Dahil sa pinayagan ng Makati Regional Trial Court si dating Sen. Gregorio Honasan na magpyansa, hinihingi ngayon ng Genuine Opposition na payagan rin si Ltsg Antonio Trillanes IV na magpyansa.
Oo nga naman. Dapat equal.
Sabi nga ni GO spokesman Adel Tamano na walang peligro na tatakas si Trillanes dahil kailangan siya makita ng mga tao. Mangangampanya siya.
Frank Chavez opened the petition he filed before the Supreme Court last Friday, on behalf of his client, Army Major Jason Laureano Aquino,with a quote from Benigno Aquino Jr.,made before Military Commission No. 2 on August 2, 1973.
Ninoy Aquino’s words: “There is something that transcends all other considerations, something that is unique in the case against me. Two years ago, on August 24, 1971 – three days after the horrible massacre in Plaza Miranda – I was accused and pronounced guilty of the same charges by the President himself, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces…With due respect to all of you, how can this Military Commission reverse the President? Even if you want to because of your sense of justice, nonetheless, under Presidential Decree No. 39, the President has the power to change or reverse your decision.
by Patricia Evangelista
(Patricia Evangelista, who writes for the Inquirer, is admirable not only for her intelligence but for her deep concern for justice. She is one young lady worth watching. The following piece is heart breaking. I am outraged.)
She was 9 years old. She had big brown eyes and shiny black hair. She liked spider-fighting and watching “Wowowee,” and woke up at six every morning for the hour-long walk down the mountain to her second-grade class. Her teacher said she should study harder, and she did, because she was a little girl who wanted to be a nurse someday. She had a medal for “Most Neat” at the end of the school year. In the summer, she played with the other children, racing rubber bands while hopping in green-slippered feet.
Noong Miyerkoles, natagpuang patay si Carmelo Palacios, reporter ng Radyo ng Bayan, sa Sta. Rosa, Nueva Ecija.
Si Palacios ay pang labingpitumput- isa (51) na journalist mula nang umupo sa Malacañang si Gloria Arroyo kahit hindi binoto ng taumbayan.
Natagpuan ring patay ang sampung araw nang nawawalang si Julia Campbell, ang Amerikanang Peace Corp volunteer, sa ilalim ng bangin sa Batad, Banaue, Ifugao. Mukhang pinagnakawan at pinagsamantalahan si Campbell, sabi sa mga unang report ng Cordillera pulis.
By Thea Alberto INQUIRER.net Former senator Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan, arrested on charges of leading a short-lived mutiny in 2003, walked out of jail Friday night…
Another officer accused in the plot to oust President Arroyo in February 2006 today petitioned the Supreme Court to stop court martial proceedings against him and to order his release from detention.
Army Maj. Jason Aquino and 27 other Marine and Army officers detained at Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal, are facing court martial proceedings for their alleged plan to withdraw support from Arroyo in a projected mass action at the Edsa Shrine on Feb. 24, 2006.
The Black and White Movement has classified 100 congressional candidates into a Black and White as a guide to voters in next month’s election.
The message is, don’t vote for those in the Black List and campaign and vote for those in the White List. Example:
Grabe itong nangyari sa Blacksburg, Virginia noong Martes kung saan nag-amok ang isang Koreano estudyante. Nakapatay siya ng 32 na tao bago niya binaril ang kanyang sarili. Labing siyam ang sugatan at malubha sa pinakamadugong masaker na nangyari sa eskwelahan.
Nangyari ito sa Virginia Polytechnic Institute at State University noong Martes.Nakilala ang kriminal sa pangalang Cho Seung-Hui, isang Koreano na nag-immigrate
sa Amerika noong 1992. English major siya.
Nagdadalamhati ngayon ang Amerika sa nangyari. Maraming mga lider ng ibang bansa, kasama si Pope Benedict XVI ang nagpa-abot ng kanilang condolence sa pamilya at sa bansang Amerika.
Open letter to my friends
by Francisco Nemenzo
Professor Emeritus and former President
University of the Philippines
In countries with stable political parties that offer alternative policies and programs, responsible voters take time to study the platforms of competing parties. But in the Philippines, this is a futile exercise. Here the platforms are meaningless documents usually crafted by paid campaign strategists who try to please everyone with glittering ambiguities. They do not tell us what the candidates intend to do but only what they think we want to hear.
Makati Regional Trial Court Judge Oscar Pimentel granted the request of detained Ltsg Antonio Trillanes IV, senatorial candidate of the Genuine Opposition, to allow media to have access to him in his detention cell.
The permission has set conditions like request should be made three days prior to the interview and questions should be submitted.
That’s not exactly okay but we have to count our blessings as of now. The fight for genuine freedom goes on.