Most say “Abdul” who was born in dearth will eventually die like one as he lazes around all-day doing nothing. But that is, since they knew too little about the seventeen-year old high school drop-out. Even more intriguing in Abduls’ skyrocketing future is that it had nothing to do with finishing school or even lifting a bone in the farm or labouring in the wet markets of Pagadian. All he needed to do was get a good trip on a gun he can’t even name and pull the trigger at a tin can a feet away while watching over a distance is certain Dr. Abu Pula. That time, Abdul’s “testosterone” was running high with a grip of the cold barrel but he had no intentions of actually getting into the Abu Sayaff (ASG). Not unit he laid his eyes on a bag-load of cash. “It was pretty easy”, a long- haired guy muttered from behind him. “If you’re man enough”, the man then tested.
Abdul was no dumb nor was he too innocent. He has heard of the ASG. They were no threat to him but he knew it was not the case with the Christians in Pagadian-Zamboanga del Sur’s city-district. The teenager has nothing against the Christians, but it had been common for Muslims including him to think otherwise, It would be too bad gaining easy money while blending it with grudge. That’s what drove Abdul in joining the terror group and it still does up until today.
He had been with the ASG since April of 2007 and he never once felt remorse to those they chose to behead for an unpaid ransom. Abdul added that downsizing his guilt is done simply by keeping a safe distance from among their captives. Think no less of them than another bag-full of money. But that was easier said than done when the group of Abdul went from rich magnates to mere public teachers whom Abdul knew is proper than him. And that is why this journal is about.
Abdul was introduced to the group of Albader Parad, who led him and eight others in the kidnapping of Lidio Castro and Sherwin Caraeg in Tawi-Tawi last Nov 09 & 29, 2001. Abdul were among those who held the two at gun-point as they trek to Languyan with four other ASG. The hide and seek with the pursuing government troops led Abdul and the two captives from Kabingaan Island to Pala Island till they joined with Commander Dingdong Unad in Sulu. But it sure was not easy as the military zeroed them in Jolo. This then pushed Abdul and the others to trail back to Tawi-Tawi. On their way back to Tawi-Tawi at about 8:30 of June 24, 2002, Abdul recalled meeting 70 other Sulu-based ASG in Mt Tukay, Parang, Sulu where he again met with his “recruiter” Dr Abu Pula who he later named as Jumail Gumbahali.
The “No-to-Negotiation” stand of the authorities then alarmed the group, Abdul added. Others then, particularly Albader Parad ordered Sherwin’s head cut-off to show the government they mean business. But Dullah, one of the Parad’s cohorts insisted that a finger would do. From late June till early July of that year, Parad and Abu have been threatening Sherwin. The former wanted to starve the captive to death. But as Abdul recalled, no one isn’t starving during the three months trek. They hardly eat and if they do the captives usually get the smallest share. Abdul then laughed as he recalled how Parad made fool of himself when he gave that order.
“Parad would always give us a speech about what we would be getting with Sherwin and Lidio. He said we could eat anything we want and sleep with whoever we want to after we disperse in Jolo. But by then, we were starting to doubt. We were walking zombies as we try avoiding the army day-in day-out.” Abdul sighed. The teenager even admitted having planned of gouging-out Sherwin’s left eye whenever he gets a good glance at the captive.
But seemingly Abdul claimed that his suffering paid-off when last September 15, 2002 Dr Abu got the PNP to negotiate. He never get to count how much money Dr Abu got with the exchange for Sherwin’s life but he said the whole group were laughing when Parad exclaimed that he asked for almost 25,000 worth for Sherwin’s so-called “board and lodging”. As Abdul remembered, he rarely feed their captives, and if they get to, it would be five emptied can of sardines which could last for the whole month. He could not recall a day where any of those they kidnapped had the chance of getting a three full meal or for that matter a decent and clean one. He said the grandest meal he could offer these captives were biscuits, bread and a feast for a fish dish which was served only among famous and supposed rich captives.
Abdul was amazed on how the other released captives could even swallow the strength to tell the media they were treated well. Aside from the intentional starving, long walks and that of the beating; Abdul utterly said they were treated nowhere human but mere baggage good for barter. This supposed “they treated as well” is a script forcibly taught by Parad amongst those released while threatening of having them killed whenever and wherever he wants to. Truth is their released captives would always live under Parad’s and Abdul’s shadow. Most would live denying their tortures to themselves and would even swear to bury those secrets to their graves. Abdul counted on that and continually believes so.
That ransom exchange with Caraeg served as the fuelling agent of Abdul and the whole group. He even claimed that this group was running a so-called “holiday trip with a unique apartelle”. The only thing illegal about it is that they forced their clients to sleep on cold dirt, dragged them on foot while trekking rock terrains and routinely giving them a good beating before the group decides to while the night. The beating made me sleep, Abdul uttered. When the captive is unconscious and practically when both its arms and legs are pretty swollen Abdul won’t have much to worry about an escape. They usually do it among not too prominent victims who were ordinary villagers unfortunate enough of meeting Parad and his crew along shallow brook or Narrow Mountain passes.
There were even times when Parad ordered Abdul and the others to take a shot of their captives from waist up, avoiding the legs and ofcourse parts that would eventually kill them, which make the captives and their effort totally worthless. From time to time, cutting a part of these victims was an exhilarating game for Abdul and his other comrade-Usman. Seeing how the victims fear and would do entirely everything of what Abdul and Usman asked of them was a form of ecstasy.
Abdul recalled having threatened a woman as old as her sister to stand naked in front of him and Usman. Abdul was practically smiling recalling the incidence where he won over Usman. Drastically, the two were on a race of who gets to “do it” (includes rapes and molestations) with their other girl captives. Abdul recalled it was something he had to do to get some respect in the group. He added how sorry he was for the girl then but he doesn’t want to go against Parad’s rules. Abdul claimed, Parad thinks everyone of us is dispensable. “He (Parad) could and would kill anyone of us if he wants to, Abdul ended.
Within the span of 2 hours and almost 25 minutes, the interview with Abdul ended with the far gruesome story. He claimed that being part of the ASG made him untouchable. The people in Sulu and across Zamboanga could attest to that. Abdul was no longer a 17-year old boy who lazed around. He was a murderer and a loose canon who admitted the vilest crime the country has yet to hear. He admitted having raped several women and have witnessed how they were passed-on from one ASG to the next. He confessed having beaten four civilian residents to death just because he wanted Parad and others to know he is no “sissy”. Inflicting pain to others and seeing the fear in their eyes made Abdul think he was playing God. Abdul could not even spell-put the word terrorism. But when he held his rifle and pointed it, one could see he embodies the “almost” perfect terrorism.
Abdul and the rest of the ASG were the worst among world’s terrorists. They were not driven by any chauvinistic or distorted ideology like those in the Middle East who turn themselves into human detonators. Instead, they were literal bandits and cold-blooded criminals who simply employ terror to gain cash. They were neither Muslim nor human. Religion and even that of Abdul’s so-called Muslim grudge against the Christians were immaterial to their dreadful acts. In fact there isn’t a word that would define who or what they even were. Moreover, there are no humanly-acceptable reason for the ASG’s brutality and zeal for terror. From the Commanders Robot, Janjalani and now to Sahiron and Parad, there is a huge possibility that Abdul and others like him would aim at the so-called amir league of brutal felons.
There was nothing to admire in the long list of story Abdul had for this article. But there were everything to be disgusted of. Maybe this honestly of Abdul is the only thing left of his humanity. Or maybe just like how Parad paraded himself in the press, the young Abdul wanted a taste of fame himself. Fame that would ironically placed him in every Filipinos wrath and ultimately the much-needed revulsion hat would lead to the ASG’s annihilation.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Friday, February 6, 2009
STREET JUSTICE (RISE of “PARTISAN” TRIBUNALS)
The plot on the life of MMDA Chief Roberto “Bobby” Esquivel almost cost his fourteen year old son but it did not spare the poor family driver Jonny Agbay. Agbay died bearing six bullet holes including a clean-slate to the head. Was it a darn incident of “mistaken identity” gone extreme? An intel glitch within the
PARTISANO” or the Partido Marxista Leninista ng Plipinas (PMLP) that caused innocent flag? Where in it just?
“PARTISANO” IN A NUT SHELL
Pocketed liquidations usually done along crowded streets and cities nationwide to include greater Manila by so-called “PARTISANO” or the Rejectionist's armed component swarming Luzon could be traced back in the middle of 1999. The “Rejectionist” faction came into existence when Felimon “Popoy” Lagman, former Secretary of CPP's Metro-Rizal Regional Committee (MRRC) rejected the nature to empower and aggravate the countryside encircling major cities as an actuation of takeover. However, the Rejectionists such as the “PARTISANO” wanted the revolt to start among cities particularly in Metro Manila were the seat of state power rest.
Moreover, the PARTISANO title projects two differing statements. One, a partisan or follower of the PMLP's “codex” of what is right and second a detriment against their targets which are eighter abusive lapdogs or cronies. Ironically, these Rejectionists who were suppose to zero-in on the “big fishes” taking control in the districts the group was subsequently beset with riddling money-heist. Instead of so-called “liberation of the people” they turned into money making where they ended-up as a political private armed groups for familial empires in the province and worst crime syndicates to include gun-running.
HARD TO SWALLOW
Rights groups in the country to include justice enthusiast like myself have continuously clamored for the precedence of the country's courts and law enforcement in pinning-down culprits. However, looking at a distant mirror made me realize that none among my “rights” mates give a damn when police officers, politicians or worst suspected military informants were murdered in broad daylight while way home or else while on their last bowl of noodles along foodhouses nationwide. Worst in this , unexplained disinterest is that the common people like primary targets' staffs and mostly their private drivers gets the deadly bullets and draw the first blood strain. No one would remember the Esquivel's driver-Johnny Agbay. The case would center on the successful plot on the MMDA exec but not on the needless death of Agbay along with the torn lives of his widower and orphaned children.
Where there ever a difference between a single police's life and that of a journalist or activist? Is the rights group lead by the honorable Leila de Lima “partisano” in nature? These death squads whether it be by the so-called Rejectionist faction or the CPP-NPA are by fact nothing else that coward criminals who stabs and snatch unwary adversaries. As de Lima accentuated, the streets were never a battleground. The cities, market places and even the police stations and jails across the country should have been treated the same. There was never a battle in someone else's “liquidation” or assassination but plain and simple murder. Whatever misdemeanor those victims have indulge on or bear it by their mere identification as men in uniforms or authority figures, the CPP-NPA and so as its defunct groups never earned the right to rob them of their rights for a day in court or a day where he could fight for himself. Nothing is right in intentional act of back-bite that cause human lives, whether it be an impulse of ideology or by mere fact that they are opponents by virtue of warfare.
By the end of year 2007, almost a hundred among suspected military informants and roughly a routine figure of 10 PNP or AFP personnel were liquidated in the country. The former other than death endured further tortures among Communist tribunals and latter gets nothing but a flag to commemorate their demise. The red army even poses these figures in cyberspace as triumphant operations against AFP. It was horribly showcased as a notch of success towards the Sison's conceptualized guerrilla warfare.
This so-called Communist's way of gaining justice at gunpoint is as illusive and absurd like begging mercy from a tyrant. If the “Partisano” group have ditched and buried every fiber of human conscience and guilt while they pulled the trigger at Agbay, the people who knew better never would. Or should I say with the obvious selective clamor for justice of KARAPATAN together with the CHR that they already did the opposite?
PARTISANO” or the Partido Marxista Leninista ng Plipinas (PMLP) that caused innocent flag? Where in it just?
“PARTISANO” IN A NUT SHELL
Pocketed liquidations usually done along crowded streets and cities nationwide to include greater Manila by so-called “PARTISANO” or the Rejectionist's armed component swarming Luzon could be traced back in the middle of 1999. The “Rejectionist” faction came into existence when Felimon “Popoy” Lagman, former Secretary of CPP's Metro-Rizal Regional Committee (MRRC) rejected the nature to empower and aggravate the countryside encircling major cities as an actuation of takeover. However, the Rejectionists such as the “PARTISANO” wanted the revolt to start among cities particularly in Metro Manila were the seat of state power rest.
Moreover, the PARTISANO title projects two differing statements. One, a partisan or follower of the PMLP's “codex” of what is right and second a detriment against their targets which are eighter abusive lapdogs or cronies. Ironically, these Rejectionists who were suppose to zero-in on the “big fishes” taking control in the districts the group was subsequently beset with riddling money-heist. Instead of so-called “liberation of the people” they turned into money making where they ended-up as a political private armed groups for familial empires in the province and worst crime syndicates to include gun-running.
HARD TO SWALLOW
Rights groups in the country to include justice enthusiast like myself have continuously clamored for the precedence of the country's courts and law enforcement in pinning-down culprits. However, looking at a distant mirror made me realize that none among my “rights” mates give a damn when police officers, politicians or worst suspected military informants were murdered in broad daylight while way home or else while on their last bowl of noodles along foodhouses nationwide. Worst in this , unexplained disinterest is that the common people like primary targets' staffs and mostly their private drivers gets the deadly bullets and draw the first blood strain. No one would remember the Esquivel's driver-Johnny Agbay. The case would center on the successful plot on the MMDA exec but not on the needless death of Agbay along with the torn lives of his widower and orphaned children.
Where there ever a difference between a single police's life and that of a journalist or activist? Is the rights group lead by the honorable Leila de Lima “partisano” in nature? These death squads whether it be by the so-called Rejectionist faction or the CPP-NPA are by fact nothing else that coward criminals who stabs and snatch unwary adversaries. As de Lima accentuated, the streets were never a battleground. The cities, market places and even the police stations and jails across the country should have been treated the same. There was never a battle in someone else's “liquidation” or assassination but plain and simple murder. Whatever misdemeanor those victims have indulge on or bear it by their mere identification as men in uniforms or authority figures, the CPP-NPA and so as its defunct groups never earned the right to rob them of their rights for a day in court or a day where he could fight for himself. Nothing is right in intentional act of back-bite that cause human lives, whether it be an impulse of ideology or by mere fact that they are opponents by virtue of warfare.
By the end of year 2007, almost a hundred among suspected military informants and roughly a routine figure of 10 PNP or AFP personnel were liquidated in the country. The former other than death endured further tortures among Communist tribunals and latter gets nothing but a flag to commemorate their demise. The red army even poses these figures in cyberspace as triumphant operations against AFP. It was horribly showcased as a notch of success towards the Sison's conceptualized guerrilla warfare.
This so-called Communist's way of gaining justice at gunpoint is as illusive and absurd like begging mercy from a tyrant. If the “Partisano” group have ditched and buried every fiber of human conscience and guilt while they pulled the trigger at Agbay, the people who knew better never would. Or should I say with the obvious selective clamor for justice of KARAPATAN together with the CHR that they already did the opposite?
ARE YOU AFRAID OF ASG?
Is Philippines that economically struggling now that kidnapping becomes a way of living? How many government officials go to work without the proper uniform since the news on small time kidnapping broke out?! Just recently, we have heard of numbers of teachers and other government officials being kidnapped and got released for twenty or ten thousand pesos...alarming!
You can be the next victim.
It has been months since the issue on the MOA-AD conquered the society. What happened to the BJE anyway? Why don't people get talk about it that much now?” Have you ever thought of this? Have you ever doubted that all these issues now plus the BJE thing fit in the puzzle? Yes! The accumulation of ten and twenty thousand pesos can already provide foods, medicine and clothing for a large group of people for one month. In fact, if the number of kidnapping from 2008 until January 2009 be accounted, there can be atleast 14 M saved! Are we saying here that the kidnapping is intended to support a group of people? EXACATLY But we don't mean poor families. We mean lawless group of people who will only want to create endless chaos for aim they themselves are not fully aware of.
News report tells the socety that MILF has nothing to do with the kidnapping around. Did you immediately believe that? Kidnappers will continually conceal this truth. Of course, that's part of the game. Didn't military officers say that a certain Usman Lidjal is behind it? He used the ASG group in Basilan headed byPurudji Indama and a certain Jamiri for this small time kidnapping.
Everything fits in the puzzle. The MOA-AD is now silent...sooner or later it will make a name again. Soon... when amount is enough to support the activities- bombing and other forms of terrors like what happened in Lanao del Sur just months ago.
Shall we, as long as we live, just submit to these deceptions? Filipinos should be more vigilant now and aggressive. If you have been a victim, will you just remain silent since you are already released? What about the welfare of your fellowmen? Aren't we called to be accountable?
The government is doing more than its share in the seizure of this riddling lawlessness. People have witnessed 14 marines beheaded in cold-blood while ten others ambushed in the broad daylight during the rescue of Italian priest Giancarlo Bossi. The truth is presented in black and white. There is nothing to be confused of. In the ongoing battle against these terrorist; soldiers and civilians alike are shedding their blood.
It is high time to examine our conscience and know where our support and loyalty should lie. The MILF and ASG are our enemies. Mindanaons know that by now, but unfortunately they are too afraid to voice it out.
Our teachers, plain workers and even those who can't afford a meager kilo of rice in a week are used by the MILF thru Lidjal like living bargains for a barter of a bag-load of cash. No one is apparently safe; not an Iranon, Tausug or Visayan.
Else we should unite, disregard tribal indifference and support the total annihilation of both the MILF and its cahoots. A mere show of support would go along way for government soldiers whose willing to trade their lives for ours. They cannot do it alone. They need the people whom they die for appreciate their efforts.
Friday, January 30, 2009
TRILLANES NAKALAYA NA!
Si Senador Antonio Trillanes IV ay nakakalabas ng kanyang selda sa Custodial Center ng Camp Crame. Ito ang natural an maiisip ng kahit sinong nakabasa ng report sa Philippine Star noong Enero 17. Nakasaad sa report na mahigit kumulang P500,000 ang ginugol ng senador para sa pagbyahe sa loob ng Pilinas noong nakalipas na anim na buwan lamang. Base sa ulat, isa sa dalawang bagay lamang ang maiisip natin: una, nakakalabas nga si Trillanes mula sa Crame at nakakagala sa buong Pilipinas; pangalawa, ang pera na idineklarang ginamit sa pagbyahe ay na “divert” o intensyonal na inilihis upang tustusan ang ibang bagay.
Kung iisipin natin, nakakapagtakang ganun na lang kalaki ang nagastos sa pondo ng senador. May mga bagay na maaaring maglalaro sa isip ng taong bayan. Una, hindi kaila sa lahat na madaming sundalo at kasamahan niya na sumali sa OAKWOOD incident ang nawalan ng hanapbuhay at nasira ang buhay dahil sa pakikiisa sa kanynang interes na ngayon ay tila siya lang ang nakikinabang...Kaya naman hindi malayong mapaisip ang taongbayan... hindi kaya ginagamit na pangtustos at pambayad ng Senador ang pera ng taong bayan para sa mga kasamahan niya na marahil ay pinagkakautangan niya ng loob sa pagsama sa kanya sa Oakwood? Nakakakonsensiya nga naman na habang siya ay patuloy na sumasahod (P43,000 na buwanang sweldo maliban pa sa ibang benefits tulad ng staff allowance at ang pamosong pork barrel) sa gobyernong kanyang kinamuhian (na ngayon ay sinalihan din naman nya) ang iba namang sundalo ay naghihirap at walang hanapbuhay – Ilang sundalo ba ang kasalukuyang nakapiit ngayon at nagtitiis na walang mapakain sa kanilang pamilya? Pangalawa, maaaring ang pera ay itinago lamang at inilalaan sa planong pagtakbo ni General Danilo LIM sa 2010. Hindi ito malayong mangyari dahil sanggang dikit ang dalawa.
Nakakapagtaka din na ang dating maingay na senador ay biglang nananahimik ngayon. Kung dati ay madalas tayo makarinig ng mga plano ni Trillanes, ngayon ay walang kaimik-imik ang mambabatas lalo na kung ito ay patungkol sa mga nabitiwan niyang mga pangako. Ang binibida niyang 155 senate house bills na kaniyang inilagda ay hindi nararamdaman ng mga taong bayan kaya sa ngayon ay wala itong saysay para sa nakakarami. Mas marami sana ang makikinabang kung ang nagastos na malaking halaga sa pagbya-byahe ay nailaan na lamang sa mga proyekto para sa tao.
Nakakalungkot na mukhang tinalikuran na ng dating nanggagalaiti na senador ang kanyang mga pangako sa taong bayan at nasilaw na sa marangyang buhay.
Kung iisipin natin, nakakapagtakang ganun na lang kalaki ang nagastos sa pondo ng senador. May mga bagay na maaaring maglalaro sa isip ng taong bayan. Una, hindi kaila sa lahat na madaming sundalo at kasamahan niya na sumali sa OAKWOOD incident ang nawalan ng hanapbuhay at nasira ang buhay dahil sa pakikiisa sa kanynang interes na ngayon ay tila siya lang ang nakikinabang...Kaya naman hindi malayong mapaisip ang taongbayan... hindi kaya ginagamit na pangtustos at pambayad ng Senador ang pera ng taong bayan para sa mga kasamahan niya na marahil ay pinagkakautangan niya ng loob sa pagsama sa kanya sa Oakwood? Nakakakonsensiya nga naman na habang siya ay patuloy na sumasahod (P43,000 na buwanang sweldo maliban pa sa ibang benefits tulad ng staff allowance at ang pamosong pork barrel) sa gobyernong kanyang kinamuhian (na ngayon ay sinalihan din naman nya) ang iba namang sundalo ay naghihirap at walang hanapbuhay – Ilang sundalo ba ang kasalukuyang nakapiit ngayon at nagtitiis na walang mapakain sa kanilang pamilya? Pangalawa, maaaring ang pera ay itinago lamang at inilalaan sa planong pagtakbo ni General Danilo LIM sa 2010. Hindi ito malayong mangyari dahil sanggang dikit ang dalawa.
Nakakapagtaka din na ang dating maingay na senador ay biglang nananahimik ngayon. Kung dati ay madalas tayo makarinig ng mga plano ni Trillanes, ngayon ay walang kaimik-imik ang mambabatas lalo na kung ito ay patungkol sa mga nabitiwan niyang mga pangako. Ang binibida niyang 155 senate house bills na kaniyang inilagda ay hindi nararamdaman ng mga taong bayan kaya sa ngayon ay wala itong saysay para sa nakakarami. Mas marami sana ang makikinabang kung ang nagastos na malaking halaga sa pagbya-byahe ay nailaan na lamang sa mga proyekto para sa tao.
Nakakalungkot na mukhang tinalikuran na ng dating nanggagalaiti na senador ang kanyang mga pangako sa taong bayan at nasilaw na sa marangyang buhay.
THAT IS A LOT OF MONEY, SENATOR TRILLANES
How can a detained senator actually spend P500,000 in travel expenses in a span of six months? This is something that we should judiciously wonder about since taxpayers’ money was certainly used to finance this so-called “travels” of the neophyte lawmaker. I have nothing against Senator Trillanes since he was voted into office by the people and from what I’ve read and heard was still able to author 155 bills despite his incarceration at Camp Crame. However, one can’t help but be surprised by the difference of his travel costs and that of an old-timer senator like Joker Arroyo whom we all know is as hard-working in terms of making laws and who has been very humble about his past accomplishments unlike some of his colleagues.
The January 17 Philippine Star report regarding Trillanes’ expenses as officially cited by the Commission on Audit comes as a surprise since the detained lawmaker has been very tenacious in his anti-corruption crusade particularly against the Arroyo administration. As such, five hundred thousand pesos was really a lot of money wasted on local travels by someone who was not even allowed to travel or even step outside his cell at the Custodial Center of Camp Crame in Quezon City. Would it then be too much to assume that part of the solon’s allotted money were used as remuneration for some of his “comrade-in-arms” during 2003 Oakwoad mutiny who were unfortunate not to be elected as a senator and receive monthly salary of forty-three thousand pesos(P43,000.00) a month? This could happen and is not entirely implausible.
Ironically, I was one of the people who voted for Trillanes in 2007 and even applauded his golden promise prior his sweet victory which is to waive his pork barrel. But like any other sad story, it was the promise that was waived and not the pork barrel. Being a campaigner against corruption, we all expected Trillanes to be the most frugal among the other senators, but by the looks of the COA report we can now safely assume that the solon has long forgotten the value we Filipinos place on “palabra de honor”. The filed 155 bills will not erase the fact that P500,000 of taxpayers’ money was wasted on travels while another more or less P300,000 was needlessly wasted to finance meetings and conferences and extraordinary and miscellaneous expenses of Senator Trillanes and his throng of staff members. And, what is sad about the story is the fact that this happened in a span of only six months. I shudder to think what the expenses of the detained lawmaker would be in another six months.
The January 17 Philippine Star report regarding Trillanes’ expenses as officially cited by the Commission on Audit comes as a surprise since the detained lawmaker has been very tenacious in his anti-corruption crusade particularly against the Arroyo administration. As such, five hundred thousand pesos was really a lot of money wasted on local travels by someone who was not even allowed to travel or even step outside his cell at the Custodial Center of Camp Crame in Quezon City. Would it then be too much to assume that part of the solon’s allotted money were used as remuneration for some of his “comrade-in-arms” during 2003 Oakwoad mutiny who were unfortunate not to be elected as a senator and receive monthly salary of forty-three thousand pesos(P43,000.00) a month? This could happen and is not entirely implausible.
Ironically, I was one of the people who voted for Trillanes in 2007 and even applauded his golden promise prior his sweet victory which is to waive his pork barrel. But like any other sad story, it was the promise that was waived and not the pork barrel. Being a campaigner against corruption, we all expected Trillanes to be the most frugal among the other senators, but by the looks of the COA report we can now safely assume that the solon has long forgotten the value we Filipinos place on “palabra de honor”. The filed 155 bills will not erase the fact that P500,000 of taxpayers’ money was wasted on travels while another more or less P300,000 was needlessly wasted to finance meetings and conferences and extraordinary and miscellaneous expenses of Senator Trillanes and his throng of staff members. And, what is sad about the story is the fact that this happened in a span of only six months. I shudder to think what the expenses of the detained lawmaker would be in another six months.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
The Project SNAP
Credits: Filipino White Blogger Group
"A destabilization plot dubbed Project "SNAP" is now on track...Be warned that it intend to create chaos in the business community by passing around false information..."
Hey guys watch this movie, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuS1c1YI4SU
Because we do not support any actions that create CHAOS, we will pass this message to the public not only to the business community.
Lets help build a peaceful community.
The Filipino White Blogger Group.
The Blogger copied and paste it here!
"A destabilization plot dubbed Project "SNAP" is now on track...Be warned that it intend to create chaos in the business community by passing around false information..."
Hey guys watch this movie, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuS1c1YI4SU
Because we do not support any actions that create CHAOS, we will pass this message to the public not only to the business community.
Lets help build a peaceful community.
The Filipino White Blogger Group.
The Blogger copied and paste it here!
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Are the CPP and NPA Out on a Senseless Rampage?
“Uncovering the Non-Principled Army (NPA)”
There is such a thing as “perfect murder”, and it is re-lived over and again in the Philippine soil. These culprits roam not with hands cuffed or jail bars walled around them. Instead, they walk amongst us even in broad daylight holding us against our will. Their victims scream in deafening silence among shallow graves, yearning for justice to dig them out.
Malicious taints of alleged extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances all pin-pointed to the AFP have been flooding the frontpages and airwaves nationwide. But was there ever an open contention about the CPP and NPA’s staging of summary executions by virtue of their bereave kangaroo court proceeding and even tactical purging intended to purportedly cleanse the Party of inutile members?
Of course, there would always be a charade of denial to top all these but there are hard to rid-off evidences that would prove otherwise. Among these are instances of military civic volunteers and other individuals identified supportive to the government forcefully rubbed out of their homes; tortured and brutally murdered.
Unfortunately, the Party would simply be insinuating that under their rulings these victims were just a bunch of abusive locals and/or were carried out as a tactical operation to counter military operations by ripping-out sources of intelligence information used to best craft their offensives.
Criminals under the constitution are granted with their rights to face an impartial and neutral court. Rapists and murderers alike are not stripped of their basic rights, such as in defence of themselves within the rule of court. Nor do the worse crimes of incest and multiple murders face the end-fate of death. But the revolutionary government instilled by the CPP and NPA track the opposite. Their sole means of punishment is to rob their victims of their very right to exist.
There also include several hours of cross-examinations (interrogations) done through abduction and torture of any individual such as those suffered by Litoy Leguarda, a suspected military informant in Brgy Solong, Can-avid, E/Samar. Last April 5 2008, Leguarda was abducted while attending a benefit dance. A day after he was found hog-tied in
Another case in point of their involvement in summary executions was that of Ryan Samonte who was first castrated before being put to death last August 10, 2008 in Bicol. Theresa Magtanggol, spokeswoman of the NPA Nerissa San Juan Command, directly admitted in a television interview that their forces did kill the government militiaman who is clearly not taking part of an armed hostility at the time of his capture. Isn’t her admission enough proof that the NPA is only doing lip service when they adamantly state that they adhere to the Comprehensive Agreement for the Respect of Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law (CARHRIHL) and teh Geneva Convention?
These insatiable killings were carried out decades ago, that is to include the recently unearthed remains of the Anugot family in the island
Mario Anugot the lone survivor of said massacre witnessed how his father Mauricio, mother Sari, siblings Peng, Titing, Marlyn and three others were mercilessly stabbed and strafed in their sleep in Sitio Mayana, Baranagy Gaas, Balamban.
Farmers whom the NPA are professing to protect from landlords have also been victims of their dastardly acts. Mark Anthony “Butchoy” Vale, a duly elected Barangay Captain and a farmer, was killed in broad daylight on December 22, 2007 in
A string of this violence also notes the discovered grave sites last March 10, 2008 where suspected victims of New People’s Army summary executions were exhumed by army personnel under 61st IB, 3ID, PA in Brgy Camindangan,
The said remains were of suspected military informants based on Jesumar Tabano’s statements. Tabano is the son of one of the victims identified as Kagawad Proferio Tabano who was abducted in 1989 in Sitio Bangco-Bangco, Brgy Camindanang,
Kagawad Tabano’s remains were identified by his son (Jesumar) based on exhumed clothing wrapped around the carnage buried over 50 feet deep. The uncovered skulls were tied with cloth possibly blinding the victims while fractures found on their skeletal remains were proof that they were viciously tortured after having been killed.
This year alone, there have been numerous accounts of liquidations perpetrated by the NPA’s SPARU unit all across the country. Most of which were done in broad daylight endangering a handful of civilians and when unfortunate targets are unarmed and unsuspecting. Aren’t these blatant displays of murder? Fired guns should stay in the battlefield. Gunning-down a man with nothing but his shirt and pants is a cowardly act altogether.
However, much the NPA tries to mask their dastardly acts with claims of defending the masses and their rights, the fact remains that they deny justice to their victims, commit cold-blood murders and what they do in the countryside, day in and day out, does not give security to the people whom they averred to be oppressed.
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