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Decapitated AFP

Retired Lt. Gen. Raul Urgello of Bantay-Boto electoral watchdog warned of a “decapitated Armed Forces” if Antonio Trillanes IV, detained senatorial candidate of the Genuine Opposition, is not allowed to assume his seat in the Senate despite the fact that election results showed that he is number 11 in the Magic 12.

In a press con at the Manila Polo Club, Urgello said,”The delay in the proclamation of Senator Trillanes…I think it will divide the Armed Forces, it might decapitate the Armed Forces, which is really the danger there because we will have a leadership without followers.”

Read more about this in Inquirer and in Malaya.

Published inElection 2007Military

30 Comments

  1. chi chi

    Totoo naman na takot ang AFP leadership kay Trillanes a!

    Ang linaw na kung hindi sila nanginginig sa takot ay proklamado na si Sonny. Kaya hindi makagalaw iyang si Abalos ay dahil na kay Blinky Tianak ang kumpas!

    Sino kaya ang mas takot, si Gloria Pidal, ang Commmander-in-Cheat, o si Assperon, ang Cheat-of -Stuff?! My guess is …Gloria the Cheat!

  2. chi chi

    Meron pa bang tagasunod ang AFP maliban kay Bakero na sumusunod kay Assperon na approve without thinking naman kay Blinky Tianak?!

    Iproklama na ninyo si Trillanes! Kayo na dapat protektor ng demokrasya ang nang-aanay sa Pinas. Wala kayong kahit na katiting na pagmamahal sa inyong bansa, mga walanghiyang hinayupaks under the leadership of Gloria the Greatest Cheat of all!

  3. Diego K. Guerrero Diego K. Guerrero

    The Arroyo government is being run by a castrated bureaucracy incapable of leadership and responsibility. The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) top brass are castrated by usurper Gloria Arroyo. They just follow blindly illegal orders like the in case of Hello Garci Generals. The military should not involve in partisan politics as mandated in our constitution. Matagal ng KAPON ang AFP leadership.

  4. xanadu xanadu

    DGK. Ma’m Chi

    Castrated at kaponized na, talagang wala nang silbi noon pa maliban sa isang maliit na tao. That’s the state of the present AFP hierarchy. With the entry of a Trillanes like Prince Valiant in a shining armor, hindi malayong ma-decapitate ang mga yan kung hindi sila maunang mag harakiri. Mantak nyo, windang na ang ibaba, puputulin pa rin ang itaas! Ang sakit noon a, doublie kill! Pagkatapos, pasagasaan pa sa MRT.

  5. Spy Spy

    The AFP was then united and solid until Angelo Reyes betrayed the soldiers and the Filipino people. The AFP will remain fragmented while Gloria and Esperon are still around. Like his boss, Esperon lost the respect and obedience of his soldiers. He is not leading the AFP. He is only commanding a small circle of officers who benefited from him financially. (Esperon is known in the AFP to buy loyalty).

    The AFP now is seriously divided caused by unprofessionalism, corruption and the ABSENCE of Esperon’s moral ascendacy to command the AFP.

    Only one daring move by even a small group of progressive minded officers and soldiers will make Esperon dash home -in Australia.

  6. Good thing Urgello is no longer serving actively in the AFP. Otherwise, he could have been arrested and threatened with a lousy court martial by Assperon by order of his Commander-in-Cheat.

    mga inutil, they could not even dismantle a bomb! Bakit kailangan iyong mga kanong makialam sa police work in the Philippines? Dito we have police experts to dismantle bombs planted by terrorists who are by law considered criminals whose investigation are under the jurisdiction of the police, not the military.

    A friend in the police in fact was sent to Cambodia and Rwanda before when UN peacekeepers were sent there to bring back peace and order. He was a bomb expert and was good in preventing bombs of all kinds, especially home-made bombs, from exploding.

    Golly, hindi ba nahihiya ang mga inutil that without foreign help, they are lameducks? Ano bang gustong ipalabas ni Bobang hambug pang akala mo kaya niyang maging leader sa ASEAN, etc. Pinapakita pang walang ibubuga ang mga pulis-pulisan sa Pilipinas. Sabi siguro ng mga kano, “Wow, ang bobo!”

  7. Sige, birahan na ninyo Lt. Gen. Urgello. Senator Trillanes should be given his credential and accreditation NOW as Senator of the Philippines. Hindi si unano ang dapat na mag-decide kung palalabasin siya para pagsilbihan ang bayan and mga bumoto sa kaniya kundi ang mga pilipino lalo na alam naman ng lahat na nandaya lang siya, at kaya pumupunta sa ibang bansa ay dahil para ma-feel niyang presidente siya na ayaw ibigay sa kaniya ng mga kababayan niyang hindi na niyang magawang maloko, pero pakialam nga naman ng mga nasa ibang bansang mga dayuhan.

    Sabi nga ng isang parliamentarian namin, “Takei-san, kailangang may opisyal charges kay Arroyo para hindi na namin siyang tawaging presidente ng Pilipinas. Kundi pasensiya wala tayong magagawa kundi siguro pahintuin muna ang ODA on the basis of the extrajudicial killings.”

    So, guys, ang baraha ay nasa mga pilipino na. Kung ayaw pang ideklara si Senator Trillanes at bumaba ang kriminal ay kailangan na ang rebolusyon, peaceful and otherwise!

  8. rose rose

    Sa tingin ko wala na ngang respeto ang mga sundalo sa kanilang Chief of Staff. Kung hindi nila sundin blindly ang utos ng general ano ang mangyayari sa kanila? Jailed?
    or Killed? Sa ngayon wala naman silang nagagawa para sa mga taumbayan – so what could be the worst scenario? Iiyak at maglulupasay si Gloria? Hayaan nating siya umiyak at umiyak at kung madedma siya Amen! AMEN! This is not what I pray for but it could be an answer to our prayers. And SOON AH WILL BE DONE with the troubles of the Philippines and we will be crying in the chapel and the tears we will
    shed are tears of joy.

  9. BTW, guys, in an article for Tribune, Alejandro Lichauco wrote: “GMA, JdV set to deliver RP territory, sovereignty to China

    “How else interpret GMA’s and JdV’s intention particularly after GMA’s announcement in China that she would like to see China’s development plan include the Philippines?

    “In the proposed Cha-cha, which GMA and JdV are hell-bent on pursuing, we see nothing less than an outright plan to deliver outright the nation’s territory, patrimony and sovereignty to global investors — and to China in particular.”

    Read this article at http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20070614com3.html

    People here in fact have known this long ago. I’ve actually
    mentioned this in other loops in this blog, remember? My husband has told me about complaints of Japanese investors on this as a matter of fact, and why in fact, other Asians are suspicious of the idiotic criminal who is giving the whole of Asia to China!

  10. Diego K. Guerrero Diego K. Guerrero

    Traitors Gloria Arroyo and Jose De Venecia are selling our public domain to China. Millions of hectares of public lands will de developed by Chinese firms. The Arroyo administration signed anomalous Chinese contracts in $500 million North Rail Project and over-priced $330-million ZTE broadband. The Philippine Senate must stop these Gloria’s frenzy.

    Primer on RP-China Agreements: Legal Objections and Remedies
    Excerpts: Land Use by Chinese Interests
    The agreements violate the mandate of applying the principle of agrarian reform in the disposition or utilization of other natural resources, including lands of public domain. Further, private corporations or associations may not hold alienable lands of the public domain except by lease, for a period not exceeding twenty-five years, renewable for not more than twenty-five years, and not to exceed one thousand hectares in area.
    Allow foreign corporations to lease hectares of lands in violation of the limits imposed by the Constitution.
    http://www.bilaterals.org/article.php3?id_article=8026

    Arroyo wants Philippines in China’s dev’t plan
    business.inquirer.net/money/breakingnews/view_article.php?article_id=70127

  11. chi chi

    mga inutil, they could not even dismantle a bomb!”

    Yuko,

    Inutil na among tianak, inutil na mga tagasunod! Talaga naman po, WALANG KAALAM-ALAM! Sa lahat ng bagay ay mendicant ang gobyerno ng pekeng Gloria!

    Marahil ay naaawa ang mga tunay na terorista na guluhin ang Pinas dahil naaawa sila sa militar at pulis pinoy! hahahah!

  12. xanadu xanadu

    General Raul Urgello sir! We are urging you to continue airing your views on the dire consequences if Senator Trillanes will not be proclaimed soonest. For sure, everything you say about the delaying tactics of the administration and comelec will be played up in the media.
    At makakarating ang balita sa lahat na sulok ng mundo!

  13. I have time and again asked you to refrain from saying cuss words here.It’s a sign of maturity to be able to maintain your dignity under stress. And I presume we are all mature here.

    Please keep to yourself your pagmumura. Please don’t spread it here.

    If you cuss here, you are also disrespecting this blog.

  14. luzviminda luzviminda

    Ystakei said:
    “Golly, hindi ba nahihiya ang mga inutil that without foreign help, they are lameducks?”

    Ystakei,

    Sinabi mo pa! Kung hindi sa mga sundalong kano na nasa Mindanao ngayon ay malamang na taob na ang mga sundalo natin na ipinapain ni Esperon sa mga kalaban. Mga sundalong kulang-kulang sa kagamitan, mga butas na combat boots, inferior helmets, lack of communication gadgets at iba pang hinaing ng mga cambatants. Samantalang si Esperon at ang iba pang corrupt na mga general ay nagpapayaman at umaabuso sa kapangyarihan na ibinigay ng isang huwad na presidente. Noon pa man ay mayroon ng lateral division sa military. And it is about time na magising ang mga nasa ibabang hanay!!!

  15. luzviminda luzviminda

    Isa sa ipinaglalaban ni Trillanes ay ang kapakanan at pangangailangan ng mga pangkaraniwang combatants lalo na yung mga nasa war-torn areas. Ngunit dahil sa mga corrupt generals at officers ay lalong lumalala ang labanan lalo na sa Mindanao, palibhasa ay pinagkakwartahan lang. Tama si Trillanes na suriin dapat kung sino talaga ang mga kalaban ng bayan.

  16. TonGuE-tWisTeD TonGuE-tWisTeD

    Decapitating the whole of the AFP is, indeed, dangerous. But why risk it at all?

    One simple solution is to decapitate HerMujeres Assperon alone.

  17. Luzviminda: Sinabi mo pa! Kung hindi sa mga sundalong kano na nasa Mindanao ngayon ay malamang na taob na ang mga sundalo natin na ipinapain ni Esperon sa mga kalaban. Mga sundalong kulang-kulang sa kagamitan, mga butas na combat boots, inferior helmets, lack of communication gadgets at iba pang hinaing ng mga cambatants.

    *****
    You bet, they are exactly what the good soldiers are complaining about and what Trillanes actually wanted to tell the idiotic criminal but was ignored and reason why he and his friends made that dramatic act at Oakwood. It was an act to show the Filipinos what these creeps have been doing stealing money from the national coffers and even the budget for the AFP that were going to the pockets of the creeps’ (mag-asawa nga pala ang kumag na mga creeps) friends at the AFP. Remember that Garcia guy hoarding millions of Filipino foreign reserves to his and his masters’ accounts in the USA? Golly, kunyari lang inimbestigahan but was this Garcia really punished for it even when in fact, what he did was a violating of some money restriction both in the US and the Philippines?

    Iyong mga sundalong kano ipinapain ng ungas to frighten the Filipinos from trying to remove the creeps from the palace by the murky river. Pero sinong tinatakot nila? The Philippines is supposed to be a free country and I don’t think the Senate and Congress dominated by the Democrats will give sanction to the US soldiers to meddle in Philippine affairs if Filipinos in the Philippines, US and elsewhere that this attempt now to remove a criminal and her cohorts is a domestic affair. Foreigners can support the Filipinos in some other way like what the Japanese lawyers, etc. have been doing to stop ODA to the corrupt government of the creeps.

    I doubt if those democrats will allow Bush to attack the Philippines like he did in Iraq especially with the US reputation now of having most of all a mad man for a president. Golly, the guy made a real mess of Iraq even sans Saddam Hussein. The blood of the more than 300,000 Iraqis sacrificed for this useless war ON Iraq is calling justice from Up High. Kaya tignan mo namang ang salot na inaabot ng America ngayon that is affecting everyone as a matter of fact!!!

  18. nelbar nelbar

    “Malacañang yesterday gave the AFP leadership the thumbs up in the military’s decision to conduct a survey among the soldiery to determine whether the victory of Trillanes was a protest vote against Mrs. Arroyo and her government.”(Comelec, Palace warned vs Trillanes proclamation delay – The Daily Tribune 14June2007)

     

    If the Communist organization and its symphatizer had its own “process of rectification” during the late 80’s to early 90’s, now its AFP turn.
    Being the elite’s ally to promote and protect its interest, its now high time for the policy makers in AFP, the policy board in particular, to re-assess its role in nation building.
    During the past 20 years since the first propaganda in Manila Hotel(July 86) and August 1987, a certain faction in AFP showed their disgust in Malacañang leadership and formed an alliance to question perceived communist symphatizer in Cory’s cabinet.

    Last week we heard from someone that the election of Trillanes was supported by left leaning groups.

    Bakit?!Si Sonny Trillanes IV ba ay mula sa uring manggagawa?

    Isa sa mga successful operation ng AFP as an institution ay maipamukha sa sambayanan na kapag lumabas ka at lumutang upang makibahagi sa PROCESS OF NATION BUILDING ay paparatangan ka na KOMUNISTA O kaya ay TERORISTA!

    Hindi nakakapagtaka kung bakit marami ang mga nagsisipagtapos ng pag-aaral ay mas pipiliin pa na mangibang bansa at duon na lang manilbihan ay maging bahagi ng host country.

    The AFP encourages the failure of the Philippines so that it would integrate more into the US and cater its interest – and that is the National Defense Act of 1935 is all about.

    Its US or China for the AFP in the coming years.

    What do you think?

  19. Diego K. Guerrero Diego K. Guerrero

    UPDATE: The National Board of Canvassers (NBC) will proclaim on Friday this week former Navy Lieutenant Senior Grade Antonio Trillanes IV as the 11th winning senatorial candidate of the May 14 polls. – GMANews.TV

  20. jay cynikho jay cynikho

    “I think it will divide the Armed Forces, it might decapitate the Armed Forces, which is really the danger there because we will have a leadership without followers.”

    though rendered obsolescent by gloria’s acquiescence to proclaim Trillanes, above statement is not really CLEAR. This kind of division looks more removing the body than the head. If you decapitate, you kill the organism. If you DISEMBOWEL you also kill the organism. Said either way this Trillanes guillotine is so bad for gloria she has to step back. Lt Gen Raul Urgello, the people thank you for speaking out. Your words probably contributed to a forced Trillanes proclamation.

  21. “Decapitated AFP”

    “Decapitated” na ba? > Tuluyan nang mapuputulan?

    Yaong mga kamay ng mamamatay tao’t magnanakaw ng Bayan?

    OO…yun nga… Yan ang gusto ng Bayan!

    Para matigil na > Magnanakaw Ng Kaban Ng Bayan!

  22. chi chi

    Decapitated, lansag-lansag Esperon!

    Release all incarcerated soldiers!

    Wala silang kasalanan na pinatunayan ng 11 plus million votes ni Sonny Trillanes! His accumulated votes also speaks of votes of approval for the immediate release of the “Officers and Gentlemen”!

  23. chi chi

    LT GEN RAUL URGELLO, Thank you, Sir!

  24. chi chi

    JC,

    I believe that Lt Gen Raul Urgello was successful in delivering the urgent message of pinoys to Gloria and Esperon. Salamat uli, Sir!

    Ito ang klase ng RAUL na kailangan ng bayan! Hindi si SiRAULo Gunggong Gonzales!

  25. Chi Lt Gen Urgello is an intelligence man through and through! He’s always been known to be a spy’s spy, hehehe!

    If he truly said that, then watch out!

  26. chi chi

    Anna, kaya pala naturete ang EK ng magsalita si Lt Gen Urgello. Kung walang magboses, Gloria and minions don’t act.

    Tuloy ang dakdak kung ganyan sila palagi!

  27. Mrivera Mrivera

    anna,

    totoo ‘yan. ltgen urgello had undergone the highest training in intelligence collection and operation. before his promotion to army chief he’s been the longest serving intelligence staff officer in the army.

  28. New tactic in spying/intelligence work according to an instructor of a training I attended when I was training to be an investigator cum interpreter was that we share a little information and get double or triple the information we are willing to share. Very effective indeed. Akala kasi ng kausap sold na sold ka sa kanila.

  29. Magno, Chi,

    J2 pa muna siya before becoming CG PA! Disenteng tao iyang si Urgello, walang yabang, low key talaga and hindi kurakot – he almost didn’t get the promotion CGPA because he was much too decent! Si Angie Reyes lang talaga ang PINKAMAYABANG sa Class 66! Si Gen J Nazareno was also a soldier’s soldier! Walang sinabi si Reyes sa kalingkingan ni Gen Nazareno at matapang na tao pa di pareho ni Reyes, puro yabang lang!

  30. nelbar nelbar

    Reform Movement noon at ngayon.
     

    please spot the difference.

    honasan, kapunan, robles, batac, malajacan, turingan
     
    gambala, maestrocampo, trillanes, layug, faeldon, lejano

     

    Parang si Faeldon lang yata ang naiiba.

    Si Faeldon lang ba ang nagsuot ng kulay orange na suit?

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