Cebu must take a stand(people's power)

[Tattva]

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i think we need to make a stand.


murag cge naman lang ang taga greater manila area ang mo dictate sa political issues sa atong nasud. Unsa man ni? Ato na lang ba pasagdan kini?

I think we need to go out the street also and do something. But lets go out peacefully and with style.


I think we need to support for the rule of law w/c is written in our constitution. If the opposition thinks that strong ilang evidence then by all means let them prove it in the court of justice.

I am not saying nga inosente ang mga gi pang accuse im just saying that i think that its about time for people to mature.


dili man ta cguro kapataka ug pamasangil nya ato dayun dakpon nya husgahan, dapat cguro adto jnato ni dad.on sa sakto nga venue kay mura tag mga bata.

ako p[ud ni...

[cebugdev]

I think cebuanos are already making their stand... thats why cguro less ra ang rally dri cebu, and people do
continue their normal life as is then dli apil2x sa samok which causes bad image sa city and sa country. Its obvious
cebu is blooming in more ways than one.

opinion lang ni nako.

[rickmags2000]

agree ko bro, yesterday sa rally diha sa fuente dili kaau sila daghan naa sila mga banner na blow your horn pero ala kaau ni tubay ang mga motorist...for me i guess thats the cebuano stand...

we have so much going on why mustwe bother ourselves with all these political noise if they have a case then bring it to court and let justice have its course...

opinion lang

[amingb]

Mag rally ta not to Oust GMA regime but to Secede from the Repulic of the Philippines ... kapoy na kaau ning Pilipinas oi ....

[godsaint]

cebuanos really dont care about who is their leader.Makita namn nato sa naka pwesto di ba bisag asang parte sa cebu almost ang molingkod pamilya .Means tamad na ang cebuano mopili sa ilang leader.Corrupt or not wla na sila pakialam.

[omad]

or maybe Cebuanos don't resort to "premature ejaculation" like what's happening to these anti-PGMA folks. it's also nice to use our heads once in awhile and know all the facts first before jumping into conclusions. what will become of us when given a scenario that "PGMA is ousted" and when Jun Lozada doesn't get what was promised to him by his "puppeteers", he will confess "yet again" that he added and "concocted" parts of his testimonies?

what then?

we can't just say "oooppppppssss my bad". this is the Filipino's fate we're talking about here. your future and mine. waiting until all the facts are in and not resorting to actions that may result into uncompromising situations are not sign of hopelessness or passivity.

I don't know if these people who are after GMA's head are analyzing this scenario. or maybe they under-estimate that some Filipinos actually use common sense and don't actually bite and partake on half-baked testimonies.

[omad]

one reason why we shouldn't jump into conclusion without knowing all the facts is this article below:
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Palace victim of Lacson sting operation—Enrile

By Christine F. Herrera

SENATOR Juan Ponce Enrile yesterday accused Senator Panfilo Lacson and whistleblower Rodolfo Lozada of engineering the ongoing exposé of high-level corruption in the national broadband network deal as a way of undermining the government.

“I believe this whole thing is a ‘planned affair,’ contrived by Senator Lacson and Lozada to make it appear that it was government that made Lozada leave for Hong Kong to elude the Senate hearing, but it was in fact Senator Lacson and Lozada who planned it,” Enrile told Standard Today.

“I would say the planned affair was very clever, very tricky and very mean,” he said.

Under the plot hatched by the two men, Lozada flew to Hong Kong, asked for money but did not use it, then made it appear upon returning that Malacañang had given him the money to keep him quiet, Enrile said.

The senator said it struck him as odd that Lacson knew Lozada’s every move.

“Senator Lacson even knew that Lozada was going to Hong Kong, that in fact Lozada was not going to London, and upon his return Lozada would testify and might resign as president of PhilForest,” Enrile said. “Even Lozada’s bosses did not know that.”

But what Lacson and Lozada did not anticipate was Enrile’s motion that Lozada be summoned and that a warrant for his arrest be issued.

“The Senate records would bear me out that Lacson resisted my motion for Lozada to be arrested and asked me to withdraw my motion. At that point, they had a problem,” he said.

Lacson admitted that while the Senate warrant was issued Jan. 26, he and Lozada met Jan. 29, or on the eve of Lozada’s trip to Hong Kong.

Lozada had testified that it was a “common decision or consensus” between him and Malacañang officials for him to go abroad.

In his Senate testimony, La Salle Green Hills president Felipe Belleza also admitted that Lozada and his wife went to see him as early as Jan. 6 to seek sanctuary for their children.

“It was Lacson and Lozada’s plan all along that Lacson’s witness go to Hong Kong, but they would make it appear that it was government that wanted Lozada to go abroad to prevent him from testifying before the Senate,” Enrile said.

When Lozada was already in Hong Kong, Enrile said, he asked for money and when he was given P500,000, Lozada did not use the money but failed to inform the Senate about it 12 days after he returned. Only then did he present the money during the hearing.

“One thing is clear here. That Senator Lacson and Lozada had been meeting several times prior to Lozada’s departure,” Enrile said.

Enrile said Lacson also knew when Lozada would return to the country, and that, in fact, he went to the airport on Feb. 5 to fetch Lozada.

Lacson admitted he was there for that purpose, but said the police got to Lozada first.

“Everything was planned. Lozada said Malacañang gave him P500,000 on Feb. 4 and [Deputy Executive Secretary Manuel] Gaite confirmed that. Lozada tricked them into giving him money. Yet, Lozada did not use the money but kept it.

“In the same breath, however, he said his boss [Environment Secretary Lito Atienza] instructed him to prematurely end his stay in Hong Kong and come home.

Look, the money was given to Lozada’s brother late afternoon of Feb. 4, yet, as early as noontime of Feb. 4, Lozada’s family was already in La Salle Green Hills. Then he arrived Feb. 5. Lacson was at the airport Feb. 5,” Enrile said.

“It is clear to me now that Lacson was aware of Lozada’s every move and the Palace was kept in the dark.”

In the last hearing, Enrile directly confronted Lacson to “lay everything on the table.”

Lacson said he was honest and transparent with his colleagues about his dealings with Lozada, and in fact admitted during the hearing that he had met Lozada as early as December.

“Yes, they had been meeting, that’s why they were able to plan all these things to undermine the government,” Enrile said. “Very clever indeed.”

In the previous hearings, Enrile had moved that Lozada be taken under the custody of the Senate so that his testimony would not be tainted or influenced by any individual or groups.

Senator Alan Peter Cayetano, lead chairman of the Senate joint committees on Blue Ribbon, trade and commerce and national defense, said the committee would discuss Enrile’s proposal.

As of yesterday, Lozada was still under the protection of the La Sallian brothers in La Salle Green Hills.

Cayetano said one more witness was expected to testify before the Senate panel to corroborate testimony already provided in the ongoing investigation.

Cayetano would only say the witness used to occupy a high position in the Arroyo administration.

Also yesterday, police said they would investigate charges that Lacson used a safe house—referred to as “Ping Academy”—to train witnesses to implicate the President’s husband in the 2005 jueteng scandal.

“We have to check if this is true,” said National Police Chief Avelino Razon of the accusation hurled by illegal gambling witness Demostenes Abraham Riva. He said the systematic coaching of witnesses would be “mind-boggling” if true.

“Senator Lacson was the one who was coaching us to implicate the First Gentleman in the jueteng scam, Riva said on TV Wednesday night. “We were all staying at the Ping Academy, where we were trained what to say before the Senate.”

Riva said he believed Lozada and another broadband network witness Dante Madriaga were also being coached.

Questioned by a technical working group yesterday, Madriaga repeated his allegation that ZTE Corp. of China had advanced $41 million to a Filipino group that brokered the deal, which has since been cancelled. With Joyce Pangco Pañares and Fel V. Maragay

Manila Standard Today

[MaximilianGrave]

Yes we must make a stand!

I'm sure every Cebuano is ready to take a stand. We have proved this with two People Power Revolutions. But I guess Cebuano's are a lot smarter now. We already know the consequences of going to the streets. We are mindful of our actions and we learn from our past. We are waiting for someone to answer our questions. We want to know the truth? What then do we do when we know the truth? What do we do after that? Who should replace the current administration? How should it be replaced?

This is not a think after you leap scenario, this is not even a think before you leap situation—this is a state-of-affairs where we need to be sure, where we need to be utterly certain that we will not go back to the streets and call for the ouster of whoever is in power because we are tired. We are tired of shouting when nobody is listening.

So are we ready to take a stand? No. Not until someone tell me what the next steps are.

Voltaire: “Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.”

[hobie]

We should calm ourselves instead.
Manila people are insane!, staging protest here and there without a clear evidence. Worst is, most of them doesn't know what they are fighting for. The Bad Part is, the Manila people are dictating our government, they try to disregard us here from VISAYAS AND MINDANAO. WHy? HOW? Imagine them planning to make the MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando run as a president for 2010? WHAT THE H**L!! The Pro ERAP are very aggressive, and ERAP himself are using his charisma to lure people to his own desire. The Pro Arroyo are defensive, denying that their looked up leader is pure and chaste. Da*n.

[digitalsuperman]

cebuanos already made a stand. cebuanos are peace loving people. we want to be part of the solution not of the problem.