Note: Court martial hearing for the 28 officers involved in the alleged failed February 2006 coup resumes tomorrow at 9 a.m. in Camp Capinpin, Tanay.
Old faces, new recruiters involved in new destab plot
by Victor Reyes
Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. on Wednesday said the same people involved in last year’s failed power grab are among those recruiting officers and enlisted personnel for the latest plan to destabilize the Arroyo government.
Esperon said four active officers were also implicated by four fellow officers whom they tried to recruit. “We have the names of the four officers who made the approach. The four are under surveillance,” he said.
“We will not tell you yet (their identities) because of the operational necessity, put into surveillance the reported recruiters who… are very much connected to the group that would have launched the adventurism in February 2006,” he added.
Esperon said they are also getting statements from four enlisted personnel who reported attempts to recruit them on or before Sept. 21. He said the recruiter in this instance has not yet been identified.
He said the plot appears to have been still at the recruitment stage.
The 2006 plot involved at least 28 Marine and Army officers who are now held at the AFP Detention Center inside Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal while undergoing court martial for a number of offenses, including mutiny.
Alleged leaders Marine commandant Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda and Scout Ranger commander Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim were reportedly set to march with their men to the Edsa Shrine where they would have withdrawn their support from President Arroyo. This group included Medal of Valor awardees Col. Ariel Querubin and Lt. Col. Custodio Parcon.
Esperon admitted that there have been “some attempts” from this group to recruit military personnel. “But we got one interesting question from one of the targets for recruitment who said they did not succeed when they still had their post, what more when they are (already) in detention.”
Esperon last week reported that at least six junior officers involved in the recruitment have been reassigned and put on hold. Yesterday, he said the four officers and four enlisted personnel that were being recruited have now been restored to full active duty status after they cooperated in the investigation.
“I must say that while there were indications of destabilization, including recruitment, we are very much on top of the situation because in all cases, the approaches or recruitment were reported to us by no less than the targets,” he said, pronouncing the threats to have been nipped in the bud.
He said police and soldiers continue to maintain checkpoints in the expressways only because “we want to be very sure about things.”
On accusations that he brought out the destabilization plot to divert public attention from the controversial National Broadband Network project, Esperon said: “We understand the allegations, that is also some sort of a denial from some people.”
Inquirer’s story on same subject
Other related stories:
Magdalo detainees hit tight security
Detained junior officers from a shortlived mutiny in 2003 decried the tightening of security at their cells inside Marine headquarters at Fort Bonifacio.
Security has been so tight that even two detainees with health problems were not allowed to seek treatment at a hospital, the officers said. Click here for full story
Detained officers don’t have monopoly of patriotism – Yano
Esperon; What a Military Jerk.?
I pity you honorable soldier of today for not having truly great leaders to command. All you have is a chief-of-staff and commander-in-chief sitting around with both of their thumbs up their ass. Consider the military experience of Esperon who’s around 5 battalions under oxymoron generals;
Battalion A General; sit on his butt and watch and do nothing.
Battalion B General; turn tail and run
Battalion C General; wag tail and roll over
Battalion D General; snitch and surrender to Garci
Battalion E General pick the phone and cry to Kenny in case of Abu’s attack
Esperon may well go down in history as a coward soldier in the Philippine Military, a man with the backbone of jello, who as General couldn’t bring himself to stand up for his own convictions to a pathetic weakling, but chose, rather, to obey orders like a toy soldier from his cretin master. He’ll be a disgrace soldier recorded in the military books. He sent his battalion D to Basilan to teach his soldiers how to surrender, he decoded his combat strategies to his enemies and that secret is to shoot the soldier who is pushing the tank,his tank has four reverse and one forward in case the Abu’s attack his soldiers from behind.
He incarcerated those brave soldiers and reshape his own troops to a different breed and different training. All his elite troops have a supply of Nike shoes so that they can run faster than the enemy, His foot soldiers must wear steel toed boots in case they drop their weapons and surrender to Abu’s they won’t break their toes. He promoted generals those who can count the quickest vote of the oblivion souls for his favorite candidates. Oh! What a General could Be?
Under control ang mga sundalo ha! Kaya pala batallion batallion ang bantay ng mga “men of honor”. Asspweron has all the reasons to be afraid. Tumitiempo lang ang mga sundalo. Ingat siya talaga dahil mas respetado ng mga junior officers ang mga nakakulong na opisyales. Hindi pa nakakalimutan ng mga sundalo na si asspweron ang isa sa mga nandaya sa eleksyon para kay tiyanak at ngayon gigil na gigil na itong mga ito sa kasinungalingan at kapalpakan na ginagawa ni tiyanak. Ingat ka nga asspweron, bilang na rin ang mga araw mo. One of these days you will suffer the same fate of Erap and Abalos. Maybe even worse. Magintay ka lang, walang atrasong hindi pinagbabayaran.
sina gen miranda at lim, recruiter ng coup plotters?
esPWEron, para makasigurado ka, ITALI mo sa ‘yong bewang ang mga nakakulong na opisyal. siguro nahahati ang katawan ng mga ‘yan pagdating ng hatinggabi at kung saan saan nakakarating at nakakapag-rekrut ng mga mag-aalsa laban sa administrasyon ng iyong lady love!
TANGA!
Esperon still considers Miranda et al a threat. He (Esperon) is really in big trouble.
sobrang halusinasyon nitong si esPWEron, oo.
ni wala ngang nakakalapit na ibang tao sa mga nakakulong na opisyal, sasabihin niyang recruiter ng destabilizers?
esPWEron, your face is the number one and top recruiter rebellion!
meron akong lanseta dito, ipahiram ko sa ‘yo para ikaw na ang tumapos sa pagiging supot MO!
Whatever “destabilization” efforts there are, imagined or otherwise, calling it a coup, I think, is inaccurate. Any move to remove the current government must be called a counter-coup. Remember that this government came on the heels of the 2001 coup, and was kept in power courtesy of yet another coup in 2004.
To General Esperon:We remind you “NEVER AGAIN!”
Ang bayan kong Pilipinas
Lupain ng ginto’t bulaklak
Pag-ibig ang sa kanyang palad
Nag-alay ng ganda’t dilag.
At sa kanyang yumi at ganda
Dayuhan ay nahalina
Bayan ko, binihag ka
Nasadlak sa dusa.
Ibon mang may layang lumipad
Kulungin mo at umiiyak
Bayan pa kayang sakdal dilag
Ang di magnasang makaalpas!
Pilipinas kong minumutya
Pugad ng luha ko’t dalita
Aking adhika,
Makita kang sakdal laya!
ELLEN:pls start a blog topic on BURMA.
WE are all BURMESE!
Can we show our solidarity with the people of BURMA who are being oppressed by the brutal military regime there.CNN breaking news report that security forces have fired automatic weapons on helpless crowds of anti- government
protesters.
Express your outrage on the the brutality there.Burma today.Maybe Philippines tomorrow.
Myanmar Embassy in Manila, Philippines
Embassy of Myanmar in Manila, Philippines
8th Floor, XANLAND Centre
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City: Manila
Phone: (0063-2) 817-2373, 812-9587
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Dalawang tao ang nagpapatakbo ng Pinas, si Ermita at Asspweron. Si Kwin Korap ay kanila pinoprotektahan at sinususi para tuloy ang daloy ng pera sa bulsa!
Si Esperon ay bata ni Ermita. Si Ermita ay bata ni Ramos. I remember the basic principle of the subject of logic. If the first and second premises are related, the conclusion is the same. Tama ba?
A+ ka Pechanco. heheh!
Kaya si JoedV ay dehins din kaya ni Kwin Korap na yanigin!
Chi,
What’s ‘dehins’? Thnx.
Is he the defacto military ruler? Assperon wants to impose his will against the legislature and the senators of the republic. The senate leadership must censure Assperon for his arrogant action.
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. yesterday barred senators, including a former military superior, from conducting a public hearing inside Fort Bonifacio that should have been presided over by detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.
With all the invited guests, including a Cabinet offi-cial, parti-cipants to the hearing called by Trillanes’ committee on civil service and government reor-ganization were not allowed entry by Marines stationed at the main gate of the Philippine Marines headquarters in Taguig City, who said the resource speakers need to secure clearance first from Esperon.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20070928hed4.html
Re Esperon’s smart tactical doctrine: “He said police and soldiers continue to maintain checkpoints in the expressways only because “we want to be very sure about things.”
WHAT THINGS?
Is he the defacto military ruler? Assperon wants to impose his will against the legislature and the senators of the republic. The senate leadership must censure Assperon for his arrogant action.
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. yesterday barred senators, including a former military superior, from conducting a public hearing inside Fort Bonifacio that should have been presided over by detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.
With all the invited guests, including a Cabinet offi-cial, parti-cipants to the hearing called by Trillanes’ committee on civil service and government reor-ganization were not allowed entry by Marines stationed at the main gate of the Philippine Marines headquarters in Taguig City, who said the resource speakers need to secure clearance first from Esperon.
http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/20070928hed4.html
Ellen,
Re: “Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. yesterday barred senators, including a former military superior, from conducting a public hearing inside Fort Bonifacio that should have been presided over by detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.”
In theory, the commanding officer of a military base has the right to refuse entry to ANY individual who does not belong to the military and particularly who is not working or living on the base.
The proper thing to do (if this country had a professional army and professional senate) was to have duly informed the military hierarchy of the visit and the business of the legislators. In theory, they should be given access to the military compound assisted by staff on the base particularly if those seeking entry permission are legislators. It’s called courtesy.
There is nothing in military rules and regulations that forbid the military to accept, entertain, provide access to an investigation panel of a military base, particularly a legislative body whose business it was, was to conduct hearings in aid of legislation.
Given that the hearing is to be held before a detained military officer (who by the way, has not been convicted yet), it was paramount for the senate panel to have obtained the commander’s authorization beforehand, a mere formality. But as ever, I believe our Senators IMPROVISED ONCE MORE and so were caught with their pants down.
Bloody unprofessional our Senate is – that I could very well believe they only sent a letter informing military hierarchy shortly before the hearing was scheduled.
I am amazed that with 3 FORMER military men in the Senate, this kind of thing should happen!
If our own Senate treats military matters, protocols unprofessionally, it is only fair to say that Esperon, who is not a professional himself, behaved condescendingly.
The Senate should get back and do the right thing. Plan the hearing this time properly; Esperon, in his capacity even as chief of staff, cannot deny them access to the base or to conduct their business for investigation purposes (in aid of legislation!) Under the constitution, he is below in hierarchy, particularly where Senators are concerned.
(I have a suspicion though that it was Gloria who personally issued specific instructions through Ermita to deny the Senate panel access!)
Esperon is really not up to the job, is he?
Re: “Esperon said four active officers were also implicated by four fellow officers whom they tried to recruit. “We have the names of the four officers who made the approach. The four are under surveillance,” he said.”
Anywhere else in the world, in the West, in the East, South, North, etc. a military chief does not go around convening press conference to decry a coup d’état plot – HE GOES AFTER THEM, GRAB THEM, QUESTION THEM and if he has proof then, he breaks the news to the public!
For God’s sakes, this is a coup d’état he is talking about! If there’s an element of truth, then he is bound by military rules to shut up and do his work and not to go around muckraking in front of the press… completely idiotic military tactic, complete waste of time;
This buffoon is taking us for a ride!
Put¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤¤ina nya!
Malinaw na ang ginagawa ni Esperon is defiance of the law of a civilian government. Dapat alerto na ang mga pilipino diyan. Baka magaya ang Pilipinas as Burma! Dios mahabagin!
# AdeBrux Says:
September 27th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
Chi,
What’s ‘dehins’? Thnx.
…Dehins is a slang or street lingo meaning “Hindi”. Here are other examples: The name Erap comes from the word “Pare” and I think it was first thought of by FPJ. Yagbols means bayag. Alaws means wala. There are many many more funny and weird Tagalog slangs.
Oh! Thanks Pechanco. I knew about Erap – heheh – but not dehins and alaws!
Do you know what “yugyug” means? Smart guys like Mrivera, Tongue and Cocoy can tell you.
No, what is yugyug?
Unfortunately, my Pinoy slang vocabulary is very, very limited. But my Pinoy curse vocab is extensive (I think) – heh!
We have a paranoid, corrupt, idiot at the helm of the AFP. I don’t know what to make out of it. This either makes Esperon dangerous or a clown.
Yugyug o nag-yuyugyugan. Ayaw ko nga sabihin kung ano dahil baka magalit si Ellen.
Aha – I think I get the gist, Penchanco, thanks. Hihihih.
Sino ang nagyuyugyugan? Si Neri at si Abalos?
Mga friends
Kapag yugyugan ang pinaguusapan, dyan pumapasok ang lahat na klaseng censors. At kahit hindi nila jurisdiction, gawing rated x ang blog. Sa panahon ni Gloria, lahat ay nangyayari. Pero kapag minarkahan ng rated x ito, lalong maraming magbo-blog.
Teka, sino ba talaga ang nagyuyugyugan? Kasama ba si Gloria diyan? Akala ko ba nakikipagyugyugan siya kay Clinton?
What about a YouTube featuring Neri and Abalos doing a yugyugan?
Asspweron has all the right to be scared, malapit na ang katapusan ni Gloria. He’s just stretching the days by making up phantom enemies so he can justify to continue imprison the “men of honor”.
May katapusan ka rin Asspweron, makipagyugyugan ka na lang kay Gloria!
Hahahahahahahahah! “May katapusan ka rin Asspweron, makipagyugyugan ka na lang kay Gloria!”
Sigaw ng bayan: Mag-yugyugan na tayo !
Nah: “Mag-yugyugan na lang sila!”
It is really amazing how majority of Filipinos can sit tight there and allow these crooks to make fun of them.
How can they tolerate these crooks even when they make their lives as miserable as it is. Otherwise, why should doctors there think of allowing themselves to be demoted by retraining to be nurses so they can go overseas where there is a shortage of nurses instead of staying in the Philippines? They are actually more need in their country, and cannot leave their countrymen to depend mainly on God’s miracles all the time no matter how much they profess to have faith in God, whom a lot many in fact forget when they are abounding wealth, even stolen wealth.
How can they just sit there and do nothing? Such an indifference should be stopped now! Ituloy na iyong sinasabi ni Esperon na coup. Siya naman ang may idea niyan, but make sure they won’t have the opportunity to declare martial law at baka magaya ang Pilipinas sa Burma, and we see Trillanes turning into Aung Sang Suu Kyi, who has served as the symbol of the death of freedom and democracy in Burma.
Now, we see even their monks getting beaten, etc. by their military. I wonder if they are using Christian soldiers to do that.
I love these Burmese as a matter of fact. I have long been watching their struggle in Japan, and have patterned a lot of our activities after them. My Japanese police friends admire them for their dedication. Pirming may nagpro-protesta sa harap ng embassy nila, rain or shine, hot or cold, kahit may yelo. Lahat Burmese, walang katulad kong hapon na may lahing pilipino lang, something in fact that oftentimes prove a hindrance to my personal activity against a bad regime in the Philippines.
Naririnig ko na sinasabi daw ni Siason, anong pakialam ko e hapon naman ako. E siya, anong ginagawa niya to make life worthwhile for his countrymen? Nanghihingi ng limos for Filipinos na hindi naman nakikinabang sa mga ibinibigay ng Japan? That in fact I cannot tolerate especially when I think of the amount of my taxpayers’ money that go to those ODA funds.
Golly. Cry of Balintawak na!
Why would you announce to the world that you are conducting surveillance on certain officers? Shouldnt that be conducted in secret?
Why is Esperon afraid of officers who are in jail? He has taken away their cell phones, their visitors (except immediate family and lawyers), the chance to speak to media, and in some instances their salaries. He has taken nearly all he can possibly take away from these men, and he is still afraid.
Klingon, diyan mo makikita na maraming atraso itong asspweron sa mga nakakulong! Takot siya dahil kapag may pagkakataon ang mga ito na tumayo ng pantay sa kanya at luminya sa likod ang mga sundalo, walang maiiwan sa likod ni asspweron, maliban na lang siguro sa mga binundat niya ng pera at promosyon para lang sumunod sa kanya. Lahat ng nakababatang sundalo ay sa likod ng mga nakakulong na opisyal. Kaya takot na takot ang supot na esspweron. This ass do not have an iota of respect from the junior officers. Sige lanbg ass, magpakasasa ka para kapag wala na si tiyanak tignan natin kung hindi lang sa kulungan ng aso ang bagsak mo. I can’t wait for that day!
klingon,
Esperon is doing psy-war; he is thinking by announcing the surveillance, he will intimidate the troops… gago talaga!
Ang psy-war ni Asspweron ay panis na, hindi na mabili, talk to the hands na lang s’ya!
News from NY: Arroyo urges Myanmar to takes steps toward democracy
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Papansin ang gagang Kwin Korap Gloria. Pinakikialaman pa ang Myanmar e sa sariling backyard ay ganun din ang pinagagawa niya kay Asspweron at katulad na Garci Generals.
Konti na lang ang lamang ng Pinas sa Myanmar in terms of Gloria and military abuses, wala siyang karapatang manawagan kuno para sa kagalingan ng ibang bansa.
Nagkalat na naman ng kayabangan sa ‘merika si Gloria!
“News from NY: Arroyo urges Myanmar to takes steps toward democracy”
Naku, umarte na naman itong unano na ito!
AFP tightens security…Malacanang tightens GMA’s…Okay ba ang rhythm at slogan?
question, bakit sobrang-sobra ang takot ni gen HERmogenes esperon kina maj gen miranda et al? kasi HERmo siya?