THAT’S what former Senate president Jovito Salonga fears.
Here’s an excerpt from the Philippine Daily Inquirer story:
MANILA, Philippines–President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s decision to call out the military to help police disband private armies, man 24-hour checkpoints and stop political killings has prompted ex-Senate President Jovito Salonga to warn that the May 14 elections could turn out to be as “violent and fraudulent” as the Marcos-era polls.
In an open letter sent Tuesday to the President through Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, Salonga called on Ms Arroyo to ensure the peace and the credibility of the midterm elections so as not to worsen current problems, including the continuing killings.
Salonga said Ms Arroyo’s order for more checkpoints nationwide was “what [the dictator Ferdinand] Marcos also ordered in the 1969 elections, described by Newsweek (Nov. 24, 1969) and Time (Feb. 16, 1970) as the dirtiest, most violent and most corrupt in modern Filipino history.”
July 4th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Ely
Salina naman, pareho tayong galit kay Gloria e pati ako inaaway mo. Kaya ko sinabing accomplishment e dahil yun ang kabaligtaran (I’m being sarcastic). What I’m trying to say is that the only thing Arroyo has done to this country is put it more in debt. Kung di mo magets e bahala ka.
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he…he….he…..
pareho din kayo ng mga opposition senators, sila sila nag aaway sa senado, nakakahiya…….
he…he….he……
July 4th, 2007 at 2:56 am
Salina naman, pareho tayong galit kay Gloria e pati ako inaaway mo. Kaya ko sinabing accomplishment e dahil yun ang kabaligtaran (I’m being sarcastic). What I’m trying to say is that the only thing Arroyo has done to this country is put it more in debt. Kung di mo magets e bahala ka.
Ely
Gov’t debt rises to P3.93 trillion
By Michelle Remo
Inquirer
Last updated 03:02am (Mla time) 06/13/2007
MANILA, Philippines � The national government’s debt reached P3.93 trillion as of end-March, up 0.9 percent from P3.897 trillion at end-February, The Bureau of the Treasury reported Tuesday.
Another proof of the major accomplishment this administration has done.
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Fr: Salina
The government debt. Went up! Do you call that accomplishment. Whattttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt. You must be really out of your mind. Don’t tell me you’re an economist too.
July 2nd, 2007 at 5:47 pm
nawawala ang galit ko kay gloria kapag nababasa ko ang postings ni salina…….
ayoko ma associate sa mga taong tulad niyang galit kay gloria……
maging serious ka pa minsan minsan sa postings mo, lagi kang nagpapatawa……
June 25th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
Gloria warned vs ending up like jailed Isabelita Peron
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She should be in jail a long time ago. For kicken the duly elected President Joseph
Estrada. And how can they solve the killing when Gloria Arroyo, The one given the order. To kill to those who is against her bugos regime. I’ll say, Kick her ass out. its overdue! Salinas
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06/26/2007
An apparently estranged ally of Malacañang has pushed the envelope against President Arroyo, warning the Chief Executive that her administration’s inaction on political killings will see her suffer the ignominious fate of a former South American woman president.
Senate Majority Leader Francis Pangilinan, who was reelected in last month’s mid-term polls largely through his “independent� stance on the eve of the May 14 balloting, yesterday said the President holds the key to solving the summary executions of her political critics.
“As Commander-in-Chief, Mrs. Arroyo must step in and instruct these generals to come out in the open and speak out about the truth behind the alleged involvement of the military brass in extra-judicial killings. The buck stops with (the President as the head of the country’s security forces),� Pangilinan added.
The generals, three of them, have implicated the government in the summary executions.
Failure on Mrs. Arroyo’s part to get to the bottom of the political murders, the senator said, may find her and her government “accountable in the end.�
Pangilinan suggested that the President “learn from the painful lessons of history,� citing the case of former Argentina President Isabelita Peron, who is now under house arrest in Spain for her alleged
involvement in the formation of death squads in Argentina during her presidency that began in 1976.
Mrs. Arroyo, the senator said, “cannot simply be a bystander as (these) generals under her command are beginning to talk,� referring to the three generals who have linked the government to the political killings.
One of the generals over the weekend revealed that official response to containing alleged communist threat in key areas in the country’s Luzon main group of islands was “openly� discussed during a top-level military conference about two years ago.
Members of alleged communist front organizations, such as the party-list group Bayan Muna, have borne the brunt of the murders.
If the President wants her “legacy� to be remembered by Filipinos and to avoid Peron’s fate, Pangilinan said, “her only recourse is for her government to bring the perpetrators of the killings to justice and for it to punish the guilty regardless of who they may be.�
Only by so doing, he added, can Mrs. Arroyo “succeed in avoiding the cruel judgment of history.�
Malacañang also yesterday brushed off the general’s exposé.
“We do not comment on speculations and anonymous and thus unverifiable information. The administration has a clear policy condemning cold-blooded murders and other crimes. In line with this policy, we support the Chief Justice’s initiative for a multi-sectoral summit on the role of the judiciary against these killings. We also assure the people that our drive to get to the bottom of these killings is purposive and relentless,� presidential spokesman and Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye told a press briefing.
Bunye said the President “supports� Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno’s recent call for a summit to stem the executions.
The Philippine National Police has expressed support for the meeting, describing it as a “positive development.�
Bunye said the killings are “not welcome, these should not be part of a vibrant democracy such as ours.�
National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales echoed the Arroyo spokesman.
“Our policy is (to address the killings issue) through the legal effort, so we file cases against those whom we suspect are doing something against the law,� Gonzales said during a telephone interview.
He added the general should come out, “otherwise, all that he said would be allegations.�
Gonzales admitted that each incident damages the country domestically but internationally.
Mrs. Arroyo’s congressman-allies also yesterday dared the three generals to identify themselves, the same challenge posed by two senators.
Rodolfo Biazon and Panfilo Lacson, during separate interviews, called on the general to do a “Gudani-Balutan.�
The two senators, both former military officers, were referring to retired Brig. Gen. Francisco Gudani and Lt. Col. Alexander Balutan who testified before the Senate defense committee on alleged cheating operations in Mindanao during the 2004 presidential polls.
Biazon said the expose tends to further validate findings by local and international groups that inquired into the assassinations. Sherwin C. Olaes, Angie M. Rosales, Gina Peralta-Elorde and Charlie Manalo
June 25th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Gloria Arroyo, Must be really STUPID for blaming President Joseph Estrada. With all her failure!!! She’s the one has been squatting in malacanyang palace for seven years. The nerve of this bitch.