If the allegations in the supposed tape conversation of PGMA and Commissioner Garcillano of the COMELEC about rigging the May 2004 Presidential elections is really true then there is no thousand good reasons enough to make PGMA stay as the president of the Philippines because she is not the rightful president in the first place and she have cheated the almost 85 million Filipinos. This is in fact high treason and should be punishable by death.
Our government is full of leeches and corrupt officials that is even tainting with their foulness those who are still true to the service of the people. Gloria may not be as corrupt as those surrounding her but unless she punishes even her own family if the allegations regarding the Jueteng Payola is true (which is very unlikely) then she will never ever crack down on the corruption of government.
Gloria was never a legitimate President. She usurped power from then President Estrada. Yes, I myself also agreed that Erap was not a rightful President because of some of his unnationalistic policies like the Visiting Forces Agreement but him being replaced by Gloria only made our country sink into the deepest bowels of the Earth.
How can then our country recover from this endless intrigues that our government is facing. Fundamentally the answer is indeed a moral and cultural revolution. We should change the way by which politics and officials in this country is made. A politics of money only breeds corruption and even corrupts the people. We should build a political structure where everyone has equal opportunity to serve his country and share his ideas and it should never be controlled by only a few people whose only weapon are their guns, goons and gold.
We should learn our lessons very well. And this time as another chapter of seeming end for the present regime unfolds, we should plan carefully on how we should take the next steps towards giving medication to this country who is suffering from a cancer which may soon be acute. The change begins in us.. we the people who in the first place elects this official and in a democracy has the sovereign power.
In this world the only permanent thing is change and we should not fear it, thus when it comes let us be agents of change.. not for the worst but for the better.
HAPPY 107th INDEPENDENCE DAY!
Full Version: Why Gloria should resign?
alam mo sa totoo lang shen nagtataka ako kung bakit si atty. ong ang pinagtutuonan ng pansin samantalang si PGMA ang dapat inuusig..tpos eto pa bakit si mikey magbabakasyon sa kabila ng issue sa kanya na dapat sana ay hinaharap nya...kung wala talaga syang kasalanan bakit kailangan syang umalis? lalo lang nyang pinapalaki ang kaso nya...nahahalata tuloy na totoo ang paratang sa kanya...
Sa totoo lang dapat talagang magsalita ni PGMA tungkol dito para malaman ng taong bayan kung ano nga ba ang totoo. Sa Malacanang naman nagsimula ang isyung ito e, kay Pres. Sec. Bunye kaya sila rin ang dapat tumapos. Kung hindi guilty bakit kelangan pang manahimik. Ang sa akin naman e wag syang magresign kung paninira lamang ito pero kung talagang totoong nandaya sila aba teka muna... mukhang mali yan at kahit na gaano pa man siya kagaling ay hindi siya dapat nandiyan sa pwestong yan.
SUPPORT OUR GOVERNMENT .... A GOVERNMENT OF TRUTH!
SUPPORT OUR GOVERNMENT .... A GOVERNMENT OF TRUTH!
Nagsalita na daw si PGMA kso di ko napanood 
Anyway kailangan talagang malaman kung ano ang katotohanan at pawang katotohanan lamang, sa tingin ko dapat pag tuonan ito ng pansin ng DOJ
Anyway kailangan talagang malaman kung ano ang katotohanan at pawang katotohanan lamang, sa tingin ko dapat pag tuonan ito ng pansin ng DOJ
tama po kayo, napakalaki po ng parte ng DOJ sa isyong ito.
pero, instead of seeking the truth, they are seeking for the possible case to be filed against atty. ong. if thats the case, no one will rise and give light to any crime committed later on kc kakasohan ka rin kahit nagsalita ka for the TRuth.
pero, instead of seeking the truth, they are seeking for the possible case to be filed against atty. ong. if thats the case, no one will rise and give light to any crime committed later on kc kakasohan ka rin kahit nagsalita ka for the TRuth.
Tanging katotohanan lamang ang makakapagpalaya sa atin. Para po sa mga gustong mag download ng audio tape na ito eto po ang weblink --> http://www.pcij.org/blog/?p=123 . Para naman sa 'Hello Garci' ringtone punta naman kayo sa http://www.textpower.org
I would also like to share the editorial of Inquirer today :
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Editorial : Repression
First posted 11:58pm (Mla time) June 16, 2005
Inquirer News Service
Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the June 17, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
ON THURSDAY a mobile patrol unit arrested three young people pasting posters on a center island along Kalayaan Avenue in Barangay Central, Quezon City. The Central Police District of the Philippine National Police initially charged them with violations of Article 153 of the Revised Penal Code, or tumults and other public disturbances, and the anti-littering ordinance. As preparations were being made to pay the P1,000 bail initially recommended by a city prosecutor, it was learned that the charges had been elevated to inciting to sedition, a crime punishable by up to six years' imprisonment and a fine of P2,000. The three eventually posted bail.
What did the posters say? They had the words "President Evil," and "The Evil Continues." At the bottom of the posters was written: "Sa Hunyo 30, mamamayan, lumaban ka!" [On June 30, citizens, fight for your rights!] The posters portrayed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as Valentina, the asp-haired nemesis of local super-heroine Darna. This, apparently, now counts as sedition.
What separates those posters from posters that have come before and during past elections, including the posters of the Left? Nothing. Much of what was once considered par for the course in a democracy -- the lampooning of officials, the pasting of posters, the discussion of issues -- has now been classified as dangerous, illegal and punishable. Our older readers will recall the Japanese Occupation, when it became patriotic to flout the regulations of the authorities. Our younger readers will recall martial law, when it became a civic duty to read banned books, pamphlets and magazines, and when it was considered good citizenship to watch videotapes of Japanese inquiries into Ninoy Aquino's murder. The government of our country is putting its citizenry in the same position again.
Does a government have a right to defend itself? Of course. However a distinction needs to be made between defending the authority of the State in the interest of those who hold positions of authority in the State, and defending the State in the interest of the people, to whom everything -- state, status, position -- is owed. There is a difference between using the law to uphold the law, and using the law as a means of intimidating citizens, whose safety, property and peace of mind the law is ultimately supposed to protect.
We can no longer deny that it has become government policy to use the law to stifle not only peaceful dissent, but also the basic birthright of a democratic people to engage in public debate and discourse. The law has been invoked by the justice secretary, the National Telecommunications Commission, the National Bureau of Investigation. The Palace itself may not be speaking darkly of legal consequences for anyone who dares to inquire into matters that might reflect badly on the President, but it doesn't have to. The authorities have all been brought forward in full battle array, to remind everyone just who, exactly, has might, if not right, on its side. We fail to see any sign of a democratic and healthy confidence in media and the public that should be the hallmark of our government.
The greatest danger to stability is presented not by those who would use all means, fair or foul, to destabilize a government, but by a government that displays a fundamental insecurity when it comes to public inquiry and media probing. Some will say we in the media are whining out of a misguided belief that free speech is absolute. But we say they are wrong in assuming that the power of the state should be used, as it is being used, in such a cynical manner.
Cynical is the only way to describe the way media have been reminded to obey the law, when what is at question is the possibility that the defenders of the law have been the first to break it. The country is concerned with allegations that those holding public office have not held it in a manner that inspires trust; and yet, instead of trusting the media and the people to find out the truth, anyone expressing a contrary opinion to that held by the Palace is now threatened with being branded as seditious.
There is a reason people always consider those who are quick to accuse others of sedition as tyrants: Those who invoke the law on sedition have all too often proved to be tyrants.
First posted 11:58pm (Mla time) June 16, 2005
Inquirer News Service
Editor's Note: Published on page A14 of the June 17, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
ON THURSDAY a mobile patrol unit arrested three young people pasting posters on a center island along Kalayaan Avenue in Barangay Central, Quezon City. The Central Police District of the Philippine National Police initially charged them with violations of Article 153 of the Revised Penal Code, or tumults and other public disturbances, and the anti-littering ordinance. As preparations were being made to pay the P1,000 bail initially recommended by a city prosecutor, it was learned that the charges had been elevated to inciting to sedition, a crime punishable by up to six years' imprisonment and a fine of P2,000. The three eventually posted bail.
What did the posters say? They had the words "President Evil," and "The Evil Continues." At the bottom of the posters was written: "Sa Hunyo 30, mamamayan, lumaban ka!" [On June 30, citizens, fight for your rights!] The posters portrayed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo as Valentina, the asp-haired nemesis of local super-heroine Darna. This, apparently, now counts as sedition.
What separates those posters from posters that have come before and during past elections, including the posters of the Left? Nothing. Much of what was once considered par for the course in a democracy -- the lampooning of officials, the pasting of posters, the discussion of issues -- has now been classified as dangerous, illegal and punishable. Our older readers will recall the Japanese Occupation, when it became patriotic to flout the regulations of the authorities. Our younger readers will recall martial law, when it became a civic duty to read banned books, pamphlets and magazines, and when it was considered good citizenship to watch videotapes of Japanese inquiries into Ninoy Aquino's murder. The government of our country is putting its citizenry in the same position again.
Does a government have a right to defend itself? Of course. However a distinction needs to be made between defending the authority of the State in the interest of those who hold positions of authority in the State, and defending the State in the interest of the people, to whom everything -- state, status, position -- is owed. There is a difference between using the law to uphold the law, and using the law as a means of intimidating citizens, whose safety, property and peace of mind the law is ultimately supposed to protect.
We can no longer deny that it has become government policy to use the law to stifle not only peaceful dissent, but also the basic birthright of a democratic people to engage in public debate and discourse. The law has been invoked by the justice secretary, the National Telecommunications Commission, the National Bureau of Investigation. The Palace itself may not be speaking darkly of legal consequences for anyone who dares to inquire into matters that might reflect badly on the President, but it doesn't have to. The authorities have all been brought forward in full battle array, to remind everyone just who, exactly, has might, if not right, on its side. We fail to see any sign of a democratic and healthy confidence in media and the public that should be the hallmark of our government.
The greatest danger to stability is presented not by those who would use all means, fair or foul, to destabilize a government, but by a government that displays a fundamental insecurity when it comes to public inquiry and media probing. Some will say we in the media are whining out of a misguided belief that free speech is absolute. But we say they are wrong in assuming that the power of the state should be used, as it is being used, in such a cynical manner.
Cynical is the only way to describe the way media have been reminded to obey the law, when what is at question is the possibility that the defenders of the law have been the first to break it. The country is concerned with allegations that those holding public office have not held it in a manner that inspires trust; and yet, instead of trusting the media and the people to find out the truth, anyone expressing a contrary opinion to that held by the Palace is now threatened with being branded as seditious.
There is a reason people always consider those who are quick to accuse others of sedition as tyrants: Those who invoke the law on sedition have all too often proved to be tyrants.
hello, shen. i was reading your first article (or should i say first posting) on 'why Gloria should resign'.. if im not mistaken, youve made mention of "moral and cultural revolution".. would you mind sharing with us your views or personal opinion on the issue? i just thought it would be something interesting to talk about in here.
(bdway, i guess we share the same sentiment about the political situation in our country...)
(bdway, i guess we share the same sentiment about the political situation in our country...)
Moral and cultural revolution is also a change in our basic values and the way our youth are educated. We need first to cure our sickness of moral degradation which includes on the top most level corruption. It is not only rooted on the officials of our government but on the people itself. And the solution to this is discipline of course that can only be implemented top down (when we thought of making its impact quickly realized like by electing a leader which will start such) or down-up by making an example and then creating organizations which will practice such and spread these ideas.
Most of us also say only verbally that we love our country but we do not do things to demonstrate this does we need cultural revolution on this. We need to find our identity.. who are we? And where are we going? Once found only can we beging progressing as one united country and nation. We have to love our country more and above our own self. We need to preserve and enrich our culture, we need to revolutionize the media to be sensitive to national interest and to cater to the betterment of our nation.
We need to change our educational system. Our education should not focus on how to prepare students for jobs but to prepare them for life and to incalculate in them how they can make this country better while furthering themselves and their family. We need to be collective in our efforts and think of others rather than be individualistic and always think of ourselves first and our own interest without regard for that of others.
Our country's cancer rests on a deformed morality and a lost culture.
Most of us also say only verbally that we love our country but we do not do things to demonstrate this does we need cultural revolution on this. We need to find our identity.. who are we? And where are we going? Once found only can we beging progressing as one united country and nation. We have to love our country more and above our own self. We need to preserve and enrich our culture, we need to revolutionize the media to be sensitive to national interest and to cater to the betterment of our nation.
We need to change our educational system. Our education should not focus on how to prepare students for jobs but to prepare them for life and to incalculate in them how they can make this country better while furthering themselves and their family. We need to be collective in our efforts and think of others rather than be individualistic and always think of ourselves first and our own interest without regard for that of others.
Our country's cancer rests on a deformed morality and a lost culture.
i couldnt agree with you more.. and what adds to the melancholy of such observations is the realization that our culture is now so lacking in the intellectual and spiritual resources needed to come to comprehend with the signs of our situation; the frequent disregard for facts or evidence, or rational discourse and arguments, even the low level of public discussion.
it is important to know and understand what is happening to us at this very moment in our history when we are most in need of rededicating ourselves to the telling of truths about a bureaucracy that has already expanded beyond manageable dimensions in terms of abusive and extravagant control.. even with a threat of a case being filed and thrown at your face (in reference to marvin's posting).
as political revolution is almost unthinkable in practical terms (or is it really?), efforts to transform society have been channeled into cultural and moral life. our country desperately needs a moral revolution right now, and it should start from each individual reassuming his and her personal responsibilities and joining with others to make their voices heard.
we can be ripped off of all our worldly treasures but never ever should we tolerate such ruthless demeantors to run off with what is left of us, our cultural and moral values.
it is important to know and understand what is happening to us at this very moment in our history when we are most in need of rededicating ourselves to the telling of truths about a bureaucracy that has already expanded beyond manageable dimensions in terms of abusive and extravagant control.. even with a threat of a case being filed and thrown at your face (in reference to marvin's posting).
as political revolution is almost unthinkable in practical terms (or is it really?), efforts to transform society have been channeled into cultural and moral life. our country desperately needs a moral revolution right now, and it should start from each individual reassuming his and her personal responsibilities and joining with others to make their voices heard.
we can be ripped off of all our worldly treasures but never ever should we tolerate such ruthless demeantors to run off with what is left of us, our cultural and moral values.
That is why we should all join hands in making this moral and cultural revolution a reality. That is also the main reason why our organization BROOD had been talking with other organizations and telling them that our efforts should be united so that we can really affect change. We should stop the grandstanding and the grabbing of credits for things that we have done instead work together towards a common goal.
so what is BROOD and what does it do?
BROOD means Brotherhood of Destiny. It's main aim is to help, serve and protect oneself, family and the society. It is built in order to create an organization which will be lifetime and nature and will help each member, make them strong and realize their full potential so that they can be of greater service to the society and the world.
Kumbaga sa BROOD ang bawat isa ay mahalaga, ang bawat tulong ay para sa ikabubuti ng lahat. We put protest into action rather than just ranting... yun ang gusto naming gawin. Kaya lang marami pa ring problema at numero uno na dyan ang balakid sa kaugaliang Filipino na pagkakanya-kanya at kawalan ng interes at ang kakulangan sa pondo.
By the way regarding GMA's statement, I accepted it positively though I would like to take a closer look at the transcript of the tape now that she said that she is the voice in it. If it is just a mere lapse of judgement just like what he said then it should be over with but however if she indeed instucted cheating I think the only thing she could do is "resign" because it was a betrayal of public trust which cannot be atoned with just saying sorry.
Kumbaga sa BROOD ang bawat isa ay mahalaga, ang bawat tulong ay para sa ikabubuti ng lahat. We put protest into action rather than just ranting... yun ang gusto naming gawin. Kaya lang marami pa ring problema at numero uno na dyan ang balakid sa kaugaliang Filipino na pagkakanya-kanya at kawalan ng interes at ang kakulangan sa pondo.
By the way regarding GMA's statement, I accepted it positively though I would like to take a closer look at the transcript of the tape now that she said that she is the voice in it. If it is just a mere lapse of judgement just like what he said then it should be over with but however if she indeed instucted cheating I think the only thing she could do is "resign" because it was a betrayal of public trust which cannot be atoned with just saying sorry.
i dont see no wrong for the president to protect her own votes but as the commander in chief, she was also expected to guard and protect everyone's votes during the presidential election, her opponents included.
as to whether the president should resign or not... it is important to look into the possible consequences of such action, and how it can affect our nation as a whole. question is... are we being presented concrete options by those pushing for her impeachment? would we really see the light at the end of this political crisis? or would this ever end?
id definitely say no to another snap election.
as to whether the president should resign or not... it is important to look into the possible consequences of such action, and how it can affect our nation as a whole. question is... are we being presented concrete options by those pushing for her impeachment? would we really see the light at the end of this political crisis? or would this ever end?
id definitely say no to another snap election.
how extensive is BROOD, by the way, and what kind of support do you guys need at the moment? would you pursue alliance with other groups, political and non-political?
As of the moment BROOD has some 130+ members spread within the Philippines and 16 in other countries but we are continously spreading our organization and our influence. Most of the support we need at the moment falls under funding like livelihood assistance for our members because most of them are out of school youth.
Yes we would definitely be gald to forge alliance with other groups both political and non-political (though we prefer non-political), however we will only forge this with similar and like-minded organizations. Why do you ask this?
Yes we would definitely be gald to forge alliance with other groups both political and non-political (though we prefer non-political), however we will only forge this with similar and like-minded organizations. Why do you ask this?
at least a snap election will ensure that the seating president and vice president has the trust of the people. the longer this kind of situation persist wherein the president lost credibility, and the people distrust her as evident in the recent sws and pulse asia survey, the economy will remain stagnant which means continued poverty for the greater number of filipinos.
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