by VERA Files
(Conclusion)
It was no accident that it was the Special Action Force of the Philippine National Police that penetrated the Batasan Pambansa and stuffed the ballot boxes with fake election returns to make it look like Gloria Arroyo won the 2004 elections.
Established in 1983 initially to help combat insurgency and later to “destroy enemy forces that undermine the nation’s stability,” the police commandos are trained as a rapid deployment force and to “noiselessly operate in the shadows.”
In its 25-year history, the elite unit has not been impervious to the country’s political upheavals. The SAF joined the February 1986 people power revolution that followed the defection of its founder, then Armed Forces vice chief of staff and Philippine Constabulary-Integrated National Police chief Fidel V. Ramos, and toppled President Ferdinand Marcos.
But in early 2005, some of the SAF’s own members said they undermined democracy when the unit switched the election returns on orders of former PNP chief Hermogenes Ebdane Jr.
Ebdane knew fully well and harnessed the unit’s commando skills. After all, he had served as SAF commander from August 1989 to February 1991.
It also helped that the SAF was one of the units securing the House.
Had no one talked, the operation that took place on Jan. 23 and 29 and the first weekend of February 2005 would have been SAF’s secret.
His colleagues describe Chief Supt. Marcelino Franco, who approved the operation as SAF commander at the time, as a “very serious, principled and highly professional” officer. But they also said that as a leader, he can be “very pragmatic.”
Franco would later be implicated in the alleged plan of the Marines and Army Scout Rangers in February 2006 to withdraw support from Arroyo.
In his affidavit, former Armed Forces chief Hermogenes Esperon, then the commanding general of the Philippine Army, said that his two classmates in the Philippine Military Academy (Class ’74)—Franco and Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda, then commandant of the Philippine Marines—had asked him to join them in their plan to withdraw support from Arroyo.
Esperon said this happened in a late-night meeting on Feb. 23 at the residence of then AFP chief Generoso Senga. He said Franco confirmed that “most of the elements of SAF-PNP will sympathize with those who will march and withdraw support from PGMA.”
Military officers accused of planning the February 2006 protest activity said Franco knew first-hand that Arroyo cheated in the elections. Unlike those who are detained and being tried in court martial for mutiny, no charges were ever filed against Franco.
SAF sources said prior to the Batasan ER switching operation, Franco met with Ebdane and Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano. He then entrusted the task to Supt. Rafael Santiago, the commanding officer of SAF’s Intelligence and Investigation Division.
Santiago, in turn, brought in young police officers, including Inspectors Rafael Lero and Samson Kimayong.
Santiago is said to be the quintessential intelligence agent. “Now you see him, now you don’t,” a police officer said.
Chief Inspector Ferdinand Ortega, who headed the SAF unit in the Batasan during the ER switching operation, appears to be well-liked in police circles. A colleague finds him “nakakatawang mayabang (amusing and a braggart).” He is affectionately called “Bungo” or skull, after the famous Baguio City police officer, Bobby Ortega, who was portrayed in two movies by the late actor Rudy Fernandez.
About 6,000 genuine election returns were replaced with manufactured returns in the January to February 2005 operations, a SAF source said.
A fourth operation was planned, but Chief Inspector Jimmy Laguyo, who by then had replaced Ortega at the SAF’s unit at the Batasan, refused to cooperate, the source said. Franco had Laguyo transferred to Abra.
The fourth operation never materialized. The unit was kept preoccupied by a failed jailbreak at the SAF headquarters on March 14, 2005 in which suspected Abu Sayyaf members were killed. The Commission on Human Rights had ordered an investigation of the SAF shortly after the incident.
The efforts of the SAF commandos who participated in the Batasan operation did not go unrewarded. The enlisted personnel were each given P10,000 one month after the operation.
“May natanggap kaming sobre na ibinigay sa amin na patago na sabi nila, ‘Ito panggastos niyo. Ito ’yung reward natin sa operation natin sa Batasan (We were each secretly handed an envelope and told, ‘This is for your expenses; this is our reward for the Batasan operation),’” one of them said.
He added, “Nung binuksan ko po ’yung envelope, naglalaman po ng P10,000. Hindi ko alam kung matuwa ako doon o matakot na gastusi ’yun kasi ’yun nga sa operation na’yun (When I opened the envelope, it contained P10,000. I didn’t know if I should be happy or be afraid to spend it because it was for that operation).”
Another enlisted policeman said they were summoned to the SAF office for the “good news.” He said the higher-up who handed them the envelopes advised them, “Huwag na lang kayo maingay. Sa atin-atin lang ito (Don’t talk about this. Let’s keep this among ourselves).”
The switching of the election returns at the Batasan was caught on video through a mobile phone camera. ABS-CBN had shown the video, but it went largely unnoticed.
But a SAF member who took part in the operation also has in his possession evidence—he calls it “souvenir”— of the operation: copies of the genuine election returns.
He said he removed five envelopes containing the returns from the van he was riding after the team left the Batasan compound in February 2005 and brought them home with him. Some of his colleagues did likewise.
The SAF member said he got curious and decided to inspect the contents of the boxes that had not been sealed with masking tape. “Yun ’yung election returns. Dahil po ako isang botante, alam ko po ang style ng election return (They were election returns. I’m a voter, so I know the style of an election return),” he said.
VERA Files was shown the envelopes containing the returns.
After the recordings of the wiretapped conversations between Arroyo and Garcillano on the cheating in the 2004 elections became public, the police commandos involved in the Batasan operation realized the value of the video and election returns in their hands.
Some of them said they all wanted to make public the evidence they had but feared this would endanger their lives and those of their families. They then thought of relocating abroad but they needed money to do that.
Sen. Loren Legarda, who was then protesting Noli de Castro’s proclamation as vice president, said in an interview she met with Joel Pinawin, a first lieutenant in the Army Reserve Corps who acted as liaison for the SAF personnel. She was shown a video of ballot boxes being moved at the Batasan but said the video was rather dark.
“But they were selling it to me,” she said.
Legarda does not remember the amount that was asked, but a source close to the SAF personnel said the group had hoped to raise P200 million, or P10 million each for the 20 people involved in the operation.
Said Legarda: “Where will I get the money? Kakatalo ko lang. Dinaya ako, malungkot, walang trabaho. Wala akong pera (I just lost. I was cheated, sad, jobless and penniless). I told them to do it for the country.”
The tampering and swapping of the election returns became evident when the Supreme Court, acting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal hearing Legarda’s election protest, opened the ballot boxes for Nalindong and Taraka towns in Lanao del Sur.
The copies of the returns that were given to the Commission on Elections, National Citizens Movement for Free Elections and the dominant and minority parties showed opposition standard-bearer Fernando Poe Jr. and Legarda leading Arroyo and De Castro. But the returns in the ballot boxes retrieved from the Batasan showed the opposite.
Despite the discrepancies, the Supreme Court dismissed last January Legarda’s petition, citing insufficient evidence of fraud.
Poe’s suit against Arroyo before the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) was dismissed on March 29, 2005. The tribunal said his widow, actress Susan Roces, could not replace him as petitioner because “she would not immediately and directly benefit from the outcome should it be determined that the declared president did not truly get the highest number of votes.”
The returns from the 2004 elections, including the fabricated ones, are no longer at the House of Representatives. Last February, shortly after he became speaker of the House, Rep. Prospero Nograles ordered the ballot boxes containing the returns moved from the South Wing to the Commission on Elections. The makeshift room where they were once stored has been dismantled.
Last March, former Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. called for an investigation of the 2005 switching of election returns at the Batasan.
So it seems everything in the Philippines can be had or has a price. Whore Gloria has corrupted anything and everything for her own greedy ambition. It doesn’t matter the amount of money to be paid or bribed, whore Gloria has the VAT to cover it. The whore will pay, with people’s money, of course, even to SAF. It just to show you, no agency in the govt under the whore is Mr. Clean. Philippines govt. is completely dysfunctional. It’s almost to impossibility to even imagine the Philippines govt will straighten itself, just won’t happen. It’s just too big of a monster.
“How shall FREEDOM be defended? by TRUTH when it is attacked by lies!”
The present political atmosphere and social hopelessness are now quite ripe for civil disobedience and first Philippines revolution. Its a must in order to free the country from corrupt administration of the whore. These are the only thing perhaps whore Gloria will respect. It’s no longer a question nor demand a discussion, time for whore Gloria’s make belief, enchanted kingdom to end. As we can imagine, not a single agency in the govt under the whore Gloria can be trusted. Every single one is corrupt, as whore Gloria corrupted them in pursuance of her selfish intention in the very beginning when the whore and the pimp husband headed and planned the ousting of a legitimate govt mandated by the people. The services of the whore and pimp, no longer wanted, it never was.
The country can’t take much more of the lies by the whore Gloria, she must expire. Honeymoon by the couple of corrupt, whore and the pimp in Malakanyang has long been over. Time for the populace to take back by force what really belong to them. Whore Gloria and the Pimp are nothing but illegal occupants, along with the pigs.
Toney Cuevas Says:
The present political atmosphere and social hopelessness are now quite ripe for civil disobedience and first Philippines revolution.
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T.C. speaks wisdom. Gloria has been telling the pinoys for a long time that god helps those who help themselves. Gloria has been helping herself like the fox inside the chicken coop and she is doing well. Gloria is telling pinoys in effect to start a revolution. Unless pinoys help themselves, gloria will keep on helping herself … tuloy ang gloria … ligaya.
State Policy, Section 26 is very explicit, unambigous. “The State shall maintain honesty and integrity in the public service and take positive and effective measures against graft and corruption.” Something SAF decided to ignore. Does it really matter, especially when the numero uno, whore Gloria, enforcer of the law, supposedly, is the most corrupt of all Asia. 1987 Constitution of the Philippines is just words written on a piece of paper, it meant nothing. The rule of law meant nothing, at least not in the Philippines. Why should it mean anything, whore Gloria purposely ignored it, so why not the common tao? If the rule of law no longer applies, the more reason for Philippines revolution to rid of the disease in the govt. It’s a choice beteem them corrupt and the hopeless people, either you kill them or else they’ll kill you slowly and surely. Furthermore, what’s good of a govt when it’s not serving to what was intended?
Artilce VII, Section 12. President can be removed from office in case of serious illness. I therefore, on this day of our lord, pronounce whore Gloria totally insane and incapable of performing the stolen position.
This report confirms what we have all been talking about: the illegitimacy of the Arroyo administration.
But why are we tolerating it?The evidences are staring at us. Or we are staring at the evidence.
Zombie na ba talaga tayo?
TC,
The rule of law that this administration is talking about is just a set of regulations designed to be easily circumvented by those powerful enough to do so. Its ironic because the “rule of law” was supposed to protect the rights/freedoms of the people, now its being used to deceive (no evidence ergo not true) and oppress them. Of course there are some who will say “funny, I don’t feel oppressed?” – just look around you…indifference also encourages impugnity…
Gabriela,
They are protected by “legality” as I said, no evidence, therefore its not true logic. I bet you they will just say if you have any doubts GO TO THE SC!
JDV may be the missing link to finally pin down the Evil Bitch. It was he who warned that the Bitch’s government would fall if he testifies. But where is he right now? Abroad again. Let’s hope he left the country to snub the SONA. He better talk when he returns. The country is waiting for him!
Gabriela,
Hindi naman zombie, masyado lang abala. Most Filipinos canno afford a moment’s respite, kailangang kumayod o gutom. Kailangang makipag agawan sa basura for some, 24 hours pamamasada for others, dual jobs, etc.
sa totoo lang wala na talagang magagawa o mapupuntahan ang taong bayan kungdi mag antay nalang ng 2010 para isuka si pandak na gasul (remember her?)sa pamamgitan ng pagboto sa nalalapit na election,may election pa ba? hopefully.kanino pa maaring lumapit ang taong bayan? sa pulis,militar,korte,doj,ca,supreme court? eh bayad na ang mga ito…sa cbcp? hmmmm amoy envelope..kay taning? bwahahaha may evil to evil connection ang payaso este palasyo pala…esep esep kung may malalapitan pa ang taong bayan…(sarap makita ulit si pres. gasul nakakaalis ng stress.)
I am archiving these articles of Ellen on the election fraud in 2004, and distributing them to all my egroups, and friends in various networks now monitoring the activities of the Philippine government under the suspected criminal who cannot be caught yet, indicted and prosecuted because of the people she has appointed in the police, military, prosecutor’s office and worse of all, the Philippine Supreme Court.
Come to think of it, wala bang kahit isa sa mga ungas na iyan na pinaupo ang may natitira pang dangal, puri, hiya at pagmamahal sa bayan sa mga kabulastugang pinapagawa sa kanila noong unanang punung-puno ng nana ang utak ma nabubulok na sa katarantaduhan.
Ingat, Ellen, for these idiots may be preparing now the lawsuits against you despite the evidences, etc. duly recorded and confirmed and provided with affidavits of their authenticity. At least, hawak na rin namin ang mga ebidensiya. Salamat!
Pandagdag din sa mga ebidensiya doon sa kasong nakasampa na sa ICC/ICJ.
“We have our disagreements, but we are one nation with one faith. As your President, I care too much for this nation to let anyone stand in the way of the people’s well-being. I will let no one threaten our nation’s survival. “GMA SONA 2008
The DRAMA has begun!!!
Expect shortly this political game scenario on how Gloria Arroyo will extend her term beyond 2010 in spite of constitutional restrictions.
This will just be a repeat of the 2003 events when Gloria reneged on her 2002 Rizal day promise to the nation not to run in the 2004 elections.
Threat to the nation’s survival? Wow! Apparently, the fact that she is the destroyer has not sipped into her head yet, because the creep is busy sucking everything that she can suck whatever is left of the loot since the time her cohorts allowed her act as president on behalf of the duly elected president they deposed. Ang galing—sa kawalanghiyaan!!! No doubt about that!
Jug,
I told my mother about the pagpag. She was shocked as I knew she would. It was my first to hear about it, too, here. I was just in fact being sarcastic when I mentioned previously about the probability of Filipinos eating darak once Vietnam and Thailand refuse to sell rice to the Philippines anymore. I did not know that it was not just going to be probable but possible with the creep still insisting that the Philippines is now on the road to progress, which is what she has been saying from day one she declared herself president with her boyfriends in the military, et al.m when in reality Filipinos do not even know now if they will ever be free from want and hunger!!!
Pati baboy nga inagawan na ng pagkain! Is that progress? Sure iyong mga pilipino nakatikim ng sisid rice at the end of WWII, pero kaning baboy? Nevah!!!
I told my husband about it, nasuka! Pinagalitan tuloy ako. Akala niya kasi nilalait ko ang sarili kong lahi! Hindi niya maintindihan iyon! Sabi ko tuloy sa kaniya, hindi lahi ko ang nilalait ko. Kumukulo nga ang dugo ko sa ginagawa sa lahing pilipino! Pinababayaan nang kumain ng kaning baboy!
I hate to compare Japan and the Philippines kasi wala talagang comparison but figure of speech, mangyari ang ganyan sa Japan, sibak agad si Fukuda. Hindi lang katulad ni Ellen ang susulat sa dyaryo ng ginagawa ng mga animal kundi lahat ng peryodiko dito hanggang sa may tumalon sa mataas na building, etc.
Puede ba pakisabi kay Gloria Garutay, iyong SONA niya, “tell it to the marines!” Tarantada talaga!
Just to give an example of how Filipinos overseas in fact dread going home to the Philippines, matitiyaga sa mga bansang katulad ng Japan na hindi naman sila welcome kundi doon sa mga bar at club ng Japan para sa mga DOM (dirty old men)! Just a few hours ago, I visited a Filipina in detention. Nahuli sa pag-o-overstay sa Japan. Dinala dito after the ban on Japayuki as a mail order bride. Ipinakasal sa isang hapon na hindi niya kilala. Tapos kinasama noong may-ari ng inuman, pero hindiin-extend ang permit niya. So, nabilog (overstay). Tapos nakisama sa isang hapon na naawa sa kaniya. Nagkaroon sila ng anak. Dahil sa bilog siya, iyong hapon ngayon hindi siya mabigyan ng health insurance, etc. Kaya nang mabuntis, hindi makapunta ng hospital. Nanganak ng sarili niya. Buti na lang hindi naman ang bata at hindi nagkakasakit. Mirakulo talaga! Nanganak ng dalawang beses. Tapos two weeks ago, nahuli ng pulis for overstaying. Nalamang buntis na naman. Sumakit ang ulo ng mga pulis at prosecutor kung ano ang gagawin. May nagboluntaryong abogado para tulungan. Tapos ngayon dahil napagpasiyahan na i-deport na lang siya sa Pilipinas bago lumaki ang tiyan. Nang dalawin namin, iyak ng iyak. Magdugo man ang puso ko sa awa, wala akong magawa kasi ang pag-o-overstay sa Japan ay krimen at puede siyang makulong ng hanggang 3 taon. Kung magbabayad ng 3 milyon yen iyong hapon baka payagan siyang manuluyan dito alang-alang doon sa mga anak niyang ayaw niyang maging pilipino kasi gutom lang daw ang aabutin sa Pilipinas. Maling katwiran para sa akin. Diyan ako galit sa mga nagtatakwil na ng bansa nila lalo na’t di naman puedeng maging hapon pa ang mga anak niya gawa ng mga bastardo at dadaan pa sa paghuhukom bago bigyan ng karapatang maging hapones na depende din sa pasiya ng tunay na ama ng mga bata.
Ayaw niyang umuwi kung tutuusin lang. Hindi lang iyak, hagulhol pa ang ginawa para maawa ang abogado at hukuman sa kaniya. Pero sabi nga, ang krimen ay krimen at ang mga kriminal ay hindi welcome sa Japan. Isip ko lang, “Diyos ko po, bakit nagkaganoon ang Pilipinas?”
Kung si Gloria Garutay pa rin daw ang presidente, ayaw daw niyang umuwi dahil gutom ang aabutin niya at ng mga anak pa niya sa Pilipinas na binubuhay niya sa pamamagitan ng kita niya sa Japan kahit bawal! Kaya sinong di kukulo ang dugo sa pamahalaan ng isang kriminal?
Kaya sigurado na hindi pa bababa si Glorya sa 2010 kasi karamihan sa mga General na ginamit niya sa pandadaya ay nasa puwesto pa. Bistado na ang mga kalokohan, ginamit nila ang mga kawawang sundalo para lang sa mga personal na ambisyon. Baka karamihan na ang mga sundalong nagamit ay pinagpahinga na nila para wag ng pumutak. Dapat sa mga General na iyan ay i-firing squad sa Mendiola sa harap ng mga Arroyo.
Ang pulis sa pulitika ng Pilipinas ay laging kumakapit kung saan lamang. Ugali ng mga Pulis patola ang iwanan ang kakampi kapag ito ay tagilid na. Ang SAF (special army ni fidel) ay marami na ring ginawang masama laban sa Masang Pilipino. Una na dito ang pagtanggol sa pekeng Pangulo na kailanman ay hindi hinalal ng taumbayan.
Ang mga heneral ay wala ng inisip kundi ang kanilang magiging pwesto sa administrasyon ni Gloria Arroyo. As of last count, mahigit 90 retired police and military officials na ang na-appoint sa iba’t-ibang pwesto mula Cabinet Secretary, Undersecretary, Assistant Secretary, Director, Ambassador, consul, etc…
Wala na nag idelyalismo sa PNP, panay pansarili na lamang ang iniisip.
PNP = Pulis Ni Pandak
Etnad, all of the Evil Bitch’s goons are placed in the government. From Police, Military, Judiciary, Supreme Court to the smallest government agency…most are her people. If she fails to remain in 2010, it would be hard to prosecute her even after she leaves office especially if the next President is her anointed one. That’s the sad reality.
Totoo ka diyan B. Pati nga may taning na sa buhay ay ipinu-puwesto pa. Eto kayang si Yano bayarin din kaya? Mukha niya kasi e kontrabida. Parang Heneral noong panahon na sakop pa tayo ng mga Hapon. Makapili.
brad: do you mean, we Filipinos are caught with our back against the wall of hopelessness? It would seem so indeed. Pero, we still have hope and we can pray for a miracle. I attended a prayer meeting last night where a priest and a nun from a community in Cebu. We should not curse as the curse might come back on us. Instead we should ask God’s blessing on the person..thus I pray that God will bless her tonight that she may sleep soundly , so soundly that she will find it hard to wake up and will not be able to rule the country for life..
Palag na Bayan Ko….!!! (Hinog na ang Panahon..!)
Arroyo is poised to claim that she has nothing to do with the crisis … that this is simply the result of external factors that would soon blow away. She is likely to repeat her lie that the economy continues to grow ….
http://www.philippinerevolution.net/cgi-bin/statements/statements.pl?author=jms;date=080727;language=eng
29 Jul 2008
Dear Ms. Ellen,
I’m sorry if this way out of the topic, but I feel this is a responsibility not only from the government (what do we expect) but from us, and I am seeking your help to elicit support with regards to the plight of our kababayans, especially women. It has been noticed especially written in the news, but after everything has been written in the news, nobody seems (I’m sorry) to notice the growing problems of our OFW’s in Malaysia. According to the news there is an ongoing crackdown(?) of our kababayans from that southern part of the region in ASEAN
The unabated maltreatment that our brothers especially sisters in there, nothing is coming out. They are helpless as I read in the news.
Somehow we as Filipinos should start looking into this.
A friend of mine told me that one of the major problem (actually pressing ones) is the lack of education and lack campaign or advertisement how to combat human trafficking.
Politicians are trying(?) on their own(???) to help bring them back to our motherland (because 2010 is fast approaching). Human traffickers are hitting the remote areas in the provinces and is encticing our poor kababayans to work abroad, only to be fed to the lions. When they arrive in the country of their destinations, they are forced to work without salaries.
I think it is about time that our local government officials should be told of this, of what is happening in their own backyards. Because of too much politicizing, they forgot to take care of their constituents.
We are exerting (I, myself have been too much in politics)effort on politics, but we forgot about them. How can we help them in campaigning against this shenanigans, how can we tell them that there is no such thing as fly-now-pay-later-schemes or other forms of illegal recruitment?
Some of our young women fall prey in the hands of organized crime in prositution. How can we help them???
As a respected journalist, I know you are one among the few who can help our trafficked victims and would be trafficked victims in the future.
More power and GODSPEED to you Ms. Ellen.
The plight of OFWs and our Kababayans in Malaysia has never been addressed to by this evil GMA regime. Not only in Malaysia, but other countries like South Korea, Middle East. Recently, thousands of Filipinos were deported from Sabah. Many of them were born and grew up in Sabah. What hurts most is the fact that Sabah is ours. No attempt has been made by GMA government to reclaim Sabah or at least makes known our intention to pursue the case. The Evil Bitch doesn’t care!
Checkmate ang taong bayan. This is a grand conspiracy indeed. A former president, supreme court justices, senators, priests, congressmen, comelec commissioners, generals, lieutenants even the janitor of the Batasan are all involved. Could this really happen to a democratic country? Do we really have the freedom of choice? What is so bad about FPJ or so good with GMA that these people are willing to destroy gov’t institutions? Its like being robbed, stabbed and raped infront of everybody to see.
Former New York City mayor Rudolph Guiliani has a simple rule on how Filipinos should choose the next leader.
“The very best way to do this… figure out which one you can trust most for the future of your country,” Guiliani said. Filipinos may be in disagreement… “but who do you trust the most? Who do you think is closest to what you want for the future of your country?”
…..And since surveys indicate that majority of the Filipinos don’t trust Arroyo, she should resign if we follow Guiliani’s above statement.
BD: No attempt has been made by GMA government to reclaim Sabah
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What does she care? And why should she when it was her father who was the culprit. I wonder if there was big money involved when he allowed Malaysia to claim ownership of Sabah. Kaya siguro nakabili ng bahay sa Forbes Park that none of the previous presidents did, not even Marcos as a matter of fact!
There is an English saying, “Once bitten, twice shy.” It means “that someone, who has been hurt or who has had something go wrong, will be far more careful the next time.” Kaya bakit may pumapalakpak pa kay Gloria Garutay lalo na iyong si Nograles daw? Sipsiiiiip! Anyway, whatever Gloria says, dapat binabasura na lang. Best, kaladkarin na iyan at isabit sa poste. Sobra na, pati iyong anak na mayabang na nangungurakot din. Lalo na pag naging senador iyan. Heaven forbid!
As with the Sabah issue, the country at fault is the British government. Immagine you rented a house then instead of returning it to the rightful owner you gave it away.
Don’t get fooled by referendum, the people occupying Sabah are mostly Malaysians. It’s like squatters occupying your house and voting who the new owner should be.
Marcos had a chance to regain Sabah then but somebody blew it.
History proves that the British, like Spain and US, were the most abusive colonizers. The Chinese hate them as much as they hate the West. The Chinese cannot forget the “Opium War”.
Re: Marcos had a chance to regain Sabah then but somebody blew it.
Are you referring to Operation Merdeka? Pres. Ferdinand Marcos conceived a plot sometime in 1967 of establishing a force of commandos to destabilize Sabah. The name of the commando unit: Jabidah. The rest is history.
Yes Diego, the Jabidah Massacre. I think it was Ninoy Aquino, then a journalist, who exposed it. Marcos was determined to take back Sabah. Who blew it? No other than the great housewife, Cory.
b/evil,
P22,000 ang registration fee para makinig sa lecture ni Rudolf Giuliani. Lahat naman ng sinabi niya ay dati mo nang alam.
Doon din nag-speech si Oscar Lopez sa forum na iyon kung saan niya sinagot yung isang reporter na nagtanong tungkol kay Winston Garcia at yung attempt to takeover Meralco, ang sagot ni Lopez is something like, “For what? So they can give it to their cronies in Cebu?”
This confirms all the inside info I have previously written in my blog on the Mafia vs. Meralco thingy. Yung nagsabing wild imagination ko lang daw iyon, or another one of my conspiracy theories, heto, kay Oscar Lopez na mismo nanggaling.
I think you’re right, Tongue. Enrile also accuses Meralco of masterminding the Cagayan Port Irene smuggling probe.
Gabriela says:
“But why are we tolerating it?The evidences are staring at us. Or we are staring at the evidence.
Zombie na ba talaga tayo?”
You know what the problem is? Those with the power and influence to remove this illegitimate government are dyahi to do so kasi sila nagluklok diyan, ILLEGITIMATELY. They don’t believe in democracy kaya di nila ma-take si Erap. They’re in a quandary: kailangan di mag-appear na nakakakahiya sila and at the same time, dapat may pretensions (as in pretensions talaga) na sumusunod pa rin sa democracy. Para maalis yang si Arroyo, umamin na na-corrupt ang Supreme Court, etc. Paano mo naman ikukulong lahat ng mahistrada, general, politicians na nag-Edsa 2? Si Erap dapat ibalik eh gagawin ba nila yun? So, sige na lang at hintay na lang mawala si Arrobo….
Jake Las Pinas says: “What is so bad about FPJ or so good with GMA that these people are willing to destroy gov’t institutions? Its like being robbed, stabbed and raped infront of everybody to see.”
Good point. Actually, it started with Erap. What’s so bad about Erap that they conspired to destroy the democratic institutions beginning with the Supreme Court, Congress & military. May mga political science/sociology professors pang naloko sa Edsa 2. Were’nt they taught the evils of the Machiavellian shortcut “the end justifies the means.” In the case of Edsa 2, undemocratic na the means, horrible pa the end.
Take note that based on the SWS protracted surveys on the Estrada corruption issue, just before the promulgation came out late last year, lumabas na majority didn’t believe he was guilty of plunder: from the time he was first demonized in the media up to 2007, dumami those who think Erap is innocent as charged.
Now, we ended up with the First Gentlepig and Pekeng Pangulong ubod ng sama. Whom do we now blame for the plight of the Philippines?
Tama yan grizzly. Me din nga I reprinted this article series (with Ellen’s & Vera Files’ permission) sa Newsvine and blog ko. I-propagate natin ang facts of 2004 Pres polls cheating at baka sakaling malunod sa kasamaan nila yung mga patuloy na sumusuporta/nakikinabang k Pangulong Arrobo at Unang Ginoong B_boy.
ano po ba ang nangyaring aberya sa pagbubukas ng Naia3 at ano ung mga anomalya bkit nagresign agad si mikey nung opening n ng naia3