The Philippine flag was displayed wrongly with the red part on top during the joint press conference of President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, Vietnam President Nguyen Minh Triet and US President Barack Obama on US-Asean summit held at Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Saturday (Manila time) Sept. 25, 2010. Vietnam is this year’s chair of the Asean and the Philippines is the country Coordinator for the ASEAN-US Dialogue relations for 2009-2012. Photo by Jay Morales / Malacañang Photo Bureau
The US Embassy, through its spokesperson Rebecca Thompson said it was an “honest mistake.”
The US Embassy statement:
“This was an honest mistake. The U.S. treasures its close relationship and close partnership with the Philippines which were demonstrated this past week during President Aquino’s trip to the U.S., with the signing of the MCC Compact, the US-ASEAN meeting, and the meeting of our two Presidents that followed it.’
Nobody among the entourage of Pres. Aquino III ever noticed the inverted flag? Amazing. Maybe this may mean something. Like – humanda kayo dyan sa Pinas pagbalik ko (PNoy). He is in a fighting mood.
INTENTIONALLY or not,maybe a sign of strenght,a dignity and smoker never give up habit because of cause oreintad group to give up or else???My my lord,I thought you just gonna blow smoke in to the air,and let the smoke fade in to natural dead.Don’t let these beastly creatures,kick your behind,w/o cocking your GUNS and start aiming for kill.If a person deserved a bullet w/ his or her names let it be,no matter a relatives or BFF.Show some abnormalities behaveior of statesmen.Ask those people they say boss sila dapat sila ang sundin,are they deserved to obey and be called “boss”.
hoy kayo, klaro at inamin naman na mali ang pagkabaliktad ng bandila ng pilipinas…Sa america nangyari iyan, at pati rin naman siguro sila napahiya din kasi kilala ang pilipino na sensitibo masyado lalo na sa ganyang bagay…. Taasan natin level natin kabayan, ang mga amerikano nga eh kahit saan panig ng mundo, nakikita nila na sinusunog ang bandila nila, so please umunawa tayo at ipakita malawak ang pag iisip natin..
Intentional or not, everything seems to go wrong….
Sorry but this inverted flag incident is a none issue as far as I’m concerned. The US embassy has already admitted their faux pas. It will only be an issue for me if they didn’t admit their stupidity.
no issue for me too…didn’t even notice it…
The law says we should give respect to the Flag of RP. This we do whenever we sing the Pambansang Awit, when we fold the Flag at retreat, when we drape it over the casket of our dead heroes. So wherever there are flags of different countries at display I always search for the Philippine Flag and admire it among the flags of nations.
So how could anyone in Pres. Aquino III entourage miss such an error and have it corrected there and then. Its the Philippine Flag. No amount of apology from the US Embassy can mitigate the negligence of people in PNoys party who is/are responsible for such. True this may be a little or small issues, but hey, what happens when big issues crop up.
Parang sa South China Sea at Spratly, tameme ang ating gobyerno.
Hope it is not an omen of a war. Knock on wood.
Hope it is not an omen of a war. Knock on wood.
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double knock ako dyan…not good for business…
Gwapo ni Pnoy! Parang si Joshua habang naglalaro ng video game!
Walang isyu ang pabaligtad na pagsabit ng watawat ng Pilipinas at hindi rin dapat na humingi ng paumanhin ang US of A.
Juggernaut – #9 September 27, 2010 10:37 am Hope it is not an omen of a war. Knock on wood.—— “double knock ako dyan…not good for business…”
Kahit i-katlong i-katok pa iyan sa ataul ng mga yumaong bayaning Pilipinong… ang kaganapan sa di-intensyong pabaligtad na isinabit ang RP flag ay isang “signos”.
Hindi simpleng kaganapan iyan! kundi isang babala… ang “RP flag” ay sagisag ng mga kaluluwa ng mga Pilipino, buhay man o patay… nawa’y kung magkaroon man ng isang himagsikan, ito’y para sa kapakanan ng sambayanan at para sa pagbabago’t pag-unlad.