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2 ex-Magdalos as “counselors”

Published by Ellen on November 4, 2007

Update:

At the investigation of the nine enlisted men today, they were given a charge sheet for violations of of Articles of War No. 67 (mutiny) and 96 (conduct unbecoming of an officer and gentleman) without supporting evidence.

In their own handwriting, at the back of the charge sheet, the soldiers denied the charges and explained their whereabouts on Feb. 23, 2006. many of them were at home in their provinces on administrative break pending the transfer to other units aftert eh the Anti-Crime task Force where they were assigned was dissolved.

When the nine of the 40 enlisted men of the Philippine Army’s Scout Rangers detained in Camp Capinpin for 18 months without charges were brought to the compound of the Army’s Intelligence Service last Wednesday night, their custodians didn’t waste time working on them.

And who did they use to try to break the nine? Capt. Milo Maestrocampo and Lt. Lawrence San Juan.

Freedom mural defiled

Published by Ellen on November 4, 2007

This is outrageous!

Mabasa said he doesn’t want the press to be “politicized”. But what he did, bowing to the will of Gloria Arroyo’s paetorian guards, was political. A despicable kind of politics.

Media must be politically sensitive and responsive. Media should be an agent of liberation, not for idiotization.

by TJ Burgonio
Inquirer

A group of artists is outraged at the “bastardization” of its mural on press freedom at the National Press Club, and is accusing the NPC of “censorship.”

“Isn’t it ironic that an institution such as the NPC would cause the censorship of a work that they themselves commissioned purportedly to promote press freedom?” the Neo-Angono Artists Collective rued in a statement posted on its website.

Patong-patong na paglabag ng karapatang pantao ng mga sundalo

Published by Ellen on November 3, 2007

Biruin mo hanggang ngayon, magdadalawang taon na, naghahagilap pa lang ang mga bata ni AFP Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon ng ebidensya laban sa 28 na opisyal at 40 na enlisted personnel o sundalo na kanyang ipinakulong dahil sa plano raw na magwithdraw ng support kay Gloria Arroyo noong February 2006.

Kaya ngayon, pinipiga nila ang siyam na sundalo sa Intelligence Security Group para makakuha sila ng impormasyon na maa-aring gamitin laban mismo sa kanila at sa ibang mga opisyal na nakakulong.

Ang siyam ay ibinaba noong Miyerkoles mula Camp Capinpin sa Tanay. Sila ay kasama sa 40 na sundalo na halos magdadalawang taon nakakulong kahit walang kasong isinampa.

Dangal

Published by Ellen on November 2, 2007

by Minguita Padilla, MD

Only the most callous person could have been spared from feeling some degree of outrage in the light of successive instances of blatant corruption that assaulted the nation’s collective psyche the last few months.

The ZTE NBN Senate Investigation, while far from being over, has already convinced even the most simple minded of individuals that the Filipino people would have been robbed of billions of pesos in kickbacks to shameless high ranking government officials had the would-be thieves not been stopped in their tracks.

Signature campaign for snap elections

Published by Ellen on November 1, 2007

Are you sick and tired of the lies and corruption of Gloria Arroyo? Then log on to http://www.petitiononline.com/snap08 and sign the petition for the immediate…

Multo

Published by Ellen on October 31, 2007

Nang inikuwento ni Fr. Ed Panlilio, Pampanga governor, ang tungkol sa white lady sa Malacanang na nagbigay ng kalahating milyon pera na nakalagay sa paper bag, naisip ko ang maraming kwento tungkol sa white lady diyan sa palasyo.

Flashback muna tayo sa kuwento ni Fr. Ed. Sabi niya ang umabot sa kanya ng paper bag na may P500,000 ay ang kanyang assistant. Sabi naman ng kanyang assistant, yun ay galing kay Bulacan Governor Jon-jon Mendoza. Sabi naman ni Mendoza ay galing yun sa isang babaeng nakasuot ng puti. Lady in white sa English. Sa ating carabao English naging white lady. Parang gamot ng Intsik na white flower.

Nang nagku-cover ako sa Malacanang marami akong kwento naririnig tungkol sa lumalabas na babaeng nakaputi kapag hatinggabi. Minsan ang pinakitaan ay si Assistant press secretary Mallari (nakalimutan ko ang first name).

The breaking of enlisted personnel Army Rangers continues

Published by Ellen on October 31, 2007

Something happened at the detention center in Camp Capinpin, Tanay today:

This morning, Col. Marcos, custodian commander and a team from the Philippine Army headquarters with a lady lawyer, a cerain Atty. Abucayon, tried to coerce nine of the remaining 14 detained enlisted personnel in Camp Capinpin to sign an affidavit saying that they have not been harmed, maltreated nor coerced.

The certification is a standard operating procedure in transfer of prisoners. The nine were to be transferred from Camp Capinpin to the Philippine Army headquarters in Fort Bonifacio.

US, Aussie experts rule out bomb in mall blast–PNP chief

Published by Ellen on October 30, 2007

By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
INQUIRER.net

Affirming their initial findings, US and Australian experts have ruled out the theory that a bomb caused the explosion at a mall in Makati City where 11 people were killed and scores were injured, Philippine National Police Chief Avelino Razon Jr. said Tuesday.

Razon said the reports by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Australian Federal Police contained findings that would point to the incident at Glorietta 2 last October 19 as an “accidental gas explosion.”

Is this part of the deal?

Published by Ellen on October 30, 2007

Erap men lead Palace list for Comelec posts. But there’s a subplot: Ermita suspected to sending list to Comelec

From Malaya online:

by Gerard Naval

A spokesman and a lawyer of former President Joseph Estrada in his plunder case head the list of Malacañang’s choices to replace former Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos and Commissioner Mehol Sadain, acting Comelec chair Resurreccion Borra yesterday said.

They are Rep. Rufus Rodriguez (Cagayan de Oro) and Rene Saguisag, a former senator.

Esperon’s men starts working on remaining 14 soldiers in Tanay

Published by Ellen on October 30, 2007

Questioning of soldiers in absence of lawyer hit

by Victor Reyes

THE military attempted yesterday to get statements from 14 detained Army personnel without the presence of a counsel, a lawyer representing the soldiers said.

“In any custodial investigation, they should be assisted by a lawyer,” said Vicente Verdadero, who has volunteered to be the counsel of the 40 soldiers.

Author: Ellen