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Arroyo’s favored Marine

Published by Ellen on February 24, 2009

Update: CA hearing and plenary session scheduled today was cancelled due to lack of quorum.

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How come John Martir is being promoted major general when he has a pending case before the Ombudsman?

Since deliberation on the confirmation of the promotion of seven military officers which was supposedly yesterday was deferred by one day, members of the Commission on Appointments should take a closer look at the record of Martir and see if his promotion now would be good for the Philippine Marines and to the country.

His case before the Ombudsman is about his having gone on AWOL (absent without leave) for more than one year (477) days from July 1998 to January 2000.

Sign of the times

Published by Ellen on February 17, 2009

Yesterday, the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency acquired 195 new intelligence officers with the graduation of the new batch of cadets at the PDEA Academy.

In his speech before the new graduates, Parañaque Rep.Roilo Golez said they are entering a career of risk, honor, glory and high mission.

“The campaign on illegal drugs is the moral equivalent of war. It’s a tougher war than war against the NPA, the secessionist movement and the Abu Sayyaf. More than 4,000 barangays, 50 per cent of them in the National Capital Region, are effected by the menace of drugs. Seventy-five per cent of major crimes in the NCR are drug related. This is a serious public order problem,” Golez said.

The people’s fury

Published by Ellen on February 15, 2009

Never mind Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and Sen. Miriam Santiago. We know them to be allies of Gloria Arroyo (or whoever will serve their interest).

But it was painful to see Sen. Aquilino Pimentel, who fought the Marcos tyranny and was a victim of electoral cheating, spouting the same line as Enrile and Santiago putting the pressure on the World Bank, which exposed the rigging of bids in the public works it finances, instead of Finance Secretary Gary Teves and Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez who, by their non-action, protected Gloria Arroyo, Mike Arroyo and other crooks named in the WB report.

I texted Sen. Pimentel telling him of my disappointment about his role in last Thursday’s Senate hearing and this was his reply:

“Sorry, dear Ellen, for creating the misimpression. That’s the last I’d do: protect GMA and company.

Continue readingThe people’s fury

Beware!

Published by Ellen on February 5, 2009

When Gloria Arroyo last week ordered Lakas and Kampi, her political parties to merge, her minions quickly added that charter change is dead in the water.

They tried to give the public the impression that they are preparing for the 2010 elections.

Beware! It’s all part of the genius of Gloria Arroyo in putting one over the Filipino people. She has gotten away with it several time since 2001; she has no reason to stop doing it this time.

Jun Lozada’s reflections

Published by Ellen on February 3, 2009

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Tomorrow, friends and supporters of Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, one of the star witnesses in the $329.5 million aborted telecommunications deal with China’s ZTE Corp, will trace his harrowing experience with the minions of Gloria Arroyo on Feb. 5, 2008.

There will be a mass at the La Salle Greenhills chapel at 7 p.m.

I sent Lozada questions on his thoughts today and here are his answers:

Q:One year after, you are still living under the protective custody of La Salle brothers and the nuns. Do you regret exposing the NBN/ZTE anomaly? If you can turn back the clock, would you do the same?

Lozada: One year after of exile in our own country under the protective custody of the Christian Brothers of La Salle and the AMRSP, I am still convinced that I did the right thing of exposing to the Filipino people the magnitude and the involvement of GMA, FG and their minions in the large scale corruption that is plundering our nation into poverty.

Signing official documents on a holiday

Published by Ellen on January 27, 2009

Prosecutor John Resado sinks himself deeper . The more he talked the more that his story becomes incredible.He admitted to making a P800,000 deposit on the day he finalized the resolution dismissing the case against Brodett, Tecson and Joseph and ordering their release,

The date of the resolution was Dec. 2, 2008. Information tipped to the National Bureau of Investigation said Resado and his wife deposited separately two P800,000 in a bank in Bacoor, Cavite. He admitted only to one P800,000 which he said came from their money-lending business. He said the deposit had nothing to do with the resolution.

To stress the disconnect between the Dec. 2 resolution and the Dec. 2 deposit, Resado said he actually signed the resolution on Dec. 1.

Resado forgot to check his calendar. Dec. 1, a Monday, was declared by Gloria Arroyo a non-working holiday to observe Andres Bonifacio day which fell on a Sunday.

Magsabi na lang kasi ng totoo, ano.

Prosecutor declines to open bank accounts

Sabotaging anti-illegal drugs campaign

Published by Ellen on January 25, 2009

Updates:
Arroyo called up Santiago on Palparan.

Golez wants Resado probed.

I would not be surprised if the idea to appoint retired general Jovito Palparan, known as the “butcher”, to an anti-illegal drugs body, came from Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez.

That would be the surest way to discredit the anti-illegal drugs campaign and lose the cooperation of the civilian community. It’s a stroke of genius that only one with a mind so malevolent could think of.

That it was apparently accepted by Gloria Arroyo, who crowned herself anti-drug czar for two weeks, raises questions if she is still in control of the government.

Not signing on for Puno-for-president

Published by Ellen on January 18, 2009

I’m wary about calls for Chief Justice Reynato Puno to run for president in 2010.

I share the suspicion of Sen. Kiko Pangilinan that “the Arroyo government is quietly encouraging the moves to draft Puno” for president.

Sen. Ping Lacson has endorsed Puno for president saying that he is willing to subordinate his own presidential ambitions to the chief justice. Nilo Tayag, student- activist-turned- religious- preacher has launched a Puno-for-president movement.

Giving ammo to drug syndicates

Published by Ellen on January 15, 2009

CA orders PDEA to present “Alabang Boys”

Drilon: Gonzalez wrong about Marcelino secondment

Marcelino appointment covered by AFP regulation: AFP

Blame Arroyo for Marcelino appointment

Only in the Philippines.

Imagine a justice secretary giving drug syndicates ammunition to use against law enforcers. The drug lords must be rejoicing.

In his anger towards Maj. Ferdinand Marcelino, who dared talk back to him at a hearing in the House of Representatives, Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez said the Marine officer’s secondment at the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency is unconstitutional. Thus, all the operations conducted by Marcelino could be rendered invalid.

The right connections

Published by Ellen on January 11, 2009

Several names have come up as the connections that the parents of Richard Brodett, one of the suspects in the September 2008 Ayala Alabang drug buy bust, tapped to free him and his two friends, Jorge Joseph and Joseph Tecson.

Officials of the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency said the lobbying came loaded with multi-million peso offers.

It did not matter if one was in or out of the government as long as he was willing to say the word like former Navotas Rep. Ricky Sandoval.

Golf, supposedly a game of honorable men, provided an important link in this despicable affair that that further ravaged the people’s faith in the justice system. PDEA director general Dionisio Santiago said Sandoval, aside from being a townmate, is a golfing buddy. Sandoval, on the other hand, said that it was through golf that he met Butch Brodett, the father of Richard.

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