tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post114232034276210553..comments2023-10-20T21:46:49.945+08:00Comments on Philippine Commentary: This Is Proof of Leftist-Rightist Tactical Alliance Coup D'etat Conspiracy?Deany Bocobohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142424101683848352006-03-15T20:01:00.000+08:002006-03-15T20:01:00.000+08:00Voltaire, one of the greatest philosophers, writer...Voltaire, one of the greatest philosophers, writers, satirists and political lampoonists of the last 3 centuries was a proponent of FREE SPEECH.<BR/><BR/>Because of this, he suffered imprisonment, exile and deprived of his liberty to live in the country that he dearly loved.<BR/><BR/>His treatises on free speech and the tenets of a real democracy were one of the backbones of the French Revolution of 1789.<BR/><BR/>When the Louis the 16th’s Ministers gagged Voltaire depriving him of his freedom of speech, they simply created a more formidable foe, one that helped ignite their overthrow.<BR/><BR/>Gloria is being stupid and absolutely dumb. Human nature has never changed over the centuries, they fight for their freedom all the more strongly when their freedom is threatened… <BR/><BR/>I doubt Gloria ever read history outside of the history of Cebu and Lapulapu.HILLBLOGGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977843513566589811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142422779301366662006-03-15T19:39:00.000+08:002006-03-15T19:39:00.000+08:00Amazing really that Gloria has not learned anythin...Amazing really that Gloria has not learned anything from history...<BR/><BR/>While history shouldn't always repeat itself, Gloria is hell bent on history repeating itself.<BR/><BR/>It's so uncanny but Gloria's model of governance and rule is French Revolution's reign under Robespierre. The 4 years of Robespierre reign was total corruption of the military and civilian components of the French Republic. <BR/><BR/>Robespierre used and wielded the military like his own sword of Damocles. He used the Republic's coffers as his personal piggy bank. He dismantled the Republican institutions that the Council of the French Revolution had tried to set up. He fought with and antagonized the People's Assembly (parliament), threatened them with anything he could think of. He even had Danton, one of the major heroes of the Revolution and a firm Republican in Parliament assasinated for speaking up against him. He used his friends, members of his family to do his bidding (like Pidal and Fatman, Lulli, Mikey, etc.) <BR/><BR/>That chapter of French Revolution history under Robespierre's reign was known historically as the Reign of Terror.<BR/><BR/>When Robespierre started to feel the pinch of the people's Assembly and the mutiny of the Republican Guards (military), he sent Napoleon to quell that mutiny in one of the bloodiest military to military fightings.<BR/><BR/>Napoleon won the day for him but in the end, Robespierre he lost his head in Place de la Concorde - guillotined. Napoleon started his climb to becoming the leader of a military-civilian junta. Later on, Napoleon just evicted all of them and MARTIAL RULE took over.<BR/><BR/>That's what happens when a leader plays with the military and uses it against its own brothers in arms and against the honorable citizens of the Republic.HILLBLOGGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977843513566589811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142421883987239492006-03-15T19:24:00.000+08:002006-03-15T19:24:00.000+08:00Gloria is caught between the devil and the deep bl...Gloria is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea.<BR/><BR/>What she is doing today is militicking (military politicking), really nothing more nothing less.<BR/><BR/>Her words and deeds are hollow and they don't fool em real military guys.<BR/><BR/>She's dividing the military in the same manner that she's been dividing the nation.<BR/><BR/>That's very very bad business. Terribly dangerous tack. It will backfire. <BR/><BR/>A commander in chief cannot divide the nation's military because the military is the backbone of a democratic republic and when you break that backbone, it causes them good guys GREAT PAIN.<BR/><BR/>That great pain will translate into rebellion.<BR/><BR/>You will find that history has shown us that whenever a national leader, a commander in chief "toyed" with military tenet of armed strength and wielded it like a sword of Damocles against the citizenry, the act provoked cracks in the armed forces ranks. The cracks swelled into divisions and the divisions created a revolution.HILLBLOGGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977843513566589811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142421237975510342006-03-15T19:13:00.000+08:002006-03-15T19:13:00.000+08:00Thanks, DJB!Just listened to Gloria's determinatio...Thanks, DJB!<BR/><BR/>Just listened to Gloria's determination, etc. crap!<BR/><BR/>You know, if she ain't careful, her midget excellency will be used as a cannon ball by an honorable major service commander sometime in the future...to clean out residual threats of Gloria's destatbilization and dismantling of the military institution.<BR/><BR/>So much for her heaviest arsenal of constitutional measures...that's what em guys will think when they eventually topple her.HILLBLOGGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977843513566589811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142392442988593722006-03-15T11:14:00.000+08:002006-03-15T11:14:00.000+08:00Jhay, A movie reviewer like Jessica Zafra hasn't d...Jhay, <BR/>A movie reviewer like Jessica Zafra hasn't done it? I guess she likes to play it safe.Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142379783536878042006-03-15T07:43:00.000+08:002006-03-15T07:43:00.000+08:00hmm..reminds me of how the Bush administrations "p...hmm..reminds me of how the Bush administrations "played up" the threats of Sadams WMD's to justify their invasion of Iraq. They went in, they won and found nothing. So much for that slick and impressive presentation by Colin Powell at the UN.<BR/><BR/>Just like the creator of the AFP presentations, they should also recieve an Oscar for Best Screenplay or story.jhayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17170452670516269487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142378663119957002006-03-15T07:24:00.000+08:002006-03-15T07:24:00.000+08:00Hillblogger, here finally is the audio that comes ...Hillblogger, here finally is the audio that comes with that P1M check -- it's why the check was given!<BR/><A HREF="http://ia310131.us.archive.org/3/items/GMA_Talks_Tough_After_1017/GMATOUGH.mp3" REL="nofollow">GMA Tough Talking</A>Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142373604560799442006-03-15T06:00:00.000+08:002006-03-15T06:00:00.000+08:00Will do DJBre:quicktimeIf my connections won't kee...Will do DJB<BR/><BR/>re:quicktime<BR/><BR/>If my connections won't keep on dropping..disconnecting<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the instruction...(and suggestion)<BR/><BR/>what's next on the menu ....<BR/>Ano na namang kalokohan ang maiisip ng admin...<BR/><BR/>you are right DJB...re:ETERNAL VIGILANCE!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142366402392524722006-03-15T04:00:00.000+08:002006-03-15T04:00:00.000+08:00Inquirer banner: We hold nation together – militar...Inquirer banner: We hold nation together – military spokesman <BR/><BR/>According to the Inqurer report, THE ARMED Forces of the Philippines through its spokesman, Col Kison, yesterday "acknowledged its crucial role in keeping President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in power, warning that the nation would fall apart if it gave in to pressure from various power blocs seeking the President's ouster."<BR/><BR/>We agree that in a democracy, the military is the guarantor of a Republic's independence, the protector of its citizens and the guardian of its Constitution but Kison's statement will reverberate down the line to the younger officers. Kison has just issued an implicit threat to Gloria!<BR/><BR/>In spite of the many coup attempts against Cory Aquino, she was able to DEFEAT the military because she was coming from a higher moral ground. During the time of FVR, the military went back to its institutional role, fighting rebels and the enemies of the Republic instead of fighting the ordinary citizens of the nation. But Gloria has none of that moral high ground.<BR/><BR/>Our military is far from being perfect - it is highly politicized, many of its elements are corrupt, it has no real esprit de corps. Like it's civilian counterpart, the military is disunited and dispirited.<BR/><BR/>Having said that, the military had hopes of becoming professional but Gloria single-handedly destroyed the last fiber of professionalism in the military institution.<BR/><BR/>Not content with having urged and organized a mutiny after which she led a coup d'état in 2001 to topple a duly Constitutional government, she decided to further corrupt the military - am not speaking of money here - to the bone by treating it like a band of merceneries.<BR/><BR/>Because of this, Gloria will find that she has created a monster which she will not be able to control pretty soon; that in order for her to curb some ambitious folks in the military, she will have to corrupt the rest some more. <BR/><BR/>But sooner or later, she will lose because a president must remember that she cannot continue play or toy with the military and wield it like the sword of damocles over the nation's 80 million heads if she CANNOT DISCIPLINE them. To discipline them, she must be prepared to SHOOT. She must be prepared to take on the military and SHOOT those that err but if she does'nt want to shoot them, she's got to bribe the others who know she WILL NOT SHOOT. So the cycle goes - it really is going to be a catch 22 issue.<BR/><BR/>Unless she shows force and proves that she can deal with erring military in fire for fire fashion, Gloria is a goner. The rest of the military will have her head sooner or later!<BR/><BR/>Our only hope is to have a snap election and re-establish a Constitutional government through a valid democratic exercise. If that happens, the military will go back to barracks and assume their proper role. <BR/><BR/>A truly democratic government with a valid unquestionable mandate is our only defence against military adventurism.<BR/><BR/>In a true democracy, the military is the last component of a Republic to go wayward when everything else seems to be lost. But when that democracy is wobbly, the military is the first to break from the Republic.<BR/><BR/>Beware Gloria, you shall reap what you sow!HILLBLOGGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977843513566589811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142362583757313652006-03-15T02:56:00.000+08:002006-03-15T02:56:00.000+08:00Nah Atty at Work, not quite...of course he wanted ...Nah Atty at Work, not quite...of course he wanted respect but he should have shot FOIC Mayuga to obtain that respect coz it was Mayuga who relieved his direct boss and not go around saying "we"re going to Edsa" if you want to be technical about it! <BR/><BR/>True, Querubin was prevailed upon by MajGen Miranda (this guy is a good marine perhaps but 2 stars was a bit too much I know him personally!) not to mutiny so it should've stopped there but Querubin's sense of Marine pride got the better of him (besides he had a date with Lim at Edsa).<BR/><BR/>From what I gathered, Querubin decided obey but stupid Mayuga (Angie Reyes boy through and through and a Gloria general, remember his predecesor was forced to retire 1 year early to give Temmy a crack at the Navy FOICship - coz he'll be hitting 56 years of mandatory retirement age in Dec) heckled Miranda so poor grunt, grunt guys decided to leave barracks - that's what we call MUTINY but since he went back to barracks after 6 hours and didn't go to Edsa at all, the charge might be lowered to ACT or ACTS of INSUBORDINATION.<BR/><BR/>In military Law, Atty at work, Mutiny is punishable with DEATH!HILLBLOGGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977843513566589811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142347984316846492006-03-14T22:53:00.000+08:002006-03-14T22:53:00.000+08:00HB, been trying to post for you the speech accomp...HB, been trying to post for you the speech accompanying that P1M check. The President was "getting rowdy" in a Marcosian way. maybe tmw, problems at the archive...<BR/><BR/>Marv, before too long, it'll hurt even to laugh...looks like even the blogs will come under some kind of attack...us too.Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142343181500152242006-03-14T21:33:00.000+08:002006-03-14T21:33:00.000+08:00DJB,Just listened to Joker Arroyo's spill in the S...DJB,<BR/><BR/>Just listened to Joker Arroyo's spill in the Senate.<BR/><BR/>He spoke of Gloria's government's de-facto stand: executive branch's non-accountability to anybody. <BR/><BR/>With Gloria's EOs in abundance, Joker is right - the executive has clipped the wings of the Senate in their role as "checkers and balancers." <BR/><BR/>Perhaps, they in the Senate should all finetune this mode of attack and find a tiny, tiny loophole in the law to force the executive branch to submit to a check and balance.<BR/><BR/>There must be a crack somewhere to take advantage of...<BR/><BR/>Since Congress can no longer summon any member of Gloria's cabinet and personal entourage - Senate must do a tit for tat - Senate summons other high-level civil servants to answer ANY SORT (even DUMB) inquiry just to jar Malacanang (somekind of "sabotage" tactic). <BR/><BR/>I don't know - for instance, check the civil service status of all government public civil servants. Those that are titular holders of a bona-fide civil service certificate can be summoned.<BR/><BR/>Come on members of the Senate, un peu de couille s'il vous plait! (loose translated: show you got ém balls)HILLBLOGGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977843513566589811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142339843702186642006-03-14T20:37:00.000+08:002006-03-14T20:37:00.000+08:00This is the first time I have ever heard of hooded...This is the first time I have ever heard of hooded witnesses in this day and age. This is a cruel joke against the Filipinos. When I saw this in the papers this moring I couldn't stop laughing. And then I realized the joke is on us.Marvin Aceronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480783131448664212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142337060397744082006-03-14T19:51:00.000+08:002006-03-14T19:51:00.000+08:00Dean,Did you see the Inquirer's front page pic?The...Dean,<BR/><BR/>Did you see the Inquirer's front page pic?<BR/><BR/>The pic shows Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the inveterate and pathological liar and creeping fascist handing over a 1-million peso check<BR/>(as “balato” or alms) to Army chief Esperon, one of the Gloria generals involved in the 2004 election campaign for Gloria, for a housing project in Fort Magsaysay. <BR/><BR/>Nothing wrong with making “balato” but it is all morally wrong to make a “balato” as a form of charity or alms to Army troops as if they were beggars and scavengers.<BR/><BR/>Although we all know that the ordinary troops are impoverished, Gloria’s act is despicable - she treats Army soldiers as mere beggars to be given “balato” and alms. That’s how the Liberian president would treat his Army.<BR/><BR/>A nation’s army must be treated with RESPECT - Esperon’s Army doesn’t want or need a “balato” or alms. What the Army wants and needs is for the law to provide for automatic troop housing and health care.<BR/><BR/>Gloria continues to bring the level of Philippine governance to the level of the despicable.HILLBLOGGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977843513566589811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142336702768338722006-03-14T19:45:00.000+08:002006-03-14T19:45:00.000+08:00Hi Karl,If you are having troubles playing/downloa...Hi Karl,<BR/>If you are having troubles playing/downloading MP3s, get LATEST free version of QUICKTIME/I-tunes. <BR/>i'll be using them a lot on this site i think.Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142333864334893002006-03-14T18:57:00.000+08:002006-03-14T18:57:00.000+08:00Thansk Hillblogger for the messagein the previous ...Thansk Hillblogger for the message<BR/>in the previous blog..<BR/><BR/>ngayun ko lang nabasa due to slow internet connectivity<BR/><BR/>which is one reason kaya di ko ma download mp3sAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142333602333604742006-03-14T18:53:00.000+08:002006-03-14T18:53:00.000+08:00They may not be impressed now, but they will first...They may not be impressed now, but they will first be bemused, then ah-ha-ha-mused by the fairy tale nature of the "factual bases" in testimony and evidence that the govt has...it's lower than what Joker called it..."Apprentice police work"...that comment was being kind.Deany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142331019660109202006-03-14T18:10:00.000+08:002006-03-14T18:10:00.000+08:00Ah Dean, At last someone is questioning the basis ...Ah Dean, <BR/><BR/>At last someone is questioning the basis of the proclamation of Emergency rule to wit: Coup D'etat Conspiracy by a Tactical Alliance CPP/NPA & AFP military component. heheheh!<BR/><BR/>You will be glad to know that I have brought NATO's level of awareness of the Philippines (and the European Defence's too) to an all time high; it (this coup d'état conspiracy crap) has become quite a talking point among my military friends and I (1 is a 4-star general).<BR/><BR/>Last Saturday, after the rugby match between the all navy teams of France and the UK, we had a some kind of celebration drink and spoke about the coup d'état conspiracy, attempted, foiled, etc. again. One of the UK naval officers who was there (and who is a friend) is a military tribunal prosecutor. I had sent him the powerpoint presentation crap earlier - it was he who said that the AFP presentation seemed more of a "political gobbledygook" rather than a coup d'état conspiracy presentation, etc. Another one who had sat in as member of the military tribunal jury was quicker to the chase - he said, the whole thing was more of an apprentice police work and nothing to do with military job (they're not impressed at all).HILLBLOGGERhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05977843513566589811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142327461688927072006-03-14T17:11:00.000+08:002006-03-14T17:11:00.000+08:00Remember Garci and the Muslim head-gear. At least ...Remember Garci and the Muslim head-gear. At least that was "ethnic" What does this witness use? Is that a Mao jacket? heheDeany Bocobohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01443168826029321831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14974164.post-1142322875047818692006-03-14T15:54:00.000+08:002006-03-14T15:54:00.000+08:00Come to think of it….That hooded star witness who ...Come to think of it….<BR/>That hooded star witness who happens to be unknown to the wife of the one he was supposedly guarding and vice versa<BR/><BR/>Is the lowest despearte act the government has pulled to…<BR/><BR/>It is very likely that a spouse or even the one who is guarded not to know their body guard,but having it the other way around is just plain STUPID!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com