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Protecting personal dignity and honor

Published by Ellen on July 3, 2007

During the campaign for last May’s election, the slimy guns of Malacañang were aimed at Alan Peter Cayetano, who was rating high in pre-election surveys largely because Mike Arroyo tried to have him expelled from the House of Representatives after he told the Filipino people about a multimillion-dollar stash in a German bank.

Malacañang ignored Antonio Trillanes IV because they all thought he was not going to win anyway. After all, until a week before election, surveys showed him down in the list.

To everybody’s relief, Cayetano won, despite Joselito Cayetano. To everybody’s surprise, Trillanes also won.

Ex-justice chief: Jalosjos case different from Trillanes’s

Published by Ellen on July 3, 2007

From ABS-CBN online:

A former justice secretary on Tuesday said the government prosecutors should not have used as example the case of former Rep. Romeo Jalosjos in blocking Senator Antonio Trillanes IV’s request to fully perform his duties as an elected member of the Senate.

“Alam po ninyo iyong kaso ni Trillanes at iyong isang congressman ay mayroon pong pagkakaiba,” said Serafin Cuevas, also a former Supreme Court associate justice.

He said Jalosjos has been convicted of rape charges while Trillanes remains an accused and all the evidence against him have yet to be presented before the Makati City Regional Trial Court (RTC).

DOJ blocks Trillanes from performing his duties as senator

Published by Ellen on July 3, 2007

DoJ execs cite Jalosjos case to oppose Trillanes bid

By Leila Salaverria

Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV cannot use the more than 11 million votes he received in the May elections to seek preferential treatment, like attending Senate sessions and setting up an office in his detention cell, Department of Justice prosecutors said Monday.

The prosecutors said they represented not only those who voted for Trillanes but also the more than 85 million Filipinos.

Si Arroyo ang dapat i-revamp

Published by Ellen on July 2, 2007

Napakalakas na ng sampal ng sambayanan kay Gloria Arroyo noong nakaraang eleksyon ngunit mukhang hindi pa rin niya nakikita ang mensahe ng taumbayan.

Ayaw sa kanyang ng taumbayan ngunit ang kanyang solusyon ay cabinet revamp.

Hindi niya nakukuha o siguro nagbingi-bingihan lamang na siya ang ayaw ng taumbayan.

Officers and gentlemen

Published by Ellen on July 2, 2007

By Patricia Evangelista
Inquirer

On June 26, 2006, at two in the morning a little more than a year ago, Sherlyn Cadapan and Karen Empeño were abducted from a farmer’s home in San Miguel, Hagonoy, Bulacan. Armed men bundled the women into a stainless steel jeep with plate number RTF 597. A farmer named Manuel Merino, who had run out in response to the women’s cries, was also bound and blindfolded. The three were driven away towards the direction of Iba, Hagonoy, Bulacan.

When the abduction was reported, human rights volunteers, led by Mildred Benitez, went to the 56th Infantry Battalion headquarters at Iba. A stainless steel jeep with plate number RTF was found parked inside the compound.

The military denies its existence.

Appellate court junks case vs Palparan

Published by Ellen on July 2, 2007

AFP link to leftist’s abduction ‘hearsay’

By Leila Salaverria, Christian V. Esguerra
Inquirer

His disappearance was senseless and one could not but be rent by the anguish of his wife as she searched in vain for him. But there isn’t a shred of evidence that would link the military or the police to his abduction.

With this, the Court of Appeals dismissed a habeas corpus petition filed by the wife of Leonardo Ancheta who had asked the court to order retired Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan, National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales and Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon to produce Ancheta.

Nobody delivers the message more effectively than Trillanes

Published by Ellen on July 1, 2007

Someone had to tell Migz Zubiri the despicable thing that he is doing and Sen. Antonio Trillanes took it upon himself to do it.

We applaud Trillanes for that.

Last Friday, in an interview after his oath-taking before barangay captain Ruben Gatchalian in Caloocan City, he blasted at Zubiri for insisting on taking the last senatorial race slot when, Trillanes said, he knew very well the people did not elect him for that position. He said: “I believe Congressman Zubiri knows deep in his heart that he benefited from cheating. If he is decent enough, he wouldn’t accept it because it is something you want your kids to emulate.”

Daya na Zubiri

Published by Ellen on June 30, 2007

Mukhang katawa-tawa itong si Juan Miguel Zubiri na ang tawag ngayon ay Daya na Zubiri.

Sabi ni Daya na Zubiri, gusto raw niya tulungan si Sen. Antonio Trillanes ng “parliamentary conduct.”. May sinasabi pa siyang “rules of engagement.”

Nagalit si Zubiri dahil sinabi ni Trillanes na nakinabang siya sa dayaan. “I believe Congressman Zubiri knows deep in his heart that he benefited from cheating. If he is decent enough, he wouldn’t accept it because that is not something you want your kids to emulate,” sabi niya sa panayam pagkatapos siya nanumpa sa harap ni Barangay captain Ruben Gatchalian sa Cloocan noong Biyernes.

Gringo won’t join Cavaliers’ Club at Senate

Published by Ellen on June 30, 2007

by Christina Mendez
The Philippine Star

Sen. Gregorio Honasan has rejected the invitation of his Philippine Military Academy classmate, Sen. Panfilo Lacson, to form the so-called Cavaliers’ Club composed of four PMA alumni who were elected senators.

Honasan said that as an independent senator, he would work for a Senate that would push for measures that are good for the country rather than push for the personal interests of some people.

“We cannot afford to chop up a small chamber like the Senate into smaller groupings. The Cavaliers Club existed even before it was called a Cavaliers Club,” he said in an interview.

Trillanes: Zubiri a cheat

Published by Ellen on June 29, 2007

This is what I like about Sen. Antonio Trillanes- he calls a spade a spade. If Zubiri makes it to the Senate courtesy of the manufactured votes of Maguindanao, he will just like Gloria Arroyo – got his position by cheating. We will forever regard him as Sen. Daya na Zubiri.

Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV on Friday accused Team Unity senatorial candidate Juan Miguel “Migz” Zubiri of benefiting from cheating in the May mid-term elections.

Trillanes, who had just taken his oath of office, wasted no time in making his thoughts about Zubiri known.

Author: Ellen