SHAME on you media, especially ABS-CBN!
You think you’re above the law? You are as arrogant as Trillanes & Co. You should show more respect for the authorities who are only there to protect the people (including you) and uphold the law. It is always a lose-lose situation when the police face the egoistic media.
If all hell broke loose during the Manila Pen standoff and some media men lost their lives, the police will be blamed, but then if the police try to [perform] their duties, the media cries harassment.
You think only GMA should reform? Think again; the media should reform too.
– Orly Nazareno, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (via e-mail)
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December 21st, 2007 at 12:34 pm
Eterio
Tu2vingcarayom,
President GMA is not the fake president of the philippines, she is the greatest leader of all time in the history of Mankind, and her base power is Jueteng Power, the real reason of why we have a very strong president who has the support of all the laws of the philippines from the Judiciary,The Senate and lastly the Congress. Sadly but thats the reality of how the Majority of Pilipinos minds had decided and it is irreversible.
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Yes! I agree with you! She’s da best in kangkonga. This is one of the reason why the Philippines in such a mess! Heaven help us!
December 21st, 2007 at 12:30 pm
Mla time) 12/21/2007
I think I’m going to puke! Just listen to his bullshit.
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MANILA, Philippines — Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief General Hermogenes Esperon Jr. lashed out anew at rebel soldiers involved in the failed November 29 uprising, this time in front of the commander-in-chief, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
In a speech during the 72nd anniversary of the AFP in Camp Aguinaldo
on Friday, Esperon labeled the rebels, led by Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, as “destabilizers [who are] no different from communist insurgents, ready to sacrifice the common good just to quench their thirst for power.”
Trillanes and a number of his co-accused, all members of the Magdalo group, walked out on a hearing of their coup d’etat case at the Makati City regional trial court on November 29, marched to the central business district, and seized the Manila Peninsula Hotel for over six hours.
They were joined by a witness in their case, Army Brigadier General Danilo Lim in the hotel takeover, which was ended by a military and police assault.
“The swift response of the PNP [Philippine National Police] and the AFP was intended to contain an incident that could go out of hand in the premiere financial district. [These] theatrics could lead to panic and adverse repercussions,” Esperon said.
“We commend the brave police and soldiers who carried out their jobs with professional restraint and decisiveness,” he added.
Esperon also showered thanks on the President for the P150 per day increase in soldiers’ combat pay, the icrease in allowances, and for the release of P1 billion for soldiers’ housing.
In his speech, Esperon reiterated that the military was on track to defeating the communist insurgency and the Islamic extremists and to contain Muslim secessionist groups.
“I now issue to the whole AFP a call to urgency. The communist insurgency problem is the malevolent leech that sucks our national pride and brings the malady of poverty to our midst,” he said.
Esperon said the strength of the New People’s Army, the guerilla arm of the Communist Party of the Philippines, was reduced to 6,000 this year, from 7,200 in 2006, and a high of 12,000 in 2002.
The number of guerilla fronts, on the other hand, was reduced to 87 this year, from 100 in 2006, and 107 in 2005, the military chief said.
On the campaign against the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf, Esperon noted that the group’s second-in-command, Jainal Antel Salialias Abu Solaiman, was killed in an encounter in Sulu in January, at around the same time DNA tests confirmed the death of the bandit group’s chieftain, Khadaffy Janjalani
December 21st, 2007 at 10:10 am
clipmaster
Raul T. Lumacad
I think there’s something wrong in here. Did you know that the word “Belat” is a Cebuano word? ………
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bastos pala yan, bastos din siguro ang gumagamit ng pangalan na yan……….
hindi na nahiya sa mga fellow bloggers niya…..
hoy, irespeto mo naman ang may ari ng blog nito, at kaming mga fellow bloggers mo……….
nakakahiya ka……..
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Give me one good reason why I should be ashame of my name. Atleast I have the nerve to post my name in this blog. How about you? there is nothing wrong with that. If the owner of this blog going to block/filter my screen name just because they don’t like it. So be it!
December 21st, 2007 at 6:25 am
Tu2vingcarayom,
President GMA is not the fake president of the philippines, she is the greatest leader of all time in the history of Mankind, and her base power is Jueteng Power, the real reason of why we have a very strong president who has the support of all the laws of the philippines from the Judiciary,The Senate and lastly the Congress. Sadly but thats the reality of how the Majority of Pilipinos minds had decided and it is irreversible.
December 21st, 2007 at 2:53 am
Official: RP defends rights record over US arms aid
Agence France-Presse
MANILA - The Philippines said Thursday its human rights record “can stand up” to global scrutiny amid reports the US government may hold back on military assistance.
Ricardo Blancaflor, who was named as head of a recently created task force to solve political killings, said the Philippines only suffered from bad perceptions carried by the media.
“Our human rights record can stand up to the rest of the world,” Blancaflor said on local television.
He said he hoped US legislators would not apply “double standards” in approving military aid for the Philippines, stressing that Manila was closely following cases of human rights abuses and political killings.
Blancaflor noted that Manila did not attach conditions when Washington requested a Philippine contingent to serve in the Iraq war.
“We did not tell the Americans, ‘You know we’re going to join you in Iraq provided you don’t do what you are doing in Guantanamo Bay or in Abu Ghraib prison,” Blancaflor said, referring to US detention centers in Cuba and Iraq where human rights abuses against detainees have been documented.
Blancaflor’s comments came after news reports that US legislators had agreed to slightly increase military funding for Manila from 29.7 million dollars this year to 30 million dollars in 2008. But part of the increase was contingent on the Philippines improving its rights record.
US special envoy Philip Alston earlier this month released a damning report blaming the Philippine military for many unsolved killings.
His report said soldiers were “systematically hunting down” leaders of left-wing groups as part of its anti-insurgency campaign.
Among those killed, he said, were judges, lawyers, anti-government activists, trade union activists and journalists.
Local rights group Kaparatan said the number of extra-judicial killings had dropped to 68 this year from 209 in 2006. It added that since President Gloria Arroyo came to power in January 2001 up to October this year, a total of 887 killings were reported.
Blancaflor defended the military, saying they were the only defense organization in the world where officers can only be promoted if cleared by a human rights office.
“We don’t deserve this kind of reputation. We have to attack this perception that aid is being withheld because we are violating human rights,” he said.
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Heck. The Philippines gov’t. Don’t deserve this money they’re only going to used it to on killing/jail the people who si speaking out against her bogus regime. I HOPE THE U.S. GOV’T. GOING TO STOP GIVEN THEM MONEY, AFTER ALL THATS THE TAXEPAYER’S MONEY THEY’RE GIVEN AWAY.