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Month: October 2009
Bilang Kristiyano, naniniwala tayo sa buhay sa langit kapag namatay tayo dito sa lupa.
Hindi natin alam kung ano klaseng komunidad ang nandun sa langit dahil wala naman tayong nakausap personal na galing doon ngunit ako ay naniniwala na ang paglisan natin dito sa mundo ay hindi katapusan na ng buhay.
Noong necrological services kay Haydee Yorac, ang respetadong abogada na naging commissioner ng Commission on Elections at chairperson ng Presidential Commission on Good Government, sinabi ko na kapag panahon ko na, hahanapin so siya doon sa itaas.
In denying the group’s accreditation, Commissioner Nicodemo Ferrer said that “the principal founders of the Magdalo Para Sa Pagbabago Party remain unrepentant and that they still harbor the propensity to engage in another illegal adventure similar to the failed 2003 Oakwood Mutiny, should they again fail to achieve their goal — this time with the use of the political party that they are now applying for accreditation and which may very well be used by them to recruit and indoctrinate disciplined followers which may become their blind followers.”
The Magdalo group today assailed the denial of the application as party list as “unfair, defective, myopic and shortsighted”
It showed a young candidate, without the logistics – from family treasure chest or from business earnings or from government resources – to subsidize a national campaign which election experts say could cost P3 billion, daring to go direct to the people to bring his message of reforms in governance.
He gave three reasons in his speech but what interested me was the second:”Sinumang tatakbo o magiging Pangulo ng bansa, hindi pwedeng magawa ang mga dapat niyang gawin ng naka-kadena ang aking mga kamay at paa, naka-piring ang aking mga mata at may busal ang aking bibig. At lalong di dapat mag desisyon base sa dinidikta ng interes ng iisang grupo, partido o tao lamang. Kung gusto nating umunlad at guminhawa hindi na pwede ang dating gawi. Kung hindi… papaano niya halimbawa, isusulong ang pagpapanagot sa tiwali; pork barrel; ambassador; contractualization; bodyguard; oil deregulation law; Pagcor.
Nakakabingi ang katahimikan sa hanay ng 28 na opisyal ng military na humaharap sa kasong mutiny ng binasa ang desisyon na “Denied” ang kanilang motion na sila ay ipawalang sala.
Walang emosyon ang kanilang mga mukha ngunit ramdam ang bigat ng kanilang damdamin. Parang nabalutan ng itim na ulap ang courtroom.
Nagdesisyun ang military court noong Martes na i-deny ang motion ng natirang 17 na opisyal na ibasura ang kasong mutiny sa kanila dahil hindi naman napatunayan na nag-plano at kumilos silang patalsikin si Gloria Arroyo sa kanyang ninakaw na pwesto.
Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero announced Wednesday morning he has resigned from the Nationalist People’s Coalition founded by business tycoon Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr. but stopped…
by Victor Reyes
Malaya
A military court yesterday denied a motion of 17 military > officers, including two senatoriables, to dismiss the mutiny charges filed against them in connection with the alleged plan to overthrow the Arroyo government in February 2006.
The court did not buy into the contention of the accused, through their counsels, that the prosecution’s evidence against them are weak to sustain the charge of violation of
Article of war 67 (mutiny).
“After due deliberation, the court resolved to deny the motion of the accused,” said the ruling, read by law member Col. Marian Aleido, in dismissing the motion for finding of
not guilty.
Bukas (Oct. 28) na raw ang deklarasyon ni Sen. Francis “Chiz” Escudero para sa kanyang kandidatura para presidente.
Dapat matuloy na itong kanyang deklarasyon dahil sa kanyang kaka-postpone, akala tuloy ng marami hindi na siya matutuloy. Lalo pa ang kanyang original political team na kinabibilangan ni dating senador Serge Osmeña, advertising executive na si Yolly Ong, at political adviser na si Malou Tiquia ay umalis na sa kanya.
Ang asawa kasi ni Osmeña ay si Bettina Lopez. Siyempre kapag Lopez, Noynoy Aquino yun. Malaki ang utang na loob ng mga Lopez kay dating Pangulong Cory Aquino, na ibinalik sa kanila ang Meralco at ABS-CBN na kinumpiska ni Ferdinand Marcos nang siya ay nagdeklara ng martial law.
The prosecution in the court martial of the 28 officers charged with mutiny in connection with the February 2006 alleged withdrawal of support from Gloria Arroyo is blocking the release of the 11 officers acquitted last Oct. 15.
Trial Judge Advocate Lt. Col. Feliciano Loy said last Oct. 21, he asked for the nullification of the court’s decision acquitting the 11 of the 28 respondents and moved to “reopen to adduce additional evidence.”
Loy said in his motion, he said the court headed by Maj. Gen. Jogy Fojas denied the prosecution due process when it ruled on the motion of the defendants for a ruling of not guilty on the same day the accused submitted their respective “Motion for the Finding of Not Guilty.”
It was good to see those young military officers again assembled in one place, still speaking and yearning for reforms in government.
Their symbol, the sunburst, was everywhere. They wore it proud on their black shirts. It was also plastered on the walls of the UP Hostel where the Samahang Magdalo was holding its first national convention.
There were some 600 delegates representing 375 chapters all over the country.