Seven opposition senators petitioned the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday to allow their colleague, Senator Antonio F. Trillanes IV, to attend Senate session even under guard.
The seven senators are Senators Aquilino Q. Pimentel Jr., Benigno Aquino III, Rodolfo G. Biazon, Panfilo M. Lacson, Loren B. Legarda, Jamby Madrigal, and Mar Roxas.
They filed a motion to intervene in Senator Trillanes’ petition in GR No. 79817.
What the hell is going on?
At the Supreme Court hearing yesterday on the petition to permanently stop the government from signing the memorandum agreement on ancestral domain with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, chief government negotiator Rodolfo Garcia said he had no authority from President Arroyo to sign an agreement on behalf of the government.
All he had, he said, was his original authority to negotiate.
What was he doing then in Kuala Lumpur for the scheduled signing ceremony on August 5 (the signing was TROed by the Supreme Court on August 4)? The Malaysian hosts had prepared an elaborate stage where Garcia and his MILF counterparts were supposed to sign the document. Set to stand as witnesses were a Malaysian cabinet official, representatives of the Organization of Islamic Conference and ambassadors of a number of Islamic countries. Even US Ambassador Kristie Kenney was there for what was touted as a “historic” milestone in the march toward lasting peace in Mindanao.
Gloria Arroyo has lost control. She should re-sign.
She has lost control not only of herself (look up her throwing tantrum video last Monday in YouTube) but also of the government.
She should resign to spare the country further destruction, not only in terms of loss of lives but damage to democratic institutions.
Calls for Arroyo to resign are nothing new ever since the “Hello Garci” tapes surfaced which exposed her to have masterminded cheating in the 2004 elections. But she has effectively placated her political adversaries. This time, however, she has expended her political capital. Derided by majority of Filipinos, Arroyo’s words have no value.
Even MILF spokesman Mohagher Iqbal is not taking her seriously.
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Napanood nyo siguro sa ABS-CBN ang pagtataray ni Gloria Arroyo noong Lunes nang nagtaping siya ng kanyang mensahe tungkol sa pag-atake ng Moro Islamic Liberation Front sa Lanao del Norte?
Gloriang-gloria. Nag nagtitili siya na “But they are not here! But they are not here!” Lumabas ang kanyang pagka- spoiled brat.
Maririnig mo pa na may natapon. Mukha ngang nagtapon pa siya. Maririnig ang sabi ng isang Malacañang staff, “Mukhang tinapon ang laptop.”
Sabi ni Joe Capadocia sa Office of the Press Secretary hindi raw laptop ang tinapon ng kanyang pekeng presidente. Siguro nga, baka cellphone. O baka ash tray.
After throwing a tantrum because the teleprompter was not ready, Gloria Arroyo told the Filipino people Monday, “Because of this sneaky and treacherous attack , as your commander-in-chief, I have ordered the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police to defend every inch of Philippine territory against MILF forces, and Immediately restore peace in the affected areas in Lanao de Norte.”
It would have been funny if not for the more than 30 lives that were lost and more than 60,000 people who have been rendered homeless.
It would have been funny because if not for the temporary restraining order by the Supreme Court, Arroyo would have given away more than 700 barangays in addition to Basilan, Lanao del Sur, Maguindanao, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, and Marawi city that compose the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao to the MILF.
A military officer said Arroyo’s statement on the MILF attacks is a “classic example of the arsonist who acted as fireman at the expense of poor household owners.”
Update from GMANews: Death toll in MILK attacks rises to more than 30.
From: Inquirer.net
At least 21 people have been killed and many others were wounded in attacks carried out in Lanao del Norte and Saranggani provinces by the members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front that have since fled and were being pursued by troops, officials said Monday.
The Moro rebels, under the leadership of Commanders Bravo and Pangalian of the 102nd and 103rd brigade commands respectively, held ambuscades in several towns in these provinces, a week after the military flushed out their comrades under the command of Umbra Kato in North Cotabato province.
Chief Superintendent Nicanor Bartolome, PNP spokesman, said 21 people — seven still unidentified farmers of Barangay (village) Tapu, two civilians identified as Ricardo Gil and Ricky Salidad, and four other unidentified civilians were killed. The rest were soldiers
and militiamen.
Whatever you say of Musharraf, he still has dignity left in him which you cannot say of Gloria Arroyo.
ISLAMABAD (Agence France Presse) — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced in a televised address to the nation Monday that he had decided to resign after nine years in power to avoid the threat of impeachment.
The former army chief, who seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999, was under huge pressure from the governing coalition to step down before it launched the first impeachment proceedings in Pakistan’s 61-year history.
“After viewing the situation and consulting legal advisers and political allies, with their advice I have decided to resign,” a grim-faced Musharraf said, backed by Pakistani flags and a portrait of the country’s founder.
Sinabi ni Sen. Benigno Aquino, Jr. na magpa-file raw siya ng bill para amyendahan ang ‘holiday economics’ na batas ni Gloria Arroyo.
Mabuti naman at nakakainis na. Sinira na ni Gloria ang ating demokrasya sa kaniyang pagbabastos ng eleksyon. Sinira na niya ang ang check and balance mechanism ng ating pamahalaan sa pag-corrupt ng maari niyang ma-corrupt at paglagay ng kanyang mga tuta sa Ombudsman at sa Supreme Court.
Pati kasaysayan hindi pinapatawad. Sa kakalipat niya ng mga holiday, nababawasan ang kahalagahan ng ating pinagdidiwang na petsa.
Last month,Meralco chair Oscar Lopez said in a forum that with what is happening now to his family in relation to the ruling power, it’s as though Ferdinand Marcos’ dictatorship had not ended.
Lopez said this following attempts by Gloria Arroyo’s avid supporter, Winston Garcia, president and general manager of the Government Service Insurance System, to takeover Meralco, the Lopez family’s flagship firm.