A SUPPOSEDLY good corporate citizen like Ayala Land Inc. (ALI) was unlikely to do anything that would be a great disservice
to the country. But ALI showed what is under its hood by paying its own so-called experts to contradict the findings of the PNP and volunteer experts from the Australian Federal Police and Israel.
ALI should have picked the proper time and forum to bring its experts out from the closet. As it was, ALI frittered away the fine corporate image it nurtured over many years. It took a foreign dignitary, US Ambassador
Kristie Kenney, to remind everybody, including ALI, that those saying otherwise should realize what a terror attack in Metro Manila would
mean to the country as a whole.
ALI must rethink its hidden suggestion that terrorists or political agitators were behind the Glorietta 2 explosion. The ploy — obviously an advance defense for possible charges of gross negligence resulting in deaths and injuries to persons — is a public relations disaster.
– Armando Batara, Parañaque City, Philippines (via e-mail)
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December 5th, 2007 at 1:21 am
well as you all know, gov. funds to counter terrorism are all dried up, especially the ones that they are recieving from the u.s., which means our crafty arroyo administration has to come-up ways to keep the cash flowing, and this is just one them.
i just feel sorry for all the filipino children who are too young and not capable to stand out and let their voices of protest be heard in contempt with this administration for what a country they would all grow up to, since the majority of the population would rather sit and watch things unfolds before their eyes, and curse themselves that they didnt do anything to stop the perpetrators (gov.)
people! when are you all gonna stop being oppressed, stand up and fight for your rights! clearly this goverment demonstrated that it will do anything to stay in power and corrupt your lives.
please bear in mind that “government schemes are designed to kill your dreams”
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:27 pm
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November 11th, 2007 at 10:02 pm
RE- Bomb / Explosion @ the Glorietta mall
This is a continuation of what I had been written the other day regarding my comment about the findings of American and Australian volunteer who claim them selves as bomb expert. As I was saying in my previous comment there is no such word expert in the bomb. I rather believed this scientist who made a comment regarding the explosion at the glorietta mall since he studied and can even make his own formula on how metain gas explode rather than believing this agency (American & Australian) who help prove about that incident who just studied for a months in EOD or any equivalent to the said course.
I can recall how this guys who call themselves as bomb expert trembling when they try to defuse my IED’s (Improvised Explosive Device) during our refresher course. The only things that I am impressing to our foreign Instructors are there high technology equipment in recovering a bomb. Such as the portable bomb x-ray machine, bomb carrier, bomb blanket and the robotic which cause about 20 million dollars according to them? But when it comes to skills talo sila ng mga pinoy. The bomb will defend upon the mind of the bomber itself. Because one of the important purpose of the bomber is to kill the bomb technician. So when there is explosion the bomber was there to make it sure that he’s bomb was exploding. Remember that a bomber always put a decoy to confuse the bomb technician or the investigator.
Regarding the explanation of Gen. Barrias, it seems he himself don’t know what he explain about the situation. As I said only an authorized EOD can explain in details about bomb explosion. Naturally the post blast investigation is useless if the bomb that was exploding is a plastic bomb or C-4. How can a post blast investigation prosper if the whole area was flooded with water? What fragments of bomb they can recover if the cause of incident is due to C-4 explosion? The impact of the explosion which cover the four corners of the radius or maximum explosion tells us what kind of bomb was exploding. Why not those victims weren’t subject for autopsy? I suggest that conduct immediate autopsy to those victims of glorietta mall incident and find out the cause of death this will help to further investigate that a bomb or accidental explosion was happened. If all their internal organs was damage or there were blood coming out from the nose, ear or mouth during the said victim was recovered then a high explosive device was explode. If not then may be they died due to stampede. Because the most powerful bomb in this earth when people panic. Also try to measure the distance of the said body of the victim were they recovered. If they found with in the 10-15 meters radius of the explosion then this guys death due to shock wave or shock front. I wonder why the authorities didn’t examine the victim’s body & try to find out the cause of death. If you‘re a snappy investigator as an SOP to this kind of incident you should subject the victim to autopsy. Why Gen. Barias sir, you kept investigating the waste materials when you can get or struck more information of the body of the victim? It seems you’re keeping the waste of the government you working with. Why not let us gave chance to Sen. Trillanes to say something about the information he was received from our patriotic soldiers? Why not let him present the evidence at the senate or even at the court?
What made me comment that the government is trying to hide something to his people it’s because an hour after the explosion of the bomb sec.gonzales has made an statement that our country under attack of terrorism because somebody was texting him or the converted Muslim group informed him through text that they are responsible for the explosion. Since the people didn’t mind about there statement they shape to another theory which is accidental explosion. Truly that in every plan there was always a plan B. When the bomb was explode at the glorietta a day after, we the X- cavaliers contact its other and talk and even consolidate facts and evidence before we made our own comment of the said incident. We then conclude that the present problem that beset of the arroyo administration is the reason of doing what we called doing a sacrificial lamp. This is not new to us because we had troops in the field that was sacrifice during our operation because of personal interest of our higher ups.
Let me explain about the scenario that might the arroyo allies trying to portrait and made it show that their was a terrorist attack in order that mrs arroyo will declare a state of emergency through the help of her allies to cover up the issue. If ended the people response about there scenario then they can do anything to put our country under marshal law. A million thanks to our present and previous chief of justice who always opposed of the mandate of the malacañang who are trying to manipulate our justices for their own glory. If we recall the entire memorandum that was issued by the latter was not prosper. It was always turn down by the Supreme Court. I salute to these two justices, Justice Artemio Panganiban & Justice Puno. If ended the judiciary system was politically manipulated then God save our country.
I will end with these remarks and let all our countrymen analyze this… “We celebrate every June 12th of the year right? Now my question is this, are we really free or we just passing to another oppressor”. As doctor Jose Rizal said “ paano tayo igalang ng ibang lahi kung sarili mo mismo hindi mo iginagalang” Panahon na ibalik ang tunay na diwa ng EDSA 1 Revolution. Magkaisa ulit tayo para sa tunay na kalayaan.
Rizal
November 11th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
What now? No official result yet after one month since the Glorietta explosion?
Is it true that RDX (Royale Demolition eXplosive) is used as propellant in aerosol products such as hairspray?
All articles about RDX that were searched on the internet just talk about explosives.
All articles concerning aerosol propellants do not mention RDX as one type of aerosol propellant.
Experts about RDX and/or aerosol propellants please help explain.
November 10th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
It needed foreign dignitaries to explain what a terror attack in Manila would mean….?
That is probably the real reason why immediatel there was no more RDX (C-4) found, very contrary to the first finding of military and PNP, which has been used to justify threats of high alert and deployment of more military and police, blaming NPA and Abu’s, the Anti Terror law and so forth. At this time, the proof of a terror attack was high but when told what it could mean in general, nothing anymore.
If there are no lies at the new “findings” and no cover-up, then the involved laboratory “experts” should be fired.