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Preview sa mangyayari kina Arroyo at mga alagad

Hindi daw maintindihan ni dating Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos kung bakit siya isinama sa pinakakasuhan ng Senado kaugnay sa ma-anomalyang kontrata para sa pagpatayo ng telecommunication network sa Pilipinas (national Broadband Network) na gagawin sana ng ZTE, isang kumpanya sa China.

“Bakit? Nakasuhan na kami. Ano pa ang gusto nila?,” tanong daw ni Abalos. Ini-imagine ko lang na kuntodo paawa effect pa itong si Abalos.

Ano ang gusto ng mga tao? Makulong ka kasama ang iyong mga amo na si Gloria at Mike Arroyo.
Mabuti naman at isinama si Gloria Arroyo sa rekomendasyun ng Blue Ribbon Committee na pinamumunuan ni Sen. Richard Gordon ngayon sa kanilang mga rekomendasyun na kakasuhan at i-impeach.

Senate report: impeach GMA; charge Mike re ZTE report


Even whistleblowers don’t escape Gordon fire

by JP Lopez
Malaya

President Arroyo committed an impeachable offense, that of culpable violation of the Constitution, when she did not stop the corruption that attended the negotiations for the overpriced $329 million national broadband network project with the Chinese firm Zhong Xing Telecommunications Equipment, the Senate Blue Ribbon committee said in its draft report.

“There’s a culpable violation of the Constitution. Why did she not stop these people from committing crimes?” committee chair Sen. Richard Gordon said in a press conference.

Gordon routed the 127-page report among senators yesterday.

Romy Neri’s home strafed

by Abigail Kwok and TJ Burgonio
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Neri inspects bullet holes in his house. Photo from Philippine Star
Neri inspects bullet holes in his house. Photo from Philippine Star
Social Security Systems president Romulo Neri’s Quezon City home was peppered with bullets by armed men reportedly wearing fatigues and bonnets Friday morning, police said.

City police director Chief Superintendent Elmo San Diego said in an interview that authorities recovered some 100 spent shells from M16 rifles in and outside Neri’s home at #28 Palali Street, Sta. Mesa Heights.

President Macapagal-Arroyo on Friday condemned the strafing of Secretary Romulo Neri’s home in Quezon City, and ordered the Philippine National Police to increase the number of his security men.

Babala sa mga magbubulgar ng katiwalian ng mga Arroyo

Pambihira namang buhay ito. Sina Joey De Venecia na nga at Jun Lozada ang nagbulgar ng katiwalian sa $329 milyon na NBN/ZTE deal, sila pa ngayon ang kakasuhan.

Si Gloria at si Mike Arroyo naman ay libreng-libre dahil wala raw makitang ebidensya, sabi ni Sen. Richard Gordon, chairman ng Senate Blue Ribbon committee.

Ano ba naman itong si Gordon? Mataas ang respeto ko sa kanya dahil sa kanyang ginawa sa Subic kung saan ginawa niyang industrial at tourism hub nang inalis ang U.S military base noong 1992.

Hindi pinu-proteksyunan ng batas ang krimen

The Arroyos just before a lunch meeting with ZTE officials in Shenzhen on Nov. 2, 2006.
The Arroyos just before a lunch meeting with ZTE officials in Shenzhen on Nov. 2, 2006.

Kailan ba naman na ang pangungurakot sa kaban ng bayan ay “acts of the state” o gawain para sa bayan?

Tama ang punto ng Concerned Citizens Movement sa pag-kwestyun sa desisyon ng Ombudsman na hindi kasama si Gloria Arroyo sa kakasuhan sa ma-anomalya na $329 milyon na NBN-ZTE deal.

Ang pinuprotektahan ng Saligang Batas ay ang mga gawain ng isang pangulo para sa taumbayan. Hindi ang katiwalian na dapat nga ang pangulo mismo ang magsusulong ng pagparusa dahil yan ay obligasyon niya sa taumbayan.

Ombudsman clears Arroyo on NBN deal

Update: Concerned Citizens Movement to appeal Ombudsman’s ‘fatally flawed’ decision clearing GMA

The Concerned Citizens Movement, whose members stood as complainants in the only complaint that included Mrs. Gloria Miguel Arroyo as respondent for violations of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act in connection with the NBN-ZTE deal , will appeal the recent decision of the Ombudsman to charge only Chairman Abalos and Chairman Abalos with violations of the anti-graft and corrupt practices act before the Sandiganbayan, which they described as “fatally flawed”.

“This a decision that sanctions impunity. Why should only two co-conspirators be charged when the facts are very clear that the Spouses Miguel and Gloria Arroyo were co-conspirators to the criminal acts committed in the botched NBN-ZTE deal? In a conspiracy, the act of one is the act of all”, Roque who is both a complainant and counsel declared.

The CCM also challenged anew the correctness of the Ombudsman stance that the President is both immune from investigation and from suits. According to the group, the principle of presidential immunity has been revised since it was first applied in Philippine jurisprudence.

Roque explained: “Presidential immunity finds no demonstrable textual commitment in the letters of our Constitution. It was merely a result of jurisprudence intended to improve the administration of public administration. The assumption is that without the said immunity, the President may run out of time to govern since all her time will be devoted to defending herself in court. Since the concept was first applied in our jurisprudence as early as 1910 in the case of Forbes vs. Chuoco Tiaco, it has since been revised by the our own Philippine Supreme Court, citing the US case of Clinton v. Jones. Today, the prevailing view as held in the case of Estrada v. Desierto, is that immunity should only be for official acts: “It will be anomalous to hold that immunity is an inoculation from liability for unlawful acts and omissions. The rule is that unlawful acts of public officials are not acts of the state and the officer who acts illegally is not acting as such but stands on the same footing as any other trespasser. Indeed, a critical reading of current literature on executive immunity will reveal a judicial disinclination to expand the privilege especially when it impedes the search for truth and impairs the vindication of a right”(Estrada vs. Desierto, (353 SCRA 452).

Construing this decision of the Ombudsman with the decision of the Supreme Court in Neri vs. Blue Ribbon Committee which upheld Neri’s invocation of privilege in refusing to answer questions that would clearly show the President’s culpability, Roque said that this latest Ombudsman decision, if unchallenged, will result in presidential Impunity and a license for all Presidents to commit any and all criminal acts such as other acts of graft and corruption and even killings, torture and enforced disappearances.

Aside from Roque, other CCM members who stood as complainants are: Josefina Lichauco, Consuelo Paz, Renato Constantino jr., Guillermo Cunanan, Roel Garcia, Bebu Bulchand, Perla Bandiola, and Maria Flor Querubin.

CCM members were also joined in the said Petition by Former Vice-President Teofisto Guingona, and representatives from Bayan Muna, Gabriela, ACT, Kilusan Mayo Uno , Courage and Bayan.

Leila Salaverria
Inquirer

The Office of the Ombudsman has dropped graft charges against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her husband in connection with the scuttled $329-million NBN-ZTE deal, but recommended the prosecution of former election chief Benjamin Abalos and ex-Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Romulo Neri.

Prosecution witness favors defendants

Mayuga with Lim and Querubin
Mayuga with Lim and Querubin

Former Flag-officer-in-command Mateo Mayuga was the only witness presented by the prosecution yesterday in the mutiny case against 28 officers implicated in the alleged plan to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo in February 2006.

Mayuga’s testimony however favored the defendants.

Mayuga, who is more known for the “Mayuga report”- an investigation of the participation of the military in the cheating in the 2004 elections, the results of which have been kept secret by the Arroyo administration, testified about the meeting on Feb. 23, 2006 called by the AFP Chief Generoso Senga.

Lorredo claims Palace wants him out of Lozada case

From Abs-CbnNEWS.com

lorredo Controversial Manila court judge Jorge Emmanuel Lorredo revealed Wednesday that someone from Malacañang is trying to persuade him to inhibit himself from the perjury case of NBN-ZTE star witness Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada.

“Kahit anong pressure ng Malacañang sa akin, hindi ako mag-inhibit (Malacañang cannot pressure me to inhibit),” Lorredo, presiding judge of the Manila Metropolitan Trial Court (MTC) Branch 26, said in an exclusive interview with ABS-CBN News.

Lorredo said that his refusal to inhibit from the case is also meant to protect his fellow magistrates at the Manila MTC.