mga pipitsugin. ihalintulad natin sila sa mga munting langgam na kapag wala nang mahanap na pagkain at tinatapaktapakan pa ng mga dambuhala ay kumakagat at napipilitang lumaban.
ilan lamang ba silang nabubundat kumpara sa mga nanganganib mamatay nang dilat?
TEAM Unity trying to bribe its way to victory
By Rasheed Abou-Alsamh
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 02:28am (Mla time) 04/28/2007
The Commission on Elections (Comelec) has finally, though very reluctantly, agreed to investigate the recent promise of Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez to pay P10,000 to each “barangay” [neighborhood district] captain in Iloilo City who can deliver a 12-0 sweep for the administration’s TEAM Unity senatorial candidates on May 14.
This promise is outright bribery that is clearly banned by the Omnibus Election Code, said Comelec Director Ferdinand Rafanan. “In Section 261, Paragraph A of the Omnibus Election Code, there are three acts that are considered crimes: the act of giving, the act of offering and the act of promising. That’s why the mere act of promising money is already a crime,” he told ABS-CBN television Thursday morning.
The Omnibus Election Code is clear on that any offer of cash for votes is strictly forbidden, but it apparently is not so clear when it comes to other types of benefits promised to voters in the course of an election campaign.
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isang nakakahiyang obsebasyon mula kay Rasheed Abou-Alsamh, isang kilala at pinagpipitagang saudi columnist na may mataas na pagpapahalaga sa kapakanan ng mga karaniwang pinoy.
Take a quick look at the Omnibus Election Code and it seems to be in order, including the raising of campaign funds, the individual limits and even the Peso and Fifty Centavos campaign limit for every registered voters in district or constituent where a candidate is running.
So in this case, Raul Gonzalez could be charged of attempting to Contribute to the party where he is prohibited, over his individual limits, and bribery, trying to influnce the vote with a promise of money. On top of being a Secretary of Justice, Ignorance of the Law or Disregard of the Law. verdict Guilty on all counts…
Ka Enchong, Sen. Pimentel’s statement was issued yesterday in the wake of Dolorfino’s announcement that the military will be conducting voter’s education campaign in urban slums.
dahilan sa kawalan ng mga trabaho na maayos at marangal, ang ESTADO ang patuloy na pinaka-malaking employer ng bansa; at ang hanay ng militar at kapulisan ang isa sa pinakamadaling mapasukan para magkaroon ng trabaho.
bagama’t maraming bansa na mauunlad ang may ganitong hugis ng employment demography (na siya mismo ang pinakamalaking tagapamigay ng trabaho), ang gawaing pang-militar na siya lamang ang nakalaan para sa mga kababayan ay nagbibigay lalo ng ayuda at diin sa argumento na tagapagtanggol LAMANG sa interes ng ruling class ang nagiging papel ng estado—taliwas sa matapat na panilbihan para sa mas malaking bahagdan ng populasyon.
kailangan ng bansa ang mga bagong liderato na nakakaunawa sa tunggaliang ito at kaalaman sa pagbabalanse nito.
samantala, ang kawalanghiyaang pagtalaga ng mga militar sa mga urban poor areas para ikampanya ang mga kandidatong kaanib ng administrasyon ay walang positibong maidudulot sa kapakanan ng demokrasya.
bagkus, hinihila nito ang lahat sa tiranyang kuko ng kamangmangan at kahungkagan.
Bystander, you hit the nail on its head with your analysis on why the urban slum areas are being militarized.
MR, you got it, man: (looks like dolorfino is grooming himself to be the successor of espurol to the cheat-of-staff position.)
Ang mahirap sa AFP ay ingitan na lalo na iyung papalit sa pinakamataas na puwesto. Number one ay ang kayamanan. Number two ay kapangyarihan. Iyan ngayon ang hinahangad ng mga General na papalit sa mga magnanakaw na Generals. Hindi na magbabago ang bansa natin hanggang nandiyan at walang napaparusahan na POLITIKONG MAGNANAKAW. Lalo na si Kumander of Thief na si Gloria Pidal Arrovo. Isa pa ay hindi na kumikilos ang taong bayan para maging malinis ang bansa natin dahil nabibili ang karamihan sa pera dahil sa hirap ng buhay natin ngayon (hindi mo rin sila masisisi kahit papaano). Sa bansa lang natin makikita na halos lahat ng puwesto sa gobyerno ay naka upo ay mga TALAMAK NA GENERALs Na Magnanakaw (hindi naman alam kung papaano patakbuhin ang ahensiya pero na appoint pa rin )at Nabili ang kanilang serbisyo kapalit ng pera at puwesto. Minsan ay na isip ko na minsan ay kailangan na rin maki alam ang U.S. dahil hindi na kaya ng taong bayan or nawawalan na tayong pag asa.
MASAHOL pa kay MARCOS si PANDAK at talamak ang nakawan. MAPA KORTE SUPREMA, COMELEC, AFP AT KAHIT SAAN LUGAR NG GOBYERNO NATIN AY PURO MAGNANAKAW AT WALANG PAHGKAKATIWALAAN. NANDIYAN SI SIR RAULONG GUNGONGZALES KUNG ANO ANO ANG SINASABI PERO HINDI NILA KAYANG PATIGILAN DAHIL SI KUMANDER IN THIEF AY MAY MALAKING UTANG NA LOOB SA KANYA. MR. NOTED KASI NOON DIN ITO…
The military presence in urban area can provoke negative and destructive consequences for the opposition. There is virtually no longer any credible system of law, voters intimidation. Ironically the loss of individual freedom of the people and the barangay officials, as well as their communities, is possible because of oppressive structures of governance that the military rule erect it’s own purpose of it’s own convenience to cheat the election results in favor of military’s backed candidates.
The rule of military in this election is one of the thorniest problem of the opposition. Military’s dangerous distinction whose purpose has fully expose as what Gen. Dolorfino’s project to conduct an election information drive, Kuno! That’s the job of the Comelec General! Your excuse has the basic fact that your military mission of the civil population is illegitimate and will inevitably bear evil fruits. It is frightening! The old tactics of Gloria’s politics is the concoction that is now label as civilianization of military rule and intimidation, because they live above the law, now want to manipulate the election, Angara’s prediction of command vote might be right, and we can see the proof, If they succeed.
The military has no business ruling civil population at all, in order to resolve this dangerous presence in urban barangay we need to condemn and denounce their godless existence. It is therefore very important that voluntary bodies that are not seeking power should help opposition voters to define issues of the elections purpose should be, Vote! Such voluntary bodies should be ready, stand and fight for the sacred ballots. Don’t be intimidate by a military presence!
Educating the voters can be done by volunteers like what we do in Japan to educate the Filipino voters on their rights, privileges, duties and responsibilities. There is no need to call on the military whose prime duty is to protect the country from invaders.
At least, it is how we understand the function of the military is in Japan and other well-organized and progressive societies. Even terrorists operating in the country should not be the responsibility of the military but the police that in fact should have been a separate agency not under the military especially when the country is supposed to be democratic and not under a military rule.
Filipinos should protest against this stupidity of ordering the military to take charge of the election. This is infringement of the right of the voters to vote freely. Now is the time to say “No!” to this kind of gloria stupidity!!!
i just wish and hope our soldiers would come to realize the difference between a LEGAL and an ILLEGAL ORDER. much more one they think is abusing their basic right as a citizen. this election is their acid test as it is where the future of our country and the next generation lies.
if this mid term congressional contest proves to be another kind of anomalous stage play and the ordinary citizens’ patience reached its peak and take it to the streets, may the still honorable men-in-uniform leave their barracks and join the nation in denouncing the devouring devil that denies us hope to live peacefully, filled and away from injustice. it is our few still gallant soldiers who will form the core group from their lines that will support the clamor to regain the honor and dignity the cheat and lying gloria arroyo stole from us six years ago!
“Ka Enchong, Sen. Pimentel’s statement was issued yesterday in the wake of Dolorfino’s announcement that the military will be conducting voter’s education campaign in urban slums.”
Under what pretext is the military undertaking this voters’ education campaign? Such campaigns are purely civilian in nature. This continued militarization is nothing but another attempt by this government to hold on to power in complete disregard of the constitutional provision on civilian supremacy over the military. The failure of this government to change the current constitution does not give it the right to flaunt its disregard.
Magno,
Iyan ang tema ng isang interview ni Trillanes, ang pagkakaroon ng mga sundalo ng common sense maliban pa sa commitment nila sa bansa at mga kababayan nila lalo na kung ang utos ay galing sa isang nandaya lamang para makuha ang kaniyang posisyon na kung matino ang Comolec ay dapat na-disqualify na ang ungas nang lumitaw ang katotohanan ng Garci tapes! Golly, kahit na ipa-analize mo sa voice expert sasabihing iisa ang boses sa tapes sa boses ni Garcillano at Pandak! Ano pa ba ang iba pang ebidensiya ang gusto ng Ceomolec para i-disquaflify ang ungas?
Kung sabagay prophesied na ang mundo ay mapupuno ng mga hangal na liders ng mga bansa hanggang sa maghirap ang mga tao at tatawag na sa Diyos na gibain na ang mundo. Tignan mo na lang ang nangyayari ngayon halimbawa sa Estados Unidos na ang pinuno ay isa ring gunggong. Golly, nag-utos pa na magtayo ng wall na gaya sa Berlin doon sa Iraq kundi ba naman hangal!
Kabit bisig dapat ang mga pilipino ngayon na hindi umabot sa martial law ang kahihinatnan ng eleksyon ngayon dahil talagang desidido si Pandak na huwag matanggal. Lahat ng klaseng daya gagawin ng lukaret na ito.
Heaven forbid!
Talagang palpak at bobo itong Dolorfino!!He does not have any business deploying military troops in Metro Manila in the guise of election information dissemination purposes. This is the work of the COMELEC and the local government entities. I am sure that this action/activity is not approved by Gen Esperon. His primary job as the Commander of the NCR Command is to defend/protect NCR from armed elements/terrorists and destabilzers..period!
In his lull moments in his Command, I suggest it would be better for him and his troops to clean and dredge the filthy and foul-smelling Pasig River!
Ellen & Rose,
What impressed me about Antique is your almost straight, smooth, traffic-free, and scenic road from Nabas, Aklan…Pandan to San Jose (de Buenaventura), Antique. I’ve been to your province in three separate occassions visiting San Remigio, Sibalom, San Jose, and Hamtic. After the elections, I’ll be visiting the Semirara Coal Mining which is considered as the biggest coal mine in the country.
Bottomline, your coastline is very nice and your daily sunset is far better than Manila’s. I really love your place!
I am sure the deployment of military troops in Metro Manila is part of GMA’s plan to again manipulate the results of the election. GMA knows that losing enough congressional and senatorial seats is tantamount to her being impeached! The people should witness the ballot count and record the results using available technology, then compare them with the final results. This way, protests can be substantiated and widespread cheating can be mitigated. If GMA still shamelessly cheats, this might provide the spark that we all are waiting for!
BK, I can’t believe that Esperon did not approve Dolorfino’s election information campaign in the urban slums. I have not heard him ordering Dolorfino to stop.
Re Antique’s beautiful coastline. That’s the reason why I go home as often as my work allows me. I find Antique’s unspoiled (others say backward)state refreshing and invigorating.
Ellen,
‘I find Antique’s unspoiled (others say backward)state refreshing and invigorating.’
Simplicity is beauty. Look at Manila (I mean metropolitan Manila)- it’s so spoiled, its urban planning frightful, it’s simply a total mess. My children don’t like to stay in Manila when we visit – they find it ugly; my sister systematically becomes ill after a week’s visit; recently my European friends who were on holiday left it after 24 hours and went to Palawan instead – they were appalled at how horrendously messy the littel of the city they saw.
Like Jakarta, Manila is one backward sorry metropolis. Wouldn’t call Manila ‘advanced’ at all despite the skycrapers, the modern malls, the big hotels, the latest cars, etc – it’s just a wild and noise-polluting, smoke-belching jungle. I bet Antique is the more civilized of the two regions. Keep it that way.
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1. Dolorfino isnt doing it without a blessing from esperon unless he has a direct line to gma. esperon must have ordered dolorfino to do it coz it’s another issue too hot for esperon to handle. But still obvious because esperon is silent about the issue.
2. It’s comelec’s duty re voter’s info campaign. NGOs may assist. AFP must teach instead its soldiers about voter’s info.
3. That’s why the AFP is very incompetent and ineffective because it does jobs which the military are not mandated to do. Jack of all trades, master of none!
By the way, the AFP has implemented a new policy. Soldiers who don’t avail of the absentee voting will not be re-enlisted (they will be discharged). Self-serving policies but they can’t even protect and enforce the rights of their own soldiers like those facing court martial.
Deploying soldiers in the Metropolis is like telling the local govt and the PNP that they are ineffective and that the AFP alone can solve the local peace and order problems.
Whatever the alibis are, the real reason is elections related.
hindi ba sumasagi sa isipan ninyo na isa ring magandang pagkakataon na ang mga sundalo ay nasa labas ng baraks nila, grupo grupo sa bawat sulok ng maynila upang kung sakaling dalhin na ng taong bayan ang laban sa lansangan sa inaasahang isang panibagong malawakang dayaang niluluto ng mga mangkukulam sa malakanyang ay makikita rin nila at mararamdaman ang pulso ng sambayanan? hindi ba’t mas malinaw nilang makikita ang tunay na katotohanang pilit pinagtatakpan at itinatago sa kanila ng mga opisyal (lalo na ang mga pulpol na heneral) at ora mismo ay makapagpapasya silang pumanig sa nagngingitngit ng mamamayan?
BK- Thank you very much. I have not tried the way via Aklan. I always go via Iloilo to San Jose, Sibalom and Sn. Remigio. I should try that way. Just like Ellen I love Antique, that is why I always go home whenever I visit. And this is also why I follow this blog…I get a better insight of people’s feeling re- the election. I hope for HOPE. I HOPE to visit this June.My family is deeply rooted in Antique.
Mrivera- I dread to think of a scenario like this but you have a point. Kung nandoon na sila, (I have faith on the ordinary rank and file soldiers and a few officials)chances are they will join the masses. Do you think Esperon will be on the front line? And the retired generals of Arroyo? Kaya?
I am no Philippine movie fan, but yesterday, I found a movie that could be downloaded from the group that I am and contribute my own torrent file. It starred Ruffa Gutierrez. As usual, it was corny but boy, the scenery was breathtaking. It stirred old memories and made me feel nostalgic.
Mapapagtiyagaan sana except for those repeated rape scenes. Kaya tuloy ang daming nagre-rape sa Pilipinas! Kakasuka!
On the contrary, Magno, I remember Querubin telling the press that fateful February day about how they had been ordered to be at the rallies of protesters and pretend to be one of them, then provoked them to do stupid things for the men in uniform to be justified in shooting them pointblank. Iyan ang reason kay sila nagwelga.
I doubt if those soldiers heeding the illegal orders of Assperon and that Dolorfino have the guts to join the people with only their ideals and principles versus the armed members of the Philippine military. Mahirap mangarap ng gising sa totoo lang!
Ke tutulong sila sa mga taumbayan or not when the time comes when the Filipino people can have the guts to rise up in arms against the criminals oppressing them, Filipinos should be told that the Election Code prohibits the military from meddling elections, much less the implementation of the election law. It is illegal.
Hindi dapat magpagamit ang AFP sa ruling class.
Sa palagay ko ang isa sa mga layunin ng camouflaging ng militar sa mga depressed areas ay alamin kung anu-ano ang mga businesss at economic potential ng squatters area.
Sa ganang ito, imbes na mga mahihirap ang bigyan kaalaman na lumakas at tumalino ang nakatira duon ay pagsisilbi pa sa ruling class ang ginagawa.
Hindi nakakapagtaka kung bakit nag-aalisan at nagsisipag-abroad ang mga nakatira sa mga urban areas dahil ang mga tinitirahan nila ay napapaligiran ng mga mahihinang tao.
Tingnan nyo ang ginawa ng ruling class sa AFP? Hindi ba’t ginamit nila ito upang pagsilbihan lang ang kanilang mga pangangailangan?
The decay in the metropolis should be blamed to the elitist class!
Look at what they did in the past 200 years or so? They collaborate with the western interest and continued the rape of Manila!
Partly blamed is the “pinoy sinic-christian” ethics.
Look at Temasek holdings of Singapore?The Defense Ministry and the Finance Ministry of Singapore used to team up to promote and protect the heritage of their country.
Singapore’s architecture and landmarks symbolizes the preservation of their link with the West.
Binanggit ni Anna ang Jakarta at Manila sa itaas, ipagkumpara nyo rin ang Shanghai at Metropolitan Manila?
Ano ang values ng mga Pinoy bakit nagkaganito ang Metro Manila?
Yesterday Manila, today Metropolitan Manila, tomorrow San Francisco in US West coast.
The AFP should protect nation builder and all nation loving Filipinos.
They should discourage any ideas that promotes the idolatry on gun totting kids.
Ngayon nalaman ko na kung bakit karamihan sa mga Singaporeans ay tumatambay sa mga libraries at mahilig magbasa.
Ano ang produkto ng mall at library?
BK- Capital of Antique- is San Jose de Buenavista. There is a lookout point on the way to Iloilo that really explains why it is de Buenavista. Ang ganda ganda and the view at the Tiolas restaurant is breathtaking- Incidentally, the biggest flower in the world is said to be at the Sibalom National Park-
yuko,
hindi pangangarap nang gising ang sinasabi kong maaaring mangyari. alalahanin mo na ang mga kawal natin ay meron ding mga kamag-anak na apektado ng kawalang budhi ng mga lutaw sa malakanyang at merong posibilidad na mangyari ang hinahaka kong ‘yun sakaling maging isang nakakainis na sarsuwela ang gaganaping halalan.
tao silang may damdamin at karapatang sinisikil ng mga ganid na pulpol na opisyales lalo na ni espurol.
if there is one who is aiming high in the AFP, he is ltcol bartolome barker-o. whatever espurol says or orders for the troops to implement, like the setting up of more checkpoints nationwide in answer to gloria tomadora’s directives to help (kuno) the PNP in thwarting election-related violence, he (barker-o) always has a ready answer in defense even he clearly knows this move is highly illegal and not covered by their mandate.
the dog (espurol) and its puppy (barker-o) are always out wagging their tails to give satisfaction to their master even if it would mean devouring their own flesh in order to prove their loyalty to her.
the proof:
Military chief orders increased checkpoints
By Joel Guinto
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 04:24pm (Mla time) 04/30/2007
MANILA, Philippines — Armed Forces Chief General Hermogenes Esperon Jr. has ordered a nationwide increase in checkpoints in response to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s directive for enhanced cooperation among security forces to thwart rising election-related violence.
But before soldiers can be deployed to election hotspots, the
Commission on Elections (Comelec) needs to deputize the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), pursuant to a memorandum of agreement between the poll body and the Department of National Defense (DND), military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Bartolome Bacarro said.
Bacarro said the checkpoints would be for the enforcement of the election gun ban and routine security checks, which do not require a prior request from the Comelec.
newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view_article.php?article_id=63281
The militarization is three pronged: First, is to make it easier to rig the elections again, second is to neutralize the grassroots’ outrage over Erap’s conviction and third would be to eventually put the country in a martial law rule if the country becomes chaotic. With the anti-terrorist bill in effect, the tiyanak will be on a shooting spree, starting with the opposition winners and their supporters. THE BOTTOM LINE: THE TIYANAK WILL HOLD ON TO HER POWER AT ALL COSTS!
Dolorfino to be the next cheat-of-staff? No wonder he is being initiated into the Cheating Fraternity! BK, do not be dumb. Assperon makes it his business to know everything to protect the tiyanak. He knows what the military is doing. He runs by intimidation. This is his forte!
psb,
meron pa bang dapat pagdudahan sa naging sapantaha ko? tingnan mo nga at parang inihahanda na niya ang sarili niya sa susunod na posisyon sa pamamagitan ng paglalangis kay gloria tomadora at itong si espurol ay wala ring sey kahit maliwanag na pag-by pass sa kanyang awtoridad bilang punong tagapagpatupad ng hubong sandatahan.