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O. J. O P P O S I T I O N F I L E S
THE BATTLE
FOR THE
PRESIDENCY
2004
In police language, they call that “planted evidence”. The CIA did.
It was shown on TV and the public believed them.
On the other hand, first PCGG Chairman Jovito Salonga, close friend of
Ninoy and Jomari, headed and bungled OPLAN BIG BIRD. Swiss Bank
Corporation in Zuerich, Switzerland, showed him the Marcos Instructions
for some few trillions of dollars in accounts with Citibank, Chase
Manhattan, and Bank of America, all in New York. Ayaw nila.
“I don’t want Marcos to look good.” That was what Cory told him on the
phone. “Filipino people? Bahala sila!” So, Salonga came home empty-
handed. The 21 accounts are still there, close to $7Trillion now. 20% are
reserved for the Filipino people, but the Filipino people don’t know, don’t
believe. They believe in the lord and the virgin, courtesy of our foreign
colonizers. Kasi, sabi ni Cory. Blessed are the poor. Hallelujah!
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GLRO 0105
S-7-3-1941
PROLOGUE
Whatever, this book has a lot to do with our true history and the
true situation anywhere in our land. It also has a lot to do with
personalities, but mostly with what they don’t want other people to
know. No, this is not about tsismis, even if Filipinos love tsismis
so much.
This is more about unmasking false images and revealing true facts
that the Filipino people may never have known, and it is certainly
about drawing the battle-line and showing the deep rift between the
Marcos and the anti-Marcos forces in our country.
If any one else has a recipe how to pay for the national debt, local
and foreign, around and above Pesos 3 (three!) Trillion for the
Filipino people to pay, then we should elect that person right away
to be the President 2004.
President in 2004 should be the one who would welcome the idea
to “un-freeze” the hidden (hidden by government, mind you)
Marcos accounts and implement the “LOI’s” (Letter of Instruction)
that go with every Marcos account, whether in local banks or in
foreign banks.
The playing field for this first presidential election in the New
Millennium is definitely prepared by mass media on command.
Who owns the mass media? Not the poor people in the Philippines!
There are a handful of super rich families in this country, they own
what they consider worth owning and what they consider gives
cash flow. The rest? They don’t care, the rest is for the Filipinos.
Filipinos pay cash, everywhere, for every thing, day and night.
So, here we know where the Marcos money is and how to get it.
All we need is a President for the People, a People’s President or a
People Power President. What ever! He has to realize that Marcos
was the past, the present, and is the future. Without that, dear
countrymen and dear next President, there is no future. And that is
the truth and nothing but the truth
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CLRO 10
S-475
This land evidenced by OCT No. T-01-4 has been placed for
adjustment under appropriate court proceeding in accordance with
LRA 496 of 1902 to find the permissibility of the area and it has
been recorded under Court Land Registration Case 475. Decree No.
297 of October 3, 1904 per Record Book of Decree, Book No. 1,
embracing the entire archipelago up to Turtle Islands, Spratley and
Islands of Sabah (North Borneo), which ended appropriately in
favor of the original owner, Prince Lacan Acuna Tagean (Tallano),
married to Princess Rowena Ma. Elizabeth Overbeck Macleod, the
predecessor of Prince Julian Macleod Tallano for a period of two (2)
years court battles, to wit:
(From the same COURT OF APPEALS Case No. CA-G.R. SP NO. 70014)
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GLRO-079
S-4-7-1946
Honestly, did anybody ask the obvious question why the Americans
would be so stupid and give us independence, for the first time in
history, right after the much-ballyhooed LIBERATION? Hindsight
estimates show that about one million Filipinos (1,000,000) lost their
lives during that short period of the war. The Japanese were already on
the run to the North, yet the Americans blamed them for all the
atrocities. Living eyewitnesses, though, blame the Americans, who
desperately and mercilessly, wanted to find the Yamashita Gold for
General Douglas McArthur
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PERCEPTIONS
The lifelong process of acquiring skills, information, or knowledge
is called learning. All knowledge comes through observation and
experience. Observation and experience come to a person through
his or her personal perception by way of the senses of seeing,
hearing, smelling, touching, or tasting.
For example, you ask any person to close his/her eyes and you say
“bird”, then every person has his/her own version of a bird from
his/her own subconscious, stored, mind. One sees a small bird
sitting, one sees a big bird flying, one may think of a Philippine
eagle, one may think of a vulture sitting on the fence, another one
may think of a beautiful bluish kingfisher, and yet another one sees
a bird he wants to shoot. There is no limit to imagination.
Prime examples are the Coca Cola bottle, the Marlboro horses, the
Mercedes star, or, here, the jollibee. A very good example for an
induced illusion good for nothing is, on radio, “for life” or “101.9,
for life”, best described as name recall but in effect not better than
the old Hitler doctrine which says that, if you repeat a lie often
enough it will soon be perceived as the truth.
This is in stark contrast to the truth that has never been heard;
actually, Erap should be in the Guinness Book of Records as the
only true President who was deposed without due process, without
the chance to say his version to the unfounded charges, not even in
the impeachment case. It was trial by publicity, kangaroo court.
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It’s like this: Some restaurants are empty, nobody wants to enter.
Jollibee is crowded already, people are lining up. Not because the
food today is so much better, but the perception is created, by TV,
in the heads of the kids. They cry out in delight as soon as they see
the sign of Jollibee. So, mother has no choice.
She feared and avoided any comparison with FM, she became the
widow of hatred and revenge. Good for her that she could hide
behind a Cardinal and his prayers and that she was lifted by the
CIA to become “Woman of the year in TIME” and allowed to
speak in full Congress. Image, perception, instead of truth for the
Filipino people. And they paid dearly for that make-over.
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AN INTRODUCTION
As you read the newspapers these days, you get the feeling that the
bandwagon is unstoppable. Better to get used to the idea. It is not
so bad anyway as you will see. You have already millions of
friends, diehard friends like the Ginebra fans. You will have
millions more. You will see that also. We are just two of your
friends, but we hope to become real friends soon. We like to write
an intelligent letter, but we don’t want you to fall asleep while
reading. Let’s try. Maybe we’ll be your speechwriters later, who
knows? Here we go.
Certainly Susan does not care about that. She would prefer
a private life, if you ask her.
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FPJ and Erap know first hand that FM did not steal a penny from
any Filipino. But what can you do against the most powerful
conspiracy of the powers of the world, the USA, the G7, and the
CIA together with the local oligarchs of rich land grabbers led by
Ayala, Ortigas, and Tuazon Arroyo? They could not control
Marcos, so they decided to destroy him. The majority of the
Filipino could not see the evil intention behind the sacrifice fly of
someone who was dying in Boston already but got himself killed
in plain daylight on the Manila airport by the enemies of FM, who
then blamed it on him.
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This is, by all means, the making of a president. You can’t please
them all. Make your stand. Stand firm with your old pare. What
else is there, Mr. President? You don’t want to make another
GMA, do you? It’s useless to think that anyone can turn around
government, fan the economy, and set a stop to graft and
corruption. For example only, what will the newly elected
president do with a Supreme Court that is filled with political
appointees of the enemy, so that the enemy cannot be prosecuted
for plunder?
Jovito Salonga, Mister Oplan Big Bird from the early PCCG, the
traitor of the Filipino people! They must have millions of reasons.
What? With FPJ there will be P10,000 every month for every
Filipino 50 years and older? WOW! Who will pay for that? That
will be the big question. And the answer is: “That is not your
business. It’s not government. We have a bank guarantee from one
of the top banks in the world.” We don’t have to mention a name.
Everybody will know.
Finally to us, we have been working silently for years for the
vindication of Marcos. We wanted to find the deposits and the
accounts and we did. We are known to the family and we don’t
think that we can cheat the CIA or the U.S. Treasury.
On the day of reckoning, when all the cameras are there when FPJ
registers in the COMELEC, FPJ could say one more thing: “Now
the mudslinging can begin in earnest. “To all my enemies and
accusers I have this to say: The day I will start my work as
President, I will seriously consider and call the best lawyers to file
the biggest court case on earth, Filipino people against the
Guinness Book Of Records for $100Billion. For lying to the world
about our late President and for destroying the credibility of a
whole nation! At least they will have to show us where they got the
information that Marcos was the biggest robber of all times, from
which court and when. Maybe they can tell us how much he stole.
If not, well, that I leave to the lawyers.”
Of course, we could give that to the big boys and focus on illegal
sequestration by the PCGG. The PCGG law provides that FM had
to be tried in court in a criminal case for diverting, stealing, money
from public funds. And convicted! That’s what the law says. As no
such thing ever happened, the next President is free to file charges
against some former administrations, after Marcos, for stealing the
sequestered assets from the people.
Yes, we can, Mr. President! Give justice a chance, justice for the
great man and his people! His people will be grateful forever.
But because Marcos was allegedly able to gain control of the gold
certificates and cover the paper trail, according to Tagle, “it is
almost impossible to recover them without piecing the various
pieces like a mosaic.'' Tagle said the gold certificates and bullion
were deposited in at least 15 countries. How the Vatican and
Yamashita treasure reached the Philippines is a story that, he
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Royal gold
Tagle said the Vatican gold included “gold bars captured by Hitler.
The gold bars belonged to the royalties of Europe, of which the
Vatican was trustee.'' It also included “royal gold'', which the
British reportedly shipped to Singapore for safekeeping in the
event that Hitler would conquer all of Europe.
The heirs of Sto. Romana were unable to recover the assets “for
lack of original documents and (because of the) nature of the
accounts (which required) full cooperation of nominees and
trustees constituted by the late President Marcos.'' Appearing
before the Senate blue ribbon committee on October 14, 1997,
Tagle said Marcos, as lawyer and chief trustee of Sto. Romana,
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Tagle said the “Marcos gold was not stolen from the Philippine
government.'' Instead, said the former priest, Marcos abused his
authority by using the Central Bank to transact the gold. Tagle,
who is presently in Davao City as consultant of gold prospectors,
said he was ready to substantiate his claims.
A lot of money
Seven-point solution
* Have “banking groups lend money to the Trust using the gold
certificates and physical assets deposited in the lending banks, for
a period of 15-20 years.''
Dear David,
How are you doing? Do you know that it is 10 years now that we
have been exchanging notes, views, and ideas regarding the
greatest secret on earth? Surely, it is not Victoria’s secret.
Seriously, I have to take it as my destiny that I spend the most
important years of my life here at the end of the world. History will
tell that I was not an idiot. I hope. I am collecting bits and pieces
and trying to connect them to a giant puzzle. Most parts are now
covered and it is easier to fit in any new parts.
The Pope does not need anybody to find out that the Vatican
financed the army of one Adolf Hitler. The Queen does not need
anybody to show the true original crown jewels. The what? She
would hate that. And she will tell the President of the U.S. of A to
make bloody sure that any information coming from the
Philippines has to be suppressed or ridiculed. So that nobody will
believe.
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Believe what? David, but please bear with me when I try to give a
complete picture. That might help, so I hope, even in the higher
echelons, with your good friends, your best contacts, to enlighten
each and everyone a bit more. As is, this country harbors numerous
armies of foreign intelligence agencies sneaking around in sting
operations, confiscating, arresting, misleading. CIA, Mossad, G9,
MI5, name it, they are all here to stay, fishing for information.
The world out there is bankrupt; all the wealth of the nations is
hidden here. This is and has always been the richest country of the
world, silently, secretly, so nobody will ever find out. Until Marcos
came and some other small events in history, not always recorded
and transmitted to the full extent of the truth. I heard it from you
that you were apprentice in Schroeder Bank in London in 1946,
assigned to the London Metal Exchange.
You were there to list the lost gold, lost in different warehouses.
946,000 metric tons of gold had disappeared during or maybe even
before World War II. You were there when the claims were filed,
the claims of the “Original Claimants of World War II Loot” as
they are called officially, in the International Court in Den Haag.
That was some 60 years ago. The world does still not know who,
what, and why. The owners or their countries never got it back.
Sure they know, so do others. They will not go away and they will
not show. Covert operation. Anyhow, Manila is a friendly mega
city; some call it Sodom and Gomorra, it’s absolutely safe for any
criminal elements of whatever caliber.
The irony is that even they don’t know. They don’t want to know
or believe even that 60 ships brought still another 485,000 tons
secretly from the Vatican to Manila in 1949. With that the Royal
Family of the Philippines created the Central Bank of the
Philippines, leasing the gold per contract to the Philippine
government for 50 years. That has passed and there is now an
existing court order wherein the Governor of the Central Bank is
ordered to relocate the remaining balance of 400,000 tons in the
vaults of the Central Bank.
Thousands of people pass by there every day. They might see the
fortress-like structures but they have no idea what is in there. By
the way, the undersigned is as much authorized representative for
the Royal Family as anybody else. For your reference: Regional
Trial Court of Pasay City, Branch 111, Case Number LRC/Case
3957-P, Presiding Judge Ernesto Reyes.
powers after Marcos had fallen out of grace in 1983 was the most
perfect job ever done in this business.
For the last 20 years any Indio boy in the jungle of Peru or any
hottentot in South Africa, and of course everybody else in this
world can open the Guinness Book of records and read that
Ferdinand Marcos was the biggest robber of all times.
Fact is that they have no fact but who cares? Nobody will doubt,
nobody will argue that the highest court in New York has acquitted
Marcos in 1991. The verdict is very clear and final: “In the case of
Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos there was no fraud and no
malversation of public funds.” Nobody wants to hear the truth
anymore.
The rest is history and the new “powers” in this country needed
help to get going without the support of the people. A lot of that is
patchwork, amateurishly done, and might still become a problem
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one day if not checked properly. Who can check, though, if there is
hardly anyone who knows the facts?
It would follow that they always wanted to go the Marcos line with
officially IMF- and World Bank-approved plans and projects, but
certain political developments took center stage for the meantime.
Politics have proven futile or negative over the years and four post-
Marcos administrations must have been very disappointing to those
who have a real interest in the welfare of country and people. It has
been a plain disaster ever since Marcos left and there is no hope.
This country is going to vote for a new President in May 2004. It’s
going to be more of the same or even worse. Except, there is a new
star on the horizon, a movie actor but also a personal friend of
Marcos. In just a few days he has emerged as the favorite of the
people and he is widely predicted to win even without a political
party.
For me, the idea is so tempting that there might be the opening for
a general reconciliation on a grand scale. He would finally bury
Marcos and he would invite the Pope, Bush and the Queen, and the
Japanese Emperor and everybody else would come.
the world, especially those from the BIS in Basel (Bank for
International Settlement), offer their help in the settlement of the
Marcos accounts. Peace on earth is to follow and no one will
doubt. No one will argue anymore about this and that, provided
that we get that movie actor interested and convinced.
Nice and good but if you really want to help the Filipino people by
the millions, you have to think big and do something big also. At
least that is my opinion and I tell him. Well, I have been here for
more than 15 years, I have well adapted including the language,
and I know the pitfalls. I sometimes have to agree with others that
many Filipino men tend to be a disgrace to mankind but they are
handsome and smell good. You don’t trust them or most of them.
Logic? Hardly anyone knows how to spell it.
So you, David, must know the people who are really up there, the
decision makers of the grand plan. We cannot ask them a favor, but
maybe we can tell them that nobody can really know what is going
on in this country from a distance of thousands of miles. I could be
a useful tool and I am willing to be because the time is right and
the playing field is for the taking.
Why do I tell you all of this? A few weeks ago, the day that the
actor announced to the world that he would be available to pass the
election process, I saw him on CNN, every half hour. As if he had
been declared the new President. Nothing comes from nothing, I
thought, certainly not on CNN. So he has the big support.
I attach it also and then I beg your pardon for giving you all this
without asking you. I just feel it, that this is right. You have known
my way of thinking for a long time. I am certainly not pushing
myself forward and I am not limited to the Philippines. I think I
told you that I see myself as the German Chancellor one day. But
here and now, I can be of great help. Please check it out with the
ABC Group. I will have no problem working with them.
O.J.
(Signed real name)
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SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
“We were there; we dug up gold”
Twenty-five years later, the soldiers now in their 40s and 50s have
surfaced to file a claim in California and Zurich against the Marcos
estate for their labors from 1973 to the second quarter of 1985
when they dug--what to their estimate--were 60,000 tons of gold
and other precious metals and gemstones.
Not fantasies
``We were there. We dug the gold. Why would they deny this
now?'' Caoile said. The soldiers' group said it is only ``appropriate''
that the Marcoses pay the human rights victims a specific amount
based on the just and fair computation of each victim's ``factual
predicament during Marcos' rule.''
``We want the truth to come out and we want to be recognized for
our role in digging the gold. This has been kept from the public far
too long,'' Caoile said.
Missing link?
172 sites
The young men, some 300 of them, who became members of the
reactivated 16th Infantry Battalion, were recruited in September
1972. On Oct. 16, 1972, they took oath as new recruits with the
rank of ``private,'' of the battalion under the 2nd Infantry Brigade
of the Philippine Army in Camp Capinpin, Tanay, Rizal. Lt. Col.
Javier was their battalion commander. Their group was under then
Col. Ramon L. Cannu, commanding officer of the 2nd Infantry
Brigade.
First digging
Their unit stayed in the area up to the last week of April 1973, but
a platoon-sized detachment remained to ``ward off New People's
Army elements operating there.'' They started the preliminary work
—setting up steel sheets around the area and constructing the
makeshift field barracks--and then dug the area as instructed.
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Dominguez, who was in the first group, recalled how they prepared
to dig a hole in the ground 30 feet wide and 35 feet deep, as
instructed by their superior officers. Their stay of several months
extended to a year.
Animal offerings
Eureka
Marcos elated
Marcos could not contain his excitement, the soldiers said. ``When
the ex-PFM saw the successful operation, he was very much elated
and very happy with the group numbering about 60 soldiers who
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were there at that time. The others (soldiers) were away manning
the second and third layer perimeter security of the digging area,''
their affidavit says. Marcos allegedly told them in Tagalog: You
will all share in everything that's here but you have to wait for the
right time.
The concrete vaults (approximately six feet long, five feet wide
and five feet high) were lifted one by one through the use of a
heavy crane and were placed aboard three six by six military trucks
which were on a 24-hour stand-by near the battalion headquarters
command post at the area. ``Before the former President and (his)
party left the place, we overheard him instructing General Ver
apparently on where to transport and hide the gold bars which
(task) was carried out by PGB elements,'' the soldiers' sworn
statement says.
Discovery of tunnels
SOLDIERS OF FORTUNE
The trucks, which transported the crates of gold bars and other
treasures, were large six by six trucks heavily covered and boarded
up, Caoile said. Some of the WW II gold bars were coated in black
hardened tar and asphalt to ``discourage innocent finders during
these treasure-hunting operations,'' Caoile said. The gold bars dug
by the soldiers were stored in the vaults of the old Central Bank in
Intramuros.
There were orders from Marcos to erase the marks from the gold
bars, which the soldiers had dug up, Caoile said. This was to
prevent the government of the countries, which the Japanese had
looted from discovering these. At that time in the '70s, only 30
years after the last World War, these countries still had the right to
ask for the return of their treasures.
The different gold bars which the soldiers dug up had inscriptions
such as ``Cambodia'' with five star markings; ``Sumatra'' with four
stars; ``Burma'' with three stars, and other marks identical to the
countries of their origin. The Cambodia gold bars weighed 6.3
kilograms each; the Sumatra gold bars weighed 6.2 kg each; and
the Burma bars weighed around 6 kg each. Upon orders from
Marcos, the original size and weight of the gold bars were
modified to make it appear that these did not come from the
Japanese treasure loot; thus, the need to re-melt these at the Central
Bank, the soldiers claimed.
Shipped out
This was at the start of his first term as president from 1965 to
1969. He started treasure digging when elected president in 1965
but could not finish it in four years; thus the need to employ
soldiers to continue the work under Task Force Restoration when
he was reelected, the forgotten Claimants said.
Among the ``major'' treasure sites which the soldiers, who now
formed the ``Forgotten Claimants of Yamashita,'' had dug up were
in Caliraya in Cavinti-Lumban, Laguna; Baras and Teresa in Rizal
province; Montalban caves in Montalban, Rizal; Montalban
Mascat; Sitio Mayagay, Sampaloc in Tanay, Rizal; Fort Bonifacio
Tunnel; Fort Bonifacio hospital; the area of the Manpower and
Youth building; Bastion de San Lorenzo in Fort Santiago; Munoz
in Nueva Ecija; Balok bridge, also in Nueva Ecija; site of the
Central Luzon State University statue in Mu¤oz; Sta. Fe in Nueva
Vizcaya; Campo 4 in San Jose, Nueva Vizcaya; and San Mateo in
Rizal province.
Banking Corp., two of the Swiss banks, which hold the frozen
$500 million Marcos accounts.
They did not receive any answer. Shortly after that, the two Swiss
banks initiated a mediation with the Philippine government and the
lawyers of the 10,000 human rights victims to settle the conflicting
claims on the Marcos deposits. This came to nothing as no
settlement was agreed upon without the Marcoses' consent. ``The
banks probably got scared with the appearance of a new claimant
group which knew a lot about the Marcos treasures,'' Caoile said.
`Loyal, confidential'
No talk
SCENARIOS OF BETRAYAL
First reaction from that: Cardinal Sin told his nuns to go out and
sit in front of the tanks for picture taking. Those pictures went
around the world, totally misrepresenting the whole story. They
did not stop the tanks with their bodies. They were merely used as
tools in the psy-war against Marcos. Marcos had given the orders
and Sin knew it. He also knew that he could trust Marcos 100%.
How else could he have risked the lives of his nuns?!
Now, what is the lesson from that? That sh-t, not unleashed but
returned to barracks, saved Ramos and Enrile. Maybe, only an
idea, the sh-t unleashed, then and there, would have been better in
the long run for the fate of the Filipino people.
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TALLANO,
the O.C.T. 01-4,
and the PHILIPPINES
The Spanish stole the land from the Filipinos. Then, 100 years
ago, the Americans got the Philippine Islands as their only
colony in history, but when they discovered the true legal status
of the archipelago, they stuttered, gave us a Commonwealth
Republic, where they owned practically everything, until the
Japanese Imperial Army stole it during World War II.
Filipinos were still fighting each other, what side they were on,
and nobody was there to hear the news of independence or ask
why they did that. Except for the old families, shall we call
them illustrados, kastilas, oligarchs, or feudal land lords? They
were in charge with the Osmena clan and the Roxas clan.
The final order in case 3957-P came after the new administration
of GMA, through the Office of the Solicitor General, at that time
Atty. Simeon Marcelo, tried to re-open the case with a Motion for
Reconsideration of the Order of July 11, 2001. That motion for
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“ORDER”
The process of the law and justice may be slow, but the law must
prevail. It is time for the Philippines to recognize and honor what
has long become the law of the land, even if most people have
never heard of it. For example, it is a fateful error for many
Filipinos to believe that, if they faithfully and religiously pay their
monthly payments to the bank for 25 years, they will be the owners
of the land, where they have resided for so many years.
GLRO 01107
S-5-9-1956
Entry No. 01107 has been cancelled upon full payment of the
National Government obligation which was reduced to P 300 M
to Don Esteban Benitez Tallano on May 7, 1956.
Then, in the year 1762, the British Royal Navy came here and
ended that claim and the claim of the King of Spain. In 1764, the
Royal Crown of England, Great Britain, decided case No. 571 in
the Escribania de Cabildo and ordered the creation of the Hacienda
of the Philippine Islands pursuant to the Decree of 01-4 Protocol,
by virtue of the Supreme Order of the Royal Crown of England (at
that time the police of the known world).
It has been a long time since then. In the Treaty of Paris in 1898,
the Hacienda Filipinas was traded to the new colonial masters, the
United States of America, because their President McKinley
wanted a colony also. Not true, though, is the story of America
paying 20 Million Dollars to Spain. The Magnificent Seven of
freedom loving Filipinos did. The who?
What they should know is this: The Supreme Court has finally
spoken, with finality, on December 18, 1996, Decision in cases
G.R.103727 and G.R. 106496, promulgated by Justice
Hermosissima Jr. and signed by Chief Justice Andres Narvasa.
There it reads like this, on page 21: “It is settled that by virtue of
Presidential Decree 892, which took effect on February 16, 1976,
the system of registration under the Spanish Mortgage Law was
abolished and all holders of Spanish titles or grants should cause
their lands covered thereby to be registered under Land
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Registration Act No. 496 within six (6) months from the date of
effectivity of said Decree or until August 15, 1976. Otherwise,
non-compliance therewith will result in a re-classification of their
lands. Spanish titles can no longer be evidence of land ownership.”
O.C.T.– 4136 did not comply with P.D. 892 but O.C.T.– 01-4 did
and so did T.C.T.- 404 and T.C.T.- 498, which covers the northern
part of the Greater Manila Area up to the boundaries of Bulacan
and Nueva Ecija. These two T.C.T.’s are part of O.C.T.- 01-4, for
which part the O.C.T.-01-4 is cancelled in accordance with
Republic Act No. 2259, Cadastral Act of March 14, 1914, and
evidenced in Decree No. 297 issued in 1904.
As we may all know today, all laws created under or during the
Marcos Regime are now trampled upon. Not only are we now the
only country in the world with a stupid Squatter Law that allows
illegal squatting on private property. We also allow wheeling and
dealing in fake land titles, we pay “lagay” to the Register of Deeds,
we pay “lagay” everywhere to the Mayor’s Office.
Nonetheless, the courts have spoken. The law must take its due
course and the Filipino people must regain sovereignty over their
own lands. Someone has to be the administrator. The courts have
decided that that should be PRINCE JULIAN MORDEN
TALLANO. Let us all accept that. Then the rightful President of
the Filipino People will find a way for every Filipino to cooperate
and do the best for the people and the country.
It just becomes too obvious that the real, unlimited power of the
invisible oligarchs, the rich old families in this country, who
control “traditions” and the almighty mass media, was even too
much for the “dictator”. We all remember the wife of Jaime Ayala
de Zobel, Bea Zobel, running with and driving Cory. They are
Christians? Christians are supposed to forgive. Those two ladies
will never forgive. They have too much to lose. And they are afraid
of the Filipino people. Like all the rich. They hire guards with
guns. Not against foreigners. Against Filipinos. God bless the
Philippines!
Prepared by:
Wolfgang Struck
Authorized Representative
PRINCE JULIAN MORDEN TALLANO
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Let us start with the interesting quote coming from no less than our
Finance Secretary Juanita D. Amatong that “government plans
to take advantage of the Marcos Dollars that have been remitted to
the National Treasury”. Obviously, the lady is referring to the
$683M in escrow with PNB that the Presidential Good for
Nothing Commission (PCGG) is egging the Supreme Court (SC)
to confiscate and ordering the Sandiganbayan “to execute” from
the Philippine National Bank (PNB).
of the world even after his death, and who could have
masterminded the Grand Conspiracy against Marcos and his
people.
Mind you, the favorite son of the people is the enemy! Because she
was heaved into position by the rich oligarchs, she has it all,
money, media support, lawyer liars, a Supreme Court totally at her
fingertip, and the demolition team of Almonte/Ramos that did in
Marcos and Erap already.
They are more sophisticated now than ever before. Their schemes
are not direct, they are crooked; you have to be wise to see through
their doings. They are not stupid; they know that they cannot win.
So therefore, Ramos the demolition man of the old CIA, makes his
sneaky approach to the FPJ camp to make the people believe that
he is the good guy on the right side. In the meantime, they plan the
terror acts following the decision of the Supreme Court to
disqualify the enemy.
The Supreme Court will rule that FPJ, who was born 65 years ago
in the Philippines, with Philippine father and American mother, a
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So, she orders her own Supreme Court to find a way to destroy the
enemy. Totally! Not only FPJ, no, she wants total power. No
Martial Law, oh no, who wants that! Emergency powers only,
when the enraged masses stream to the streets to bring out their
grievances, then private bands of paid mercenaries will sow terror
among them, so that she will have the right to protect herself from
terrorism. “The War on Terrorism” has not yet started; she will
start it. She can kill, arrest, detain without evidence.
All along, they find a way to assassinate FPJ. No, they are not
involved in that! The assassin escaped from the mental hospital,
that is uncontrollable according to the Chief of the NBI, which is
ordered to conduct an immediate investigation, whitewash
guaranteed. Tide Ultra!
They will then hope that the outrage of the people will get really
serious. That will give them the chance to hit “maximum
tolerance” with their newest anti-riot equipment and kill by the
thousands. Addicts, squatters, rebels, they will find all sorts of
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names for the poor massacred, but that will be the last time that
people will storm the streets. For peace!
In other countries, they call that news blackout. Here, only the
DAILY TRIBUNE dared to show pictures of the violent end of a
peaceful rally for FPJ. There was shouting “F – P – J”, yes, but the
impression “they” want to convey is of unruly FPJ supporters,
stubborn Marcos loyalists, and uncontrollable ERAP supporters.
Many believe that, because that is what they see and hear on TV.
Fact is that those on the streets have one thing in common, or
actually two: They are mostly poor Filipinos, jobless, hopeless, no
shoes, only slippers, but Filipino citizens, and FPJ is their only
hope that they will ever have a better life again.
Unfortunately for them, they, the Filipinos, are the enemy in their
own country and their idol, FPJ, is the enemy of the state. The
state, called GMA or Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, will do anything
and everything to eliminate him. From the race. At least the
presidential race. Maybe also from the human race. But that will be
officially denied, of course, like everything is and will be denied.
So, what shall we do now? There is only one thing to do. We will
vote “FPJ” and if the votes are not counted, as we expect, then we
will come together and raise our hands as living witness and for
validation that we voted “FPJ”. Then let us declare FPJ as the
President of the sovereign people of the Philippines. Raise your
hands! Anybody against it? No? Approved! FPJ is our new
President and he will solemnly swear his oath.
Then 80 million Filipinos all over the country can celebrate and
maybe some people will now understand what that means:
PEOPLE POWER. The real People Power. Not that bad joke of
EDSA I in the year 1986 or that EDSA DOS 2000, both courtesy
of Cory Aquino and Cardinal Sin.
Oh, sorry, Sir, wrong number! The candidates don’t want to talk
about cash cows. This election is about people, spelled pipol in the
local language. Those are “celebrities” who are only interested in
pork, actually pork barrel. That has only slightly to do with pigs.
When they grow rich, they get fat and look like pigs. So, nobody
wants to be a pig and nobody wants to talk about cows.
Nobody wants to know where the money comes from and where it
will go. The election campaign is only about who will win,
meaning who is the “blessed” one who will make ROI. Of course,
everybody wants to make ROI. Who is the “blessed” one? Look,
it’s like a beauty contest. Loren Legarda is the most beautiful, they
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say. They don’t see anything else. They don’t see the sponsors
behind the curtain, laughing; the old boys club of the rich and
shameless. Funny, they sponsor the one who made the P250B loss.
Weird, no? Maybe not! They must have millions of reasons.
Imelda Marcos asked another lawyer for help, her old ally Atty.
Oliver Lozano who had successfully fought the Marcos
Government represented by Solicitor General Estelito Mendoza.
That was way back in 1971 and 1978 when Marcos was at the
height of his power and that was the first time that the Supreme
Court ordered a rollback on prices for oil and other prime
commodities. Marcos applauded the daring winner and since that
time Atty. Oliver Lozano is in the inner circle.
GLOBAL INJUNCTION
Unfortunately this is not business as usual for the PCGG and the
Supreme Court. This is international in all aspects and the Swiss
High Court will rule what is correct and acceptable before it will
allow transfer of ownership.
In the meantime, Judge Real has enjoined all banks with Marcos
accounts, whether here or abroad, not to release any money to the
Philippine Government unless and until due process is proven to
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Those are the legal weapons of Atty. Oliver Lozano. And now, for
laymen, questions over questions. Following the renewed “order”
of the PCGG to “execute” the final decision, the Supreme Court is
looking at a blank wall. Where is it? In PNB? No? Oh, it is in
Singapore? How interesting! What is it doing there? Who did that?
Stupid questions maybe, but seemingly leading to one common
denominator: Where exactly is the escrow agreement? What does
it say? Why are Filipino people not properly informed?
For what? We don’t know. Marcos has donated all his wealth to
the Filipino people. Imelda has vowed to fulfill his will and to
distribute the money to the Filipino people. What seems to be the
problem? Oh, the problem is the PCGG, the bogus Presidential
Good for Nothing Commission of greedy people like that not so
honorable Commissioner Ruben Carranza. No more comment.
Thanks anyway, Atty. Lozano, for taking up the battle for justice
on behalf of the Filipino people. May God in his eternal wisdom be
with you all the way.
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And now? Good question, no? The prosecution had 3 years to find
evidence. First in the impeachment disaster, then in dubious cases
in “Special Courts”, spell them kangeroo. Wake up, Filipino, there
is no plunder, not with Erap, not with Marcos! Others did.
We were all taken for a ride. That comes out now. There is a short
lady now, the shortest president on earth, the only one who did not
get one vote for President, but she is riding high on us. She has no
opposition, she can do what she wants as all those election
candidates are kissing and holding hands. Better we understand it’s
our own fault. We don’t dare to ask questions. For some dark
reason we want to believe that that is not our business.
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Ayala made that very clear, by the way, on their billboards. In case
you have not noticed: “While you keep dreaming, Filipino people,
we keep stealing the land from under your noses.” That’s also a
reality. Sta. Lucia, Filinvest, the Manny Villar companies, they are
all the same caboodle. You see them all over the country.
Of course, we all have forgotten the Big Bird. That’s too long ago.
Why do we not ask Cory and Jovito Salonga about Oplan Big
Bird? Trillions of dollars in 3 big banks in New York, all recorded
and originating in Swiss Bank Corporation of Zurich, Switzerland.
Cory did send her first Chairman of the bogus PCGG to Zurich to
find the money. For whom? Your guess is as good as mine.
You don’t believe? Why don’t we ask them to explain? The money
is still there. The bankers are still waiting for us to come and claim
it. Marcos did not take it with him to his grave. He left an LOI
(Letter of Instruction) with that Swiss bank. But they don’t like.
They don’t want Marcos to look good. My God, they must have
billions of reasons!
How we wish we had someone who could pay out all the coco levy
victims and modernize the biggest industry of the country!
How we wish we had someone who would build roads all over the
country to save us from choking traffic, to create millions of jobs,
and create tax income for government at the same time!
Final note: The rich and shameless don’t need change; they are just
fine. Actually, they would hate change. It’s us, the Filipino people,
who need change. Now!
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Wealth is for the people and can be recovered, if and when the
people finally decide, after so many years, to elect a pro-Marcos
president. The Marcos loot is hidden by the PCGG, frozen, and
can never be recovered.
In one simple formula, Ferdinand Marcos was the chosen one for
the original gold treasure of the Royal Family of the Philippines
and got his due share in kind, when he brought the gold back from
the Vatican in the year 1949 to open the Central Bank of the
Philippines. That alone made him the richest man on earth. His
share is in Swiss Bank Corp., Zuerich.
He also had his hand on the Yamashita Gold with his mentor
Antonio Diaz a.k.a. Col. Severino Sta. Romana. And that is
something like 1,250,000 MT (metric tons) of gold, mostly from
Europe, stolen by Hitler’s SS from the London banks in
Casablanca, Dubai, Rangoon a.o., re-melted in Singapore by
DEGUSSA, handed over to the Japanese Imperial Army to be
buried in the Philippines mostly under or near churches or in
Japanese Garrisons. Who said there is no gold?
Now, look who is talking. Look who is talking about the Marcos
loot. They must have reasons to do that. For example INQUIRER
or STAR. The reason is envelopmental journalism. Others call it
free press. That is most disgusting when it damages the will and
the interest of the Filipino people. It should be treated as treason
with death penalty and some people are now ready, willing, and
able to debate the whole issue in public. The question is only, who
will go to death row in Muntinlupa, the reporter or the publisher?
Maybe Max Soliven, the man of THE STAR, has a suggestion.
Of all the candidates, may FPJ be the chosen one this time. He
does not need convincing; he has always been on the right side, the
side of the people. Maybe it is destiny for him to fulfill what the
greatest President was not allowed to fulfill. Prepare for your big
moment, Mr. President!
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Another one. You see that sign “We are open to serve you.” You
might ask: Serve me? How nice, I will go there. But there is a
guard in uniform with a gun. He sees to it that you don’t go in
unless you look like money. It’s open only for those with money,
those who want to buy something. Ah yes, I will never forget that
scene in “Pretty Woman” where Richard Gere tells Julia Roberts
“they don’t like you, dear, they like your credit card”. Meaning,
don’t believe what they say. It’s all doublespeak.
Maybe that is cute, but actually they, the MMDA, are driving all
vendors and others from kalsada natin into nowhere. They forbid
us to cross kalsada natin. They teach us discipline and make fences
where we walk like pigs on the way to the slaughterhouse, over
new overpasses (someone big makes big business), but all that is
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All nice smiles and empty promises come down to one question: If
it is illegitimate for any president to stay in office beyond his term,
is it legally possible for a president who is not the legitimate
president to run? And the answer is yes, GMA can run because
she is not the elected president.
There are other people also, we should not forget, even few, who
are waiting for the final step of the Supreme Court to cross the
Rubicon of Truth. If really this Supreme Court will disqualify FPJ,
then they have quashed all doubts that this system is a system of
injustice, a Supreme Court filled with justices of injustice, a
political system of dirty tricks and dirty politics. There is no more
justice in this country. Justice here is only for the rich.
If birth certificate, why not for all candidates? Why only FPJ?
Maybe we find something very exciting in another birth
certificate? There are rumors of an illegitimate daughter of a
lavandera, laundry woman in English, with a President. The
laundry woman lived-in with the President who signed off a few
years ago before his daughter could grab power.
MEMORY LANE
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
That is an old soup, so why do you make a top story out of it?
Let’s assume the Supreme Court will approve and accept in full
legal terms that dubious verdict of Judge Manuel L. Real in
Hawaii, USA. He “rewarded” some 10,000 people with a lump
sum of $2Billion in “a class suit”. He did not see anyone, did not
hear any case, does not know anyone.
Chances are near zero that the Supreme Court will ever rule on that
issue, it is just too sticky and too politically loaded. But assuming,
then the 10,000 alleged human rights victims will have to go to
court, to their own Regional Trial Court, and prove beyond
reasonable doubt that they are actually the victims of Marcos and
not the victims of the other side, the CCP under Jomari Sison and
our national hero, Ninoy Aquino.
Marcos, the year 2004 will be a year full of surprises. They will
hate it. At least one book will soon appear in the market that will
expose the grand conspiracy against Marcos and his people. And if
FPJ does not win the election for the Filipino people against the
people from Ayala and the Makati Business Club, then God have
mercy on us!
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To MANILA BULLETIN
www.mb.com.ph
One quote from that article is about schools, rather lack of schools:
“In 1972, the President asked, how many schools do we need? The
answer was 12,000 and in that same year 12,000 schools were built
at a cost of P20,000 each.” That was the quote from Napolean
Rama himself and we all know whom he is referring to.
The 2004 presidential election should not be about the nicest smile
or the biggest promises; it should be about the state of our nation.
We are bankrupt by all means, financially, economically, morally,
and our officials are liars. Just imagine FPJ will take office and
find all coffers empty. SSS, GSIS, RSBS, Veterans Bank, all gone,
deficit wherever you look. Welcome to the Palace, FPJ!
drunk with joy. Was that a revolution? Cory was still in that
convent in Cebu, Ramos and Enrile kept hiding in Camp Crame.
To be sure. They were so afraid. People Power Revolution? No,
dear Filipino people, the “revolution” was staged by Cardinal Sin
and his nuns and “the people” were mere usizeros, bystanders!
The famous placard with black letters on yellow shiny plastic,
“FREE AGAIN”, was ordered made 3 days before that glorious
happening by the Cardinal. It was all planned.
Now, first step first. You printed our DEVIL’S GAME PLAN.
Very nice, but of course, we don’t think that that will happen. FPJ
will really be the next President. Even if it has to be via WE THE
PEOPLE declaring him the president in Luneta Park. Again and
again, that is not a kudeta, we will all wear white and carry a
candle. And we will not believe the polls of Pulse Asia, we let the
people manifest in person that they voted for FPJ.
You in your exposed position, you are facing all sorts of cases
already from the big gentlemen, you should know what we are
doing. We want to spread the news but we have to be careful. We
want you to understand and join in. Silently, we are not on a
suicidal expedition. If we send you something, you use it as you
like, for your own writing or a letter to the editor. We are not
interested to get our name into the newspaper.
The motto of the STAR is “the truth shall prevail”. There are
many ways to look at the truth and, certainly, you look at the truth
as a matter of business. Your business! What sells is the truth. You
would not be the first one to say that and we are not here to blame
you, if you put business higher than anything else. In fact, we
admit that the STAR is doing just fine and Max Soliven has
shown some serious signs of becoming a better person. That is no
joke. We mean it.
The hopes are no longer with this government. It was over in 1998
already. That was not so much an election of Erap, it was more an
election against the establishment. Same now, six more years of
the same, that would be just too much! “They” claimed they would
be so much better than Erap and look what happened! We don’t
have to tell you, you make it clear yourself.
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If the Germans could do that after millions and millions lost their
life and everything else in World War II all over the world, we
should be able to do that even against the declared will of Cory
Aquino and the Cardinal. Oh sorry, we forgot 10,000 of those fake
human rights Seldas. They want money.
O.J.
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That is an old soup, so why do you make a top story out of it?
Let’s assume the Supreme Court will approve and accept in full
legal terms that dubious verdict of Judge Manuel L. Real in
Hawaii, USA. He “rewarded” some 10,000 people with a lump
sum of $2Billion in “a class suit”, he did not see anyone, did not
hear any case, does not know anyone.
Chances are the Supreme Court will never rule on that issue. It is
just too sticky. But assuming it will, then the alleged human rights
victims will have to go to court, to their own Regional Trial Court,
and prove beyond reasonable doubt that they are actually the
victims of Marcos and not the victims of the other side, the CCP
under Jomari Sison and our national hero, Ninoy Aquino.
March 1, 2004
That was nice! Not so much what you said about FPJ after the first
airing of IMPACT 2004, your new show on ABS-CBN, but how
you said it!
It is always hard for someone to be the first. He did not know, but
you did not know also. Now you know. FPJ is a man of few
words. He wants to be known as a man of action. You are one of
the few who can attest to it that this man is special, very
determined, very sincere. He knows what he is doing and he seems
to know what he is up against.
Roco fans are those who love to rate themselves as intelligent and
believe that to be a Roco fan is good for their image. They
conveniently forget that Roco was fired by GMA from the juicy
position of Secretary of Education because of proven cases of graft
and corruption.
The C, D, E have nothing to lose, they can only hope that the status
quo will end, that someone will give them hope. They do not listen
to promises like “alleviation of poverty” any more; they call that
“alleviation of property” and they laugh at PGMA’s program to
make all Filipinos street sweepers via KALSADA NATIN.
In future, that has to change. You are one of the people who can
effect change. TV is the most important media branch. It reaches
everywhere and every one. It is widely abused, though, and
thirsting for good ideas and good people.
We wish you luck with IMPACT 2004 and, hoping against hope,
you will find someone among the candidates one day who will be
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able to tell you how to pay for all the lofty promises without
borrowing by the billions of dollars for the Filipino people to pay.
Nearing 5 Trillion na!
If not, maybe you invite FPJ again, just before election. He will
have the surprise. He will tell you what is in there for the Filipino
people and how he will pay. Now, in 2004! Of course, this is also a
promise today, but at least it is in writing, black on white.
O.J.
IN MEMORIAM
“If we can really free the small man from the chains of poverty that
has shackled his ancestors to the land they tilled with others, if we
can locate the same small man at the center of increasing
opportunity for himself, to his family, if we can produce enough
and pay our workers enough, so that their labor can assure
them of a better quality of life, if we can provide the proper
machinery of government, so that one does not want of an efficient
administration of justice, then we can remain firm in our basis for
building a new society .” – Ferdinand Emmanuel E. Marcos, July 1, 1981, in
signing YU- 745201O of the ANG BAGONG LIPUNAN, the currency of the Republic
of the Philippines, every set backed up by 2,500 M.T. of gold, insured with Lloyds of
London, secured by Bank of England Note Bond and International Certificate Deposit
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but the scenes will not change. The people will swarm around FPJ
and take the money from GMA.
“The institution in the Philippines that has always been against true
nationalism is the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church. This
ecclesiastical power was instrumental in the execution of our
martyrs Fathers Burgos, Gomez, and Zamora, and our national
hero Dr. Jose Rizal. The oppressions and the persecutions were
always due to its influence and power over the state.”
“Up to the present, those countries that broke away from the power
of Rome are the most progressive, prosperous, and peaceful in
Europe. The light of truth has freed them from darkness,
superstition, and fanaticism so characteristic of those countries
where the Pope holds ecclesiastical power.”
“For 400 years, the friar priests have taught us to have a colonial
mentality. This is especially true in religion where we are very
submissive and obedient and are taught to fear pastoral letters,
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Dear Editor:
To tell you the truth, you have a problem, when you don’t have
money, but you have a big problem when you have big money.
You need a security guard at the door, you need a driver to bring
your kids to school, and, basically, you live in constant fear of
being kidnapped or scammed.
In this country, where the rich are getting richer and the poor are
getting poorer and more in numbers by the day, it is debatable
whether or not the government is the root of all evil. Certainly, the
government of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her
MMDA under Bayani Fernando are the biggest dividers, cleaning
up the streets for the rich from the poor. Literally, on a daily basis
courtesy of Kalsada Natin.
money to buy dollars, so please don’t blame the poor Filipinos for
the losses of the Peso.
For reasons only the President and her men in black may know,
Filipinos are forced to walk longer and longer stretches to reach a
place where their bus is allowed to slow down, so that daring
people may jump the bus. It is a miracle that no accidents are
happening yet, or maybe they are just not reported. We have to pity
the elderly, everything is made so difficult for them. How can they
jump a bus, while they all blow their horn?
Also not reported are the many buses and jeepneys that are
impounded by the well-oiled machinery of police and MMDA for
reasons only the President and her men in black will know. Come
to think of it, why is the FG not among them? The black men, I
mean! To get your jeep back you have to shell out P1,500 “plus-
plus” with the police, miles out of town, or P5,000 with the
MMDA on a stolen property with high fence. That is their daily
money-making or milking machine. It’s really time we get Lacson
back to clean up the police!
The modus operandi of the land grabbers is always the same and
very visible for everyone with eyes open. “PRIVATE
PROPERTY! NO TRESSPASSING!” You see, only the rich can
buy a Fencing Permit from the mayor who, of course, wants “his
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But don’t worry, be happy! The land grabbers pay! Yes, they pay
big money to get a title and “pertaining documents” and they
“work it out” with the mayor and his lackeys. In the case of Las
Pinas and Bacoor it is actually family business. It’s all Camelia,
Manuela, Crown, Brittany, yes all in the family! 85% of Las Pinas
for sure is owned by them!
Long time ago, during the good old days of Presidente Garcia and
Macapagal Father, they discovered that all the lands in the
Philippines were never really owned by anyone except stolen by
the Spanish Friars who gave it as reward for the not so honorable
families of those who killed Filipinos who did not want to go to
church. That is what “salvaging” stands for. The Spanish claimed
but did never “own” land, so they could also not transfer
ownership of something they did not own.
The Spanish, by the way, did not like at all that the British Crown
who were the real police of the world at that time came here in
1762 and put things in order. Among others, they decreed in
“Protocol 01-4 of 1764” that the whole archipelago of 7,100
islands does not belong to the Spanish King but to the Royal
Family of the Philippines, at that time represented by King
Luison’s heirs. That was also the basis of the Treaty of Paris in
1898, which, on paper, ruled the official transfer from Spain to the
United States of America and up-held the private rights of the
Royal Family Tagean-Tallano.
Poor Filipinos who buy from them in the belief that they will own
their property, at least one day, after paying for 25 years. Nope!
Thomas Aguirre could not, V.V. Soliven could not, Manny Villar
and Fernando Zobel de Ayala cannot deliver a proper title. In P.D.
1143 President Marcos decreed “all legitimate occupants of land
shall consult with the true owner of the true title”, before they
register their new title under the Torrens Title System. As simple
as that. Ask who did not like!
- The Million Dollar Question of the Philippines: Why did nobody file a
case of human rights violation against Fidel V. Ramos, the Head of the dreaded
Constabulary Police during 14 years of Martial Law?
“In carrying out the foregoing order you are hereby also
directed to see to it that reasonable means are employed by you
and your men and that injury to persons and property must be
carefully avoided.
Done in the City of Manila, this 22nd day of September, in the
year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and seventy-two.”
PANEM ET CIRCENSES
In the old Rome at the time of Jesus Christ, 2000 years ago, the
emperors discovered a simple trick to perpetuate their power:
Make the people happy, give them entertainment, bread and
games, bloody games, violence and sex, and they will leave you in
peace, they will not ask stupid questions and you can do as you
wish. Good or bad, good or evil; who cares? Well, in the end,
Conan the Barbar from the North came and cared and that was the
end of the Roman Empire.
Since then, the game plans of the world leaders have become a
little bit more sophisticated. Wow! I am just watching Kris
Aquino’s boobs in a Saturday afternoon show on ABS-CBN for
children, No, they are all sobbing and crying. That is a real good
show, very selling! I understand Joey Marquez now. Not so bad!
But that is not the topic.
The world will maybe never know what the ouster of the Shah of
Persia has to do with the murder of John F. Kennedy and his
brother Robert Kennedy, then Justice Secretary and a good man, or
what Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein have to do with the bankrupt
Enron Empire where the old Bush was an executive VP. Some
people may have heard something about Ramos with Bin Laden in
Afghanistan during the 1980’s, where they created the Abu Sayyaf.
Most people now know that the Abu Sayyaf is very bad. They
bomb and they behead people, they even sabotage the Superferry
14. And their head is Kumander Robot. At least that is what people
read in the newspapers. Of course, people do not talk to Kumander,
they don’t know him. What? He is in a hospital in Manila? No
more legs? So how can he sabotage a superferry? Exactly, how can
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should not forget that “what if”. Under President Poe Jr. this
Kumander Robot can tell in a fair trial, maybe in a double
whammy with Erap, what really happened there and then. Maybe
he will also tell that the grand master of all flagships, Mr.
Aventejado, was a big traitor who kept the money.
So, therefore, it is safe to say that he will not. Talk, I mean. He will
also not talk about Ramos and Mahathir, the Head of the Pakistani
Mafia in Malaysia. Who said that he was such a great Prime
Minister? Erap snubbed him and visited Anwar in jail instead. Erap
could smell a rat there. That is why he is kept in a freezer here, so
he cannot invite the wife of Anwar again like a head of State.
Mahathir got very angry with Erap and told his generals to give
him a nice present. He told the generals to get the hostages and
bring them to Robot in Basilan. They also told Angie Reyes to
bombard the area from the air, so Robot had to run and hide while
hundreds of civilians were killed during the air raids every day.
Good thinking, Mr. Prime. Nobody knows that there is a criminal
case pending in court against Chief of Staff Angelo Reyes for
genocide. For the time being, Angie is safe, but what if…
The only hope for Robot is his legal counsel, Mr. Due Process.
Atty. Oliver Lozano should really become Senator. He is one of
the few who really know what’s going on. The media, of course,
call him “Marcos lawyer” and right they are. At least there is one!
Mr. Due Process will go to Sulu, embrace Nur Misuari, and see to
it that there will be due process. Then they will talk peace. Simple
under FPJ!
That is what I mean with media. They preach the bull. They don’t
cover Atty. Lozano in Sulu on a peace mission, because good
media coverage is expensive. Only Ramos has that kind of money.
Good for him! Therefore, he always looks good in all media. He is
smart. Smarter than his old friend Bin Laden. He looks dreadful
with that unwashed beard. And they claim that he is a billionaire!
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March 8, 2004
Dear Publisher,
That makes you part of the demolition job on Marcos. Don’t you
see that “they” fight Erap and FPJ because of Marcos and with the
“Marcos issue”? No, you don’t, because you do not see also who
“they” are. The people who think “they ousted” Marcos (the CIA
did it), the people who ousted Erap, are the same people who will
also oust FPJ and replace him with one of their choice, Loren
Legarda.
If ever someone wants to say something bad about the IMF, then
please, tell the people that the IMF is here (in the BSP) to account
for and replace what our leaders are stealing from the people.
Those leaders include our beloved Cory, Ramos, GMA, the
Cardinal, and a Speaker of the House of Representatives, who
received $5Billion for Land Oil in Iraq some 30 years ago, made it
disappear, and then accuses Marcos of giving behest loans. And he
is Speaker now? What a country!
O.J.
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ROUND TWO
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They advise him among others not to talk about Erap and never say
MARCOS. They consider that taboo issues. They hate controversy,
they want to avoid confrontation, they don’t want to argue, they
just want to win. And they are hired just for that.
FPJ does not know or does not know how to pay the interest. That
is again very Filipino because the Filipinos out there will only pay
what the bumbay is telling them to pay, otherwise…
No, that might be unfair to the Filipinos out there. They pay and
FPJ gives the impression that he is not ready to pay. That makes
the Governor of the BSP a very concerned citizen. He comes out
with a press statement warning the public against a president who
will not pay the foreign debt. He can do that even if the Filipino
people do not know in the first place that any president is paying
the foreign debt, because how can the foreign debt be “ballooning”
if someone is paying the foreign debt?
By the way, how sure are we that the I.M.F. really wants us to pay
the foreign debt? The two Presidents who were about to pay did
not make it too long in office after that. They were none other than
John F. Kennedy and Ferdinand E. Marcos. Of course, our younger
generations know these two greatest presidents only from the
history books, and who wrote the history books? Ask Tita Cory!
No, they will not and we should make it very clear to the Filipino
people: The foreign debt is not at all foreign; it is very Filipino, for
the Filipino people to pay. So every time the Monetary Board gives
green light to GMA to borrow more billions of dolares, it is for the
Filipino people to pay, not now, because they have no money;
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later, when they have money. You see that, Filipino people, when
you have money later, they will take it away, because then we have
to pay the foreign debt! How nice, noh?
A peke is a peke, false, a fraud. Same as the BSP. Peke also. That
is not a Central Bank. The BSP is a private corporation with an
authorized capital of $1Billion, not listed even in the SEC. We
should ask Fidel The Great V. Ramos why he did that and what he
got from it. That is the truth and nothing but the truth!
Maybe we can now reason that the spokesman of FPJ, the young
congressman from Sorsogon, one of the spice boys, was also very
concerned, when he explained that FPJ would not r-e-p-u-d-i-a-t-e
the foreign debt, he would just extend the time period for the
payment of the interest. In banking terms out there, they call that
m-o-r-a-t-o-r-i-u-m and they hate it, because it means that the
country is bankrupt.
The young spokesman was just not prepared. That’s all. If he had
been prepared, he would have made his own knockout punch.
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Something like this: “We did not create this foreign debt. They did
it. So they should answer the question. They should also explain
what they did with the money. We would be very happy to hear
their answer. Please don’t ask us what we would do with their
foreign debt. We will show them, when we are in office and accept
the foreign debt as ours.”
That would have been a nice answer, putting things in the right
perspective. Indeed, nobody should ask FPJ or Ping Lacson about
the foreign debt. It is nothing god-given, it is nothing inherently
Philippine. It is solely the problem of the incumbent and her
predecessors, except Erap. Erap Bobo was not quick enough, not
smart enough, to borrow foreign debt. Even if traitors Pardo and
Aventejado were begging him.
But again, that is not the issue. The truth is not the issue. The truth
is never the issue. In this country, everybody hates the truth. If the
FG is really in everything from Customs to DPWH, from Pagcor to
Philhealth, then that is not the issue, no newspaper will pick this
up, unless a lawyer of ill repute will file a complaint.
right: The DBM gives out a list for a total of P3B, payable in
February 2004, with so-called beneficiaries for agri-prods. On the
list are only friends of GMA, Nonoy Aquino with P5M, which is,
of course, understandable because Tarlac is such a poor dry
country, but Maite Defensor with P5M also, and that for Quezon
City, which is already plastered with those blue-yellow PGMA
kalsada natin brigades! Where will she fertilize? Her pocket?
They did a great job. We have to give it to them. They fooled the
whole nation. Even the o.i.A’s of FPJ, including his young
spokesman, are clearly in line with their boss, the 40-year padre-
compadre in film business and social life, now dumbfounded and
stupefied, so he cannot greet his old friend any more. Maybe he
does not know anymore where to find him, in jail or in hospital, or
in detention camp or in “The Resthouse”. That’s what friends are
for! Philippine style.
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They can play games now. PGMA is so nice, she allows him to go
to The Resthouse. For show. She hires some lawyers who file a
case against her. That is NEWS! Raps filed against PGMA!
PGMA impeach! For contempt of court! That is headline stuff!
But really: What contempt? She owns them. She hires and fires
them. Cory comes to say that she supports PGMA. That is NEWS
also! Here come the paid hecklers: Special treatment. That is a bad
word. Schmacks Marcos! Yeah! People will hate someone who
enjoys special treatment. Special treatment in the Resthouse! Yes,
Erap will look very bad with that! They know the people and crab
mentality. They must be celebrating already in the Palace.
The truth is, Mr. Wannabee President, that your old pare is still the
duly elected President of this godforsaken country. GMA is in
power, but she is illigit. That is why she can run again, against the
provisions of the 1987 Constitution given to us by her Excellency
President Corazon C. Aquino. No President, no Cory, no FVR, was
allowed to run a second time. Why can she run again? Where is the
COMELEC? Where is the Supreme Court? Where are all the
lawyers in this country? They must all be very busy running.
Oh, yes, and don’t forget the magic of the SHRINE! That is the
symbol of the evil machinations of the Roman Catholic Church,
the Creator and Conspirator of the Oligarchy (the Ayalas, Ortigas,
Tuazons, Aranetas, and Manny Villar not to forget), which, silently
and secretly, rules this country of medieval religiosity. They call it
catholic and call you to pray the rosary a hundred times per hour.
Foreigners who come to these shores keep quiet. They have never
seen anything like this.
But that, again, is besides the point. The point is that GMA is
really starting to look good, at least on TV. She is “our last best
hope” a hundred times a day. She is the only one doing something
for Erap. She allows him to go to The Resthouse. People are
conditioned with a daily overdose of GMA PR and it will come to
the people: Erap should endorse her!
And GMA is also helping the poor. She is giving P50,000 to every
family in the Visayas. At least that is what my maid told me, when
I asked her why she has to go to Masbate tomorrow. According to
her, she also wants to get P50,000 for her family. That is why she
is asking me for advance pamasahe.
That is reality, reality that nobody wants to see! The troops of FPJ
in Mindanao are so exhausted. They cannot see. They are drunk
from so many hands to shake and lips to kiss. Even the friends of
Eddie Gil don’t see reality. Nor do the friends of Eddie Villanueva.
Nobody wants to see the truth. What truth? What reality?
Again, that is beside the point. The point is that GMA did land a
terrific 1-2 combination and the opponent in the blue corner is
unable to respond. If no miracle will happen, the election is over.
One month ago, it was finished also, FPJ was the supreme winner.
No more! GMA appears now as the overwhelming force in every
angle of a business that the o.i.A’s are unable to fathom. FPJ will
lose by default. He will look utterly stupid. Without his doing. He
never knew maybe that this is business. Real business. Nasty
business. Dirty Business.
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If you thought that this is a game only, then sorry, Mr. Poe Jr.,
game over! Sayang, Philippines! This beautiful country with so
many fiestas, even more Santos and Ninos is going to the dogs.
There is no more hope! Except for PGMA.
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FROM MINDANAO WITH LOVE
Number three, Gloria has covered every square meter down there
with her barangay-wide kalsada natin program. They are very
quick to clean any attempt to post a poster for any of the other
candidates. You hardly see a poster of FPJ. In the whole of
Mindanao, maybe we saw three. In our view, the campaign is over
and, by all means, Gloria won it.
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find sting operations in the newspapers about sellers of fake gold
bars arrested or similar stories.
There are “Buyers”, mostly CIA agents, in every 5-star hotel one,
and owners, called “Holders”, mostly dubious syndicates peddling
“samples”. What started maybe as “Marcos Money” is now free
from any taint, because Ferdinand Marcos is long dead. The only
thing that has not changed is the treasure hunt. Thousands of
Filipinos are digging, silently and secretly, for Yamashita treasure
or Marcos treasure every day. All over the country.
All over the country, the poor Filipinos keep dreaming and hoping
for a miracle. The promises of AAA, Alvin Amirante, with 20
million followers countrywide, are heard because of wishful
thinking. If you dig a little deeper, it is the faint and silent hope
that, one day, the Marcos Money will come out and will be
distributed to the Filipino people. Even presidential candidate
Eddie Gil, by now disqualified as nuisance candidate, is singing
the same tune.
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So, in the end, did we miss anything? Maybe the build-up for the
jeepney strike, maybe the start of the below-the-belt operations,
see Dolphy “bastos” and “judas” or is that kabayan Noli de Castro?
You do not know any more, because the whole thing called
election is getting “bastos”. There is nothing to discuss, it seems.
It’s all show and entertainment. Gloria is everywhere, promising
the moon and the stars and she will keep up with FPJ. If ever FPJ
will be ahead by 10 percent or less, that can easily be ironed out.
Actually, following the grape vine, the list of winners is out
already.
We can go to sleep now. GMA will take care of business; the fat
gentleman will be whitewashed while more and more squatters,
vendors, beggars, and street children will sleep on our kalsada
natin. No more “programa”, PGMA will be tired also. Until next
election. You bet!
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F·R·O·N·T·L·I·N·E
NINEZ CACHO-OLIVARES
What else can be expected from the Comelec that already clears
Gloria's transgressions even before a disqualification case is filed
against her? In the case of Gloria misusing government funds and
resources as a vote-buying scheme,
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it was the Comelec commissioners who were coming out in
defense of Gloria, saying she is President and an incumbent, and
that this is part of her governance. Again, she is being absolved of
any violations even before judgment is rendered. There is clear
evidence that Gloria has been utilizing government funds to prop
up her candidacy.
Simple. Last year was not an election year. This year is, and all
resources are being utilized for Gloria's election. And what about
the other telling evidence of Gloria getting her Cabinet officials to
campaign for her, by writing official letters and telling people to
vote for Gloria?
There is, too, that presidential address that Gloria wants read to
graduating students, approved by her Education secretary and the
Ched officials. Isn't that electioneering? Not to the Comelec, it
isn't. All signs point to the Comelec protecting Gloria and even
ensuring her win in May.
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Surely if the Comelec and the NPO chief were certain that no
hanky-panky in ballot printing exists, a probe would have been the
best step to take, if only to prove to the public that the opposition
was coming up with unsubstantiated charges on electoral fraud.
The same tack was taken by the Comelec in the case of a Cavite
official who caught some six contractual Comelec employees
hacking away at computers connected to the Comelec. The official
called in the police because the employees could not explain what
they were doing and why they were hacking a Comelec program,
which had something to do with the voters' registration files.
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A·N·A·L·Y·S·I·S
BY ALEJANDRO LICHAUCO
Two national security questions for the ‘presidentiables’
Excerpts:
The reason for this question is that national security studies in the
US both in the private and government sectors, anticipate the
possibility of such nuclear attack in the US before the November
presidential elections. On the private sector side, the Kennedy
School of Government of Harvard University and the Federation of
American Scientists have already anticipated the scenario in
officially released studies (See article “Nuclear 9/11” by Nicolas
Kristof published in a local daily last March 12).
But to bring this particular point home, there are strong but as yet
unconfirmed reports that al-Qaeda has slipped in 30 of its suicide
agents into this country armed with a dirty bomb scheduled for
detonation at the opportune time. Nothing surprising, of course,
considering that the Philippines has been included in al-Qaeda's
terror targets, along with Australia and Japan, in view of our
government's insistence to remain actively involved with the US in
the latter's war on Iraq.
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stopping and inspecting every vehicle coasting along both sides of
the boulevard. Such a scenario, considering the pattern of suicide
bombings in Iraq, can only be described as most logical and the
most conservative of security planning should at the very least
assume that more likely than not that is precisely what would
happen, or what we should expect to happen and prepare for.
That's why in an earlier piece written for a local daily last March
16, this writer suggested that the “AFP should prepare for a
“nuclear 9/11” in the US and the National Defense College of the
Philippines (NDCP) should be tasked to draw up a comprehensive
emergency program in anticipation of that possible event, which
certainly would have traumatic consequences for us.
To that suggestion, this piece will now add — and add pressingly
— that the AFP, through the NDCP, undertake forward and
emergency planning in anticipation of the strongly rumored dirty
bomb attack on the US Embassy here. If it doesn't happen, then at
least we shall have prepared for it and the exercise would have
been worthwhile. But should it happen, and we are caught literally
flatfooted, the AFP as an institution will never be able to forgive
itself for its unpreparedness and neither will the public be able to
forgive it. The AFP will never be able to live down the
embarrassment and the humiliation and it wouldn't even be in any
moral position to assume command in the event that chaos breaks
loose, as it certainly would. That
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command will be reserved for, and can only be assumed by an
organized armed force that is bound to emerge from the chaos and
which would identify itself with the people as their protector.
As for the presidentiables, and the trapos behind them, you and I
can let our imagination run wild as to the fate that awaits them, as
marauding bands of desperate, hungry masses scour for food and
scour as well for those who should hang and be made to pay for the
criminal state of un-preparedness toward which this nation shall
have been allowed to drift by the criminal incompetence of those
who aspire to lead it.
As this writer has asked only too often, who is the nut who
wants to be President in these times?
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NO PLATFORM, NO BRAINS!
After April fool’s day, it is the preacher Eddie Villanueva, who is
the one among the presidential candidates who coins and starts the
term “count down”. As a politician, he is a greenhorn, a neophyte.
As businessperson, he is in the business of selling salvation. As a
scientist, he is a nut spreading the news of Adam and Eve. As a
religious man, he is at best a tribal medicine man, a shaman of
forgotten primitive cultures, but in Philippine politics, he has
millions of followers in neat yellow uniform who may, God forbid,
carry him to the highest post of the land.
Mind you, this is not a fairy tale story; this is modern Philippine
history! Someone else took over the reigns of absolute power and
put him in jail. Actually, it is not jail, because jailing someone
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requires certain legal grounds like finding him guilty of something,
anything. They did not, at least not yet, after 3 years, but they
denied him bail, so the duly elected bobo President of the Republic
of the Philippines is kept in a freezer of sorts, somewhere out there,
sometimes in a Veteran’s Hospital, sometimes in a military camp
in the provinces, sometimes in a rest house, who knows?
Gloria is all that plus she controls the COMELEC and the Supreme
Court. She is, indeed, in a super position that practically guarantees
her victory. Lately, she decorates herself with doctor hats. That
looks cute on her and makes her look a little intelligent, at least for
a while. Maybe it is correct to say, though, that in the eyes of the
viewing public, not the blinded Ayala employees but the silent
majority out there, nothing will change the general disenchantment
of the viewers in their modest homes.
They don’t like her, they don’t like her political gimmickry, and
they don’t believe her any more. Except that more than the
absolute majority of Filipino people believe that she is using public
funds to finance her gigantic presidential campaign and that she is
ready, willing, and able to cheat in the elections. Big time even!
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There lies the tragedy of this election, the tragedy of the Filipino
people. Here are millions and millions of poor Filipinos, desperate
for a brighter future, and there is dagdag bawas, the brazen power
grabbing of the rich oligarchy. And the real tragedy is that the so-
called opposition does not see it, does not see the great opportunity
of unifying the opposition for the benefit of the Filipino people
against the establishment. Five weeks before May 10, the day of
reckoning, FPJ is wasting his chances in political no no’s, making
himself a sad picture of a spoiled brat with no manners, and worse,
a picture of a hapless puppet in the hands of some ambitious-over-
ambitious traditional politicians.
Is that what we want as the next president? No, thank you! More
and more former admirers of the king are getting disillusioned and
fall off. Surprisingly or not, a lonely candidate is plying his ways,
presenting himself as presidential caliber but without a party.
Brains? Senator Ping Lacson has. Maybe Roco also has but that
guy is not straight, not serious, and not strongly determined. That’s
for sure. He is a hang-on, playing the role of hero for a stupid
“intelligencia”, mostly miss-educated students who polish their
own image. In those “educated” circles, it is “in” to be for someone
who, in reality, was dismissed as super corrupt while in office as
Secretary of Education. Is that we want as the next president? Ha?
What ever, who ever, someone will take the position of president
very soon and rule this banana republic with a strong hand until it
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bleeds to death. Gloria’s platform for that, and that is most likely
the winning platform, is borrowing more money and not care who
will pay for it, as long as she and her beloved fat gentleman have
enough. And some are saying that there is no enough. Tough times
ahead, Philippines!
So, Filipino people, vote wisely! Your vote will not be counted
anyhow. If Gloria will buy your vote, take the P5,000, what else
can you do? They have just too nuch to lose, too much to protect.
They might be investigated and that includes Cory and the
Cardinal, Ramos and his generals, and Gloria with her spice boys.
The FG? Munti is next! But NO, they will never allow that to
happen. They will go dagdag bawas.
What is important here is that the Supreme Court then up-held the
legitimacy of the “People Power” President Cory Aquino. We all
know what happened. Six kudetas shattered the economy because
many people then thought that Cory had no right to call herself
President and that she totally abused her powers. Time can heal
wounds but injustice remains injustice.
Problem then was, by the way, that all those friends of Cory who
were nobodies before, mostly leftists and activists, became
government officials under Cory, and they were greedy, very
greedy. They are very greedy until today. Mike Defensor is one
such a leftist with unstoppable appetite for more. Just for example.
If, yes If. If we the people can come together under one leader, we
can do a lot of changes which “they” will never do or never allow
to happen. “They” stole the land from the Filipino people and
“they” claim now that “they” are the owners. “They” also claim
that “they” follow the law and that is not true. “They” make the
law, “they” pay, “they” bribe people in office. “They” are the root
of all evil, of systematic graft and corruption. “They” are the
enemies of the people, as simple as that.
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“They” are, of course, also the enemy of the late President
Ferdinand E. Marcos, “they” charge him with anything and
everything, but “they” were never able to prove any of their
allegations in court, in any court, not even their own courts.
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B·A·C·K·B·E·N·C·H·E·R
ROD P. KAPUNAN
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makes use their claimed expertise to assert lies. We have the
Namfrel. Its accreditation makes us the only country in the world
to admit that our own Commission on Elections cannot be trusted.
There is the US-funded AGILE, with its members acting as
consultants in legislating laws that have resulted in the depredation
of the country’s economy.
They also have their media pipeline represented by the PCIJ. This
organization operated as a propaganda machine and at the height of
the Estrada oust campaign it came out with 14-US directed articles,
13 of which were derogatory to the ousted President. There is also
the Makati Business Club, an association of a fraction of the
country’s businessmen closely identified with the US interest.
Other organizations like the Social Weather Stations and the
Philippine Center for Policy Studies are also tapped and people
cannot be wrong because they always present apologetic stand on
many crucial issues.
Lately, that which hogs the headlines is TI. There is now a big
question how it managed to freely operate here, and who are the
foreign handlers behind this seemingly self-righteous organization.
The forte of course of TI is to list down names of heads of state it
considers as most corrupt. Surprisingly many of them were leaders
whose ouster was principally engineered by the US. TI casually
goes around by feeding information from what Estrada calls the
“wild, wild press.
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me. That I continue to be a factor in our political life indicates that
our people know better.”
Any Filipino who still has his sense of dignity and honor would
not stand happy to see two of his Presidents who after being ousted
would be listed by TI as among the list of 10 most corrupt leaders
in recent history. It cited in the following order President
Mohamed Suharto of Indonesia to have allegedly plundered
between $15 to $35 billion during his 32 year reign; Ferdinand
Marcos between $5 to $10 billion; Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire $5
billion; Sani Abacha of Nigeria $2-3 billion; Slovodan Milosevic
of Serbia $1 billion; Jean Claude Duvalier of Haiti between $300
to $800; Alberto Fujimori of Peru $600 million; Pavlo Lazarenko
of Ukraine between $114 million to $200 million; Arnoldo Aleman
of Nicaragua $100 million; and Estrada between $78 to $80
million.
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But on the business of destroying the reputation of our duly elected
leaders, our people are now coming to know the truth that the
government of Mrs. Aquino hired 16 American public relations
firms and spent millions of dollars in government funds just to
destroy the reputation of a man who did well to serve his
country as a soldier and as a statesman.
They have become bold because they enjoy the patronage of the
hypocrites, although noticeably that circle of canine devotees has
been shrinking just as fast as the sinking economy.
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Blast from the past: Poe, Marcoses seal alliance
Posted: 0:48 AM (Manila Time) | Apr. 15, 2004
By Carlito Pablo
Like a blast from the past, the personalities who occupied the stage
at the grand rally of the opposition Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang
Pilipino (Coalition of the United Filipino, KNP) party were a
reminder of two administrations that were booted out by the people
power of 1986 and 2001.
At a pit stop here, Enrile, the defense minister who staged a failed
coup against Marcos in February 1986 that led to the people power
revolt, apologized to the Ilocano for his role in the ouster of
Marcos. "Agbabawi ak (I regret)," he reportedly told a crowd.
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Likewise present was Jinggoy Estrada, son of deposed President
Joseph Estrada and a wedding godson of Poe.
The main star was Poe, himself a wedding godson of the Marcos
couple, who had raised the hand of Marcos and running mate
Arturo Tolentino for the 1986 snap presidential election.
Marcos legacy
Imelda told reporters that Poe would resurrect and continue the
legacy of Marcos, which is to give to the people the proceeds of
Marcos "foundations and wealth and assets."
"That is where the Marcos legacy lies. I'm sure FPJ (Poe's initials)
will do this because this is the last will of Ferdinand Marcos,
which is to help the people even if he is already gone," Imelda
said.
The Marcoses have been claiming that the former strongman had
intended to use the millions of dollars stashed in foreign bank
accounts and foundations to help the country.
"But these assets are being used by the government for their
personal selves and this is what makes me cry," Imelda said.
She said that if Poe won, the Marcoses would willingly give these
assets to the government so he could use it for the people.
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Macapagal's approval rating
rises in latest SWS survey
Posted: 2:21 PM (Manila Time) | Apr. 17, 2004
Agence France-Presse
(As expected, this falls under mind conditioning
or brain washing. If the people buy this, they have only
themselves to blame. But they will not. This smells a good,
actual case of NEWS FOR SALE in STAR and INQUIRER)
Agence France-Press? Do we need foreigners for that, ha? Or feke?
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HAPPY END?
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PROF. FELIPE MIRANDA in Philippine STAR
Excerpts from his column:
Over three and a half million votes are therefore ready for
political activation if the right mix of approaches, messages and
indicative projects could be put together and addressed to those
still mulling their presidential choices.
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Find them, woo them and keep them – this is the singular task of
the unified opposition’s campaign team and its presidentiable.
They still can make it. All they have to do is unify, focus their
campaign, work truly collaboratively and be diverted by no
considerations of personal turf, personal gain and personal
animosity. Everything for the unified opposition, everything
against a unifying administration!
They have a full week to start making this miracle possible. They
have three weeks to make it come to pass.
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OPINION by MAX SOLIVEN, Philippine STAR
This is a great time for columnists, opinion writers, political
pundits and putas (not to be confused with each other), poll survey
groups, power brokers, deal-makers, KSPs (kulang sa pansin, now
being given undue attention), and posturers.
The prospect of any "unity" being forged between FPJ and Senator
Panfilo "Ping" Lacson grows bleaker and bleaker by the day. One
of the main reasons is the fact, increasingly apparent, that many in
their respective pangkat don’t want this to happen.
Ping Lacson’s boys tell me that a meeting had been scheduled for
last Monday. Then a phone call came – direct to Lacson from an
emissary – that FPJ’s schedule couldn’t permit a meeting that
afternoon or evening. Is this true? So there
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to-face dialogue? Perhaps Monday? Perhaps Tuesday. We’ll know
when it happens – if it happens. GMA is obviously lapping it up,
taunting the two to "unite". Don’t discount the possibility that
the intriguers in both camps, or in the media, or among the
kibitzers, belong to her, or to "Jose Pidal", and, don’t forget,
The Firm.
It turns out that even Senator Greg "Gringo" Honasan is out of the
loop, handling only security (he’s almost never seen himself), and
is supposed to become "operations chief" only on election day.
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that clever GMA’s agents aren’t fanning the flames of
demoralization and dissent. Panday, it’s well known, is the only
challenger capable of giving GMA a fight, and even of
overpowering her increasingly well-oiled machine. But his strength
is ebbing, and even his capacity to lead is beginning to be
questioned by those who love him. Snap out of it, Ronnie, unless
you want to be dethroned ignominously by those who profess to be
your most loyal "knights".
"He’s not only acting according to a bad script, it seems that he’s
without a script," a perceptive critic told this writer yesterday. The
word on the street remains the same: Unite or perish. But first,
FPJ has to unite his own party.
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B·A·C·K·B·E·N·C·H·E·R
ROD P. KAPUNAN
Nowadays, it is not enough for every Filipino to say he or she is against Mrs.
Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The patriotic duty now is to see to it that his or
her vote would contribute to the removal of the usurper.
It is in this regard why it is not enough for Sen. Panfilo "Ping" Lacson to say
he is running because he wants to challenge Mrs. Arroyo. Rather, he should
take into account how he, as a candidate could translate his current poll
rating to effectively defeat the power grabber who now styles herself as the
most qualified and competent among the presidential hopefuls.
There is need for him to exhibit his zeal of patriotism because the dimension
now of the election is not in letting the world know that our freewheeling
democracy is still alive, but on how to crowbar out of office the de facto
leader.
For Lacson to insist despite his nil chance of winning is to feed the ugly
suspicion that he is the Trojan horse. This could now be the case because he
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is chopping the chances of unity within the opposition, with the sad part that
a divided opposition could greatly boost the chances of the power grabber.
As the race moves closer to the finish line, people notice that he is exactly
doing the fine job as seen by his mule-like obstinacy coupled by the
regularity of his attacks on KNP candidate Fernando Poe Jr. than on GMA.
Only by giving value to patriotism can Lacson resolve the dilemma that now
confronts him. He should not view it as a compromising defeat, but a
compromise to give the opposition that much-needed political boost, and to
view the victory of FPJ not as something personal, but a signal to the
hypocrites that the Filipino people can not forget just how they were
swindled of the leader they elected. He cannot even go on with his
sloganeering of "buo ang loob" and "walang atrasan" because they only
excite passion than rationality on how to overcome that distinct possibility
of languishing for another six years with the lackey doubly arrogant that she
now has the mandate that possibly could be contributed by him.
In fact, it would not be too much for Lacson to know that the economy that
has been lorded over by the power grabber is now in a state of
decomposition that the International Monetary Fund (IMF), in its regional
assessment report, said the Philippines could only register a 4.5 percent
economic growth rate, the lowest in the region where the average is at 7
percent. The significance is not that we are at the bottom, but that it debunks
her claim that being surrounded by a number of balderdash economic
experts she can run the country well and soundly.
For that matter, asking our people about the economy is already a burden
because their pre-occupation is on how to hold on to their employment if
they are still lucky to be employed, or to find one if they are already out of
job. The 11 percent unemployment rate or the equivalent to 3.9 million
Filipinos out of job is of staggering proportion. This, not to mention the 35.2
percent or roughly 5.5 million underemployed or people working less than
40 hours a week.
More than that, while Lacson's ambition may only affect his future political
career, our crisis involves all of us, and we have no choice but to unite for
the sake of survival. Since the usurper assumed power in January 2001, the
debt of the national government has soared to P1.2 trillion or an increase by
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more than 50 percent from the Estrada administration. In 2003, the national
government incurred a total debt of about P3,325 billion. The government of
Mrs. Arroyo incurred a P214 billion budget deficit in 2002 or equivalent to 5
percent of the country's gross national product (GNP). On foreign direct
investment (FDI), the unofficial ledger on measuring confidence in our
economy by foreign businessmen, FDI for almost the entire tenure of the
power grabber, from January 2001 to September 2003, only managed to
register $2.2 billion, and practically dropping to zero in 2003. This is in
contrast to the $3.4 billion that came in during the last 24 months of the
Estrada administration.
Taking all these into account, Lacson should by now wake up to the fact that
he can not for long cling on to that taipan and to some rogue Filipino-
Chinese businessmen who are committed to keeping their political pipeline
open with the power grabber. The taipan is more interested in keeping his
empire intact that after playing the role of political kingmaker he now finds
himself deeply mired to a point that he is now being blackmailed for his own
clumsiness. In fact, many of his fellow taipans have lost their respect for
kabise after knowing that he had a hand in discrediting the Piatco deal to the
detriment of the Cheng Yong group, which he should have inhibited from
because he was a part of the consortium that offered to build the Naia III
terminal, but was out bidded by Piatco. As it now appears, after abandoning
his taipan partners in that failed New Emerging Dragons Consortium, the
kabise now wants to come in solo, which is an unethical business practice.
Finally, there are many things that Lacson has yet to learn because political
decisions are different from military and business decisions. In politics, to
compromise is not equivalent to capitulationism. Rather, it is sometimes
needed when exigencies demand that one has to give in order to make a
democracy work for the common and for higher political goals closer to
what the people have in mind, not in what one has in mind. Amor propio has
no place in politics because it is obstructive to unity that right now could
give the political usurper another opening to give us six years of economic
nightmare.
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HERMANN TIU LAUREL – DAILY TRIBUNE (Excerpts)
OPERATION CHECKMATE
Operation Checkmate is the Gloria regime's systematic plan for the
wholesale hijack of the May 10 elections, including the use of JJ
Soriano's NFO Trends as the fountainhead of corrupted polling
interviews, which will end in the “hard” approach using
intimidation and large-scale destruction of election documents.
The PNP is instrumental in this operation, establishing intimidating
presence in urban poor areas known to be overwhelming
bailiwicks of Poe to keep voters away from the voting centers.
This is helped along by “Operation Cheque-mate” giving millions
to the police generals.
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Many things will happen on May 10 that will enrage the nation,
but as the majority of Filipinos have said so, FPJ will win the
elections — but the counting and the proclamation are another
matter. Many people look forward with anticipation that after May
10, they will be relieved of the tension and anxiety. I am afraid
they will be in for a surprise. That's when the real tension and
anxiety will begin, and after that, Philippine life may totally be
different — for the worse. Gloria, Ramos, Almonte, the Firm et al
will have a scorched earth policy; if they don't survive this, no one
will.
A lot will depend on our military and police forces' young officers,
for their higher officials have already been “cheque-mated” by
Arroyo. Only the young officers, particularly from the military,
remain “strong and pure” as a note to us by one of them said. The
battle between FPJ and Arroyo, between the broad masses of the
Filipino people and the oligarchs, is a battle between truth and lies,
honesty and deceit, between corruption and purity, between
humanism and Hitlerian cynicism. These are battles in a war to
pull our “dying society” from the edge of the grave.
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PAPANO?
HOW DO WE DO IT?
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PRIVATE FUNDING
FOR HUMANITARIAN PROJECTS
IN THE PHILIPPINES
SPECIFICS
The funds are privately owned and are clean, clear, and
approved by the United States Treasury. Allocation not
allowed for political purposes except for the unification of
opposition candidates under the general term: ”For the
greater benefit of the People”.
EXPLANATION
GENERAL REMARKS
For the funding, our prime banks abroad will confirm “for
and on behalf of one of our most valuable clients.” This is
not a one-time but a continuous funding through the next
nine years.
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STATEMENT BY FERNANDO POE JR.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
But for the time being, he has chosen to serve the greater benefit
of the Filipino people and to help the winning candidate fill in
the one visible gap that is the perceived and admitted lack of
professionalism and seriosity. In other words, the unified
opposition now has one presidential candidate, FPJ, and a new
vice presidential candidate, Ping Lacson. To do what?
To make this very clear, it is our opinion that the rich in this
country, in Makati or in the plush subdivisions, will do as they
like, who ever is the president, but the poor majority in this
country, those who don’t have money to buy what they like,
those who don’t have money to travel, those who have no hope
to ever get a job, those Filipinos need us, need our help, and we
will give it to them.
You will ask, how will you pay for all that, and we tell you here
and now that we will un-freeze the Marcos accounts and that we
will use the Marcos money that is listed but held in the PCGG to
pay for all our programs and projects to help the poor.
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Yes, we have a clear understanding with the Marcos Family,
call it alliance, if you want, and we guarantee that the Marcos
Family is friend and helper to the Filipino people, all the way.
Did I make this very clear for everybody? We will stop graft
and corruption right here, leading by example. Nobody will ever
find a case of graft and corruption, nor plunder, against us, we
swear this to GOD the Almighty in Heaven. Amen.
Mga Kababayan,
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Kasunod nito sa tulong ng ating Bise Presidente, ng mga Senador,
kongresman at ang aking mga magiging Sekretaryo sa Kabinete ay
susuportahan kong lubusan ang buong pwersang pagpapatupad ng reforma
sa lupa, pabahay at programang may kitang pang-kabuhayan para sa
nakakaraming mahihirap, pagpapatupad ng tamang pasuweldo sa maliliit na
manggagawa at malaki ang aking paniniwala na ito ang mga makakalutas ng
maaga sa mga naghahabol ng kanilang mga kaso na may kaugnayan sa
karapatang pangtao na naaayon sa ating saligang batas.
Sino nagsasabing wala daw kami plataforma? Kayo ba mga mahal kong
naghihirap na kababayan? Kayo na po ang humusga? Bumoto po tayo ng
naayon sa ating konsensiya? Kayo na po ang bahalang magpanalo kay FPJ
ang inyong bagong Pangulo at kay PING LACSON ang ating Pangalawang
Pangulo. Maraming Salamat Bansang Pilipinas!
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A·N·A·L·Y·S·I·S
BY ALEJANDRO LICHAUCO
The dying gasp of Philippine ‘democracy’
If a system were judged by its results, what does one say about the
representative system of government installed by Edsa I? To call it
a democracy — as the thinning devotees of the first people power
insist it is — taxes even an uncontrolled imagination; and if it is
indeed democracy, then democracy isn't only the most difficult
political system to administer, as someone like Winston Churchill
is said to have said, but also catastrophically absurd.
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the electorate is economically deprived and ignorant and you will
agree that can't possibly be democracy.
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in the last years of his dictatorship that Marcos realized the nation
must industrialize if it is to survive. Hence, the 11 major industrial
projects which he launched in 1979. But by the time, poverty and
underdevelopment were already exacting their price and, with
Ninoy's assassination, Marcos became as dead as a dead duck and
with him the vision of an industrialized Philippines died.
But back to the title of this piece. It shouldn't take much to realize
democracy as we have known and have practiced it over the last 17
years is on the way out simply because it has been reduced to a
catastrophic absurdity. No system of political governance can
possibly endure when it co-exists with a poverty problem as acute
and extensive as what we have now. Elections have even ceased to
be the entertainment they have always been because there's a point
when the hungry can no longer be entertained. One suspects that
point has now been reached.
If the ignorant masa are going for FPJ, it isn't because they wish to
be entertained but because they have given up on the educados and
the politicos of Philippine society and now look to the non-
educados and the non-politicos for their economic liberation and
you can't blame them for that.
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(Before I forget:
P.S.
Actually, the poorest of the poor have become the enemy of the
haves and the haves are hiring more and more guards with guns.
Poor guards, they come from the ranks of the poorest of the poor
and the have to shoot the poor, if they come too close. What a
tragedy of poverty! We cannot blame the guards; they have no
other choice, if they want to earn money.
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'Those 19th century
long, acrimonious wars
of words... are the direct
antecedents of the harsh
and interminable
polemics we see today...'
In fact those officials got their houses built free of cost by the men
on forced-labor duty, with materials from the forest and sums from
public works funds, and took "innumerable bribes and illegal
exactions that they impose and taxes that they collect through
numberless separate judgments." In other words, power and pelf.
During their appearances, they were preceded by an attendant
carrying a wand. A great fiesta celebrated their oath-taking and, on
holidays, they were accompanied by musicians playing a double-
quick march and fancifully-dressed guards on their way to and
from the church where they sat in special seats of honor.
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THINKING AHEAD
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Sarcasm is the wrath of the powerless.
Filipinos are very sarcastic these days.
Have you heard this one from a lady from the market?
If I could vote a dog for president, this time I would vote the dog.
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WHERE WE ARE, WHAT WE ARE
Of course, this took billions of years to develop and will take more
billions of years to unravel. All we know is that the sun will get
bigger and hotter, until all matter is burnt. Then it will end up as a
black hole. No more sun, no more life. But life will end much
earlier because of the heat. One day, our Planet Earth will be
melted, but we will no longer be there for our cremation. Life is
only possible, if there is water, at a very crucial temperature, which
depends solely on the exact distance to the sun. Too near, too hot;
too far away, too cold.
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Water allows the nitrogen cycle to produce oxygen, by the plants,
for the animals to breathe. Along that line, totally accepted by
serious scientists all over the world, and the evolution of millions
of life forms, here comes the human race at the end of the line, the
proud “homo sapiens”, and everything goes wrong.
Let’s just mention the worst period in the history of mankind. That
was when the Pope established himself as the highest secular
leader on earth, higher than kings and emperors at that time, 1000
to 1300. What followed were the Dark Ages, some few hundred
years of evil triumph of religious doctrine over the ideals of the
human mind. That was before they even had a print of the Bible!
We should not forget those historical facts, when our leaders are
practically leaving the outcome of this election 2004 to the
religious leaders. Woo! Religion is for eternity. The President is
for earthly matters. The Constitution demands that Church and
State are separate entities. Here the candidates for president are
wooing one after the other of those leaders of religious groups of
the charismatic kind. The hard question can only be this: Who is
the prostitute in this case?
Come on, Filipino, get ready for education for everybody, that is
the only thing that will change this country. Not today but in the
long run. There must be something like a human drive for better
and more beautiful. There must be a human drive to know more,
or? Well, listen to this; some men close their eyes, when they ride
the train or bus. They hate to see a woman standing.
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Back to the religious leaders, in this election, we actually talk
about three, His Excellency Erdie Manalo, leader of the Iglesia Ni
Kristo, Mr. Mike Velarde or El Shaddai, and Eddie Villanueva, the
leader of The Jesus is Lord Movement.
So, what about the third one? There is probably only one reason
why He could side with Gloria, or actually two: Human vanity and
the great enemy of Philippine culture, self-centeredness. Reason
No. 1 could be that FPJ does not bow deep enough and long
enough before His Excellency. Reason No. 2: Gloria keeps kissing
his feet, until He gives in.
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What these three gentlemen, wonder what Cardinal Sin is doing
these days, have in common with that shortest president of the
world is that they don’t spend their own money. The spend O.P.M.
money, other people’s money or Oh-Promise-Me money.
B·A·C·K·B·E·N·C·H·E·R
ROD P. KAPUNAN
When religious leaders mix their dogma with politics, they not
only violate the freedom of worship and abuse the privilege of tax-
exemption given them by this wayward republic, but invariably
open themselves to severe public criticism.
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with political convictions, they would always be accused of
demagoguery, their religion branded as cults, and even insinuations
of corruption and bribery won't stop.
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If the justices just exerted extra efforts to visualize the meaning of
justiciable controversy outside of the rigidities of that the
vandalized Constitution provides, it should be easy to see that
people measure their freedom of religion on a personal basis as
pursued by these religious organizations. This, the politicking
Davide Court failed to see because it wrongly assumed that in all
democratic governments, religious freedom is pretty much the
same as the freedom of religious organizations.
This is the reason the early justices of the Supreme Court were able
to delineate the ideological belief of the individual from his
political party affiliation, with the State responding only if that
political party would advocate violence to overthrow the
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government. In which case, the State applies the principle of self-
defense. The same ought to be true to religious organizations.
While none of them advocates the overthrow of the government,
nobody doubts that once they succeed in controlling it, they would
be very intolerant to heresy, agnosticism, and atheism, or would
easily condemn anybody disagreeing with their beliefs.
We can cite the fratricidal wars that were fought in the name of
Christianity that decimated almost half of the population of
Medieval Europe, and how Torquemada elevated torture and
brutality to a form of art. Since we now live in a pretended
civilized society, religion has instead become a big and lucrative
business that works well within the dimension of free enterprise
where desperate people pay their tithing as they await a miracle.
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insults at each other on radio and television, people who tune in to
them are amused at their antics and on how each childishly claims
to correctly interpret the bible. Due to the intensity of their rivalry,
whoever is the candidate endorsed by Erano Manalo's group will
definitely be opposed by Ely Soriano's followers not really to spite,
but to lessen the increasing influence of the other. The lurking
danger is that both have rabid fanatical followers, and their rivalry
today is not just on who is credible, but a question of survival that
could only be sustained by their political leverage of wanting to
make it appear that winning candidates owe their victory to them.
Let's go all out for FPJ and Loren Legarda, and for senators: J.P.
Enrile, Kit Tatad, Jinggoy Estrada, Digs Dilangalen, Boots Anson
Roa, and Jamby Madrigal. For party-list, vote for the pro-poor
People's Movement Against Poverty (PMAP).
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OUR LAST HOPE: FPJ, Hermann Tiu Laurel, TRIBUNE
Picture the Philippine one month after next Monday, May 10, and
the political forces of the usurper of power and constitutional
transgressors Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo hang on by the treacheries
and travesties of our laws they have been committing since the
Manapat forgeries to disqualify Fernando Poe Jr. to the present
disbursement of billions of government funds for electioneering. A
senator gave his informed view about the prospects:
The picture Serge Osmeña paints does not evoke even half of the
dread that we should feel in the situation facing us after May 10.
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The private schools have already notified authorities they will raise
tuition fees by 15 to 20 percent; tens of thousands more will be
out-of-school as students of all levels try to jam the gates to the
public schools and state colleges and universities only to be turned
away because there will be no room anymore for them.
Add to all these economic and social factors the political tension
that will continue to grow because everyone knows: Gloria's
February 2001 power grab destabilized all our institutions and
obligated her government to the local and foreign oligarchs that
supported her usurpation hence the Lopezes stopped Maynilad
concession payments in March 2001, Epira was rammed through a
lame duck Congress that gave us the PPA and doubled energy
prices, the International Board of Advisers came to rule our
economic management solely for their own benefit, and now we're
just ahead of Cambodia and Laos in development growth.
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situation. FPJ embodies a chance for what can be aptly likened to
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal; a reshuffling of the deck
that is presently stacked against the Filipino common man rich and
poor alike.
Ranged against FPJ are Gloria and all her surrogate candidates
arranged by Ramos and company to confuse and split the people
from voting for change. They have repeatedly used this flaw in our
political system, its lack of a run off or elimination round to allow
a clear polarization of issues and final mandate between only two
choices. They field Eddie Villanueva who was gifted before with
the Zoe Channel, and the real lameduck Roco who helped foreign
bankers to take our country; most insidiously, they now sustain
Lacson who has done everything to sabotage the consolidation of
the opposition vote.
The vast majority of voters have long made their decision that they
want change and have given their vote to FPJ, which explains why
he continues to lead in all honest surveys and why they're all
ganging up on No. 1.
Lacson has sought to ensure that the groundswell for FPJ does not
materialize, but even his sabotage of the Iglesia ni Cristo support
for the opposition will be for naught as we have talked to many
faithful and they have said they shall vote by their conscience and
leave the judgment of their act to God.
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AT THE END, THE MAN: FPJ
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must be very afraid that she has to go so far to even
change God’s weather pattern! Yes, she won, OK,
she disturbed FPJ’s “miting de avanse”. But for those
who stood their ground and waited for FPJ, a moment
came that they will never forget in their life. They
saw and heard a new FPJ, the real FPJ.
Coming to her rescue is the phony argument that Gloria did not
just spend the money; she made an investment. She made a what?
Well, you have to understand the logic behind this. By spending
huge amounts in vote-buying, she actually gives the economy a
boost and money, trickle-trickle, into the hands of poor Filipinos,
who then spend the money to buy more San Miguel beer. The
profits of San Miguel will go up and the price for San Miguel
shares in the stock market will go up, which will pull up the
indexes and make the stock market analysts bullish about the
future of the economy. Did you get it?
They say that the water in Pampanga is best for San Miguel beer.
They make the famous “Grande” there, the big bottle for real beer
drinkers. That is maybe why Gloria spent P 1,000 per vote there.
Good thinking! For P1,000 per vote or per head, she got all the
votes, here, there, and everywhere.
One day we will have to pay for what she borrowed for and on our
behalf. Thank you, but no thank you. How do we deserve that?
Well, we can always say we did not know but that does not help us
any later. Someone has to pay and that is nobody else but us.
At least, for now, we can always hope that she will clean up the
mess she has created in GSIS, SSS, PAGCOR, Charity
Sweepstakes, and wherever else she was able to “borrow” money.
Nice of her, noh?
Now all Filipinos can go back to what they do best, watch Paloma,
Love Storm, Bubble Gum, Star Talk. That’s exciting. Hopefully
there will be more programs with more big boobs. Now that the
sex train has started rolling, there is no way to stop it. In our mid-
day shows you see already our young daughters learning how to
look seductive. Like hookers. They make more money on TV than
in the cabaret. Some people call that University of Pegasus.
It depends on how you look at it. For me, the worst of it all is the
constant cheating. Of course, it is worst during election, when they
become so nice, come to your door and shake your hand and
everybody’s hand, so promising, and they pay you to run for them
or to paste the posters at night.
Cheating is the other side of look down upon, despise, abhor (the
unwashed, you remember?), treat as undeserving of respect (illegal
vendors and everything “illegal”). Not enough with that. It gets
worse. They think that Filipinos are stupid, that they eat everything
and know nothing. That they want to be fooled, so let’s fool them.
Therefore, they can smuggle in thrown-away chicken from other
countries, maybe even poisonous, and sell it here in the markets.
They can smuggle in half the need for diesel, make a nice cut for
themselves, and go and raise the price for diesel anyhow with the
connivance of the big three. Of course, not election time.
What did the Filipino people get out of Halalan 2004? Some
money? Yes. Some excitement? Sure. And then what? Tomorrow
it will be business as usual. Gloria will smile triumphantly from
her media. And with her but not so openly, all the crocodiles of
greed who did everything to stay in power.
You will not see your candidate any more. His office will be
protected from now on until next Halalan. So he will not be
molested while doing his own little business. That’s what we are in
office for! That Filipino who coined the beautiful phrase: “Better
by Filipinos like hell, than by Americans like heaven”, did not
know what he was talking about. May he rest in peace!
So, what is in there for Filipinos from the middle class down to the
poorest of the poor? A good advice may be to look for jobs in
Afghanistan or in Iraq and send home money, so your relatives can
spend the money in the malls to up-hold the economy here. Or go
as jappayukki to Japan or Taiwan where the guys have money to
spend. At least, you are no longer prosti or prostitute. You are now
certified care-giver, courtesy of Gloria and the fat gentleman.
Anyhow, your younger brother does not care how you make the
money, as long as there is money.
Grave as that may sound, what else is there to wait for in a country
that, after the smoke screen of the Halanan has settled, is bankrupt
by all standards, with the rich owning everything and every one of
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the cash-cows, but getting scot-free from not paying their due
taxes. Indeed, you will never find an Ayala or a Henry Sy or any of
his Chinese sounding name friends in the list of tax payers. They
make billions, but the top tax payer in this country barely cracks
the P10M mark. Pesos, not dolyares.
Did I say anything against foreign sounding names? There are not
too many Filipinos in the business clubs, not even as hang-ons.
Filipinos don’t own anything. They serve. Chinese kids in our
country learn how to run a business. Filipino kids learn how to get
a diploma. Then they look for a job. Who told them that? God
question, no?
So, the Arabs asked officially for Filipinos and many applied. But
they did not pass. The Arabs wanted Muslims only. Where do you
find Muslims in the Philippines? In Zamboanga. So, then President
Marcos ordered and arranged for the first batch of Muslim
overseas contract workers from Zamboanga, with proper training
in Manila. From Manila, they were flown to Riyad and they
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worked there. They were so good that the Saudi King asked
Marcos to send more and Marcos made Blas Ople the first
Secretary for Overseas Contract Workers. Such were the days.
Nowadays, Filipino contract workers do not enjoy that privilege
any more. Filipina is a bad word now. In Europe, in the dictionary,
Filipina stands for hooker. Indeed, so many things have changed
from the days there was a President Marcos.
Talking about hookers, there is another one. There are many ways
of looking at prostitutes or prostitution. No country, no ruler has
ever been able to eradicate it or them. On the other hand, in some
countries like in Germany, Switzerland, France, or England,
imagine, some prostitutes are in the highest circles of society.
Certainly, the owners of the finest and most expensive restaurants
count them as their privileged guests. Guess why.
That is not the case in the Philippines. Since Cory Aquino and
Mayor Lim “cleaned up” and that includes the killing of 87
farmers on Recto/Mendiola Bridge, prostis are garbage and on the
lowest end of society. That has not always been the case.
The next day we were in the airplane and landed in Manila. It was
hard to find a hotel room. All hotels fully booked. Remember, in
those days Manila Hotel was ranked the No.1 hotel in the world.
Foreign tourists came in the millions, imagine! And then they
brought me to Firehouse on M.H. del Pilar. Wow! That was it! The
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girls looked great and everyone speaks English! Drinks were cheap
and we learned to eat Filipino. Exactly what the doctor ordered.
We had the fun time of our lives. Year in, year out, until 1986.
That was the time the Philippines was No.1 for us. Whenever we
had time, we would come together in Ermita. I think we spent a lot
of money. But that was not the problem.
Now, that was then, and we are here, and we have to live with
what we have now. Yet, it is a pity, really, it is a shame, no, it is a
crime, a patriotic crime that the Filipino people have forgotten how
life was before, when we had a President Marcos. It is like it was
erased, deleted, with snow fake, from every body’s mind.
They don’t see anymore that that is all perception. They don’t
know anymore the truth. They don’t care. Unfortunately, in the
process we have become a stupid nation, let’s face it. Everything
has to look stupid, so they can laugh. If that is not enough, bring in
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the bakla, the gays, they are so cute! Or Eddie Gil. Last night, he
had his first show. It is so stupid that even the monkeys cannot
laugh anymore. But don’t worry, Filipinos can.
I always say, the Filipinos may be stupid but it is not their choice.
They have no choice. They have to be happy with what they get
and what we see, as the early results are coming in.
Easy for her! Only one can cheat, the incumbent, and it would be a
miracle, if she would not. It is, of course, not Gloria herself who
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does it. It is also not her spokesman, Mike Defensor. Others are
doing it, for her. But that is the same. Game over, Philippines!
They might still tease us with some nice numbers for FPJ, but let’s
all go to bed in the assurance that, one of the next days, ABS-CBN
will greet us a good morning and introduce us to our new
President: Gloria Macapal Arroyo.
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Election can end like Pacquiao-Marquez fight
Neal Cruz, INQUIRER
JUDGING by the initial election returns, the presidential fight
could very well end up like the Pacquiao-Marquez fight -- a draw,
if that is at all possible in a presidential race. And like the boxing
bout, the real winner can be robbed of his victory by the real loser
who, alas, happens to control the government, the same way
Manny Pacquiao was robbed of his victory by the promoters who
control boxing in Nevada.
The voting is over but the counting has just begun. And as
everyone knows, a candidate can win in the voting but still lose
in the counting. Everyone, from candidate to voter, fears and
expects cheating. It is not far-fetched to believe that almost every
candidate and political group has a special operation or arm
tasked to cheat or to foil any attempt to cheat by the enemy. A
popular election joke is about cheating, purloined from the title
of an action flick:
That is why everyone should not relax and let his guard down. A
lot of mysterious things can still happen between now and the time
the Commission on Elections (Comelec) proclaims the winners.
Cheating in the precincts is now small-time and useful only to
local area candidates.
becomes No. 7, 9 or 11, and the totals get either additional or lesser
zeroes. Such is "dagdag-bawas" [vote-padding and vote-shaving],
an invention perfected by Filipino politicians.
Some members I talked with said they were not happy with the
choices their leaders made and would have preferred to vote for
other candidates, but they were afraid to disobey orders. For
example, they had been taught earlier on not to vote for women as
leaders, but this time they were told to vote for a woman for
President.
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PRESS STATEMENT
MAY 13, 2004
Why do I say so? Whatever good I have said and written about FPJ
seems to be for naught going with yesterday’s headline in
PHILIPPINE STAR that FPJ has urged his supporters to shun
street protests amid allegations of fraud over last Monday’s
elections. That same article makes a remarkable statement, it reads:
“Opposition leader Sen. Edgardo Angara, the executive chairman
of KNP, said they will wait for the final result.”
Is it now fair to say, after all, that is was and is Mr. Angara who
calls the shots? With all due respect, we cannot wait for them to
declare that Gloria lost. That will never happen. Now, I am surely
not the only one who thinks that Mr. Angara is not only the traitor
of Erap in the past but also the one who split Erap and FPJ now.
He is said by many to be the mole of Ramos in FPJ’s entourage to
minimize the chances of any opposition. Beware of diaries!
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You can, of course, say that you don’t see it like this. That is your
prerogative and maybe the worst. It would show to the world that
you are mis-led. Do we assume then that they will call the shots, if
and when People Power makes you President? God forbid!
B·A·C·K·B·E·N·C·H·E·R
ROD P. KAPUNAN
Danger of a questionable mandate
At this point, the question is on how far we can make our carbon-
copied democracy work because we overlooked the aspect of this
involving not just a question of winning, but also the existence of a
substantial degree of credibility on the win of the candidates. The
actuality of having been voted should tally with public perception
that she won in that election. It is on this aspect of convincing them
that is most difficult since once the perception of cheating is
imprinted in the mind of the public, this would be very hard to
dispel.
Mrs. Arroyo cannot toss back the issue to the now galvanizing
opposition to prove its allegation of massive electoral cheating for
as always the question of disproving electoral fraud is on the
administration which is in control of the government. Even if some
crackpots in the opposition come out with a statement that Mrs.
Arroyo won, such would not suffice because cheating is an issue
between this corrupt government and the public at large. No
political leader would summarily demand from the people to prove
their charges because the holding of an honest, clean, and orderly
election is the duty of the government. If that credibility is
shattered, that becomes the liability of Mrs. Arroyo, and from
thereon her de facto government would be saddled with the serious
problem of divisiveness, and that would require an artificial
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One can only guess about the lurking danger should the lackey
decide to push her luck too far for it might just be an altogether
self-defeating enterprise as the people would be having their
serious thoughts on being governed for another six years by one
who is perceived to have stolen the elections.
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for the battle was never level and equal to begin with, they should
not expect a smooth victory, or better yet, should expect no victory
at all. If faced with such a situation, a smart candidate will try to
level the playing field by infusing his campaign and election
strategies with more money and resources to approximate the
government arsenal of the incumbent. But as experience has taught
many, the incumbent will always have an edge. The wise and
strategic candidate, on the other hand, will take the battle
elsewhere, to another playing field where the incumbent will be
put on the defensive instead.
When Jack faced the giant, he did not try to fight the giant head on.
He chopped off the giant beanstalk, causing the giant to fall and
die. When David faced Goliath, he did not try to fight him head on
with a sword. He slung a piece of rock at Goliath's head, hit him at
his most vulnerable spot, and killed him.
Incumbents may be giants and may appear invincible, but they too
have vulnerabilities. If fairy tales and the Old Testament have
taught us anything, the bigger they are, the harder they fall. It is up
to the candidates who challenge the mandate or lack thereof of
incumbents to discover these weaknesses and exploit this
discovery to their advantage.
PHILIPPINE PHENOMENON
India with more than 350 Million voters is finished in 3 days, three
days after Election Day, and they have a President. They have
electronic vote-counting machines in all strategic places, same as
Germany. In Germany, by the way, people expect to know who
won on the evening of Election Day.
Here in the Philippines, we are going into the third week and we do
not have as much as a clue even, who won in the election. Things
are not going better with FPJ announcing, in Zamboanga, in
Muslim country, that he won the election and that GMA is trying
to cheat him. Actually, he said, she is cheating, she is trending, she
is making people believe she won.
There should also be no doubt for any one in this country that she
did not spend her own money. She spent government money, your
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money, our money. And to do that she borrowed money. Big time!
With so much money involved, we still have the most backward,
the most ridiculous vote-counting system in the world. There is
nobody else to blame for that than the President. Call it political
will. Call it intentional. Everything else she wanted, it appears she
got. Is it now correct to say that, also with the vote-counting
system, she got what she wanted?
All that is debatable; mostly facts or hard questions, but the media,
so proud and loud, when it was “Erap-resign-time”, are quiet,
awkwardly quiet. The supposedly educated people in this country,
the A, B, and some from the C classes are awkwardly quiet. To be
honest, they support the one who cheats the system, who cheats the
democratic system. They want her to be their president.
All Christian values are mere lip service. Politicians who love to
show themselves as god-fearing, prayers of the Rosary maybe, are
outright liars. The rich, the “blessed”, who love picture taking with
politicians, are the incarnation of hypocrites, as anti-Christ as anti-
Christ can be. They, of course, confirm themselves every time they
give five Pesos to a beggar. But they fully endorse Gloria’s line to
“show the full force of the law” to the poor, while they take the
law in their own hands as soon as they are sitting behind the wheel
or when they can blow their horn in case a jeepney stops suddenly
in front of them and unloads the passengers.
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The obvious difference between ABC 5's count and the others
shows the count as it comes in, which shows FPJ leading
significantly over Arroyo. ABC 5 has several hundred employees
who now know the truth that the Arroyo cabal will do everything
to suppress the true results of the elections. They have families,
relatives and friends who will hear the story of how their station is
being suppressed.
There are about 15 million voters of FPJ out there who will now
receive further confirmation that their vote is being systematically
suppressed and replaced by spurious ones being manufactured now
and announced through the National Citizens Movement for Free
Elections (Namfrel) and the mainstream media. There will be an
explosion of indignation at the end of this electoral outrage!
All these election venalities are not lost on active police and
military officers, who have the integrity to appreciate that the most
sacred institution, enshrined in the Constitution that they vowed to
uphold — the elections — is being raped right before their eyes.
Several officers have already been unjustly persecuted for refusing
to obey orders to allow tampering with of the elections in their
areas of responsibility, such as Gen. Gudani, Capt. Felix Aungge
and now a Col. Gamus is being persecuted for allegedly
campaigning for Poe but most likely another recalcitrant in the
election-fixing game of Arroyo's generals.
Our call to arms today is to continue with the struggle to bring this
truth out to the public by publishing them; airing them through
texts, manifestos and seminars and even other limited media
opportunities.
Let us offer all our resources and labors now at the altar of genuine
democracy. The next days and weeks shall bring a close to the
cheating Arroyo regime and see the beginning of a just, open and
trustworthy government.
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The entire electoral exercise has been totally partisan and agencies
which are supposed to have maintained a conspicuous degree of
aloofness and objectivity, such as the poll organizations and
Comelec, for example, today stand perceived as having abjured
that aloofness and objectivity in favor of political partisanship.
to a Comelec that just about every one assumed would rig the
elections in favor of the administration.
But not so now. Namfrel, Pulse Asia and the SWS stand literally
accused of having conspired with Comelec to rig the elections.
Insisting, as administration supporters do, that such accusations
will have to be proven in court is about as meaningless as insisting
that allegations accusing the fallen Estrada of plunder first be
proven and established in court before the public render judgment
against him.
The truth is we are here dealing with politics and in politics it isn't
the truth that matters so much as perception of the truth. Estrada
was felled by people power on the basis of the perception that he
plundered as charged rather than on actual proof that he did
plunder, a point which still has to be established in the courts.
How this has come about is, of course, a long long and even
complicated story, which need not concern us at this time. We deal
only with what appears to be, at least to this piece, an
incontrovertible fact. The fact is Comelec, Namfrel and the polling
organizations are perceived, repeat, perceived, by a large portion of
the voting public to have functioned as an arm of the GMA
administration in its bid and effort to win these elections and win
them at all cost.
isn't the truth that matters so much as the perception of the truth,
and the two can be two separate and opposing worlds.
But that isn't the darkest aspect of the process. The darkest aspect
of the system's breakdown is the fact it is breaking down, or that it
has already broken down, at a time when the overwhelming
number of Filipinos are experiencing acute economic and financial
difficulties and have obviously become deeply and irrevocably
disillusioned with the political and electoral system as a vehicle for
improving their lives and getting them out of their miserable state.
There isn't a single civilian institution left standing that could with
credibility function as a restraining force on a military government
should such a government materialize. And such a government is
bound to materialize simply because civilian institution, and that
include political parties and the politicians they produce, have lost
political as well as moral credibility significantly if not completely.
She is making herself rare; she had a visitor from the U.S. of A.
with the name of Bosworth, same as the one who told Marcos that
is was time to leave. Instead of playing it out big in her news, there
is silence, like no visitor had been there from the U.S. of A. who
brought her the news that the Philippines, indeed, looks very bad in
the world with respect to its human rights record.
We have known that all the time but, funny, the kanos are coming
with that now. Is it then true also that the U.S. embassy told her
that they could no longer guarantee for her personal safety and the
safety or her family? That would be a real blow to her strategy.
Maybe she is thinking of what to do now.
become a mockery from the clerk who fixes a traffic ticket or sells
an undeserved permit or license, to the palace favorites who treat
laws and agreements as their own personal fiefdom. The traffic
mess cannot be fixed because the generals run the buses and the
protection rackets. The garbage problem cannot be solved because
the mayors own the garbage trucks and the law enforcers are
themselves the culprits. All faith in government is lost and we
adjust and pay.
In the case of a populist Joseph Estrada who was voted into office
by a landslide victory, this class of the morally upright, calling
themselves the “civil society”, went into overkill to drive out the
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So, what about FPJ? Truth or not, FPJ is perceived to be the drop-
out from school. True or not, that perception is now deep-seated
and will not change. FPJ will never convince anyone on the other
side, the 30 percent “upright”. He might as well drop the idea of
ever trying anything to please the “upright”, the “good people”. He
would better do what Joseph did so successfully 6 years ago. Go
the masa way, all the way. What stops him from doing that?
people have chosen the school drop-out with zero experience over
the more polished, more professional senator who, maybe, was
banking on his superior contacts in the military. Now, FPJ is in,
Lacson is out. Still, there is the question, why not a landslide
victory like Erap?
Did your statement do any good? Maybe it did. It makes it hard for
you, or impossible, to concede. You will be a loser, a querulant, a
complainant, a whiner. Maybe they will find a new word for you.
But did it raise a storm? No! Not even a whiff of a storm. It created
some headlines like FPJ claims, so what? The big media actually
bring the news to accentuate the futility of the effort. Bunye
already compares FPJ to Eddie Gil. They can claim anything.
Why is it like this, FPJ? Are you not claiming that you make your
own decisions? Are you? Can you please show us? We are waiting
for you but we know you are busy-busy checking election results
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To justify, for all the poor, listen, the electoral process may be
moving in a snail’s pace but the oil price is going up, minimum
fare is already raised, and approved, by almost 45%, and
everybody is going to “adjust”, meaning to raise prices. Only the
poor cannot adjust, they have to pay. Always. This time and every
time hereafter, if there is no change in government.
To justify for the haves, you please listen also, the NHMFC sells
P13.4B Housing NPL’s. Ah, you don’t know what that means? Let
me help you. The National Home Mortgage Finance Corporation
sold P13.4Billion worth of non-performing residential mortgage
loans to a foreign investment company. The foreign investment
company shells out P13.4Billion to Gloria and Mike D., so that
they can take over your mortgages and your property. You get it?
your homes foreclosed and foreigners will then own your home.
That is forbidden by the Constitution, but who cares about the
Constitution anyway? You get out of your house, Gloria’s police
will see to it, but you still have to pay on your mortgage.
Wonderful, noh? Well, if you have a rich auntie. If not, welcome to
the squatters club! The syndicates in Fairview are waiting.
Well, yes, FPJ also wants a 6-year mandate from the people but he
does not have the means, he cannot cheat. Third then is evidence.
Here we go! Here is the ebidensiya for every stupid judge. In the
beginning, there was an exit poll. It was all over the media, spread
in headlines even all over the tabloids that Gloria had won the exit
polls by 7-8% over FPJ. Boom! It was a lie. First, how did they
know it was FPJ, when Lacson was still dreaming and Eddie
Villanueva. Second, in those 19 precincts in the Greater Metro
Manila area, it turns out that there was only one winner, FPJ.
Will the media now retract and tell the people it was a lie? Of
course not! It was not their report, not their findings. They were
paid to print that. Evidence enough to prove that the whole action
was well hecked-out, well orchestrated, and long planned. With
the evil intention to lie to the Filipino people.
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There was, and this one for the most ardent supporters of the
greatest cheater in Philippine history, at the height of 4’8” at that,
an independent TV station ABC5. They made their own counting,
on the basis of counting what came in and in that order. They had
FPJ winning to the tune of 9 million to Gloria’s 8 million and
they announced it. Not any more! They are forbidden to do that.
But are we all clear about, do we all understand the impact of what
we are saying here? We are saying that FPJ is representing 70% of
the Filipino people. Gloria then is representing 30% of the “good
people”, the “morally upright”, which includes the “blessed” and
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the rich and the super-rich, the Corys and the Cardinals, the FVRs
and Almontes, the Ayalas and the Ortigases, the Tuazons and the
Pidals. Yet the 30% claim that they are the people like in Peoples
Power. They are not. The people are the 70%.
We have not seen People Power yet; we have only seen the bogus
“People Power” of the rich and “the morally upright”, courtesy of
Cardinal Sin and his stupid nuns. God forgive me for saying this,
but it is true, they don’t know anything in life, they just follow and
do what they are told to do. In the end, they were abused to take
pictures in front of the tanks to “prove” to the world, WHAT?
So, what we are saying is that FPJ will, that is the best case
scenario, as we don’t know yet, call in the 70% of Filipinos to
make People Power or stage a rally to show the sovereign will of
the Filipino people. Will it look like EDSA III?
We have to ask the question why “they” lied to the Filipino people,
when “they” called it “People Power” to oust the presidents of the
poor like Erap and Marcos. The answer is clear but many do not
want to see it. The poor don’t know but they go for the candidate
who smells Marcos. Roco may be intelligent but he does not smell
Marcos. Neither does Eddie Villanueva. Look at Lacson.
It seems to me that they don’t know what business they are into in
the COMELEC office. Don’t tell me that the towns/
cities/provincial COMELEC offices don’t give them the right
figures of polling precincts we have in the entire country. Thus,
they have come up with that figures. What! They just have to make
an estimate? They are fooling our people. Was that figures made
for cheating and to make sure GMA (would) win the elections?
And what if the actual number is only 216,000 like what they have
given to NAMFREL. GMA would surely get the 5 Million plus
votes as predicted by GMA’s housing csar, Mike Defensor. Now
the people want to know why the COMELEC has the two figures
and NAMFREL another figure. Which is which and which is the
right number of polling precincts in the entire country?
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The COMELEC shall be liable for the mess and NAMFREL too as
an accessory. There is no washing of hands. They are all liable to
the Filipino people who paid them billions of Pesos to do their job.
On the part of NAMFREL, which was commissioned by the
COMELEC to do the slow count not quick count, how could they
come up with the right number of votes delivered in the recently
concluded National Elections to match the votes counted by the
COMELEC if they have only 216,000 polling precincts in their
hands? The people will only be puzzled of the would be differing
numbers of votes counted in the national elections.
They blamed the COMELEC for that. But are they not part of the
grand design of the current administration (of GMA) to cheat FPJ
and deprive the latter of his seat in Malacanang? If NAMFREL
can’t do their homework well, they should stop doing the slow
count and desist from participating in the future national and local
elections. They were paid millions of Pesos to do their job
impartial of who may be the winning candidate. But sad to say, the
NAMFREL people led by Jose Conception and Guillermo “Bill”
Luz are now favoring GMA in their own making.
country and people. No great favor to the wealthy but give real
service by putting an end to graft and corruption in government to
establish a genuine government of the people, for the people, and
to the people as what Jose Rizal had once said and dreamed of.
The people know that the normal practice for a Cabinet Secretary
his/her courtesy resignation is after the elected president of the
Republic is proclaimed by the COMELEC. Thus, giving the newly
elected president the right to chose/appoint his/her new set of
Cabinet Secretaries. A shame for her to do that! She showed us her
true lusts of power. Thereby, she has shown us, then and now, her
true color and to prove to us that she is ready to grab the power
from FPJ whom the people have chosen to lead the country for six
(6) years. She spent billions of the people’s money during the
campaign period, just for her to remain in power.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE
The NPC views the joint actions of the Comelec and DoJ as both
selective and arbitrary and without any legal and moral basis.
The NPC maintains that Channel 5 has every right to conduct its
own quick count, no matter how meager the resources it has
allotted for the purpose.
The NPC therefore strongly urges the Comelec and the DoJ to
recall their respective orders stopping the Bilang Bayan of
Channel 5 because such orders not only constitute a clear and
present danger against press freedom but a dangerous precedent
and any democracy-loving individual and institution must
denounce."
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LULLABY OF PHILIPPINES
It is Sunday again, Sunday May 23, and every Filipino will go to
church. Maybe not everybody. They will pray to the Lord and ask
for guidance. Many will ask to be blessed, others will just ask for a
miracle. For themselves, of course. They have done it every
Sunday before and they will do it every Sunday ever after.
It is not true for the blessed few who own everything here and have
their houses in California and New York. Maybe they need their
houses for their kids who go to school there and couldn’t care less
about the desolate school system in the Philippines. Some of them
are so rich, that they can house the NAMFREL in their living
room. The world has created a law to control them, the anti money
laundering law. Now the drug lords, the pirates, and the smugglers
of this world need more than just good tax lawyers, they need a
friendly banker here, there, and everywhere.
Thank God, FVR and Mahathir were able to create their own tax
haven, in Sabah, City of Labuan. So Gloria and the fat gentleman
have no problem to wash their money clean. Anyhow, Gloria has
experience as lavandera. She may have an unforeseen problem
with FVR, though. No respect for old age maybe. Or maybe she
thinks she is too clever, at least cleverer than FVR. FVR does not
like that. That’s why he tells the public about that stupid idea to
have Gloria ambushed and shot at and then blame FPJ and the
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KNP. That was good enough maybe 20 years ago, not now. Now
every teenager who has some experience with games on the
internet will yawn at that stupid idea of Gloria. If she wants to kill
herself, wonderful, go ahead and make my day.
We should not celebrate yet. She is too evil to die for us. She is not
dying as Ninoy was when he came here to be killed. Actually, with
all the results coming in now, she has only one way out. Get
proclaimed right away tomorrow, Monday, before the canvassing
can start. The Speaker of the House is only too willing to be her
stepping stone and the congressmen are too stupid and too greedy,
they will just nod, if ever they will make it to their seats.
How the counting will go then is still a mystery. On all counts and
evidence, FPJ got 70% of the votes, even in places that they call
Gordon country. How will they hide it? To shave that off, they will
need several weeks. Borra and Abalos may be corrupt but not
intelligent. How will they solve that, now that even the U.S.
Embassy has officially taken notice of the cheating?
By the way, text messages are going around telling that Bosworth
has brought the message from Bush to Gloria to step down. Is that
the reason why she is so quiet suddenly? Step down or face civil
war? If it is either or, then it is easy for Gloria, she wants civil war,
she has the generals waiting, exited and ready (for the right amount
of money, of course). But Bush cannot allow that to happen. He
cannot afford that the world is looking at him asking whether he is
blind or his thousands of CIA agents in this god-forsaken country
suddenly have gone on holiday. Boracay maybe? Or Basilan?
Wonder what they are saying in the military, those who do not
receive one million every week, I mean. There are now two
battalions around or in front of the Palace, in full battle gear, nicely
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One of the first things you learn, when you start your career in the
military is this: We are the protectors of the people. That is the
only reason why we are allowed to carry arms. “The freedom of
the people is our responsibility”. You can read it along the wall
of Camp Aguinaldo. You see it from the bus or from the MRT.
Marcos never had it. Erap never had it. But Gloria needs protection
from the Filipino people. Who else is she waiting for, if not for the
Filipino “masa”, for the Erap supporters, the Marcos loyalists, or
the friends of FPJ? Eh, supporters, loyalists, or friends do not carry
guns or bring their arms. They my have demands, may utter their
grievances, what’s wrong with that?
Not allowed? Are you sure? Stay away? Because Gloria is afraid?
Maybe she is paranoid already. She wants to stay there. She loves
it so much. You must understand, she lived there already, when she
was still a child and her dad was the president. That is why.
are not trained to think. Even the generals do not know how to
think. They only know how to receive money under the table. The
more they receive, the higher is their rank and the lower rank must
follow the higher rank. If Gloria gives you one million a week
from PAGCOR, then the lower ranks must follow the leader, in
this case the one million Peso man. That’s how it is in the military.
So, don’t ask how they think. They don’t. If one will start thinking,
the whole system will collapse. Ask Gloria. That is why she is the
Commander of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. She is the
actual commander of all those who carry arms in this country.
Don’t make a mistake here. Gloria is not stupid. She has learned
from Marcos and Erap. They were stupid. They had all the power
and did not use it. Look, what they did. Marcos said, no fire, not
even warning shots. Erap went out the back door; he did not want
to create trouble for the people. Look, what they got! Look, where
they are now! Gloria will not make the same mistake. No way!
She will order to shoot and shoot to kill. They are my enemies, so,
no mercy, take no prisoners! Yan si Gloria! O o, that is why the
“morally upright” love her, because she will shoot the Filipinos.
She will even call for more American soldiers to kill more
“terroristas”, more Abu Sayyafs, more NPA’s, or more
“militanteng rebelde”, as long as they are Filipinos. If they shoot
only one Malaysian, they will end up in court, in the World Court.
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They will not call that Cha Cha anymore, because the Filipinos do
not like to dance the Cha Cha. They will call it otso otso, because
Filipinos love otso otso and when they do the otso otso, they forget
everything, they are so happy that they do not mind how they get
cheated in life or cheated with the constitution.
And we will have a new habeas corpus law. If there is one living
witness that any Filipino said anything derogatory to criticize or
destabilize the government as it is called then, anyone like Chavit
Singson or the Tulfo Brothers, then the police, either in uniform or
under cover, has the right to shoot and kill the destabilizer.
Foreigners will be blacklisted and deported immediately.
Come on, do we really want that to happen? Who needs that? So,
why are we so afraid of FPJ? It can only be better with FPJ.
Mabuhay Filipinas! Not you, Ramos, you take care of her! Then
you can sing, “I did it my way…. “
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Z·O·O·M·I·N·G··I·N
RUDY ROMERO
FPJ, President-elect
Monday, 05 24, 2004
With the passing of the days, it has become virtually certain that
Fernando Poe Jr., won the May 10 presidential elections and it is
only a matter of time before this fact is validated by the
Commission on Elections (Comelec) and the National Citizens
Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel).
From the Malacañang war room, the order went out: Limit the
Comelec and — sad to say — Namfrel tabulations to the votes
from areas where GMA is known to have beaten FPJ. These were
Western Visayas, Central Visayas and parts of Central and
Western Mindanao. And keep the count slow, the order added. In
that way did the absurd situation arise where the votes from FPJ-
partial areas such as Metro Manila remain only partially tabulated
two weeks after election day?
The other basis for the belief that FPJ won, and GMA lost, in the
May 10 elections is the increasing outflow of data evidencing FPJ
victories in most of the regions and provinces of this country.
According to the data, KNP's standard-bearer took practically all of
Luzon, which in the Comelec's estimate accounts for close to 55
percent of the national vote. In addition, FPJ beat GMA in Eastern
Visayas and most of Mindanao, which was known all along to be
an FPJ bailiwick. It is now known that "Da King" won in all the
component cities and municipalities of Metro Manila except Las
Piñas City and he lost only by some 5,000 votes.
Considering that the KNP and Namfrel each have a copy of every
precinct's certificate of votes cast, the Comelec and Namfrel can no
longer ignore the flood of FPJ pluralities from around the country
and with the results from Da King's bailiwicks now coming in,
GMA's edge over FPJ has progressively been reduced. As the
votes from Luzon's various subdivisions have to begin to be
tabulated, FPJ's running vote total should steadily pull away from
that of GMA.
ADMISSION OF GUILT?
COALITION FOR
PEOPLE
EMPOWERMENT
PEACEFUL
PEOPLE POWER
OR
PEOPLE WITHOUT
PEOPLE’S PROTECTORS
OF THE SOVEREIGN WILL (PPSW)
An aggregation of 30 freedom-based organizations met recently
at the Bay View Hotel where, after the meeting, all attendants
passed a resolution condemning GMA for “gross and blatant
robbery” of the Filipino people’s sovereign will.
The PPSW also issued a warning to the nation to put a stop to the
dictatorial tendencies of GMA, which has sown fear in the minds
of many. In particular, the PPSW accused GMA of the following:
B·A·C·K·B·E·N·C·H·E·R
ROD P. KAPUNAN
Military could break impasse
More than that, it is now an admitted fact that the members of the
AFP and the PNP are far more politically conscious than the
people taken collectively. They have a much keener understanding
of politics because they are made to understand that their role is
confined to enforcing law, but on condition that the leader must
possess the basic credential of having been elected by the people.
The trouble, however, with that limited role is when the
mechanism of democracy is tampered with, such would
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C·O·U·C·H··P·O·T·A·T·O·E·S
JENNY MANUEL AND GAI OLIVARES
The good, the bad and the ugly
Amid all the talk and accusations about GMA supposedly cheating
her way to possible victory my mother and sister were having an
interesting conversation built around a single question. What
would be worse — having GMA cheat her way back into office
or having FPJ as President?
Talk about the choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea.
What fantastic options! It's like being offered to choose to date
either a mass murderer or a mass rapist (not that I'm suggesting
that either presidential candidate has ever murdered or raped
anyone). I just offer up the example to illustrate what a lousy set of
options we seem to have before us.
I honestly can't say which scenario is the lesser of the two evils.
From where I'm standing both options are pretty damn nasty.
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Why can't the leaders of our country follow the example of Sonia
Gandhi in India? After her party unexpectedly won the latest
elections she stood on the threshold of becoming India's first
foreign-born Prime Minister. Think about it, from pretty Italian girl
to the leader of the world's biggest democracy in ten easy steps.
Yet she decided she was not the best person to lead the country,
stating that her inner voice told her to decline. Did she realize that
it was too big a task to take on? Does she accept that she isn't the
best person for the job? Perhaps she just wants a quiet life. Or
maybe she realized that Indian leaders named Gandhi have a habit
of meeting rather untimely ends. Whatever the reason one has to
wonder how many Filipino politicians in the same position would
have done the same thing.
F·R·O·N·T·L·I·N·E
NINEZ CACHO-OLIVARES
A matter of time
The reason is simple. It has been proved, in 2001, that the AFP
does not uphold the chain of command, thanks to Gloria and her
elite mob who encouraged the military leadership to break the
command chain. After all, there was that constitutional President
and Commander-in-chief, Joseph Estrada, from whom the then
AFP chief of staff, Angelo Reyes and his service commanders,
withdraw support, with the claim yet of this withdrawal being a
constitutional duty of the Armed Forces.
How then can the military now guarantee the chain of command
will remain firm and strong in supporting Gloria, a certified
usurper?
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Even more worrisome for Gloria is that she has been directing her
loyal generals to get their uniformed men to cheat for her through
altered vote counts and certificates of canvass (CoC) as well as
electoral results while at the same time, getting those who refuse to
cheat for her pulled out of their command, and sometimes getting
them charged on bogus charges of the violation of the articles of
war and electioneering.
The military rank and file are not unaware of the widespread
electoral fraud that their superiors have a hand in. They know there
have been directives from their superiors to cheat for Gloria and
also know, from the pictures and copies of CoC that cheating has
been performed by the soldiery for Gloria's victory. Even more
telling is that they know it is wrong to do this as this is the direct
thwarting of the will of the Filipino people.
It is no surprise then that military officers have been giving out the
word that they are fast losing faith in the chain of command,
having seen for themselves the way some of their superiors have
campaigned for Gloria, knowing they will be rewarded by her once
she is proclaimed.
The truth is, given the divided and disgruntled state of the military,
even the scenarios being bandied about by the Palace, of
destabilization attempts by the opposition, the so-called no
proclamation scenario, and the warnings aired by Gloria of getting
the police and military to bear down on the protesters, aren't likely
to work in Gloria's favor, as she and her aides have already lost
credibility.
Like it or not, the Filipino people see all these threats and scenarios
as a ploy of Malacañang to instill fear in the public and force the
populace to accept the victory of Gloria.
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The fact alone that the elite allies of Gloria, among whom are the
Namfrel officials, the survey outfits, the businessmen, the
matronas of Makati and Alabang suburbs and the Palace officials
can't get their messages of the conduct of elections being clean,
orderly and credible, across, is already a telling point of their lack
of credibility. No one, save for the pro-Gloria media, which have
also been discredited, are carrying their message, but without any
success, as the public knows their credibility, as well as their
principals' credibility is shot. The military is aware of this loss of
credibility of Gloria and her government, as well as being aware of
the loss of credibility of the elite forces allied with Gloria.
They are just as aware that, given the situation today, Gloria, even
if proclaimed by her rubber stamp Congress as the President-elect,
will not be able to keep the country and the nation together;
knowing she has no control of the masses who see her as a grand
cheat who will commit every illegal and unconstitutional act to
keep herself in Malacañang.
The military also knows there is nowhere for the Filipino people to
seek redress of their grievances, as all the institutions have broken
down, having allowed themselves to be prostituted by a scheming
power-grabber. Where can the people turn to, to air their
grievance of having been cheated out of their sovereign will? To
the Comelec that is clearly pro-Gloria and has aided in getting her
elected fraudulently, as it does not even sanction its officers in the
regions who do not submit the CoC two weeks after the polls? To
the Congress whom they already suspect of railroading the canvass
by gagging the opposition and its complaints? To the Supreme
Court that is known to rule favorably for Gloria, even when clearly
unconstitutional? To the military and police that keep on barring
them from staging their protest at their will being thwarted? It's
just a matter of time when all hell will break loose.
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It is not clear whether FPJ is aware and fighting over the same
issue. Would he fight to become President of a bankrupt country?
Same question as - everything is relative - would a Lucio Tan fight
for a bankrupt bank? Answer: He is not so stupid. He knows but he
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will not tell us. Come to think of it, Angara was Chairman of PNB
once, he must know, but he, also, will not tell us.
Let’s make it very simple. In case GMA will be the President with
a fresh, dubious “mandate from the people”, she will probably put
down the foot on Imelda, nastily, badly, and mercilessly destroying
everything ever after, like torched lands. She thinks that will do her
good. Maybe she needs some stature. Well, that’s for sure.
On the other hand, there are certain moves that the public cannot
see and will never see even, to make available some of the Marcos
assets that are definitely legitimate, known to bankers, and known
to be “for the benefit of the Filipino people”. These assets are not
related to or known to the Marcos Family. The danger, though, is
that this kind of evil government will not make the fine distinction.
They will blame Imelda for 3,000 shoes, for stolen jewelries, and
what have you, and they will always try to file cases against her in
the belief that GMA (and even Cory) will look good with that.
Without that, sorry to say, it does not matter who is the president
of the country from here on, intelligent or “classmate of Clinton”,
this country will go to the dogs. The “closest friends” of GMA will
be the first ones to pull out their money and invest it in greener
pastures and leave this country dry to hunger and starvation.
Let’s keep this line open. You can count on me. O.J.
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When that time comes, Filipinos will not suffer the embarrassment
of political clowns and record slow counts in their elections. Even
as India may be able to count close to four hundred million votes
in a week, the Philippines may then serve notice that it too can
quietly, reliably and effectively tally up to forty million votes
within the same week. A tenth as fast for something just as good is
good enough for a start.
Truly a great day, if it ever comes to pass. There are some who say
every birth is attended with some violence, with blood and a
vibrant scream. An increasing number of Filipinos – some of them
senior columnists – believe that Philippine elections cannot birth a
democracy any more. This particular columnist used to think that
these people were dangerously impatient and absolutely wrong.
The recent elections incline him to review this earlier verdict
and give these analysts at least the benefit of the doubt. They
could be right, really, and this columnist could be absolutely
wrong.
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As for me, my bet paid off: When friends were aghast when they
learned I was leaving for Shanghai last week "in the middle of all
the excitement", I told them that nothing would happen while I was
away for six days.
Didagen didn’t shut up, and Pido isn’t in any danger of going to
prison, or whatever. So why all the useless fuss, fury, and
fulminating? Let’s get on with the show.