Here’s Inquirer Online’s account of the verdict on the Subic rape case:
By Tetch Torres
INQ7.net
Last updated 07:12pm (Mla time) 12/04/2006
ONE of four US Marines accused of raping a Filipina in Subic last year was found guilty while three others were acquitted by a local court Monday.
Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, 21, from St. Louis in Missouri, faces up to 40 years in prison following the verdict handed down by Judge Benjamin Pozon of Branch 139 of the Makati regional trial court (RTC).
Rep. Roilo Golez (Parañaque) is asking House Speaker Jose de Venecia and his gang to postpone by at least a week deliberations on Cha-Cha in deference to the calamity caused by typhoon “Reming.”
Golez said, “It would be the height of insensitivity and callousness to discuss Cha-Cha while hundreds of thousands have been dislocated and mourning their dead or looking for heir missing loved ones amidst the debris and mudflow.
“It would be in very poor, terrible taste to discuss Cha-Cha while a huge fraction of the nation are in pain and anguish. We should have a moratorium on Cha-Cha for a week,” he added.
Estimates of those who perished in Albay from the destruction wrought by typhoon Reming keep on rising. Philippine National Red Cross officials said missing persons…
Natutuwa ako na sa finals si Gian Madangal at si Mau Marcelo ng Philippine Idol na gaganapin sa Araneta Coliseum sa Sabado (Dec. 9), 9 p.m.
Mas gusto ko sana kung si Pow Chavez ang pangatlo kaya lang na –eliminate na siya dalawang linggo na ang nakaraan. Ang sarap pakinggan ng boses ni Pow at napaka natural ng kanyang personalidad.
Ngunit si Jan Nieto ang pangatlong finalist. Maraming mas magaling kay Jan kaya lang ganoon talaga ang reality contest. Sana lang huwag siya ang manalo na Philippine Idol dahil hindi naman talaga siya pang-international talent. Okay na lang yan na crush siya ni Pilita Corales.
Mabuti na lang at hindi pumasok si Miguel Mendoza na finalist. Dapat itong si Miguel ay gawin na lang hobby ang pagkanta. Tutal mukha namang may kaya, pwede siyang mag-produce ng mga kanta na bagay sa kanyang talent.
Four days after Gloria and Mike Arroyo were discharged from St. Luke‘s hospital last Monday, they were back again today. Gloria went there a little…
The interview of ANC’s Ricky Carandang with departing Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz wherein he revealed a warning from Defense Secretary Ronald Rumsfeld in Dec.2005 against Gloria Arroyo’s plan to declare martial (click here) made us look back to reports around that time.
Our Dec.16, 2005 post was a document on “Detailed Exit Plan” for GMA believed to have been prepared by a group headed by National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzalez.
The latest version of Malacañang’s charter change via Senateless Con-Ass shows the depth of the desperation of Gloria Arroyo and her cohorts.
When we say cohorts, that includes House Speaker Jose de Venecia and his dishonorable gang.
In a text statement, Rep. Roilo Golez (Parañaque) yesterday said,
“Last night, I witnessed one of the saddest and most saddening episodes in the history of the House (of Representatives.)
Nasisira na yata ang ulo nitong si Gloria Arroyo kung akala niyang makalusot itong ginagawa niyang paglapastangan sa Constitution para lamang siyang manatili sa kapangyarihan.
Kung sabagay matagal nang labag sa batas ang mga ginagawa ni Arroyo. Ngunit ang pinaka garapal na kanyang sinusulong ngayon ay ang sapilitan na pagpapalit ng Constitution sa susunod na linggo.
Napagkasunduan ng mga 60 na congressman at ni Arroyo sa Malacañang noong Lunes ng gabi magkaroon sila ng Constituent Assembly sa pangalawang linggo ng Disyembre at papa-abrubahan raw sa isang plebiscite ang ginawa nilang bagong Constitution bago mag Pebrero 12.
My friend Tita Valderama, congressional reporter of the Times Journal, was seated behind Mike Arroyo, Mikey Arroyo and their lawyer, Jesus Santos during yesterday’s hearing of the Ethics Committee on the motion by Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano to dismiss the expulsion case filed against him by Mike Arroyo in connection with an alleged account in a German bank.
Tita said Cayetano asked for ten days to explain to his constituents how his fighting the First Family has resulted in the withholding of funds for his projects.
This was what Tita witnessed:
Irked, Mike Arroyo muttered, “Putang …(Bitch)”. He immediately stopped himself and signaled to Mikey to say something.
The closer the time of reckoning (May 2007 elections), the more desperate Gloria Arroyo and her minions become.
Rejected twice by the Supreme Court for their fake People’s Initiative and unable to get majority of the senators to agree to a Constitutional Assembly to change the Constitution, Arroyo now wants to just change the Constitution through “congressional action”. What animal is that “congressional action” is, only Arroyo knows.
BY REGINA BENGCO
A CAUCUS in Malacañang chaired by President Arroyo the other night agreed to scrap the May 11 elections and hold instead elections for parliament in November under the proposed shift to the parliamentary system.