THIS is the funniest joke I’ve heard. How in the world can the Philippine Army accomplish in 39 weeks what it did not accomplish in 39 years?
While that is mathematically probable, that is realistically impossible. During the last 39 years, the Army has not been successful in reducing the New People’s Army (NPA) strength except in some successful campaigns. So the NPAs continue to attack army detachments and police headquarters and confiscate guns and ammunition. For [Lieutenant General Alexander] Yano to say that, reflects the style of his commander in chief who promised to create 10 million jobs in six years.
CPP downfall in 39 weeks? If that’s not suntok sa buwan, what else would we call that? If he is not joking, he is either out of this world or out of his mind, hence, his nonsense predictions.
– Tom Mascarinas, Agusan del Sur, Philippines (via e-mail)
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February 8th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Even if they annihilate CPP-NPA totally, as long as our country continues to be run by the elite and for the elite, as long as injustice, exploitation and oppression exists…
new hands shall take up arms, new legs shall thread the hills and new minds shall take up the cause to replace the fallen ones.
January 26th, 2008 at 8:54 am
si FPJ pa din talaga nanalo sa last presidential election,lamang binaiwan ng buhay.Isipin nyo hari ng pelikulang pinoy FPJ,lanslide dapat,hari nga e,manonood ka ng pelikula nya inaabot ng buwan sa sinehan at pila ,talo pa rca na bigas sa pila,natalo daw si FPJ. Kung so FPJ sana ang presidente,may pusong makbayan sya,sigurado uunahin nya mga tulisan sa gobyerno,magnanakaw sa gobyerno,corruptors,,pede naman sya kumaha ng mahusay na advisers,wag lamang si tito sotto.sayang ka FPJ,idolo ng bayan.Vilma santos,kakandidato ka ba?dapat kayo ni bong revillla ang magka ticket,pra pareho kayong artizta,pra puro arte na lng ang kawawang juan dela cruz sa pilipinas,tama na yun governor sa inyo 2 ni bong,tigan mo si bong alang ginagawa sa senado.pelikula lng gingawa nya
,ksi alam nyo nmn mga pinoy basta sikat ,boto natin.tapos,di masamang mangarap,yun tama lng,ha vilma santos ,noli,bong,wag nyu na gayahin si erap,,nakalipas na sya.vilma ,yun asawa mo na lng ang kumandidato,pwede pa,pero ikaw ,,sus,,taga hanga mo ko sa drama,,,di sa politics,di mo linya yan,sasagupain mo ba si miriam defensor?
bak ingkisin ka nun ptay ka na ege ka,,di mo ma understand,,ok?
January 26th, 2008 at 8:28 am
Mga kabinete sa malacanang,gen,esperon,gen.razon,Kayo bay naglilingkod sa bayan o kay pres.arroyo lamang?abay magkaroon nmn kayo ng dangal sa sinumpaan nyong mga tungkulin na maglilingkod sa bayan ng tapat,may dignidad,na mag poprotekta sa taong bayan.Pero prang sunud sunudan lamang kayo sa pres.kung ano idikta.kakatakot ng mga image ng pulis sa atin at military.du tulad noong mga nakaraang panahon na ang mga pulis at military ay may tapat na tungkulin,subalit ngayon kitang kita,kampi sila sa ksinung halingan ng gobyerno,ng dahil sa salapi,position,kapangyarihan.Kakatakot silang magimbestiga at nababaliktad ang mga tunay na pangyayari,tulad sa glorietta,,nawala yun unang imbestigasyon ng babaeng pulis na isang bomb expert investigator,nawala sya sa eksena.Ano happen sa kanya kaya?ang tagal ng findings sa glorietta,pero ang mga tao alam na,,pero ang pulis na matataas ang position ay kanya kanyang haka haka haka,nakita na yun sangkap sa pagpapasabog,naiba pa ang lumabas.si puno naman kala mo imbestigador,,yun,sabi ng malacanang ,di daw bomba.ano ba yan,hanapin nyo yun babaeng pulis na expert na unang nag imbestiga,yun ang exactong imbestigasyon,ayon sa paliwanag nya.tapos.
January 26th, 2008 at 7:34 am
di ba si ex congressman jalosjos,dapat bitay ang hatol, isang batang musmos,sinira ang dangal,,taposnagpipilit lumaya sa pamamagitan ng kanyang political connection,.ang batas ba sa atin ay sa mayayaman lang ba napanig.jalosjos,mananagot ka sa Diyos.Isa kang salot sa lipunan.sa dinami dami ng babae sa pilipinas e,,batang menor de edad ang ginhasa mo,,napatunayan ng hukuman,ang baba ng sentence sa iyo,marahil ang lakas ng kapit mo dahil isa kang napakayaman na binibili mo ang lahat.mahiya ka sa pamilya mo at isang bayanang pilipino.hoy judge na humatol kay manyakis na jalosjos,tama ba yun hatol mo?Isang batang musmos,na nilalang ng Diyos,nawala ang dangal,,,,,,
January 22nd, 2008 at 2:04 am
Kaya nga hindi na ako nagsundalo eh, baka mapahiya lang ako sa sarili ko. Kung Abu Sayaff nga hindi nila malipul-lipol, NPA pa kaya?
January 21st, 2008 at 8:30 am
Russel De Vera
Bakit kahit anong paksa ang pinaguusapan, palaging namemention ang pagka-corrupt ni Pangulong Arroyo? Ma-CPP man, o oil price increase, economy or education, or kahit ano anong paksa natitira lagi ang mahal na pangulong GMA bilang liar, corrupt, at magnanakaw. Bakit may ebidensya ba kayo? Di ba binabatay nyo lang ang mga negative comments nyo sa nababasa nyo dyario or naririnig sa radyo? Huwag kang humusga para hindi ka husgahan.
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wow! if you don’t believe that Gloria arroyo, is the biggest crook thats your problem.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
there is truth to what dorkkk wrote when he said “politiko rin ang cpp-npa, makakaliwa nga lang”…and its becoming more like the present government, very true. i know someone who joined the org. a long time ago, but got disillusioned bec. of the corrupt practices and feudalistic ways.
but, i do not subscribe to a military solution to this problem, both sides should talk peace.
and besides, this ideology has outlived its usefulness. kung baga, laos na ;-(( look at the ex-communist countries and how well they are faring economically right now…
January 6th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
blues
the AFP and the current and past regimes have time and again missed the entire point in solving the insurgency problem. we can never end insurgency by implementing a criminal policy of militarization/total war/all out war in 39 weeks, 39 years, or even 39 decades!
if GMA and her army generals (plus dorkk and the rest of the populace who know nothing of the insurgency problem yet are the staunchest advocates of a military solution) are sincere in ending CPP’s armed revolution, why not sincerely talk peace with them?
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They do! But CPP detect lies from all the peace talks. They knows that Gloria Arroyo, Is lying to her teeth she promise anything in order to get what she want it. Only to turn around and stab them in the back. Next time they have peace talks they should just hang her under the banana tree!
January 6th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Cheating time again
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For as long as Gloria Arroyo, The one in power anything goes! Not just cheating, Lying. But stealing/killing in order to keep her in power!
FRONTLINE
Ninez Cacho-Olivares
01/07/2008
If additional proof is needed that Gloria and her bets had cheated, and massively, in the 2004 and 2007 elections, there is always the Maguindanao governor who can be trusted to make the slip in his boasting to let the people know that he had delivered to Gloria just what she wanted and how she wanted it.
Gov. Andal Ampatuan Sr. was quoted by the media as announcing, during Gloria’s distribution of Christmas gifts in Shariff Aguak, Maguindanao, last Saturday, that he would be supporting Gloria if she runs in 2010.
She can’t run, of course, if the Constitution stays as is.
But the clincher came when he said: “All (Gloria) has to do is to tell us what she wants to happen in elections in Maguindanao,” stressing that they in Maguindanao know how to pay their political debts.
All she has to do is to tell him how the balloting will go? That’s proof enough that not only cheating is resorted to every time in that province, but also that the governor does what Gloria orders him to do by way of telling him how the votes would go, and which bet she favors would win the Maguindanao vote.
Of course, Ampatuan and Gloria aides can always claim that Maguindanao votes under Ampatuan are command votes, but everyone also knows that this is a big lie.
If there was such thing as the Ampatuan command vote, then obviously, there would have been no need for poll operators like former poll officer Lintang Bedol to go through the motions of having the election returns and certificate of canvass get lost, while having these filled up with the names of Gloria’s candidates, and on a 12-0 vote, a statistical impossibility, not to mention the fact that bets still have to pay a princely sum for these cheats in the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to ensure that they land on top of the list.
In 2004, it was the same scenario in Maguindanao, and of course elsewhere, with Gloria cheating like mad, as evidenced by her conversations with her cheating operator, then Comelec Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano, plus the able assistance of generals lsuch as the military chief of staff and the others, all of whom were richly rewarded.
Isn’t it strange that the way these poll cheats, who are found to have cheated then quickly disappear, follows a pattern?
Garci suddenly disappeared, with not one policeman or military or NBI agent finding him. The same happened to Joc-Joc Bolante. He was in and out of the country, and yet not one single law enforcer could find him then. It was only when he was caught entering the US with a canceled visa that Filipinos knew of his whereabouts. The same thing has happened to Bedol. No one has seen him — at least that’s the tale the cops give.
But back to Ampatuan and his big boast. What is more likely is that he will have to dump Gloria in 2010 and even her candidate for the presidency, if her bet has no chance of winning the race. Ampatuan and his heirs — whoever they are — certainly won’t be in power once an opposition candidate who wasn’t backed by the Ampatuans wins. That’s the way politics in this country goes. One may be a Gloria diehard today, but definitely, once out of power and position, that diehard will suddenly be a loyalist of whoever sits in Malacañang. That is for certain.
But Ampatuan’s announcement also indirectly states that once again, there will be massive cheating in the 2010 presidential polls and in the same Maguindanao province.
The problem is that the Filipino electorate just can’t trust the current Comelec, even if a new poll chairman is named.
In 2007, there were enough so-called “independents” yet when it came to the crunch, they all folded up.
Even to this day, with Benjamin Abalos Sr. out of the Comelec, the poll body has not even bothered to charge those poll officials in the provinces who were exposed by the opposition as having cheated and were also caught violating the election law. Why not? There is enough evidence, and the Comelec has the power to charge them, as the law states.
Neither did the Comelec commissioners, in 2007, bother to maintain the integrity of the election documents, insisting on having the second copy of the certificates of canvass which also contained fraudulent votes read, while blocking every objection posed by the opposition lawyers.
Evidently, there were orders from higher ups to ensure the win of one Team Unity bet.
Are things going to change in 2010?
Not with Gloria still around, and with her political appointees plus people such as Ampatuan and the Comelec commissioners around.
January 5th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
args uy
helping the government’s fight against the CPP is like encouraging corruption in this country. How can the government destroy the CPP while in fact its gaining sympathy and support, not just in the provinces, but also in the urban areas.
Long Live CPP-NPA-NDF!
“he specter is haunting my country… the specter of communism…”
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They’re lying to their teeth. If the can’t get rid of them for the last 39 years, How are they going to get rid of them in a short time? No way Jose! As always they’re lying to their teeth.
January 5th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
ilang taon na ang cpp-npa? since 1968? 40 years? and what have we got?
January 5th, 2008 at 11:01 am
Kabayan
Ay nako, pang ilang promise na ba yan na matatalo ang CPP, old news. Di ba huling promise niyo eh tapos na sila ngayong 2007? Ngayon extension na naman. Papaano kung 2010 di pa rin nagawa, extension uli?
Gusto niyong matalo ang CPP? Unang una, dapat tapusin na ng administrasyon ang katiwalian nila. Papaano niyo mapapaniwala ang taumbayan kung puro kasinungalingan, abuso, kurapson, pagtatakip at pagliliko ng hustisya and inaatupag ng administrasyon at ang kaKAMPI nito?
Alam niyo ba ang pinakamalakas na bagay na pangre-recruit ng CPP-NPA ngayon? Eh di ano pa kundi ang katiwalian ng administrasyong ito. Pati rank and file ng militar eh kinakana nila, eh ano pa kaya ang ordinaryong mamamayan?
“…Hello Garci, hello Bedol, meron ba kayong P 500,000 diyan sa Malacanang na magamit pang-pocket money? Wala ba? Sige, kukuha na lang kami sa pondo ng Kongreso ng tig P 250,000 para bonus namin. Ay sori, di pala namin pwede dagdagan ang sahod ng ordinaryong sundalo, wala kaming pera eh, yung general na lang ang dadagdagan natin, mas kawawa naman sila…”
Tanungin niyo sarili ninyo kung bakit mahirap masugpo ang CPP, sa macacapal siguro alam niyo
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These idiot most be really out of their mind for saying. That will never happen!
January 4th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Bakit kahit anong paksa ang pinaguusapan, palaging namemention ang pagka-corrupt ni Pangulong Arroyo? Ma-CPP man, o oil price increase, economy or education, or kahit ano anong paksa natitira lagi ang mahal na pangulong GMA bilang liar, corrupt, at magnanakaw. Bakit may ebidensya ba kayo? Di ba binabatay nyo lang ang mga negative comments nyo sa nababasa nyo dyario or naririnig sa radyo? Huwag kang humusga para hindi ka husgahan.
January 4th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
helping the government’s fight against the CPP is like encouraging corruption in this country. How can the government destroy the CPP while in fact its gaining sympathy and support, not just in the provinces, but also in the urban areas.
Long Live CPP-NPA-NDF!
“he specter is haunting my country… the specter of communism…”
January 4th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
dapat ksi magladlad na ang CPP-NPA. participate n lang in a free election, magparegister n lng kyo ng party to be recognized as legitimate. filipinos naman are open z free discussion of ideologies. huwag namang thru revolution. do not isolate the country from the rest of the world.
speaking of election:
i hope the automation of the ARMM election pushes through this year. I hope the policies and procedures for its implementation are now in place and ready because more than enough time has been given to the comelec to accomplish the task. I hope that they are on schedule and not behind their timetable.
i hope the mock election serving as initial dryrun will reveal which part of the system are compliant and non compliant to the set of accepted automated electoral standards. a trial run with comprehensive checklist will determine deficiencies, strengths, and successes of the electoral automation process. correcting deficiencies take time. i hope that a final dryrun will fine tune the system, (especially the security aspect of the operation) and will also check if there is a workable contingency plan prior actual election.
i hope outgoing comm. resurreccion broha can go to the usa, europe, asia, africa, middle east and australia to monitor the automation of election, and do community service in hongkong, if he passes by malacanang. charing lang po!
January 4th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
the AFP and the current and past regimes have time and again missed the entire point in solving the insurgency problem. we can never end insurgency by implementing a criminal policy of militarization/total war/all out war in 39 weeks, 39 years, or even 39 decades!
if GMA and her army generals (plus dorkk and the rest of the populace who know nothing of the insurgency problem yet are the staunchest advocates of a military solution) are sincere in ending CPP’s armed revolution, why not sincerely talk peace with them?
January 4th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Ay nako, pang ilang promise na ba yan na matatalo ang CPP, old news. Di ba huling promise niyo eh tapos na sila ngayong 2007? Ngayon extension na naman. Papaano kung 2010 di pa rin nagawa, extension uli?
Gusto niyong matalo ang CPP? Unang una, dapat tapusin na ng administrasyon ang katiwalian nila. Papaano niyo mapapaniwala ang taumbayan kung puro kasinungalingan, abuso, kurapson, pagtatakip at pagliliko ng hustisya and inaatupag ng administrasyon at ang kaKAMPI nito?
Alam niyo ba ang pinakamalakas na bagay na pangre-recruit ng CPP-NPA ngayon? Eh di ano pa kundi ang katiwalian ng administrasyong ito. Pati rank and file ng militar eh kinakana nila, eh ano pa kaya ang ordinaryong mamamayan?
“…Hello Garci, hello Bedol, meron ba kayong P 500,000 diyan sa Malacanang na magamit pang-pocket money? Wala ba? Sige, kukuha na lang kami sa pondo ng Kongreso ng tig P 250,000 para bonus namin. Ay sori, di pala namin pwede dagdagan ang sahod ng ordinaryong sundalo, wala kaming pera eh, yung general na lang ang dadagdagan natin, mas kawawa naman sila…”
Tanungin niyo sarili ninyo kung bakit mahirap masugpo ang CPP, sa macacapal siguro alam niyo na.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:52 am
I think what makes this laughable is the fact that the general and the Arroyo administration (and all the previous administrations, in fact), have never actually tried to understand why the CPP-NPA have endured for so long. For as long as there is dissastifaction, corruption, injustice, inequality, inequity, and all the other social and moral ills that plague this country, the CPP-NPA will continue to exist as a bastion of hope for all those people who have given up hope on the legal and legitimate administration. Granted the CPP-NPA question all that democracy stands for, but can you blame people for wanting something better? something revolutionary? We make fun of the general because, as always, he is yet one more in a host of government people, bureacrats and what-have-yous, GMA being the ringleader of the lot, who absolutely have no clue about what’s going on here. Worse, they have a clue, but turn the other way, and think that eradicating the CPP-NPA…in 39 weeks no less (insert laugh track here)…will make all their problems go away…yes, I vehemently agree: they are out of this world…or maybe out of their minds…I don’t know which is worse…
January 4th, 2008 at 11:44 am
It may be suntok sa buwan, but then again, it’s probable. And I really would like to see the downfall of CPP-NPA in my lifetime. The government may be bad and all that, but it’s an institution that we the people can help change. And the CPP is advocating the use of violence to advance change, which I think has no place in our present time. I have always believed that if CPP-NPA were to be effective in making change to happen, they should “strike” where the government is weak - like putting up programs for the benefit of the poor instead of raiding their sacks of rice and chicken in the countryside, putting up mechanisms or working support groups for certain sectors instead of spending millions on bullets, guns, red paint and cloth for streamers and vandalism in public places, being more pro-active in the community of nations by establishing networks and groups. That way, the government will be forced to rethink and to mend its ways. But really now, as it stands, CPP-NPA is not helping anybody and is actually becoming more like the present government - it so happened that the NPA is on the other side of the fence. Mga pulitiko din, makaliwa nga lang.
And for the rest of us? Well, maybe we should do our own share of initiating change in the society before we become too comfortable being mere armchair complainers and critiques.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:39 am
CPP downfall in 39 weeks? Highly unlikely, however Gloria needs this propaganda mileage to keep hawkish generals happy and divert attention from her administration’s and her allies’ shenanigans.
January 4th, 2008 at 3:31 am
Ha ha ha ha. You’re absulotely right. They’re out of their mind. For saying that,…What can you expect from them except lying to their teeth just like Gloria Arroyo! This is nothing new to this bogus administration. The would say anything to make them look good. Hoping the filipino stupid enough to believe it. Halilujah.
January 4th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Maybe you can help the general fulfill his prediction, instead of making fun o him.