All About Trillianes~ He will be convicted.

[jheartfred]

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hahaha unsa ni who wants to be a millionaire? which reminds me... hmmmm basin ganahan madato dali si thrilla.. xa napod mangurakot

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

Which is really defined as POWER GRABBING !

[jheartfred]

yep.. they want to taste the cookies in the cookie jar bro... but they cant wait till 2010.. spring wer ka ani na topic stand?

[bangle_zyr]

they are greed..so hungry for the the highest in our gov't!..so hasty in fulfilling there treacherous plans..Poor juan dela cruz!!!!..get rest to bilibid..

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

yep.. they want to taste the cookies in the cookie jar bro... but they cant wait till 2010.. spring wer ka ani na topic stand?

Natural send him to PRISON and not to JAIL . Stripped him of his rights as a SENATOR , expel him !! He is lucky enough to dwell and commit his crimes/stupidity in a country where DEATH PENALTY is a NO NO . MUTIN in some places are punishable by DEATH .

[jheartfred]

is it possible that he too can be pardoned?

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

Depende cguro sa terms and conditions like what happened to ERAP where the moment he is a freeman , he is also not allowed to run office anymore .

OFFTOPIC : But commonsense tells us , kani sila are all just puppets . It is still ERAP who runs the show and plays the game . Do you guys really think if FPJ won , he is doing it for the bettermernt ? Just like what Lacson , trillanes and the rest of the opposition who wants to grab the power and tells the whole world that they are better leaders ? LOLS ... not in my lifetime cguro , opposition is something what we need to have a balance and check environment but what composes the opposition right now makes me say mura ta ug unborn child anu , the parents are fighting kung ipanganak ba gyud ka or ilaglag , pero in a sense wala gyud tay kalibutan , labot and sala sa kabuang sa mga naa sa taas . Let it be , let her finish in 2010 and let her do her job . She is doing a good job anyways , that just justifies na NAGPABILIB ra na ni ang ang pikas that they are better .

[jheartfred]

they offer change the wrong way man gud thats why I wont buy it... if ever who would be fit to run this 2010?

[SPRINGFIELD_XD_40]

I would definitley say MAR ROXAS !

And hopefully si Tomas ang running mate niya na if mo daog gani , Cebu is really taken care of at the fullest extent but I doubt . Hadlok si Tomas ug rejection na mapildi unya and Cebu will taken away from him .

[omad]

mosimos este balatucan... this is why conversations with you gets boring... you've never changed your style even just a little bit. everytime you run out of bullets, you then copy paste somebody else's work not even mentioning their initials making it appear to be your own.

who would want to engage you in an intelligent and mature conversation when you can't even resist copy pasting other's opinion?

now tell me who's the loser??
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A nation of Sancho Panzas
December 07, 2007 00:41:00
Raul Pangalangan
Inquirer

MANILA, Philippines -- Had Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV succeeded last Thursday, would we be hearing today from all the naysayers? Indeed, success has many fathers and defeat is an orphan. But to the Monday morning quarterbacks out there, I ask: Would you rather have celebrated a tainted victory?

Sure it would have helped to have some prominent opposition politicians around. But in all candor, wouldn’t you have been more wary to see the likes of House Speaker Jose de Venecia at The Peninsula Manila? Wasn’t it the best endorsement that the new “Peninsulares” were absent and nowhere to be found?

Sure it would have helped to have the “hakot” [bused-in] multitude, the crowd-for-rent bused in for the event just to provide the warm bodies for what the Supreme Court called the “hooting throng,” the better for TV cameras to pan and show the groundswell of public indignation. But shouldn’t we go for quality rather than quantity, and respect the feisty handful at The Peninsula even more for daring to stand up and be counted?

Sure it would have helped to have an orchestra conductor for the whole shebang, a Cardinal Sin-type who can coordinate a steady supply of intrepid souls willing to lay down their lives for a transcendent cause. But don’t we admire EDSA People Power I also because it was largely the spontaneous outpouring of pent-up frustrations with a kleptocratic dictator and his spouse? Shouldn’t we be more circumspect had there been a shadowy committee and its law firm running the show from, say, The Linden Suites in the Ortigas Center like at EDSA People Power II? Wouldn’t an unrehearsed rebel holdout at The Peninsula be more authentic than the orchestrated oath-taking at the EDSA Shrine?

If at all there was anything worrisome about The Peninsula standoff, it wasn’t that they were so few. It was that they could have actually pulled it off without a civilian component, and that if the military reinforcements had not been blocked, bought off, or preempted, we would have had our first coup d’état without the façade of a civilian cover. Marcos staged a coup against Congress in cahoots with his “Rolex 12” generals and, with a little help from a pliant Supreme Court, called it “constitutional authoritarianism.” The two EDSA People Power events were, to use the felicitous but not entirely truthful catchwords, civilian-led but military-backed uprisings.

So now, some Filipinos exclaim in disgust: Oh, Lim and Trillanes thought they could pull it off without our help? But I recall, the last time around, on that memorable day of Feb. 24, 2006, that was exactly what Brigadier General Lim did. With far more civilians involved, the element of surprise was inevitably compromised -- and people then concluded: The plotters should’ve kept the secret to themselves!

Do not feign surprise at this latest attempt to oust Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. It has been long in coming. “They who make peaceful change impossible make violent revolution inevitable,” said John F. Kennedy. I was rushing my high school and college sons through the JFK museum in Boston when, to my surprise, they lingered at video-clips of JFK’s speeches, something my wife and I aren’t used to whenever we corral them into museums. If these words can move my sons, otherwise more attuned to winning medals for the University of the Philippines varsity judo team, going to the gym, biking on hillsides and enjoying their youth in ways I’d rather not know, what will it take to move our nation?

There was some virtue in The Peninsula holdouts’ shortcomings, yet the Filipino masses did not rally to their flag because for the Filipino today, politics has little to do with virtue and all to do with personal survival.

“Filipinos are all so prudent. That is why our country is as it is,” Jose Rizal wrote to Mariano Ponce, as quoted by the Inquirer for its third by-invitation only briefing. Prudence, as the saying goes, is the better part of valor. The Katipunan itself faced such apathy, and resorted to falsely implicating some ilustrados into collaborating with the rebels. We have long forgotten the spirit of the saying “Carpe Diem,” Seize the Day -- Seize “The Pen.”

We crucify the Don Quixotes and sanctify the Sancho Panzas ever craving for the petty dukeships we covet. We deride Quixote’s Dulcinea because she was not real and was a mere figment of his fertile imagination. We mock the dreamers whose dreams we had the power to give -- and then blame them that we didn’t.

We treat revolutions and coup attempts as if we had absolutely nothing to do with them. We externalize political events as something wholly distinct from our private lives and choices. Sad to say, that is so incorrect. If we are truly a democracy, rebellions should win only with our support or be doomed to lose without it. But now we prefer to be mere spectators, a democracy of onlookers who sit on the sidelines waiting for the smoke to clear … and to cheer on the victor. Faced with a historical moment, we hedged our bets, and chose to wager not on the basis of who’s right and who’s wrong, but rather on the basis of whose side has more guns and tanks.

For that very reason, the Arroyo administration must kid itself not and depict its Peninsula triumph as a validation of its reign of greed. The mass of Filipinos chastised Lim and Trillanes not because they tried to oust Arroyo. Filipinos were disappointed because they failed. Filipinos stayed away from the Peninsula not because they loved Arroyo but because they had many fears if the coup won, and even more fears if it failed. It was the skeptical cost-benefit calculus of people too often used and abused in the past. But, as the saying goes, “Beware the fury of the patient man.”

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