a SMART READ for the OPPOSITION.

[LytSlpr]

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A major disappointment--make that two.
by Orlando P. Carvajal
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That the Estrada camp is the lead group in the oust-Arroyo movement does not surprise me. They have the motive to get back in power as the sure-fire formula to win in the plunder case. They also have the money to finance it and the morality they have exhibited so far would seem to give them the capability to sacrifice the interests of the Filipino people for their own ends.

When a left-leaning group signed an alliance with the Estrada camp on the oust-Arroyo movement, I was not surprised either.

They also have the motive to regain the opportunity and credibility they lost in Edsa I to topple the government and they have always been capable of forming alliances with any group (left or right) whom they think they can use to achieve their goal of taking over the government.

I was not surprised and I was not disappointed like many people I know because these people are just being what they are, power-grabbers at any cost. But when Sen. Aquilino Pimentel joined and persisted in the clamor for the resignation of the President, then I was, like many others, extremely disappointed. I had to be because Nene and I started our social reform activities in the Social Action Offices of the Church. I followed his career and saw him with admiration perform for the best interests of the people in the Estrada impeachment proceedings. In short, I had hoped and expected Senator Pimentel to be part of the solution. He should know better than to risk destabilization because of an impropriety.

As a lawyer, he knows that even if there is an instruction to cheat (and there isn’t), it does not prove actual cheating. He knows wire-tapping is illegal and we are crucifying a duly elected President with something illegally obtained. It pains me, therefore, to hear so many others voice their disappointment that he could want to be President so badly as to join forces with Estrada whom he helped depose and risk the negative effects of destabilization.

Then there is Roco. How could someone as intelligent as Roco call for a snap election as the solution to the present crisis? What in heavens’ sake makes him think the next President can win without any form of cheating in the present electoral system? Why can’t he see that for a good candidate to win in any forthcoming election the electoral system must first be rendered cheat-proof? Or is it that his desire to be President has blinded him to reality and has made him think he can win against the Estrada money with the electoral system unreformed?

I am beginning to think the President could be right when she said this is the opposition’s last chance to gain power through destabilization after she bit the bullet on the e-vat law and started phase two of her program, which is the fight against corruption. She could make herself more right, so to speak, by speeding up this fight and putting more teeth to it. She could, more importantly and to the point, initiate with Congress reforms in the electoral system to make it as cheat-proof as possible. Otherwise, we will take it to mean those in power now are really only interested in staying in power also at any cost to the Filipino people. Which is just as bad as grabbing power at any cost. Then, what is left is to sigh “Heaven help us all� because at that point destabilization would be inevitable with all its dire consequences.

Finally, let us not forget one thing. If wire-tapping is illegal, no matter the intention, then good governance dictates that those who did this illegal act should be brought to justice.

[marquee]

period! still the hard-headed oppositions think otherwise. sayang ka pimentel! sana kunin ka na ni Lord! good boy! good boy!hehehe

[FK]

Finally, let us not forget one thing. If wire-tapping is illegal, no matter the intention, then good governance dictates that those who did this illegal act should be brought to justice.

Karon ang gobyerno gi-apas ba ni ang ga wiretapped? Ngano man?

[bfginus]

TWO thumbs up for pimental and roco!

they stood against marcos. they fought against erap.
now, they have stood against gma.

the evil they fought against in marcos and estrada administrations before, are the same evil they've fought against in the arroyo regime now.

while administration lapdogs lick the boots of gma for political expedience, pimentel and roco have consistently shown strength of conviction by taking on the corrupt gma administration.

untainted by issues of corruption, their uprightness is beyond question.

in terms of moral integrity, who among the rabid gma supporters can ever hold a handle to the two gentlemen? de venecia? singson? pichay? defensor?

when there's a question in the integrity of roco and pimentel, the problem is not actually in their integrity. the problem is in their detractors' mentality. to these blind followers, anyone who stand against the fake president dili gyud tarong. but kung mo-tila sa administrasyon, tarong gyud na.

they could not accept the fact that roco and pimental have taken a principled stand against the administration with their integrity fully intact. for in giving the two gentlemen the respect they deserve, they will be discrediting gloria in return.

ila gyung palutawn nga si roco ug pimentel ang naay problema sa pagkataw, kay kon mogawas nga and duha maoy tarong, si gloria maoy molutaw nga wa gyu'y ayo. pero ang pangutana, human sa dugay'ng panahon nga napamatud-an sa duha ang kaligdong sa ilang pagkatawo, karon na lang gyud sila nayabag tungod kay ni-kontra sila ni gma? c'mon..

whether you like it or not, roco and pimentel's moral uprightness is beyond reproach, the cheap pro-gma propaganda notwithstanding.

A major disappointment--make that three. yes, the article above is.
1st disappointment - it accuses wrong persons of offenses they have not commited.
2nd disappointment - it offers wrong arguments.
3rd disappointment - it was written for a wrong reason, that is to defend a corrupt and fake president

what a pathetic piece, that article.

[omar50071]

Very well said bfginus!

I could not agree more...

[FK]

Finally, let us not forget one thing. If wire-tapping is illegal, no matter the intention, then good governance dictates that those who did this illegal act should be brought to justice.

napagawas ba ni ron ang ga wiretapped? Â*nadakpan na ba?
ngano wala man sila nangusog ani og gukod kong kinsa ang ga wiretapped.

I have a weird feeling nga si GMA ra sab ang ga sugo. Â*Samot siya'g ka tiklo!

[omar50071]

napagawas ba ni ron ang ga wiretapped?Â* nadakpan na ba?
ngano wala man sila nangusog ani og gukod kong kinsa ang ga wiretapped.

I have a weird feeling nga si GMA ra sab ang ga sugo.Â* Samot siya'g ka tiklo!

Ako pud nag duda ko sila ra na-unay sa ilahang tari...kay ni ingon si Wycoco naa sila equipment pang wiretap, unya ilaha gi padaplin kay guba kuno, guba sa ilang mata! 25 milyon ang worth ato unya ipadaplin lang kay guba...tsk tsk tsk

We know better than that, naa man intawn to warranty mga undo....sus me!

[LytSlpr]

roco and pimentel? don't give us that B.S. do you genuinely think they did it for the country? maybe during that time but now, all they want is to be president but they simply can't hack it and it is not happening for them politically. that's why right now they are like crazy street dogs going with different packs. get the picture?

[polie]

@LytSlpr:
Who among them who does not want to be the President? Is it ROCO and NENE alone? Bro kana cla tanan are longing to be the president...But NENE and ROCO stands straight with thier integrity and not cheating in order to have that ever longing position...

That article expresses the illegality of wiretapping but then again how about the content or else the result of the wiretap? Is it not against the LAW? If not because of that wiretap, thus the truth will come out saying that PGMA has cheated all her opponents during the Election Process?

Yes indeed wiretapping is illegal but let's not forget the content and the result of this that brought us to know who PGMA really is? And how he manipulated people in order to win.

[LytSlpr]

the end does not justify the means, PERIOD!