Bai VIP, nahimo naman gud nang SOP nila then daghan sad naka benefit ana nga sistema diha sa AFP even the lower ranks. pero the way they handled the investigation naka focus ra jud kang reyes why not asked the others like biazon, ramos and other former CoS? i think even gringo and enrile knows about this...
OT: sorry cant help it!
back to topic...
Robles: Malacañang knew it wasn’t Reyes but did nothing
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Posted at 02/13/2011 5:51 AM | Updated as of 02/13/2011 5:52 AM
MANILA, Philippines - Retired Navy Commodore Rex Robles scored Malacañang for failing to protect the military institution and the late former Armed Forced of the Philippines (AFP) chief Angelo Reyes from being dragged into the military fund scandal.
At the necrological services for Reyes on Saturday, Robles revealed that Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV has informed Malacañang that Reyes was not the 'padrino' of former military comptrollers, including Carlos Garcia who has been accused with plundering military coffers.
"Sinabi nya (Trillanes) sa Malacañang yun (that Reyes was not involved)," Robles told the audience.
"Sa Malacañang, andun yung commander-in-chief natin. (Pero) ang commander-in-chief natin, walang kibo. Bakit di nya sabihin sa Senate na, 'Sandali lang, hindi si Reyes yan, mga anak ko ito.' Is the AFP orphan?" Reyes's long-time friend said.
Robles said the feeling of being orphaned hit Reyes hard. "That is what made Angie Reyes feel low. That is one of the reasons why Angie (Reyes) feels parang walang pakialam samantalang alam ng Malacañang kung sino iyon (the padrino of Garcia)."
An upper class cadet of Reyes at the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) in the 1960's, Robles has been vocal about wanting to help Reyes wiggle out of the controversy that, he thinks, has made a whipping boy out of Reyes to divert attention from the fact that Garcia was able to walk free following a plea bargaining agreement, which allowed him to post bail after six years in detention.
Robles has also been vocal about expressing disgust at Trillanes, a former Navy Lieutenant who was among those who staged the failed 2003 Oakwood mutiny and won a seat in Senate while in jail, and at Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez, a retired Navy officer, who had asked the House of Representatives to investigate the plea bargain that the Office of the Ombudsman had entered into with Garcia.
In his previous interviews, Robles said Reyes had sent an emissary to Trillanes after a congressman, purportedly Golez, revealed last Jan. 14 that it was the late AFP chief who was coddling the military comptrollers' misdeeds.
In the hand-delivered letter by a Trillanes classmate at the PMA, Reyes reportedly stressed to Trillanes that he was not involved in the fund mess and challenged the senator to identify the powerful official behind Garcia.
However, in the Jan. 28 Senate hearing on Garcia's controversial plea bargaining agreement, Trillanes echoed Golez's claim that Reyes was indeed involved. Trillanes had said he was irked by Reyes's claims that he never benefited from corruption while in the military.
After Reyes committed suicide on Feb. 8, Trillanes said someone higher than Reyes must have been behind Garcia.
Robles then then addressed the military men in the audience: "You must think of your role and resist every effort for the forces of darkness to get at you and make you do what you must not do, which is to pervert the rule of law."
What lessons we can be learn from Angelo's life as well as his tragic death? Many of us are surely asking questions such as why? What does it achieve? For whose benefit?
Whatever side you may be in battle, warriors will always honor those who die fighting. Whatever we may think of Angie Reyes, he did not cower or crumble. Even in death he denied his enemies victory and the pleasure of conquest.
Ultimately whatever reason may have led him to take his own life, he made the choice and in so doing he was at least willing and man enough to pay the price.
In the words of warriors of old, “He, was a worthy opponent”.
May he rest in peace and may his family find comfort in their great loss.
It just occurred to me that the on-going probe on the corruption within the Armed Forces of the Philippines and allegations of impropriety among COA auditors goes far beyond Generals and accountants.
What should be, and really is on trial today is our ENTIRE Justice System.
Every lawyer who has bent the rules, told a white lie, every prosecutor who did not do his work well or allowed his bias to take over, every judge, justice and officer of the Courts, the Office of the Ombudsman as well as the branches of the Department of Justice is on trial.
While everyone talks about the controversial plea bargain with Major General Carlos Garcia, the underlying truth that many lawmakers and lawyers have casually revealed is that out ENTIRE Justice System is corrupted.
Sadly, the corruption has invaded the very core of our value system.
If “leaders” or professionals can no longer tell the difference between right or wrong, when officers of the court are caught in their own web of lies yet have the nerve to say they’re doing their job, if officers no longer act as gentlemen but as outright liars; there is something very wrong with our moral fabric.
When the very people who have the most to gain, choose to be silent and are afraid, it tells us that “justice” in the Philippines does not exist.
We must be aware of the laws, we must be aware of the consequences and punishment for breaking the laws and we must have reason to believe (predictability) that the law will be enforced and punishment will be rendered.
We as citizens must have reason to believe that we will benefit by obeying the laws individually or collectively.
We must be convinced without an iota of a doubt that when we perform our duties by observing the law or reporting a violation of the law, that the burden of proof as well as the punishment will be upon the law breaker and not the law abiding citizen.
We as citizens must have the confidence and the security that when we stand before any court whether of law or quasi-judicial, our rights and our dignity will be respected by any judge, justice or legislator.
Ultimately a decision must be handed down, “Without fear or favor”.
do you have something to back this up that trillanes has zero combat experience?
there were more than 200 soldiers who backed up trillanes during the oakwood mutiny, these soldiers will not put their career on line if they dont believe and respect the leadership of the other...
you earn respect in the military not just by sitting in a comfortable chair or giving orders to lower ranks its fighting side by side with them which earn their respect .... besides most PMA graduate pag human graduate kay sa field gyud i-assign.
oh im not pro-trillanes i just believe that the way trillanes act is reasonable concerning the reality in the afp....
people here who knew someone in the service surely knows why. oakwood mutiny was a call that rampant corruption is happening in the afp.
if trillanes has any fault it would be he lacks diplomacy... nkalimutan nya na wala na siya sa gera nasa senado na siya... in anyway it is still refreshing...
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