[...] Eleksyon 2007 Blog: Reader reacts to ‘A class act’ [...]

Politicians admiting defeat in this day and age, in this country which has known enmity, is a rarity. And it had to be coming from the former right hand of the President herself.

Hats off to Defensor!

“And he was referring to the fact that there are operators, not even necessarily working at the behest of the administration, but rather, open to the highest bidder, trying to change the voting result. He knows it, because everybody knows it.”

The statement above was taken from from the article “A Class Act”, in which Defensor was characterized as a person who knows the flaws of Philippine election process- cheating on the highest degree. So then, Mr. Defensor how are you going to go from where you are to change this process, so when you decide to run for office again that our process is not that of what you describe? Change is good and change is now…or forever be doomed!

The other losing candidates

Yeah, Me too! I thank you, for this blog, Because of this I have a place to go and get all my frustration out. Tea, Coffee anyone?

While you describe Defensor’s conceding defeat as a class act, I look at it differently. It was more of him saving face and salvaging whatever honor was left from his days as a student leader. He reportedly remains a player involving shenanigans in government housing projects. He abused his political position to act as “padrino” to a foreign-backed recruitment agency, to the prejudice of our nurses who were duped by said agency into believing that they were going to be directly-hired employees. Unfortunately a sad reality, the government promotes manpower export to keep our country economically afloat through OFW remittances. This is why we call our OFWs “mga bagong bayani ng bayan”. When some of these “new heroes” complained to the government about the misrepresentation committed by their recruiter, and about the abuse and discrimination they suffered from their recruiter’s principals, Defensor kowtowed to foreign interests and disregarded our OFW’s documented complaints. He intervened in the recruiter’s preventive suspension case, and later rationalized that if the recruiter’s license continued to be suspended, chances of other nurses being recruited by said agency to work in the US would be jeopardized. You think that was a class act? He would have shown true statesmanship had he declared: “Investigate Sentosa Recruitment Agency. Let us protect the rights of our overseas workers. Other nurses desiring to work in the US may apply with other recruitment agencies, pending the suspension and investigation of Sentosa”. But he did not. He lifted his finger and dialed POEA, putting pressure on the latter to lift Sentosa’s suspension order. Reports even had it that as a consequence of his political interference, Defensor received campaign funds for his senatorial ambitions from the foreign owners of the Filipino dummy recruitment agency. Call that a class act? His conceding defeat was the last straw he could grasp to salvage his sullied honor. I just hope the Senate (paging Senator Pimentel) conducts an investigation regarding this Sentosa imbroglio. Now that Defensor is no longer a Cabinet member, he can be subpoenaed without hiding under the skirt of PGMA’s prohibition. If and when Defensor tells the whole truth and owns to his political intervention, that would be the day I would agree: “A Class Act Indeed!”. But until then, his was just a loser’s pragmatic act of salvaging his honor (or what’s left of it).

I had to read the editorial referred to in the comment to understand what the writer is writing about.

The editorial was nice but I find the extrapolation of Defensor’s sentences as going too far. This is what I find disturbing in some editorials of this paper.

It is one thing to be critical but it is another to be overtly oppositionist hiding behind freedom of the press. Can this paper not show some semblance of fair play?

Class act? Are you kidding me? Mike Defensor deserves to lose. And it is not a class act to accept certain defeat, not especially from a man who as we all know is a witness kidnapper(remember Udong Mahusay?), a liar and a crook! If he could only go public and admit all the stupid things he said and did to favor his favorite president and say sorry, then I might consider it a class act. More better if he could go to jail voluntarily. Low life, thug, jerk and a..hole like him do not deserve a public office. Let’s put him instead to the Gulag of Siberia.

What class act? Mike Defensor failed to condemn massive electoral fraud in Maguindanao, Lanao and Cotabato. It would have been a class act if he reveals Team Unity’s planned-systematic cheating in Moslem Mindanao regions and return/refund all campaign funds spent at the expense of the government. Furthermore, it’s not too late to become a people’s hero. Mike Defensor should do a Singsong and expose what he knows in the alleged 2004 fraudulent presidential election and denounce bogus President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. I consider this as a ‘classy act‘. Only time can tell.

graceful exit or class act as what they call it. “tol” defensor is only looking for media mileage, sympathy & publicity. he think he can win the election and when he found out the he can’t win he tried again to go to media to publicize his defeat. mike defensor is like a parrot of GMA who talk too much & criticize too much with his opponents. he’s not deserving to be part of the institution coz he will just look like a popinjay in the senate.

Well vote buying is still here in the Philippines. Next time people should be wise enough in voting because the future of the next generation is in their hands. During election politicians win while people lost.

Ay naku, for all that its worth and worthless, let’s give Mike his due, compared to eggheads like Pichay and the others who feel they’re going to have their day.

To Israel,

Your post is so venomous and corrosive. Reading it, I want to retch. Self-righteous people like you make our country worse instead of better. It is always easy to find fault than praise. That’s the hallmark of typical Pinoy forgetting thatpointing an accusing finger to someone, three are pointing back at him. Whe! Ang Pinoy talaga. Sobrang dunong at linis.

A little late for Defensor to be teaching his children about honor!

Hi to Noah Pilipino,

Thanks for your message. You are very specific as to why you think Defensor does not deserve to be overly praised for conceding earlier. Kaya siya natalo marami palang dahilan at alam ng mga tao. Para duon sa bumoto sa kanya, kelangang paliguan nila ang kanilang mga ulo at ng umaliwalas ang kanilang mga pag-iisip. Biruin mo ang dami palang kabulastugang ginawa nakagarner pa rin ng mga boto. Sayang na mga boto, buti pa kung si Trillanes na lang ang mga ibinoto nila. Ha ha ha ha. (don’t jump on me. Gumagala lang ako ditto…..hello, Salina. Don’t worry, I’ll behave.)

A class act or no class act. The man’s statemanship is beyond compare. It takes a lot of courage and pride to admit once defeat. How many of us filipinos can concede defeat practically politicians in the Phil………but instead contest it and call for ballot recount. The guy is young and more elections to come if given a chance. Don’t forget, filipinos have short memories. No doubt about it.

A SALUTE TO HIM!

It’s hard to forget Mike’s role in being an apologist for the wrong decisions of Gloria especially those which trampled Philippine democracy.

Kim, hi!
Yes, it was nothing else but Defensor’s desperate attempt to make a “graceful exit”. In my book, it is more of a loser’s pragmatic act of salvaging whatever honor he has left. The way he did it, using his children as props was even more deplorable.

Ms. Ott, hi!
Yes, I know of many friends, fellow nurses and relatives of the so-called “Sentosa 27″ who campaigned NOT TO VOTE, and did not actually vote for Defensor. When he chose to intervene in the Sentosa 27 nurses’ POEA case, he thought these nurses did not know how to fight back, he was dead wrong.

Israel and Diego, hi there!
Yes, if only Defensor now comes out and exposes the irregularities in government (especially of those he was once a part of or even privy of), that would be a class act. He would, of course, earn the ire of those in power. But he would be forgiven by the sovereign people of his previous collaboration with the present dispensation, and who knows, his political life would be resurrected with a clean image.

To Mike Defensor,
You have been co-opted. Once upon a time (during your student days), you mouthed slogans to protect the rights of the underprivileged. How dare you chose Sentosa Recruitment Agency and its foreign owners over our migrant workers who were duped by this agency? For your senatorial campaign fund? Nakakahiya ka/Shame on you! And now you talk of “honor”. Please spare us your “palabas”.

WE SHOULD ALWAYS ADMIRE TRUE WARRIORS WHO ADMIT THEIR DEFEATS IN BATTLE……

SILA GARCI, DEFENSOR, ROCO, RECTO, CHAVIT, PICHAY, ETC…..

ANG DAMING NATALO, PERO DINAYA DAW SILA…. ANO PALAGAY NILA SA ATING MGA FILIPINO, BAYAN NG MANDARAYA…

BAKA TAMAAN SILA NG KIDLAT SA KASINUNGALINGAN NILA.

Yung iba dyan eh hindi pa nag uumpisa ang election, kinocondisyon na ang taong bayan na siya ay dinadaya…. putak ng putak ng putak ng putak…. ano kaya ang sunod niyang gagawin….

prove yourself, wag ng putak ng putak ng putak ng putak, mag trabaho ka naman, sayang pork barrel mo, pera ng taong bayan, mahiya ka naman…..

Pumunta ka sa mga eleksyon hotspots sa Mindanao nang malaman mo

Kabayan
Pumunta ka sa mga eleksyon hotspots sa Mindanao nang malaman mo
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Fr: Salina

We don’t need to go to mindanao to find out whats going on. Talaga ang mindanao ay ginagamit every election for their cheating operation. If we ever held another election they should hold election in mindanao first so that the people who’s making plenty of money on this cheating operation finally go out of business.

And the politician who is using the padding shaving operation well think twice before running in office. We don’t need that kind of people in the office. We need somebody who can do their job they suppose too.

Kabayan
It’s hard to forget Mike’s role in being an apologist for the wrong decisions of Gloria especially those which trampled Philippine democracy.
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Fr: Salina

Yep! He never thought he’s going to loss because Gloria Arroyo, Spend plenty of money so that her candidates surely win this election. They understatement the filipino people.

The reason the opposition won this election because the filipino people had enough with her bullshit. They can only take so much. They have a choice do or die!

Ms. Ott
Hi to Noah Pilipino,

Thanks for your message. You are very specific as to why you think Defensor does not deserve to be overly praised for conceding earlier. Kaya siya natalo marami palang dahilan at alam ng mga tao. Para duon sa bumoto sa kanya, kelangang paliguan nila ang kanilang mga ulo at ng umaliwalas ang kanilang mga pag-iisip. Biruin mo ang dami palang kabulastugang ginawa nakagarner pa rin ng mga boto. Sayang na mga boto, buti pa kung si Trillanes na lang ang mga ibinoto nila. Ha ha ha ha. (don’t jump on me. Gumagala lang ako ditto…..hello, Salina. Don’t worry, I’ll behave.)
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Fr: Salina

Hello, Ms Otti: No, Please, Don’t behave. I won’t be having any fun if you behave yourself. By the way my sister’s say hello.

Come on, Lets rock!

Kabayan
It’s hard to forget Mike’s role in being an apologist for the wrong decisions of Gloria especially those which trampled Philippine democracy.
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Fr: Salina

Yep! And he pay for it. Please, Keep the change!

andrewwayne2007
A little late for Defensor to be teaching his children about honor!
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Fr: Salina

Hello, Excuse me sir! its never too late to teach your children pride/honor!

simple pinoy
To Israel,

Your post is so venomous and corrosive. Reading it, I want to retch. Self-righteous people like you make our country worse instead of better. It is always easy to find fault than praise. That’s the hallmark of typical Pinoy forgetting thatpointing an accusing finger to someone, three are pointing back at him. Whe! Ang Pinoy talaga. Sobrang dunong at linis.
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Fr: Salina

I guess you’re talking about Gloria Arroyo, I’m I right?

Dr. Rico Mandy
Ay naku, for all that its worth and worthless, let’s give Mike his due, compared to eggheads like Pichay and the others who feel they’re going to have their day.
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Fr: Salina

Yep! I agree! Please, Leave them alone so that they can contenue planting KAMOTE in Mindanao.

Kim
graceful exit or class act as what they call it. “tol” defensor is only looking for media mileage, sympathy & publicity. he think he can win the election and when he found out the he can’t win he tried again to go to media to publicize his defeat. mike defensor is like a parrot of GMA who talk too much & criticize too much with his opponents. he’s not deserving to be part of the institution coz he will just look like a popinjay in the senate.
*******************************Fr: Salina

Kim: I never like the guy. But, Please, He’s already down. Stop stepping on him.
Let him finish plant KAMOTE.

I had like mike defensor and chiz escudero very much… a true filipino in every aspect… it was a fight like mabini and rizal… and it was always clear mabini would be the hero… not a clouted and stage heroism… hope by his loss he would realize that filipinos need him… not by those who just have the self interest and live by somebody’s shadow and use him… hope he really learned his reason… and better join chiz fight… he is such a great loss from the start in joining gloria… Philippines is no longer rizals’ day.. truth comes out by deeds not by propagandas

Galing mo talaga ‘tol. Nagpapogi ka pa bago mag concede ah. pati mga anak mo ginamit mo pa (sabagay kahit sa kampanya ginamit mo din sila). WALA KA NG PAG ASA NA MANALO SA MGA DARATING NA ELEKSYON ‘TOL. KAHIT MAGPA POGI KA PA. HINDI NA UUBRA SA MGA MATATALINONG BOTANTE YANG DRAMA MO. MABUTI NGA SAIYO!!! BWA.. HA.. HA… goodbye!!!

Here’s to renewing the call for “‘Tol” Mike Defensor to really stand tall and make a really “class act”. Come out and expose the government’s participation in the election irregularities. And while you do that, own up to your political intervention in the Sentosa 27 POEA case. That way, you will really be an honorable man. As I said before, who knows, the sovereign people might forgive you of your past sins in government, and will elect you someday to your old post in Quezon City. Or are you just waiting for one year to pass bago ka ibalik ng usurper ng Malacanang sa puwesto? If that is what you are thinking of, Mike, nagkakamali ka, dahil ang taong-bayan, alam na ang tunay mong kulay. While there is still time, rise up to the occasion. Be a real man of honor, if you really know what that means, and perform that class act of telling the world that “you are sorry” for your participation in the irregularities in government.
And to those admirers and supporters of Mike Defensor out there, please tell him that here is a challenge waiting for an answer from him.

salina
simple pinoy
To Israel,

Your post is so venomous and corrosive. Reading it, I want to retch. Self-righteous people like you make our country worse instead of better. It is always easy to find fault than praise. That’s the hallmark of typical Pinoy forgetting thatpointing an accusing finger to someone, three are pointing back at him. Whe! Ang Pinoy talaga. Sobrang dunong at linis.
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Fr: Salina

I guess you’re talking about Gloria Arroyo, I’m I right?

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MALI, KAYO DAW YON……….