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Alston warns of dire consequences

Update:The militant group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) yesterday urged President Arroyo to immediately comply with the recommendations of United Nations special rapporteur Philip Alston on ending the wave of extrajudicial killings. Click here.

Philip Alston, United Nations special rapporteur on extra-judicial killings in the Philippines, warned of dire consequences of a failure to end extrajudicial killings.

“The consequences of a failure to end extrajudicial killings in the Philippines will be dire. Efforts to resolve the various insurgencies will be set back significantly. Incentives to opposition groups to head for the hills rather than seek to engage in democratic politics will be enhanced, and international support for the Government will be undermined,” he said in his preliminary report submitted to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva last March 15.

He took note of the Arroyo government’s doubletalk: “One of the key impediments to the effectiveness of many of the measures announced by the Government in recent weeks is the fact that many of the accountability mechanisms which are invoked as checks on governmental abuses have been rendered ineffectual in dealing with such issues. On paper, they remain strong. In practice, they are of all too little use, and often this is the result of official design.”

The whole report:

UNITED NATIONS
IMPLEMENTATION OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251 OF 15 MARCH 2006 ENTITLED “HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL”
Preliminary note on the visit of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Philip Alston, to the Philippines (12-21 February 2007) ** Reissued for technical reasons. ** The note was submitted late in order to reflect the most recent information

I. INTRODUCTION

1. I visited the Philippines at the invitation of the Government from 12 to 21 February 2007. I met with key government officials, including the President, the Executive Secretary, the National Security Adviser, the Secretaries for Defence and Justice, members of Congress, the Chief Justice, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Chair of the Human Rights Commission, and the Ombudsman. Approximately half of my mission was devoted to meetings with representatives of civil society, in Manila, Baguio and Davao. Pending the submission of my final report to the Human Rights Council, this interim report provides a brief overview of my activities and identifies some of the issues which are of the most concern to me. Comments provided by the Government on a draft of this report are acknowledged with appreciation.

2. The Government cooperated in the organization and conduct of my mission in an exemplary fashion. As I indicated in my departing press conference, the fact of the invitation itself reflected a clear recognition of the gravity of the problem, a willingness to permit outside scrutiny, and a very welcome preparedness to engage on the issues. Civil society was equally engaged and I received very detailed and systematic information which contributed enormously to the success of the mission.

II. PRINCIPAL CONCERNS AND GOVERNMENT RESPONSES

3. In a nutshell, my visit was prompted by reports of a large number of extrajudicial killings, especially of leftist activists and journalists, over the past six years or so. While the estimates vary from 100 to 800 or more, I concluded that it is not productive to play the numbers game and seek to confirm any definitive number. No one disputes that large numbers have been killed. Especially problematic is the fact that the impact has been to intimidate vast numbers of civil society actors, to send a message of vulnerability to all but the most well connected, and to severely undermine political discourse.

4. In considering how to respond to the problem, it is not helpful to dwell unduly at this stage on the reluctance of the military, the police and some key ministers to come to terms with the reality and seriousness of the problem. Suffice it to note that the Government itself was sufficiently motivated to appoint both a high-level independent commission to investigate the problem (the Melo Commission) and a national-level police task force (with military cooperation) to investigate alleged killings promptly and bring prosecutions (Task Force Usig). In recent months, the Government has ordered a range of initiatives, including:
– The Department of National Defense (DND) and the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) have been requested to draft an updated document on Command Responsibility;
– The Department of Justice (DOJ), DND, and the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) have been asked to constitute a Joint Fact-Finding body in relation to the alleged involvement of military personnel in the killings, and to charge and prosecute those responsible;
– The DOJ has been asked to broaden and enhance the Witness Protection Program (WPP);
– The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court has announced the creation of 99 Special Courts to try those accused of killings of a political or ideological nature;
– The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has formally requested assistance from the European Union and others to provide funds in response to the killings;†
– An additional 25 million pesos (US$ 510,000) has been provided to the CHR to enable it to better address the problem; and
– The Presidential Human Rights Committee (as distinct from the CHR) has been rejuvenated.

5. The fact that there has been such a strong institutional response at the national level is initially encouraging. This in turn has been mirrored by the deep concerns expressed by a diverse range of actors within the international community. Taken together, these responses attest to the high saliency of the issue and the urgent need to identify measures which might help to end the spate of killings. The remainder of this interim report is devoted to that challenge.

III. THE ROAD AHEAD

6. The consequences of a failure to end extrajudicial killings in the Philippines will be dire. Efforts to resolve the various insurgencies will be set back significantly. Incentives to opposition groups to head for the hills rather than seek to engage in democratic politics will be enhanced, and international support for the Government will be undermined. A multifaceted and convincing governmental response is thus urgent.

7. In essence, the problem must be tackled at two different, but complementary, levels. At one level there is indeed a need for more staff, more resources, and more specialist expertise, a better witness-protection programme, and the strengthening of key institutions. The recent Government actions noted above have gone a considerable way in that direction. But such steps are premised almost entirely on the assumption that the key interventions required concern resources and expertise. The hope seems to be that if there can be better investigators, more forensic capacity, more focused judicial action, and more sustained action by the joint military/police task force, the problems will be resolved. But the strong risk is that these measures will treat only some of the symptoms of the crisis, and will fail to address meaningfully two of the most important underlying causes of a great many of the killings.

8. Those causes constitute the second level at which an effective national response is required. The first cause has been variously described as “vilification”, “labelling”, or guilt by association. It involves the characterization of most groups on the left of the political spectrum as “front organizations” for armed groups whose aim is to destroy democracy. The result is that a wide range of groups – including human rights advocates, labour union organizers, journalists, teachers unions, women’s groups, indigenous organizations, religious groups, student groups, agrarian reform advocates, and others – are classified as “fronts” and then as “enemies of the State” that are accordingly considered to be legitimate targets. The second cause is the extent to which aspects of the Government’s counter-insurgency strategy encourage or facilitate the extrajudicial killings of activists and other ‘enemies’ in certain circumstances. The final report will elaborate at length on this issue.

A. Orders of battle

9. While these two causes tend to operate separately from one another in many settings, they also come together in various ways. The most dramatic illustration is the “order of battle” approach adopted systematically by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), and in practice often by the Philippines National Police (PNP). In military terms an order of battle is defined as “an organizational tool used by military intelligence to list and analyze enemy military units’ ”. The AFP adopts an order of battle in relation to the various regions and sub-regions in which they operate. A copy of a leaked document of this type, from 2006, was provided to me and I am aware of no reason to doubt its authenticity. The document, co-signed by senior military and police officials, calls upon “all members of the intelligence community in the [relevant] region … to adopt and be guided by this update to enhance a more comprehensive and concerted effort against the CPP/NPA/NDF (Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army/National Democratic Front)”. The document, some 110 pages in length, lists hundreds of groups and individuals who have been classified, on the basis of intelligence, as members of organizations which the military deems “illegitimate”. Newspapers carry almost daily reports of senior military officials urging that such groups be neutralized and calling upon the populace to recognize that to support their candidates in the upcoming elections would be to support the enemy. This practice was openly and adamantly defended by nearly every member of the military with whom I spoke. When a significant number of individuals killed in incidents implicating the armed forces or police are also listed on an order of battle, it raises serious questions about the appropriateness of this practice. It may be, as I was told, a “political war”, but when such political war is conducted by soldiers rather than civilians, politics too quickly comes to involve guns as well as words. An interim recommendation emerges from this analysis and is outlined below.

B. Restoring accountability at all levels

10. One of the key impediments to the effectiveness of many of the measures announced by the Government in recent weeks is the fact that many of the accountability mechanisms which are invoked as checks on governmental abuses have been rendered ineffectual in dealing with such issues. On paper, they remain strong. In practice, they are of all too little use, and often this is the result of official design. These issues will be examined in detail in my final report but for present purposes it is sufficient to focus upon some key examples of institutional passivity in the face of large numbers of killings.

11. There is a passivity, bordering on an abdication of responsibility, which affects the way in which key institutions and actors approach their responsibilities in relation to such human rights concerns. For example, in discussions with me, the chair of the Senate Committee on Justice and Human Rights insisted that there was no role for Congress because no new legislation was required, given that murder was already a punishable offence. He openly denied that Congress should play any proactive oversight role regarding the executive’s execution of the law. He added that military promotions of those widely suspected of human rights violations were no concern of his Committee and had not been held up by the Congressional Commission on Appointments because no witnesses had come forward to object. He had not and did not intend to hold hearings into the widespread problem of extrajudicial killings because it was a matter for the executive, rather than the Congress.

12. The Secretary of Justice, and his colleagues, were perplexed at the proposition that prosecutors, whose role is absolutely central in the Philippines justice system, had some broader responsibility to take steps to uphold respect for human rights. Instead, their role was seen as a passive one. If a file presented to them was insufficient, their role was simply to return it and hope that the police would do better next time. It was not for them to observe or respond to clearly shoddy dossiers designed to ensure that the police could be said to have done their job while at the same time no prosecution would follow. The Government position is that prosecutors must show “total impartiality” and thus they cannot be directed to adapt their methods of work to ensure that everything possible is done to promote respect for human rights. That position seems to me to be highly problematic.

13. The Ombudsman’s office, despite the existence of a separate unit designed to investigate precisely the type of killings that have been alleged, has done almost nothing in recent years in this regard. The Government itself acknowledges that, of 44 complaints submitted from 2002 to 2006 alleging extrajudicial executions attributed to State agents, the Ombudsman’s office concluded that it was unable to act on even a single case. While such a result in relation to five or even ten cases might be justifiable, when it reaches the level of 44 cases the conclusion must be that the office is failing in its responsibilities. Many explanations were offered for its inactivity, but none were convincing. Moreover, in at least some situations the office operates as a de facto subsidiary of the Department of Justice.
14. Finally, the executive branch has stymied the legislature’s efforts to oversee the execution of laws. Military officers are seldom permitted to appear before Congress other than at budget hearings. A high-ranking government official recounted with genuine puzzlement the efforts of the Committee on Human Rights of the House of Representatives to obtain the testimony of senior military officers. This was considered self-evidently preposterous and was successfully avoided. Official policy, now in the form of a ‘memorandum circular’ provides that any official requested to “appear before either House of Congress” shall “forward the request . . . to the President through the Executive Secretary” who “shall consider whether the subject matter of the inquiry is in aid of legislation and/or falls within the scope of executive privilege”. This restrictive approach tends to make congressional oversight meaningless in practice.

IV. INTERIM RECOMMENDATIONS
15. I recommend that:
(a) The Government should immediately direct all military officers to cease making public statements linking political or other civil society groups to those engaged in armed insurgencies. If such characterizations are ever to be made it must be by civilian authorities, on the basis of transparent criteria, and in conformity with the human rights provisions of the Constitution and relevant treaties;
(b) The Government should commit to restoring the effectiveness of constitutionally mandated accountability arrangements, especially in relation to the role of Congressional oversight;
(c) In conjunction with the executive branch of Government, the Supreme Court should use its constitutional powers over the practice of law to impress upon prosecutors that they have a duty to the public to uphold and protect human rights by acting to ensure the effective investigation of cases and protection of witnesses;
(d) The Ombudsman’s office should begin to take seriously its independent constitutional role in responding to extrajudicial killings plausibly attributed to public officials;
(e) The Government should provide the Special Rapporteur with a copy of an “order of battle” relating to one of the zones in the country in which significant conflict is currently occurring.

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26 Comments

  1. Mrivera Mrivera

    hindi na mahalaga kung anuman ang obserbasyon o panukala ng mga taong walang tuwirang kinalaman sa mga nangyayari sa ating bayan.

    nasa kasalukuyang pamahalaan ang lahat ng pagkukulang at pananagutan sapagkat hindi nito kayang pangalagaan ang kaligtasan ng kanyang mamamayan laban sa sinumang naghahasik ng kaguluhan, maging sila man ay nasa sandatahang lakas o sa alinmang armadong grupong hindi marunong kumilala sa karapatan at kahinaan ng biktimang walang kalabanlaban.

  2. Mrivera Mrivera

    kahit sino pa ang ipadala ng alinmang pandaigdigang organisasyon, maging pangulo man ng pinakamakapangyarihang bansa o pinakamataas na pinuno ng alinmang relihiyon, kung ang namumuno ay MANHID, WALANG PAKIALAM, BALAT SIBUYAS (na bulok)AT SALAT SA PAGKANDILI’T PAGMAMALASAKIT sa kanyang nasasakupan, mangingibabaw ang karahasan lalo na at ang lahat ng sa kanya ay nakapaligid ay may kanyakanyang interes na pinangangalagaan at kabulukang pilit pinagtatakpan!

  3. vic vic

    It took all of less than half a month of roaming the country, with limited access to all the parties, and blanket denials by the Administration people of the Judicial Killings for a U.N. Rapporteur to see clearly the overall picture of the Situation and came up with sensible recommendations, than all the others investigations, the “no stone left unturned promises of the President” and even the all encompassing Melo Commission.

    But the truth is, everyone know, except in the words of Philip Alston the “officials” who talk from both sides of their mouths and those who refuted his findings before he even have them published. This report is as straight as an arrow as compared the crooked winds that coming from the mouths of the Esperons, the Gonzales, and even the Queen… now please… lying will find you out….

  4. Chabeli Chabeli

    The prelimenary report of UN rapporteur, Philip Alston, on the extra-judicial killings in the Philippines, was straight to the point.

    It was something I had hoped would come from the mouth of the so-called leader of the Philippines. However, to date, Gloria has not come on strong on the spate of killings. She has prefered to be reactive rather than pro-active.

    There is no mincing of words to denounce killings. There are no compromises to be made w/ regard to the threat of human life. It is either condoned or not. Sadly, we have a so-called leader who prefers to close her eyes.

    Must the Philippines suffer the international black eye because of an extremely weak government like Glorias’ ?

    Maybe so. It is the people who will have to take the humiliation.

    When will this nightmare called Gloria end ?

  5. Elvira Sahara Elvira Sahara

    The world will be waiting for Tianak’s response to Alston’s warning. It looks like Alston isn’t leaving a single,tiny stone behind his findings. It’s about time that an end be written on this hot issue. Sana…
    Abangan na lang natin ang kapanapanabik na karugtong!

  6. chi chi

    As early as 2006, there were already Orders of Battle against groups and individuals who are deemed enemies of this fake administration. Anybody who encroaches on Tianak’s definition of “democratic space” is targeted.

    With Alston Report, Tianak was forced to admit OB’s existence. Ano na naman kayang spin ang gagawin ni Bunyeta?!

    What about Gaudencio Rosales, the priest who commented that exra-judicial killings during Marcos was worse than today’s?! Magkano?

    Why the comparison, and isa bang buhay ay mas mahalaga kesa sa iba? Pari pa manding naturingan e hindi naman pala pantay ang tingin sa buhay ng tao!

    I’m waiting for Rosales to issue another statement to defend his poser president against this Alston Report.

  7. Alston will be in Tokyo when the Tiyanak and the husband visit Tokyo also in May. I understand that the Pidals are keen on closing the deal on the Philippine patrimonies in Japan that get so hot every time election comes since they started living at the palace by the murky river.

    Patrimonies ng Pilipinas iyan. Hindi iyan properties ng mga Macapagal for them to dispose of when they want to. Filipinos can sue them in Japanese courts when they find out that there are provisions of the reparations treaty between Japan and the Philippines being violated in the deals involving the properties now considered as Philippine patrimonies.

    Concerned NGOs in Tokyo are now planning a big rally then to push for the UN resolution on the extrajudicial killings, PPT, etc. Buti pa huwag na lang pumunta dito si Tiyanak. Baka mapahiya siya!

  8. chi chi

    So, Gaudencio Rosales was indeed made happy by the Tianak!
    ***
    Musings by Ronald Roy/ 3/30/07

    Well, well, well, if it isn’t Your Eminence again, Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales, coming to the defense of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as she stands increasingly censured or condemned by international organizations and agencies, on her military’s appalling record of extrajudicial executions and human rights abuses! Until your chance or prearranged meeting last Monday at Christ the King with Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, you had remained reticent seemingly, I thought, undergoing a period of humbling recognition of your foibles as Shepherd for Manilans. But I was wrong. What is it then, Your Eminence, about your coming face to face with Mr. Jose Miguel Tuason Arroyo’s wife that makes you turn your back on your flock to your mutual delight?

    http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20070330com6.html

  9. florry florry

    It’s my busiest times of the year in regards to the previous year but I have to squeeze out a little of my time and squeeze in to this blog to voice out my frustrations on the statements of a cardinal regarding extra-judicial killings in the Philippines. My reading on Cardinal Rosales is: GOLD WINS OVER WISDOM AND JUSTICE.
    After a long deafening silence of the church under Rosales about the killings, came the shocker: absorbing GMA and her cabal of notorious and criminal segment of the AFP from the crime of humanity. If it did not come direct from the horse mouth, it’s hard to believe considering his stature as a man (allegedly) of the cloth as well as in society. Abetting criminals under GMA and even somewhat “encouraged” and “endorsed” it by describing it as a “speck” compared to the record of a past administration, he confirmed that the eyes and ears of the church as guardian of morality and leader in espousing clean, honest, transparent and truthful government and society are plastered and blindsided by some million reasons. There’s no speculating anymore about money changing hands. Their records speak for themselves.
    Money is the root of all evil as they say, and it seems it spares no one even the most prayerful people like those bishops and priests in the country. Prayers are no match against the color, the language and the tune of money. They became experts in recognizing the color, in understanding the language and in dancing and singing to the tune. Money corrupts that it turned these supposedly sainted people to lose their wisdom and into characters that see no evil, hear no evil. It’s a case of material things over spiritual.
    Rosales must say something in line with GMA because that’s what he is supposed to do. And I say he should not be in the pulpit preaching to people, instead he should be given a space in Malacanang, sit as a consultant or adviser on how to surpass the “crimes” of Marcos, in that way GMA’s record will not remain just a “speck”, and Rosales may become the second happiest person in the country next to GMA.

  10. nelbar nelbar

    Sabi ni Dr.Vincent Mckee(Birmingham, Specialist Writer) kanina sa BBC News ASIA TODAY about The Philippines.
    “They havent changed much since”

    Pinas is a right wing. He also mentioned of Island of Mindanao, Luzon and Bicol.

    I guess Dr.Mckee wants to point out, “Philippines Is. the only Christian country in Asia”
    — this is my personal opinion.

    napapailing na lang ako 🙁

  11. jojovelas2005 jojovelas2005

    off-topic:
    Escudero tops airport employees mock polls
    By: Itchie G. Cabayan
    CONGRESSMAN Francis “Chiz” Escudero topped the list of most favored senatoriables during the mock elections held among airport employees yesterday.

    Those who cast their votes are some of the 1,522 members of the Samahang Manggagawa sa Paliparan ng Pilipinas (SMPP) headed by Engineer Ceferino Lopez and who showed preference for members of the Genuine Opposition with ten making it to the coveted ‘Magic 12.’

    Making it to the second place is Senate President Manny Villar followed by Alan Peter Cayetano and Panfilo “Ping” Lacson. Sharing the fifth place are Noynoy Aquino and Loren Legarda, followed by Antonio Trillanes, Gregorio Honasan. Sonia Roco, Koko Pimentel III and Francis Pangilinan.

    Notably, only two candidates from the Team Unity made it but only to the last two places, with Joker Arroyo placing 11th and Ralph Recto placing 12th.

    — airport is control by Gov’t pero GO ang lumabas sa Mock Election. Siguro kung masusunod lang ang mga Gov’t employees ayaw nila talaga kay Gloria

  12. Panalo na ang GO. May isa lang akong hiling sa mga GO, pakilagay nga sa GO blog na hindi na kasama si Mr. Cuneta Noted sa GO kasi akala ng kaibigan ko kasama pa rin ang ungas at ayaw daw niya si Kiko. Sabi hindi na kasama si Kiko.

    Sa palagay ko nanloloko pa rin ang ungas na kasama siya kahit na hindi. Ang gulo talaga ng isang iyan. Kapareho noong tiyo nilang si Sotto na kasama sa ASO at TUTA ni Mrs. Pidal!

  13. cocoy cocoy

    That’s a good news if we can elect majority GO in the senate. But, we are still facing a dire consequences in the congressional level. We are still facing a major disadvantages of the weakness in congressional seats. A minority number in the lower house is a weak institutions and are unable to respond to a strong pro administration controlled solons.
    Those administration congressional candidates are the extraordinary importance of personalities, they are the politicians that came from a very rich families, that’s what we need to worry.

  14. Diego K. Guerrero Diego K. Guerrero

    I doubt that Gloria Arroyo is in control of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. She has no political will to fire-out General Eduardo Ermita and his military clique, National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales, Interim Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales, Defense chief Hermogenes Ebdane and AFP chief General Hermogenes Esperon. The Cabinet Oversight Committee on Internal Security (COC-IS) is responsible for the discredited counterinsurgency Oplan Bantay Laya II. The militarization of Metro Manila’s slum areas is part of Oplan Bantay Laya II to neutralize left wing elements and its supporters. It appears the Philippines bogus President Gloria Arroyo is dragging the US military to fight her all-out war against the communist. Oplan Bantay Laya II is patterned after Vietnam War, CIA inspired-Operation Phoenix.

  15. Diego K. Guerrero Diego K. Guerrero

    Focus on the Extrajudicial Killings in RP:
    Operation Phoenix’s Long Shadow

    What is Operation Phoenix? How can an almost-40-year-old counterrevolutionary program mounted on foreign shores provide relevant insights in explaining the current murderous spree in the Philippines?

    By Joel Garduce
    IBON Features
    Posted by Bulatlat
    Splashed all over media, the commission appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to look into the current spate of extrajudicial killings began its hearings this September.
    Headed by former Supreme Court Justice Jose Melo, the body was purportedly tasked to look into the rash of political killings of farmer activists, union leaders, student leaders, party-list organizers, professionals, church people and journalists that had made the Philippines look more like the killing fields for nameless assailants who lately did their bloody fare riding on motorcycles.
    Human rights group Karapatan (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights) reported that since Arroyo exploited EDSA 2 and assumed the seat in Malacanang in 2001, 752 Filipino citizens from all across the country have been waylaid extrajudicially. The impunity with which these killings were done have outraged justice and peace advocates both in and out of the country, including American bishops, members of the diplomatic community from European countries, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Amnesty International. The rest of the story: http://www.bulatlat.com/news/6-34/6-34-phoenix.htm

  16. Diego K. Guerrero Diego K. Guerrero

    I think UNO-Genuine Opposition at congressional level have *quality* candidates particularly in urban and big cities based on Ernesto Maceda’s partial list of candidates. Gloria’s TUTA Team will run for their money. Battery of GO lawyers and committed election inspectors /watchers can neutralize partisan Comelec’s local and provincial officers. I believe it’s an opposition year for both houses and LGU’s unless Comelec chief Abalos’ cheating machinery will prevail. House Speaker Jose De Venecia is fighting for political survival. Dagupan City Mayor Benjamin Lim is a tough opponent and man to beat in Pangsinan 4th congressional district. The biggest numbers of voters are from Dagupan City and Mangaldan area which is considered Benjamin Lim’s bailiwick.

  17. nelbar nelbar

    Ang sabi sa GMA ch.7 flash news report kanina, ang may pinakamalaking boto sa mga regions dito sa Isla ng Pilipinas ay ang Region 4. Sumunod ang NCR, Region 6 at Region 7.

    Darating ang panahon na paghahati-hatiin ng ruling class ang Las Islas Filipinas na kaparehas ng sa Europa.
    Parang noong matapos ang pagbagsak ng emperyong Romano sa Europe.

  18. Iisnabin ang report ni ALSTON na SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR NG UNITED NATIONS?

    Astig ni mamaPanDoc!
    HU-DAS she think she is?
    Kaya niyang bilihin, pati UN?

  19. chi chi

    taipan88,

    Nagtatapang-tapangan lang ‘yan, kasi nasa likod siya ni Assoperon! Nabili niya ang prelate na si Gaudencio Rosales kaya taking her chance na baka maging lucky rin siya na mabili ang UN! heheh!!!

  20. ALinLA ALinLA

    Tama ka Chi. Gagawin nilang lahat, let me correct that, Bibilhin nilang lahat ang sinumang hindi kaayon sa kanilang maitim na balak. Let me repeat my previous posting:

    Watch out! If GMA/Fartso and their cohorts, Assperson, I’vedoneit, siRAULo G. 3-disc Tuting, do not get their target numbers during this election, MARTIAL LAW is a big possibility. God, I pray I’m wrong reading the writings on the wall.

    They would not take “impeachment” sitting down.

  21. chi chi

    Tama ka rin diyan ALinLa, na sinimulan na ni Assoperon ang pang-uulol sa mga tao sa buong mundo sa itinurong ‘recycle graves’. Pinalabas na terrorista si Satur Ocampo at lahat ng kabig n’ya. Ayan, napahiya tuloy ang galamay ni Tianak sa SC.

    Pero, hindi malayo ang nasa isip mo, na kung kulang ang target numbers nila e nauna na ang pakulo ni Assoperon, SiRaulo G, at mongolic Norberto G in prep for the big ML!

  22. nelbar nelbar

    Napanood ko rin sa isang TV station kagabi na itong dalawang Hermogenes ay iniba muna ang topic:

    Spratley Issue – pwede raw tourism.

    Sa susunod na mga buwan ay maglalabas na pera mula sa kaban ng bayan(taxes) para ma-fortify ang nasabing isla na sakop ng Kalayaan group of island.

  23. Diego K. Guerrero Said March 30th, 2007 at 3:03 am
    What is Operation Phoenix? I’ve just read this Bulatlat report, its certainly gives me a wider view to the problem of extra judicial killings here in the Philippines. Maybe its the reason that Davao is crawling in FBI/CIA agents.
    I suggest that everyone here should find time to read it.
    Diego K. Guerrero thank you for posting the web reference.
    http://www.bulatlat.com/news/6-34/6-34-phoenix.htm

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