Sa ilalim ng ating batas, ang Muntinlupa ay kulungan sa mga nahatulan na may kasalanan. Klaro yan: mga nahatulan.
Sina Sen. Antonio Trillanes, Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim at ang 34 pa ay kinakasuhan pa lamang. Hindi pa nahatulan.
Kaya lang mukha talagang hindi na umu-obra ang batas dito sa Pilipinas sa pamahalaan ng pekeng presidente.
Former UP President Francisco “Dodong” Nemenzo, released last Saturday from two nights detention in Camp Crame, is waiting for a warrant of arrest that will put him back in prison with 34 others who were at the Manila Peninsula last Thursday with Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim.
Nemenzo is among those charged with rebellion, together with Trillanes, Lim, Vice President Teofisto Guingona, Bishop Julio Labayen, scriptwriter Bibeth Orteza, and a number of Magdalo officers.
I met Nemenzo last Tuesday at GMA-7 when we guested together in Jessica Soho’s “Hot Seat.” In that two-night stay in Camp Crame, Nemenzo was in the same cell with six others including Air Force Capt. Danny Orpiano, and lawyer JV Bautista. He said the officers seem to be in “high spirits” despite what happened.
The PNP will ask the Makati regional trial court to allow the transfer of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV from Camp Crame to the New Bilibid Prisons in Muntinlupa to ensure his safety, an official said yesterday.
Interior Undersecretary Marius Corpus said Trillanes should be joined in Muntinlupa by Brig, Gen. Danilo Lim and 34 others charged with rebellion for their participation in last week’s Manila Peninsula siege.
“We have studied the matter carefully and weighed the factors regarding the safety and security of the accused and decided that the best way to secure them while they are awaiting trial is to house them in Muntinlupa,” Corpus said.
Nang nagdesisyon sina Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV at Brig. Gen. Danny Lim na bumaba sa Manila Peninsula noong Huwebes, malungkot nilang sinabi na ginawa nila ang kanilang katungkulan para sa pagbabago at kaunlaran ng bayan.
Kung hindi man sila sinuporta ng karamihan, wala na silang magawa doon. Ang talo sa insidenteng ito, sabi ni Trillanes, ay ang mamamayang Pilipino dahil nanatili pa rin sila sa kapangyarihan si Gloria Arroyo.
Kaya habang nasa kapangyarihan si Arroyo, patuloy ang kurakutan sa kaban ng bayan para pambayad niya sa mga taong sumusuporta sa kanya para rin magpapatuloy ang kanilang karangyaan sa gitna ng kahirapan ng taumbayan.
by Ramon Farolan
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Just a few lines on the Peninsula takeover.
I do not know if this was a planned action on the part of Trillanes and company. If it was, it was poorly executed. From the way I saw things on television, it looked more like a spur-of-the-moment move, hoping to generate support from sympathizers and other sectors of society. This did not materialize.
But I can understand the frustrations of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and his fellow Magdalo officers. Their case has dragged on for more than four years with no end in sight. The saying goes that “justice delayed is justice denied.” So much for the rule of law.
Let me try to put things in their proper perspective. What Trillanes did may have been wrong but sometimes it is necessary to create situations that focus attention on continuing cases of grave injustice and a growing culture of impunity.
Exec says network studying legal options
By Volt Contreras
Inquirer
Media giant ABS-CBN has been ordered by the Philippine National Police to submit raw news footage of the November 29 “march” of the Magdalo rebel officers that climaxed to the Peninsula Manila siege, following reports authorities have begun looking into any role the network may have played in the crushed uprising.
Reacting in a media statement on Monday, Maria Ressa, managing director of the network’s news and current affairs department, branded the order as apparently part of a continuing attempt to ”intimidate and harass journalists,” indicating a ”gradual erosion of press freedom” in the country.
by Tetch Torres
Inquirer
The Department of Justice (DoJ) has approved the filing of a rebellion case against Senator Antonio Trillanes and 35 other civilian and military officers over the siege at the Manila Peninsula Hotel in Makati City last week.
In a 10-page resolution, the four-man panel of prosecutors, led by
Senior State Prosecutor Emmanuel Velasco, said that aside from Trillanes, the violation of Article 134 of the Revised Penal Code for Rebellion has been filed against former vice-president Teofisto Guingona Jr., Brigadier General Danilo Lim, Bishop Julio Labayen, Reverend Father Robert Reyes, Captain Gary Alejano, Captain Segundino Orfiano Jr., Lieutenant Senior Grades Manuel Cabochan and James Layug, Lieutenant Junior Grade Arturo Pascua Jr., 1st Lieutenant Eugene Peralta;
Lieutenant Andy Torrato, 1st Lieutenant Billy Pasua, 1st Lieutenant
Jonel Sangalan, ENS Armand Pontejos, lawyers J.V. Bautista and Yassir Gonzales, CPL Clecarde Dahan, Private First Class Juanito Jilbury, PFC Emmanuel Tirador;
I had a long-scheduled lecture at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines on “Online journalism versus print journalism” last Saturday but the students were more interested about last Thursday’s incident at the Manila Peninsula, specially the part when media became suspects for covering the event.
Since the students were post-Marcos babies, I contextualized the deplorable action of the PNP with the situation during the Marcos dictatorship.
The Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility put it eloquently: “Never in the turbulent recent history of the Philippines has any government, including that of Ferdinand Marcos, ever taken into custody members of the media who were on the scene to do their jobs.”
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Maganda ang sinabi ni Bibeth Orteza, scriptwriter, nang tanungin siya ni Ces Drilon ng ABS-CBN bakit siya nanatili doon sa Manila Peninsula, katabi nina Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV at Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, noong Huwebes kahit nagsimula nang binabalya ng tangke ang hotel at pumapasok na ang tear gas.
Sabi ni Bibeth, bilang isang isang breast cancer survivor, gusto niyang maging makabuluhan ang bagong taning na buhay na binigay sa kanya ng Panginoon. Kaysa mamatay siya sa sakit, mas gusto na niyang makabuluhan ang kanyang kamatayan. At kung mangyayari yan sa oras na yun dahil sa kanyang pakikiramay sa mga uma-alay ng kanilang buhay para maibalik ang katotohanan at hustisya sa bansa, mas gusto niya yun.
Isa si Bibeth sa hindi tinalian ang kamay ng plastic.