AKSYON

Reports say that the government has begun negotiations with the United States embassy on the Supreme Court ruling to return to Philippine custody convicted rapist Daniel Smith, according to Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita.

What is there to negotiate? He should be transferred to a Philippine jail like any other convicted rapist. Why on earth are we tolerating a government like this when, obviously, it has absolutely no clue on what the national interest is?

Friends,

Milwida M. Guevara
Founding Member

The protest action last Friday sent shivers down Malacañang’s crooked spine. It showed for the first time in years that there was truly a limit to our patience as a people. I am praying that the protest actions continue to grow so that the President is impeached at the soonest possible time.

In the meantime, I hope Cory continues to attend masses in schools throughout the country in order to mobilize students, teachers and school administrators. Erap, in turn, should continue to go around slum areas to rally the poor. And since we’re at it, the Makati Business Club should go around talking to businessmen that a corrupt government does them no good.

We should continue to watch events unfold. More importantly, let’s continue to keep the pressure up by voting with our feet.

Now Malacañang through lapdog Peter Favila is saying that the Godmother “agonized” over her trip to China allegedly because her husband was in the hospital at that time. So what?

This still does not excuse her from having admitted that somebody told her about the “anomaly” on the eve of the signing on April 21, 2007, but that she did not cancel the signing in Hainan, China, because it would be rude to the Chinese government. It took her five months to scrap the deal when it became clear that the Godmother’s government could no longer cover it up.

Sinungaling talaga!

There has been a lot to talk about the statement issued by the CBCP yesterday regarding the current political crisis. Leah Navarro of the Balck and White Movement said that they are becoming irrelevant.

I think it’s about time for many Filipinos, particularly the media, to get over this obsession with the CBCP and their statements everytime there’s a major political upheaval. What we need to do is strengthen the country’s secular and democratic institutions so that even when the CBCP defends evil, we all don’t have to go to hell.

I was talking to my friend Patrick earlier today about what to do given the increasing public anger over the ZTE scandal.

My idea basically is this: all of us turn up the heat, not just on GMA, Neri and the Cabinet, but also on our congressmen so that they’re compelled to impeach GMA later this year when the ban expires. Yes, I know they’re crooks too. But if we do it well enough and they realize that their re-elections are at stake, the optimist in me thinks it can work.

When GMA is impeached, we can ask the Senate to make sure the trial lasts for a few years to prevent Noli for assuming the Presidency (and have the benefit of running for the Presidency as an incumbent in 2010). They can convict her maybe shortly before the campaign period starts in February 2010.

This way we not only expel the Malacañang mafia, we also prevent a Noli presidency. The best part is, if we stick to the Constitutional processes, I do not think our economic growth would be adversely affected. And our people will not have to suffer as much from having been again betrayed by its leaders.

What do you think?

It’s not surprising that the Ombudsman’s pseudo-hearing recently on the ZTE scandal was timed to coincide with the Senate hearings on the same subject. I suspect that even the DOJ hearings would be held at the same time.

Given that invoking EO 464 this time around would only fuel even more public anger, Palace henchmen need a more acceptable but no less official excuse not to show up before the Senate to give their testimony. Hence, the Ombudsman and DOJ probes.

Will it work? Or are people tired of tolerating this Government’s bullshit? Interesting times indeed.

Malacañang’s propaganda machine is again going on overdrive - this time conveniently announcing a plot to kill the President just as she is facing re-energized attempts to force her to resign.

Does the plot really exist? I don’t think so. I suspect GMA is simply afraid to go to the Philippine Military Academy given widespread disillusionment among the junior officers with her administration. She’ll definitely be booed. I don’t know if she’ll be assassinated.

Given this government’s propensity for lying, I think the Palace fabricated the plot to scare people from attending the protest rallies and to justify heightened military and police activity throughout Metro Manila.

I don’t know what the end game will be. But I’m happy to keep on attending the rallies if only to tell GMA “SHAME ON YOU! YOU AND YOUR FAMILY WILL ROT IN HELL!”

“Puno: Estrada could get to keep P1B of ill-gotten assets

AN ABSOLUTE pardon means the government will no longer confiscate P1 billion in ill-gained assets that deposed President Joseph Estrada had allegedly acquired and that the Sandiganbayan wants forfeited in favor of the state.”

Given everything that this President has done to insult the intelligence of the Filipino people, I’ve tried my best to avoid getting angry.

But the article above has convinced me that Gloria Macapagal Arroyo deserves a fate worse the Erap and Marcos combined! She must be impeached, removed from office, proscuted and jailed for the rest of her rotten life! Now!

Guys, if you have no plans this Saturday, please support this concert:

A Good Start

A benefit concert for the Children of Mayamot Elementary School with performances by: Agape, Ang Bandang Shirley, Bobby Balingit, Death by Stereo, Los Chupacabras, Gapos, Marfcreature, Degage, Kilometer 64 and many more. Entrance fee (P150 i think) includes 2 free beers.

Date: 27 January 2007, 8pm
Venue: Purple Haze Bar and Cafe (Tomas Morato)

For more details, please call Kax at 0917-9959642 or email: kalatkid@yahoo.com