Rizal Day

Honoring The Hero with Lies

Pretender Arroyo will lead the nation today in celebrating the 110th death anniversary of national hero Dr. Jose Rizal whose death on Dec. 30, 1896 triggered the Philippine Revolution and the country’s independence from Spain two years later in 1898.

Arroyo will lead the nationwide celebration of Rizal Day through commemoration rites at the Rizal Shrine in Baguio City where the Fake Family is spending their holiday break.

On this day in 2002 Arroyo pledged in front of the monument of the national hero at the Luneta Park that she will not be a candidate for the presidency. Poor Rizal must be turning in his grave now that Arroyo is going thru the motions again of extolling him with her lies.

Peace on Earth ...

... and GOODWILL TOWARD MEN

MERRY CHRISTMAS

and

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Deep Disappointments

Great Expectations

On this particular Sunday, December 17, 2006 the Filipino people had great expectations. On this day half a million people, nay … a million people expect to congregate at the luneta park to protest and make known their disgust and rejection of the despicableconstituent assembly that has been railroaded and shoved down the throats of all law abiding filipinos by an equally despicable house of representatives. Today the filipinos will make known the sound and fury of a long seething discontent with the administration of Gloria Arroyo. Alas! This great gathering of eagles turned into

A Gathering of Shepherds
The gathered mass of rallyist underestimated the wiles of the Pretender and her cohorts. Days before the rally, the chief of PNP threatened to arrest actors, politicians, or bishops who will deliver incendiary speeches and will charge them with sedition. The head of the military establishment displayed armaments of war that will pounce at any time to break up infiltrators and saboteurs who are expected to be throwing bombs and explosives in the middle of the motley throng. These ploys of threats and scare tactics were effective alright. No million warm bodies showed up and by police count a measly 30 thousand had garnered courage to attend the mass rally. The CBCP and other religious leaders were intimidated and fell back on their calling as shepherds of the flock, piously delivering homilies to

A Gathering of Sheep

Portrait of aToddler Dictator

DAILY TRIBUNE

Commentary

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has made backtracking, flip-flopping, back-pedaling and more as her official government policy. It is no wonder the Philippines under her regime ranks as one of the most non-descript nations in the civilized world.

Mrs. Arroyo, as a leader, has hit rock bottom not only for her lying, cheating and stealing but also for being a non-credible political persona with an instinct for dividing rather than uniting and for inflicting more damage than necessary on an already image-battered nation.

Didn’t she backtrack pathetically from sworn commitment she made to her major ally after she enthusiastically but unilaterally offered to sacrifice a handful of troops to President George Bush’s Coalition of the Willing in Iraq because she feared public opinion over the kidnappers’ attempt to behead kidnap victim Angelo de la Cruz?

Not so long ago, she promised on the death anniversary of the nation’s well-loved hero, Jose Rizal, that she wouldn’t run for president for being the single, biggest cause of divisiveness in the country, only to shamelessly break her word.

She also flip-flopped on the appointment of Adm. Mateo Mayuga to a major military post as flag-officer-in-command a year ago for some reason that remains mysterious to this day, only media criticisms got her back on track.

A week ago, she managed to greatly embarrass the nation on the world stage and to unremorsefully sidetrack the hard work of Cebu’s local officials as well as tourism operators by unilaterally canceling a major international summit even after delegates made the trip to Manila by blaming her back-pedaling on Typhoon “Seniang,” a flimsy excuse that none of the guests believes to be true because they know full well that the Arroyo government was lying, that the sordid truth is that it was in the midst of a brewing political storm of her own making

And today, after moving heaven and earth to get the House to stake its political capital on her pet Charter change project designed at perpetuating herself in power, and taking the nation to the brink of a constitutional crisis, she flip-flops, backtracks and back-pedals once again when faced with a massive public show of indignation.

Mrs. Arroyo has not changed from being a Malacañang spoiled brat as a toddler resident there; growing into adulthood has not taught her the basic niceties of social behavior; she still has not learned to treat people with respect in spite of her age, her so-called pedigree and her much bragged-about education. Actually, typical of a spoiled brat, she backs down only when she is threatened with serious spanking or when she feels she’s in danger of being booted from her favorite playground, Malacañang.

We, the Filipino people should not continue to tolerate her shameless behavior. We should not allow her to make a mockery of the civilized tradition of respect for the people. She should be booted out as soon as possible before she causes any more irreparable damage to the nation and its people.

Filipinos must finally open their eyes to this woman for what she is truly worth: Nothing. She’s greedy, she’s incompetent, she’s unreliable and she’s untrustworthy.

Anna de Brux

Belgium

Breaking Up A Rally

Esperon warns on bombers at rally

‘Biggest anti-Gloria gathering’

BY VICTOR REYES

ARMED Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon yesterday said communist and terrorist groups might sabotage the Church-led anti-charter change rally on Sunday at the Luneta.

"We want to preclude some vested forces from exploiting that rally to their own designs, meaning there are forces that could infiltrate that rally or could probably agitate after infiltration or provoke or sabotage the rally itself," Esperon said after presiding over a command conference at the headquarters of the National Capital Region Command.

Comment:

The five star general must be thinking aloud on his five star grand scheme to protect his patroness. He foresees disruption of the peaceful assembly of mass of demonstrators by infiltrators and saboteurs. Such disruption can cause a stampede and the resulting chaos can be horrible. It is a brilliant way to stop demonstrators in their tracks.

Squid Tricks

Why the rush for Con-Ass, or now
Con-con, and what’s in it for us?

Administration allies, the majority, are pushing Charter change by every imaginable means. They have succumbed to obviously desperate measures. When confronted with contentious issues, they are disturbingly belligerent and arrogant, even strangely righteous in maintaining their arguments for changing the Constitution.

Rep. Francis ‘Chiz’ Escudero

There is no rhyme or reason for this indecent haste to mangle this important national document. It is not like the archives where the document reposes was burned or damaged beyond legibility, or a leprechaun stole and ran away with the document, and therefore there is absolute necessity to reconstruct, amend, change, or restore the document. The rush to Con-Con give rise to suspicion of ulterior motives of the movers rather than the necessity of action.

Cha Cha, Pig, Con Ass, Con Con, are all premeditated plans to perpetuate GMA’s usurpation of power. She is not contented of stealing the elections twice – she also has delusions of an enchanted kingdom where she is queen and the filipinos are her slaves. GMA wants the world also to recognize her, and so she send her slaves to other countries, with the euphemistic appellation of super maids.

The real and immediate reason for this indecent haste of amending the constitution is to put up a façade of urgency and consequently divert the attention of the people away from the stench she created when she subverted and tharted the will of the electorate by massive cheating during the last elections. The media and even the academe swallowed her subterfuge, hook and sinker, and even the senate do not know what hit them. The religious groups were caught unawares too – they thought that congress is the culprit. Little did they suspect that all these headlong rush to amend the constitution are squid tricks to cover up the anomalies that GMA cooked up in her witches brew.

Little House on the Pasig River

JDV backs off from Con-Ass

GMA has finally realized the folly of CHA-CHA, PIg, and CON-ASS and now has unceremoniously pulled the rug under JDV. It was GMA who gave the green light to JDV to push through a unicameral legislature, despite palace circus barkers that GMA has nothing to do with it.

GMA may not have the moral fiber to rule but she has got lots of fibber. She has no respect for the pilipino people and therefore insult their intelligence constantly. She thinks that by palace pronouncements, lies will transmute to the truth.

CHA CHA and CON ASS are all staged managed facade with the main purpose of diverting the attention of the people away from the the despicable usurpation of power via massive election cheating. The media and the academe appeared to be hoodwinked by such high falutin’ rhetoric of constitutional amendments. While the media and the people are distracted and mesmerized by these high falutin’ antics, the Fake Gentleman is carting away the national treasury and depositing it in German banks.

The pretender in the palace by the murky river is playing her role to the hilt. She occupies the office to pursue her own selfish interest. The welfare of the people is as good as flowing downriver by her palace. She considers the country as her little house on the prairie – the ideal place to exploit her fantasies.