Antonio Trillanes IV, senatorial candidate of the Genuine Opposition, has admitted that four years of detention has sharpened his understanding of the political crisis confronting the country today.
In an interview in his detention cell in Camp Bonifacio, Trillanes offers no apology to what he and some 300 members of the Magdalo group did last July 27, 2003, which was to declare a withdrawal of support from a president who they believe betrayed the trust of the people.
Although his entry into politics indicates that he is going mainstream in pursuing reforms in governance that he envisions, he says radical means cannot be totally ruled out if the government goes against the interest of the people. He said Arroyo has made the situation ripe for it.
It is on his family circumstances that Trillanes shows signs of mellowing down. He speaks with a tinge of sadness about the death of his son, Alan Andrew, who lived only for 21 days in 2004, while he was in detention.
Rather than fret about his imprisonment, Trillanes said he takes every day in detention as a day closer to freedom. “I have embraced this philosophy that everything happens for a purpose and God’s will. Nothing happens that is not willed by God. I will just prepare myself for whatever he wills for me.”
Excerpts from the interview:
Q. You’ve been here for almost four years? What has four years of detention done to you?
A. A lot. I believe I had the chance to purify my soul, strengthen my character, and widen my horizon. I had the chance to learn so many things more about life, about society, governance. But most importantly, I had the chance to really be close to my family. I don’t know the effect of the separation on my family but as for me, those are the times (conjugal visits) that I treasured most. Every minute that we were together.
(Trillanes is married to Arlene Orejana, also an officer in the AFP. They have a son, Francis Seth, 9 years old and a daughter Thea Estelle, 8.Alan Andrew, if he had lived would have been three years old by now.)
Q. Were there moments in the last four years when you thought people have abandoned you?
A. We had that feeling after Oakwood. We had our doubts if what we did truly had the consent of the people. But we were proven right by Gloria, four years after.
Q. In what way?
A. That what we did was right. Now, the people are with us. I believe the issue then was so complicated that the people didn’t have the chance to absorb them. But eventually, people now realize or have begun to appreciate what we fought for.
Q. Do you think the results of this coming election would be an affirmation of what Oakwood was?
A. Not really. We have gotten past Oakwood. We have already achieved moral victory. I already have said that the day I filed my certificate of candidacy. It’s a statement that nobody should be afraid. My candidacy is the ultimate display of defiance. Four years after Oakwood, I’m still bringing my issues. This time, bigger issues.
Q. When you were asked if you were going the way of Gringo Honasan, you said, “I think not.” Why not?
A. Two people cannot possibly live the same lives. I will be such a copycat that I will follow or imitate what he undertook. I’m my own man. I’d be doing things differently. It doesn’t mean also that what he did what wrong. I should not be a judge of what he did.
Q. Gringo apologized for his “methodology.” Do you think you have something to apologize for?
A. I will not apologize just to save my own skin and get out of detention. I’d like to use this analogy. Let’s say that I’m walking in a dark alley and I witness a rape. I have two choices. I turn the other way and pretend that no rape was taking place. Or do everything and try to stop it. In that case, I tried to stop the rape from continuing and I got beaten up in the process. So what am I going to apologize for? For attempting to stop her from raping this country? It doesn’t make sense.
Q. When you decided to enter the political arena, many took it that you have renounced the use of force to effect change. Is the reading correct?
A. It’s impossible for me to do that now especially that I’m detained. But like I said in previous interviews, rebellion is justified if the government goes against the interest of the people. That’s in the preamble of the UN Declaration of Human Rights. It’s also in the US Declaration of Independence.
Q. Does the situation right now warrant that?
A. I believe so. I believe the environment is ripe for that. Because we have a president who has no mandate. Somebody who cheated in an election. Somebody who has no qualms of killing her own people just to stay in power, among other crimes that she has committed like plundering the wealth of this country, selling our country’s independence. These are tantamount to treason.
Q. The deployment of the military in urban slum areas. Is that related to the creation of the environment you just described now?
A. No. This is some scare tactics being employed by some misinformed commanders of the military. They believe they can coerce people into toeing, into submitting themselves to the will of this administration.
Q. Scare tactics of some commanders? You mean the deployment is not an order from the top?
A. No. It’s an order from the top. But what I mean is that if they are in their right mind, they wouldn’t recommend that. They should advise the President, Ma’am we can’t do that because this thing has happened already and it did not work. It happened during the martial law era. The people became more and more defiant. During the Spanish time, the same scare tactics were employed and it didn’t work.
Q. Scare people? What’s the objective?
A: So that the civil unrest will be controlled, along with indoctrination. Dissuade people from supporting leftist organizations.
Q. Some say that we should allow GMA to finish her term up to 2010, let her concentrate on governance.
A. They are saying that because they can afford to wait. This group belongs to the middle and upper classes. They will not die if they wait out three more years. But other people can’t. There are people who just subsist on noodles and those people in Mindanao can’t afford three more years. The way the country is being plundered, there may not be anything left after three years. That’s very selfish of them to say, let’s wait three more years. We go back to the rape analogy. Okay we allow the rape three more years. And we are assuming that she will step down in 2010? I believe 100 percent that she won’t step down in 2010 because who will protect her? The only thing protecting her physically and politically is her being president. After 2010, she will still be accountable, answerable for all the things she committed against our people.
Q. If there’s another people power, would you join?
A. Like I said, if it’s God’s will that I’m supposed to be there when such a things happen, I would be there.
(In a recent interview Trillanes said he has committed himself for the removal of Arroyo through an impeachment process if he wins.)
The solution remains the same. We have to remove GMA (President Arroyo) because she is the leader who is allowing, tolerating these things.
(Trillanes said the President tolerated the rigging of the 2004 elections as evidenced by the Hello Garci tapes.)
She does not only allow it, she herself took part in the operation. We heard that in the Garci tape.
“You can never have a clean government with such a president, that is my solution. Replace her with a competent one so the new leader can choose a competent (AFP) chief of staff, other Cabinet secretaries. That’s how it goes, plain and simple.
I’m very confident that the people will stand up this time to protect their right to choose their own leaders.
They (people) will not allow cheating anymore. They’ve had enough, the cheating that we have tolerated in 2004 brought disaster to this country for the past three years. It did not bring us any good. It brought us more corruption, more deaths. More poverty and now hunger, we have to rectify that. – Ellen Tordesillas and Victor Reyes
Photo by Rolly Salvador
This quote from Trillanes I do like, ““I have embraced this philosophy that everything happens for a purpose and God’s will. Nothing happens that is not willed by God. I will just prepare myself for whatever he wills for me.”
Spoken by a man who has been truly touched by God unlike some hypocrites who have blasphemed God not just once but a lot of times, and have caused their people miseries and pains.
I support Trillanes and pray that God will allow him to win this election, and with God’s help make him succeed in freeing the Philippines of the criminals running the country like hell.
Mabuhay ka Sonny! SAKIT NG PILIPINAS, SI TRILLANES ANG LUNAS! PARA SA PAGBABAGO, IBOTO SI TRILLANES! MAGDALO PARA SA PAGBABAGO!
BRAVO! IYAN ANG TUNAY NA KAWAL PILIPINO! MAY PANINIDIGAN, MATAPANG LUMABAN PARA SA BAYAN!!! TRILLANES IS THE BEST!!!
VOTE FOR TRILLANES- HE IS THE BEST.
From this day on, lalo na paglabas ng resulta ng eleksiyon, ay magiging KRITIKAL para sa ating bansa. Hanggang sa paglabas ng verdict kay Erap Estrada. The Arroyo Syndicate is walking on VERY THIN LINE. ABANGAN!!! AT HUMANDA!!!
Saludo ako kay LtSG. Trillanes dahil may panindigan. Hindi kapon kagaya nila Honasan at Esperon. Sige Gringo magmano at magsip-sip ka sa bagong amo mo.
BTW, this is what I got from a friend of mine in the fight for the absentee voting right for overseas Filipinos:
May I propose, for your consideration, the candidates for whom I will vote (arranged alphabetically):
1. Aquino, Benigno III
2. Bautista, Martin
3. Cayetano, Alan
4. Escudero, Francis
5. Lacson, Panfilo
6. Legarda, Loren
7. Pangilinan, Francis
8. Paredes, Zosimo II
9. Pimentel, Aquilino III
10. Roco, Sonia
11. Sison, Adrian
12. Trillanes, Antonio IV
GO Trillanes! show Honasan and Gloria your loaded weapon.Your testicle fortitude is unmeasurable.I salute you!
What can I say? The inteview is loaded. So far, it is the best Trillanes inteview yet. This QA is what I like best.
Q. Some say that we should allow GMA to finish her term up to 2010, let her concentrate on governance.
A. They are saying that because they can afford to wait. This group belongs to the middle and upper classes. They will not die if they wait out three more years. But other people can’t. There are people who just subsist on noodles and those people in Mindanao can’t afford three more years. The way the country is being plundered, there may not be anything left after three years. That’s very selfish of them to say, let’s wait three more years.
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Soooo very true!
Ellen,
Wala siyang posas sa picture, and I like the smile of the guard. Si Trillanes ay mukhang buo talaga ang loob, at bagay na bagay ang blue na polo shirt!
Like what I said in a previous post, Trillanes and company’s complaints at Oakwood were proven true, and they’re victors!
Trillanes said, “I will not apologize just to save my own skin and get out of detention.”
Spoken like a MAN!
In the blogsite of the rebel military, there is posted an earlier radio message from Esperon directing his officers to tear down all of Trillanes’ posters. This message was addressed to the commanding general of the Army, General Tolentino. Yet the military denied this allegation. So what proof is “good enough” for the military leadership, even when proof positive is already being bared? (NCO)
http://www.tribune.net/ph
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Si Assperon natatakot na manalo si Trillanes. Supot!
sana mag kaisa na tayo sana manalo si idol trillnes…..
ilan kaya sa mga sundalo ang may b-y-g na ipaglaban ang adhikain ni trillanes?
ilan din kaya sa mga sundalo ang hanggang ngayon, blind loyalist pa rin ng pekeng presidente?
The answered of Trillanes to the questions were frightening to Gloria’s administration such a clear statements of him has clearly and already won him a moral victory. Such courage and conviction is surely lacking to Honasan and Esperon.
Yes, of course! He is in an awful situation, when he joined the military he gave up some of his rights, such as the right to complete unfettered free speech, he toke an oath to defend the constitution, but ,he refused and defy to take an order from corrupt commander, his conviction won’t allow him to see anyone raped an innocent victims .He become a clear and present danger to the illegal commander-in-chief. Trillanes ideology will attract some of his comrades in the military and their numbers will multiply. He is the catalyst in filtering the foul odor in government.
A vote for Trillanes is a vote for a change.
ltsg antonio v trillanes IV, my snappy salute! mabuhay ka, senator, sir!
lahat ng balota nangunguna ang pangalan mo. huwag kang magbabago at tuparin ang mga programa mo and if that happens, you have redeemed the once tarnished dignity of the filipino people exploited by the fake and usurper president.
MABUHAY KA SENATOR SONNY TRILLANES….isang magiting at tunay na sundalo…malakas ka d2 sa cebu….we will support your candidacy at sa lahat ng opposition…mabuhay din lahat ng bloggers d2 ang gagaling nyo…hapi bday lubot este sampot pala hahaha joke..sana matupad ang bday wish mo.
yuko,
in that list given to you, a demon was included, PANGILinan.
the day after Sonny filed his candidacy, his leaflets featuring his biodata were distributed in the public market here in gensan. that’s when many of us here learned that his wife Arlene was from gensan and one of the first seven female cadets to graduate from PMA. Arlene’s parents and relatives were campaigning hard for him despite limited finances. Sonny’s ma-in-law here is elated by the volunteers who are campaigning for him gratis et amore. 🙂
ystakei: dapat kapatiran (bautista, paredes at sison) ang iboto mo sa partylist. 🙂
Yes, Gilbert. Sonny was telling me about his mother-in-law campaigning hard for him. He said that of late, his children joined the campaign.
machete’s wife and children, as well as kiki PANGILinan’s (dimonyo kasi) and the continental boy mingot defensor’s are also campaigning for their dads’ chances in the senate. the only difference is the integrity in question, their affiliation with the world class cheat and corrupt usurper and the sincerity to public service that matter most. courage also plays a big part in this contest, COURAGE to fight the seemingly invincible CROOK! and that’s TRILLANES’ goal.
mabuhay ka!
Mrivera, dahil ur so gigil 2 PANGILinoted, here’s a url to make ur day (and night as well!) http://untoldpinoystories.blogspot.com/2007/04/
untold-pinoy-story-no-10.html
Gilbert
I cannot vote! Japan does not allow dual citizenship. Mahirap na, baka i-question pa ng Comelec ang nationality ko!
BTW, ang choice ko sa partylist, GABRIELA and AKBAYAN. Basta hindi katoliko, OK!!! 😛
Kaya sabi ko sa kaibigan ko alisin niya si Kiko. UP daw kasi! Naknamputsa!
Basta kasama si Trillanes at Koko Pimentel pirmi sa listahan, wala akong pakialam doon sa iba. Bahala na rin si Escudero sa sarili niya!
Cocoy: Your testicle fortitude is unmeasurable.I salute you!
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Sobra ka naman! Pinalaki mo pa ang yagbols ni Trillanes! Tama na iyong kalakihan ng pagmamahal niya sa bayan. Hayaan mo na kung anong sukat ng kaniya! 😛
Magno:
Dapat pala na-edit ko muna ang sulat ng kaibigan ko. Hindi ko napansin ang pangalan ni Mr. Noted. Nagmamadali kasi ako kanina at may kaso ako sa korte sa Nagaoka, isang lungsod sa Niigata na dalawang oras mahigit ang layo sa Tokyo via Shinkansen (Bullet train). Sorry! 🙁
Chi,
Blue for hope!!! Balak kong kumbidahin sa Japan si Sonny kapag nakaupo na siya sa Senate!!! Ipapakilala ko siya sa mga kaibigan ko sa media at politics dito sa Japan. Excited ako sa panalo niya! Huwag lang madaya, pihadong lalabas ang pangalan niya. Uumpisahan ko ang deboto ko sa templo namin mula bukas. Tapos, fasting (no drink and food for 24 hours) on Sunday, May 13.
Nag-fasting ako kahapon. 24 hours walang inumin at pagkain. Para kay Sonny ang fasting ko mainly para sa pagbabago ng Pilipinas!!!
Ate Ellen,
Paki-alarma na rin ang mga taga oposisyon at mga Bantay Boto groups na isa sa mga new cheating style ng administrasyon ay mga “GHOST PRECINCTS”. Kasapakat siyempre ang mga taga-KUMOLEK. Kaya may mga KUMOLEK officials na nag-o-offer na kaya nilang panalunin ang isang local officials kapalit ng malaking halaga. Kaya sobra-sobra ang bilang ng mga botante na ipinalabas ng KUMOLEK at mga inimprentang balota. Imagine 45 million voters daw. Hindi disimulado kung nakatuon lang tayo sa mga registered voters, vote-buying, ballot switching, dagdag-bawas sa ERs. Dito sa style na ito na GHOST PRECINCTS, hindi na kailangang magbura ng mga tally at totals. Buong boto sa presinto ay mga imbento. Ihahalo nila ito sa mga District total of votes. Kailangan na ipaobliga ng mga political parties lalo na ng oposisyon ang pagbibigay ng master list of voters para maaga pa lang ay maimbestigahan na ang mga spurious na mga precincts at voters kung talagang existing. Madali lang naman yan because of modern technology ngayon at naka data base naman yan sa KUMOLEK. BANTAYAN HINDI LANG ANG INYONG BOTO KUNDI PATI NA MGA SPURIOUS NA BOTO!!!
Oy, showbiz si Trillanes, endorsed by Lily Monteverde. Sino ang may hatak sa masa, si Blinky Tianak or si Mother Lily?
Pogi at macho looling pala talagang lalaki si Trillanes, may photo sa http://www.abante.com.ph/issue/may0707/main.htm
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Ang ina at mga anak ni Lt. Senior Grade Antonio Trillanes IV ang dumalo sa presscon na ipinatawag ni Mrs. Lily Monteverde noong Sabado nang gabi.
Kandidatong senador ng Genuine Opposition si Trillanes pero hindi ito makapangampanya ng personal dahil nakakulong siya. Kung gugustuhin ni Trillanes, puwede siyang lumaya pero ayaw niyang lumabas ng kulungan na hindi kasama ang ibang sundalo na sangkot sa Oakwood mutiny noong 2003.
Sa speech ni Mother Lily, sinabi nito na hindi rebelde o military man ang nakikita niya sa katauhan ni Trillanes.
“I cannot deny that he was a part of that incident in Oakwood. I have been asked why I am supporting someone who did that. Yet I do not see Lt. Senior Grade Trillanes as a rebel.
For info:
News from an A-1 source: Gloria is going to Australia at the end of this month. Australia has more intelligence assets “parked” in the Philippines, more than the CIA.
Ang galing ng mga sagot ni Trillanes sa Q&A interview nila ni Ellen. Sana mabasa ito ng maraming Pinoy para mabigyan ng chance si Trillanes. Siya ang may paninindigan at walang takot magsabi ng totoo! Rebelde nga siya but for a Cause! At saka very strong and binding ang leadership niya. “Walang Iwanan!” Iyan ang LALAKI!
IBOTO NATIN SIYA!!!
aninomous,
never got interested on kiki PANGILinan eversince dahil kilala ko siyang manggagamit even during his running for a post in QC. he already betrayed the whole filipino people with his rotten “NOTED” comments in 2004.
for me he is just a no use garbage in the history of philippine politics.
Re Ghost Precints- Hindi ba may official lists ng mga precintos at ang mga registered voters in each precints? Talagang lahat ng paraan ay gagawin.
In our alma mater song- Blue is for Courage- si Trillanes ay isang Profile of (or is it in?) Courage.
Re Australian visit of the Pandak. Beware kasi baka ibinibenta na ang Mindanao hindi pa alam ng mga pilipino. Akala siguro ni Pandak magugulangan niya ang mga intsik na inutangan niya, at matatakot niya comes collection day kung meron US and Australian military installations in the Philippines even when there is a law that bans foreign military bases in the Philippines. Iba iyong exercise sa
permanent military installations as the US bases in Japan.
I think the reason Japan is able to create a defense ministry now is because the US has agreed to give up the bases in Okinawa, etc. in response to Japanese call for the removal of US bases in Japan. Dito kasi hindi makahirit iyong mga malilibog na kano. Kulong sila kapag nahuli silang loloko-loko dito hindi katulad sa Pilipinas, pinangakuan lang ng safe transport to the US in case of a revolution, peaceful and otherwise ala-EDSA 1, kalimutan na ang Philippine interest. Para sa mga gunggong at hayop, mas mahalaga ang tangkilik ng America!
I’m not really anti-American but it’s time the US stops acting like the Papacy of old as in the infallibility of the Pope. Before they subject anyone against the Pope to some inquisition. Now, the US attack a nation when the US president calls a leader of a nation as his enemy and marks him for execution by hook or by crook!
At least, in the US, the Senate and Congress are not under the control of the mad man at the White House unlike in the Philippines where a criminal is now the Commander in Cheat of all branches of the government. Walang pinatawad. Lahat ipinailalim na sa kaniya na walang alam kundi kabulastugan.
Kawawang bansa!
What?! Magkakalat si Tianak sa Australia after Japan! What she’d say kaya to get a big chunk of Aussie’s anti-terror donation?! Mamamalimos na naman! Heh!
“Walang Iwanan!” Iyan ang LALAKI!
Elvira, hindi rin natin siya iiwanan! GO! GO! GO! Trillanes!
yuko, listahan ni mlq3 yan. nasa inquirer article nya na vote of confidence.
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G.O., ace our poll victory!
A quino, Noynoy
C ayetano, Alan
E scudero
R oco
P imentel
O smeña
L acson
L egarda
Vi llar
C oseteng
Tri llanes
WALANG LAGLAGAN…
Dagdagan na lang ng “bow,” as in…
B autista, Martin
ACE R POLL ViCTri, Bau.
Chiz Escudero, why are you endorsing Hudasan?! Shut your mouth and mind your own business na lang, nakakawala talaga kayong gana!
Baka si Trillanes na lang talaga ang matira sa balota namin niyan, you are disappointing us!
Kandidato rin natin si Sabas. Walang may-gusto kay Dado Pidal!
“An Ateneo de Naga survey puts opposition candidates Sabas Mabulo ahead of Dato Macapagal Arroyo 75-25 percent.”
(Maceda, http://www.tribune.net)
Grabe talaga ng kababuyan ng mga opisyal ng militar, pinagbabakasyon ang mga sundalo ng 3 araw sa isang kundisyon na kumbinsihin ang mga pamilya na iboto ang TUTA!
Mga garapal, anong klaseng military officials ang mga lintek na ito, nag-uunahan sa pundya ni Glue!
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AFP: So sue us for electioneering
BY VICTOR REYES
THE military yesterday dared disgruntled officers to file electioneering charges against Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. and Army chief Lt. Gen. Romeo Tolentino for allegedly ordering them to vote for Team Unity candidates.
Lt. Col. Bartolome Bacarro, AFP public information office chief, said the military leadership is considering the officers “bogus” if they do not come out in the open.
“The right to vote is their individual right and nobody can infringe on that right. So it is along that context that since that is their right, they can fight for their right,” Bacarro said.
Genuine Opposition candidate Antonio Trillanes IV last Friday said Esperon has issued a radio message to military commanders to ensure that the Team Unity candidates will get a 12-0 win.
Another GO candidate, Sen. Panfilo Lacson, said last Sunday he received text messages from Western Samar that Tolentino has asked officers and men in the region to vote straight Team Unity.
Defense reporters also received a text message saying soldiers in Central Luzon are being forced to vote for TU on orders of Tolentino.
A military officer said Tolentino has authorized a three-day furlough for soldiers on condition that they will convince their family to vote for TU candidates. http://www.malaya.com.ph/may08/news5.htm
Watch out for the so-called command votes. Gloria’s command votes are equivalent to massive electoral fraud and intimidation (LGU’s no projects) may chance the tide into 75-25 in favor of presidential son Dato Arrovo.
Ka Diego,
That’s the problem, baligtad ang magiging resulta gaya noong 2004 election. Himagsikan na!
Ang lahat na ating ninanais na manalo ay talagang manalo kung hindi ganoon katindi ang voters’ disenfranchisement during E-Day.
Iyan ang pinakaepektebong paraan ng Malacanan upang maipatupad ng malinis ang malawakang pandaraya. Ang nakakalungkot ay walang real-time na panguntra dito. Protesta? No way. Masyadong mabagal.
Kaya sa tingin ko, mauwi pa rin ito sa isang rebolusyon. Iyan ang ating dapat paghandaan. Dahil baka magsipaglayas ang mga makasalanan, at hindi mababayaran ang mga nagawang katarantaduhan sa bayan.
Sana si Trillanes ay magsalita kaagad-agad pagdating sa tamang panahon na ‘yan. I think he is the most credible non-politician to lead us into this Final Endeavor.
I submit.
RE: AFP: So sue us for electioneering
Where? Maybe AFP chief Assperon is thinking of a different planet. The rule of law is prostituted under the corrupt Arroyo regime. Partisan Comelec commissionaires have shown their colors for junking a petition for disqualification of Jose de Venecia for allegedly vote-buying after he distributed insurance cards in Pangasinan and the disqualification of Naga City Mayor Robredo based on his citizenship issue. Comelec can not be trusted in delivering fair play. The ghost of 2004 massive electoral fraud keeps haunting the Comelec and the legitimacy of Gloria Arroyo. The Filipino electorate will perform the final exorcism ritual in May 14, 2007. Evil Gloria and her demon entities will be a history soon. AMEN
Trillanes joins forum from jail
Inquirer
Last updated 11:20pm (Mla time) 05/07/2007
MANILA, Philippines — Accused military rebel and Genuine Opposition senatorial bet Antonio Trillanes IV on Monday became the first candidate under detention in the country to participate in a news forum via teleconferencing.
With the prospect of remaining behind bars even if he wins in the May 14 elections, Trillanes told reporters at the weekly Kapihan sa Manila Hotel that he intended to use the same technology to participate in debates, inquiries and other legislative processes in the Senate.
“I don’t see any reason the four walls of my detention cell should affect my performance as a senator if I am fortunate to win a Senate seat,” Trillanes said.
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Iyan ang gusto ko ke Trillanes, nagbibigay pag-asa sa mga mamamayan na kung talagang nais magsilbi ay walang makakahadlang!
Chi,
What? In-endorse ni Escudero si Hudasan? No wonder it came out from my mouth (pen) my statement above for some reason: “Bahala na rin si Escudero sa sarili niya!”
Sa totoo lang, dalawa lang talaga ang kina-campaign ko personally although my staff have made flyers for GO 10+0!
It is very important for the Filipino people especially the voters to realize that this coming election within few more days, that the future fate of our country is at stake. The damages has been done, we are in deep hole, Gloria and the henchman Esperon keep on digging. The damage has been done to our country is incalculable.
The main cornerstone of Gloria’s strategy for winning the election for her TU is voter’s suppression, Esperon will intentionally putting up barriers between legitimate votes and switch it with padded manufactured votes, He was a main player in the past, and how can he be trust. The voters are now more incline to this dirty tactics, they will not go along with this cynical, dirty tactics of electoral strategy. Enough is enough, we need to protect the ballots in the voting places, bring bottled waters and a pack of cigarrettes.Oh yeah! Don’t forget a camera phone.
Yes, Yuko.
I forgot the link pala. Here it is…
‘Chiz’s endorsement of Gringo to hurt GO bid’
http://www.tribune.net.ph/nation/20070508nat1.html
MANILA, Philippines — The doctor’s advice to Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo was simple and clear: See no evil, hear no evil. -Inquirer
That’s because you are the evil!.’tado.
Mabuhay ka, Sonny Trillanes – ikaw talaga ang pag-asa ng mga kabataan!
You are one of the few good men still standing!
Good luck!
Sampot,
Ang sarap gilitan ng leeg ang ‘tado! He’s not capable of seeing any good at all, dahil embodimet si Mike Pidal of all that is evil!
Mukha yatang nagpapa-banal ang ‘tado! Banal- banakal si Oinky!
According to the spin lies of Fatsu, he has seen a light, a very, very bright light. Then he has a conference with St.Peter, and the gate-keeper told him that he needed to straighten his evil deeds.
Now, he is reading a Bible. He believed his wife’s story of Mama Mary’s apparition in form of rose petals. Next thing we know, Fatsu is an ordained minister in his own religion.”The Benevolent Church of Pidalista” To be a member of his church, you must be a seven figures earner, 20 percent of the annual income must be donated to his church and tax-free.Iglesia ni Cristo,El Shaddai and Born Again Christian is only 10 percent.
”The Benevolent Church of Pidalista”
Ay naku Cocoy, pinatawa mo ako ng malakas! Ano ‘yan, lahat ng marunong magPidal at magLista ng kukurakutin ay qualified to join. heheheh!
Ellen,
This is your article right? Bilib talaga ako sa lakas mo kay Sonny.
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The campaign is now on the home stretch and it’s getting hotter, politically, everyday. Even Pasay now counts one election-related killing, but people aren’t buying the yarn the camp of Connie Dy is spinning that this is the handiwork of Trinidad’s camp. Peewee is not known as a violent man and is not capable of murdering a mere follower of his opponents. It is not worth it.
He should know, the last election-related murder in Pasay was in the Martial Law era, the shooting victim was his own uncle, Miling Bayona, also father of suspended/reelectionist councilor, Pareng Onie.
Just like all of Gloria’s candidates, Connie Dy and Allan Panaligan’s mayoralty and congressional bids, respectively, are surely headed for doom. That’s one character that Pasay voters are noted for.
If it’s any interest, Pasay has been predictively voting as one within the Marcos-loyalist fence, or until recently, what now remains of it. Along with Kalookan, only Pasay voted unlike all of the cities and municipalities of Metro Manila and gave Marcos a landslide victory against Cory in 1986.
The next election, main protagonists Ramos, Mitra, and Miriam were too anti-Marcos for comfort that Pasay voted overwhelmingly for Danding, and a close second was Imelda.
In 1998, De Venecia has conceded Pasay to Estrada even before polling took place.
In 2004, FPJ’s win over Gloria in Pasay was bloody murder.
This year, it’s the same thing – TUTA candidates will all be hugging the tail end of the field. If there’s any city that’s capable of GO-ing 11-0, it’s Pasay.
What we’re more concerned with really is the cheating that is expected to happen now that all the elected officers have been suspended and replaced.
Cheating is the only purpose behind these removals and we are all set to frustrate Gloria’s well-oiled machinery. The PPCRV here is headed by the Bishop. Other benevolent NGOs feel safer here than anywhere else. Even the teachers feel more secure here than the whole of the Philippines. But that won’t make us fall complacent and we are telling that to the voters.
What we’ve been telling the people is, “Tapos na ang laban, panalo na tayo. Kailangan na lang siguruhing hindi tayo ma-gaGarci.”
Hindi dapat dinadala ang mga TUTA sa munisipyo, sa kongreso, o sa Senado. Dapat ikinakadena o ikinukulong! Itodo na ninyo, GO! GO! GO!
You’re funny,Cocoy! Pero type ko ang “The Benevolent Church of Pidalista!” Dapat na talagang putulan ng …si Pidal! Nag-hahallucinate na, eh! My foot, isinasama pa si St. Peter! Anong akala niya sa sarili niya, Santo-Demonyo?
Anti-Christ ba ang Benevolent Church of Pidalista?
Tongue, yes that’s my article with additional input from Malaya’s defense reporter Victor Reyes.
All members of media have access to Sonny now. Permission from the court lang kailangan. Today, some members of media will be coming along with San Juan Mayor JV Ejercito when he visits Sonny.
Tonight, Sonny will be in Strictly Politics, ANC, 8 pm.
Tomorrow, I think, the whole Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines (FOCAP) will have their session with him.
Marami rin siyang radio interviews.
I hope that would help in making people aware of his candidacy and will vote fot him. He is a good person.
True, Ellen. I am aware of Sonny’s goodness and unadulterated idealism. It’s frustrating, however, when the evil ones are lording it over in the paid ads department. We are still campaigning for him even without his materials, many of those we hand out are home-made donations.
Like iron-on T-shirt transfers of his name with the Magdalo flag which is a big hit with the young voters, tricycle drivers, vendors, and masa in general. They iron it on t-shirts, baseball caps, pants. Its commonly pressed on fatigue shorts. It’s cheap and fashionable, too! (Many in Peewee’s caravan were wearing our transfers.)
Didn’t he mention what happened to Jamby Madrigal’s pledge of support? Will it be financial/logistic? Or Dagdag-bawas, heheh?
I hope the interviews will prop awareness of Sonny. He is now within striking distance of the lead pack, Thanks to the media, and all those who are making this very difficult campaign turn positive results, this is what candidates like Trillanes needs. I hope we can prove to everyone that it is not only money and cheating that can win an election.
Genuine volunteerism could and should slay the dragons of patronage and moneypolitics.
“Hindi dapat dinadala ang mga TUTA sa munisipyo, sa kongreso, o sa Senado. Dapat ikinakadena o ikinukulong! Itodo na ninyo, GO! GO! GO!”
Sinabi mo pa, Tongue.
Nakakahawa ang rabies at rubbish ng mga TUTA ni Blinky Tianak!
GO! GO! GO! Trillanes, todo-todo na rin kami!
Iyan ang magandang strategy kay Trillanes,sa huling yugto ng karera babanat at napagod na ang kalaban,siya fresh pa at hindi pa pinagpapawisan,lahat na ng katungali niya ay inatake na ng hika.
Sariwa sa isipan ng mga tao bago bumuto,kaya tiyak Trillanes ang ililista nila.
Ayon sa tsismis ng barangay, ay mag-dedeploy daw ng military convoy sina Gloria at Esperon sa lahat ng mga Sementerio,pang-escort sa mga patay na buboto.Kung kulang pa raw ay may darating na limang Barko galing ng Mexico na mga pinsan ni Arroyo pero sa Mindanao sila buboto.Pati na rin mga tauhan ni Lapu-Lapu at ni Bonifacio ay kinakailangan daw silang bumoto kasi tagilid ang TU.Iyong mga absentee ballots ng mga OFW ay hindi nila kayang dayain dahil puro GO.Lahat ng balota ay number one ang pangalan ni Trillanes.
Ms. Ellen,
Sayang at hindi namin mapapanood ng live ang Strictly Politics na isa si Sonny Trillanes sa mga guests ni Pia Hontiveros.
Isinisingit kasi ng PBA ang mga basketball games na puro naman replayed na. Dati-rati ay sa ibang channnel ng The Filipino Global ipinalalabas ang basketball pero ngayon ay isiningit na sa ANC Channel. Nakakinis nga, eh. Kung sinuman ang nagbabasa ng input na ito na taga-ANC Programming – paki-rebisa naman ang inyong scheduling o programming dahil ini-angal ko na ito sa TFC-ME pero walang aksiyon. Pakibalik na lamang ninyo sa dating channel ang PBA/PBL games.
Nawala tuloy ang ibig sabihin ng ANC na puro news lamang dahil apat na buwan ng mayroong pasingit na PBA/PBL sports.
Tongue, Jamby has been the one paying for Trillanes ad on TV.
ADB, Gloria Arroyo is also going to Vatican for the cannonization of the founder of the Assumption order.June 2 yata. so its Tokyo, New Zealand, Australia, Vatican in one trip. I’m not sure of the order.
cocoy says: “Pati na rin mga tauhan ni Lapu-Lapu at ni Bonifacio ay kinakailangan daw silang bumoto kasi tagilid ang TU.”
pareng cocoy,
ibig ba’ng sabihin, pati mga tauhan ni bonifacio na pinatay ni lazaro makapagal ay bumalimbing na rin? magkano sila binayaran?
‘langya talagang gloria, pati kasaysayan kinurap na!
chiz (not our dear chi here, huh?),
‘tado ka. nilaglag ko na nga si honasan sa listahan ko, ipinangangampanya mo pa? bale wala ba sa iyo ang “paglambot” niya sa pandaraya ng ninang mo sa kasal noong 2004?
iho, nagtitiwala kami sa iyo (pati na rin kay alan), huwag mong sirain ‘yun. mabuti na nga lang nakaboto na ako. kung hindi at ganyang ginawa ninyong dalawa ni alan, hindi lang siguro pagdadalawang isip ang gagawin ko, baka hindi ko na maalala mga pangalan ninyo.
anyway, nandiyan na ‘yan. bumawi na lamang kayo at huwag nang dagdagan pa ang pagkakamaling ito.
baka bulok na kamatis ang sumalubong sa inyo!
Eh, si Blinky Tianak ay punta rin sa Vatican?! Marami siyang dalang donasyon kaya papasukin siya doon. Talagang ang mga demonyo, kahit saan ay nakakapasok dahil sa itim na kapangyarihan! Nakokorap lahat!
Maglalagalag muna ako sa kabundukan para malimutan si Chiz at Alan sa kanilang maling hakbang!
Pero kay Trillanes, wala pa akong nakikitang maaari kong ikadismaya. Iba talaga ang tunay kung magsalita!
GO! GO! GO! Trillanes, ikaw na lang ang natitirang totoo!
In the process of cannonization, there should be testimonies of miracles that were received through the intercession of the Beatified. I hope hindi gagawa ng milagro at magsalita (being a President of country kahit daya) at sabihin na milagro ang pagkakapresidente niya. Hindi ba sinabi niya “utos” ng Diyos sa kanya. Hindi ba ang Ten Commandments ay Utos ng Dios? Bakit hindi niya sinunod ang mga ito? Baka absent siya sa klase noong itinuro ng mga madre sa Assumption(whose foundress is being cannonized as a saint) ang 10 Commandments. Hindi ko masabi na hindi niya naintindihan kasi valedictorian siya at
may doctorate pa. I wonder if Loren will attend as well..
Ngayon pa lamang ay may duda na kayo kay Chiz at Alan Cayetano, how much more kung nanalo na sila, goodbye voters. Ever since, hindi ako kumbinsido pa sa ilang kandidato ng GO. Ang masasabi ko lang, sa lahat ng mga kandidato, sila Ping Lacson at Trillanes lang ang ayaw sa pork barrel. Sana ay magpursigi sila na maalis na ito. Ang pork barrel ang dahilan kaya makikipagpatayan ang isang politiko. Sa opinyon ko, ito talaga ang ugat kung bakit lulong sa graft and corruption especially ang mga solons.
Sinabi ni Mr Banayo sa kanyang column kahapon ang mga paggastos ng mga kandidato at paano nila mababawi o nababawi ang kanilang mga gastos sa eleksyon. Sinabi niya na sa pork barrel at sa kunwari ay mage-expose sila ng katiwalian at pagkatapos ay uupuan lamang kung magka-cash-unduan na. Wala na ngang pag-asa, kahit sino pa man, kung may ganyan.
I would resist the temptation to blast the GO candidates if I were you, guys, unless you are sure of what you are saying. This is one reason why I would rather admonish the Filipinos to heed the counsel of Binay that they make this election a referendum on GMA and her cahoots in decriminalizing graft and corruption and making their criminal activities normal and standard in the Philippines.
The temptation may be strong, and Sonny Trillanes should thank his lucky star and the Lord that he has gone this far—I am told that voters in the Philippines are getting to know him better.
That is good because the counts at home still count with the OFW votes not really enough to be counted with a oot many of the less than 500,000 overseas Filipinos registered disenfranchised and a lot many disappointed with the result of the 2004 election no matter how much Abalos and Company try to cheat for his benefactor.
Time to put in the heads of Filipinos that Trillanes is proving something. If he wins, it is proof that Filipinos have matured politically, and with their concerted and reborn (not renewed) efforts, they can now lick the oligarchs who have held the Filipinos by the neck with their craps. Sonny will also be able to prove that election campaigns need not be too costly. The people can do the campaign and spending on their own for their favorite candidates, and just think of nothing but put up someone who can work and serve the interests, and tackle the jobs they have the duties and responsibilities to perform.
When Sonny Trillanes, for me, it is proof indeed that “When there is a will, there is a way,” and this time it is even God’s Will and Trillanes desire to do as God has willed it.
Really, Ellen, I could not help a tear or two when I read what you wrote about Sonny’s conviction and faith in the Lord above despite his present trial and tribulation. This young lad really has the potential to be a great president of a great nation.
And as Trillanes has stated, the Philippines will become better by removing Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, the Menace!
Chiz Escudero is now also saying he is against pork barrel, as a news item in here http://www.malaya.com.ph/may10/metro4.htm
kitamokitako,
read and it and felt relieved. huwag lang sanang pa-come on lang ito ni chiz at pagtatakip sa kanyang ginawang pag-i-endorse kay honasan na ikinadismaya ng ibang sumusuporta sa kanya (escudero).
start again believing in chiz’s stand.