Mocking Sonny and Look Who are Talking...

When LtSg. Antonio Trillanes, IV together with the Magdalos occupied the Oakwood Hotel last 27 July 2003, the issue at heart was all about corruption - corruption in the military and the so-called Oplan Greenbase. Like a true soldier, the Magdalos paid for wearing their hearts on their sleeves. We have seen the kind of military justice these soldiers went through up to the point of challenging the AFP Chief of Staff of signing their charge sheets (PTAs) so they can truly know what crime have they been charged with. flashback, their men were recently released - serving time in their barracks for no crime whatsoever. Since they are "merely" enlisted personnel, they were given a pittance and discharged. What a shame.

Worst, it was the Strong Republic of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo who violated the Oakwood Agreement signed by retired Gen. Roy Cimatu (www.sundalo.bravehost.com).

Then came Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda, Brig. Gen. Danny Lim and 26 other officers allegedly involved in the plan to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo’s administration in February 2006. From corruption, the issue moved to legitimacy of the 2004 elections for the presidency. The revelations of the existence of the Garci tapes in June 2005 showed the involvement of several generals in electoral fraud and cover-up. One of the names mentioned and identified of his reported involvement was Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, presently, Chief of Staff of the AFP.

The Mayuga report remains hidden and since 2003, more and more illegal activities have been discovered which became the battlecry of the jailed Trillanes to launch his campaign for the Senate in 2007. A vote for Trillanes was a vote against Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Sonny's was a protest vote. With little money and relatives of members of uniformed personnel helping out, private citizen Trillanes won with 12 million votes. His was a clear message. His was a single issue campaign and that was on CORRUPTION. Post 2007 was another revelation in the making what with ZTE, Cyber Ed, the WB report on the road project, more extra judicial killings, more corruption with the PNOC-EDC sale, the Transco bidding and a lot more.

Having won a mandate, Sonny was not allowed to serve. Having found a new arena, a new mission to represent his 12 million mandate, he was restrained further -- from attending the opening of the Senate, to voting, to holding a committee hearing. This was persecution. A different set of rules for Sonny as compared to Gringo. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo being higher than We the People. They just have to continually mock and taunt Sonny.

Today is no different than four years ago. After the Manila Pen surge, Sonny is again mocked and taunted:
1. VIVIAN YUCHENGCO, PSE Director:

ANC host (Ricky Carandang): it would seem that this walkout is being taken by the market in strides. it did, however, still have some effect.
VY (apparently irate): yes. earlier we are up by a hundred points, but right now it's only about 24 points up. this is what things like this do to our economy. these people should be thrown in jail!
RC: but apparently they were already in jail...
VY. Yes. if i were in charge of this i would have snipers on them!

2. HERMOGENES ESPERON, AFP Chief of Staff:
"should there be casualties then charge it to the foolishness of Trillanes"

3.IGNACIO "IGGY" AKA JOSE PIDAL ARROYO, HOR Member:
“For one who was elected to uphold the law, what Trillanes did was reprehensible and should be condemned in the strongest terms. He must be made to account for the damage he has done to our people, our economy, our country...Trillanes should go back to school to learn the basics of law. He is worse than a terrorist because he is terrorizing the country.'

4. SERGIO APOSTOL, Chief Presidential Legal Counsel:
"The guests affected by the incident will definitely sue for damages. They should sue Trillanes. And why did he not want to come out of the hotel until the last minute? Has he paid his bill for using the conference room during the standoff?"

To those who heard or read others like Bunye's joke about "5-star" rebellion or Remonde's off the cuff remarks, just send it to this blogger and will include it... and of course from the Top Banana: "IPATUPAD ANG TAMA LABAN SA MALI."

In the scheme of things, Trillanes will outlive them if Yuchengco's snipper snide remark remains as such and let's see how the equation will change 360 degrees... sabi nga nila sa isang ad... bilog ang mundo Sonny!

Again... November 29, this time at Manila Peninsula Hotel, Makati City

SENATOR ANTONIO TRILLANES, BRIG. GEN. DANILO LIM, MAGDALO SOLDIERS, THEIR GUARDS AND THE PEOPLE ARE NOW IN MANILA PENINSULA.

Bishops Yniguez, Tobias and Labayen, former Vice President Teofisto Guingona, former PNP Chief General Ramon Montano, former UP President and Laban ng Masa Leader Prof Francisco Nemenzo are now with the patriotic soldiers in Makati


Today, we address all and decent Filipinos, to announce that NOW is the time to end the sufferings and miseries inflicted upon us by the illegitimate Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Government and start a new life and a new Philippines.

The die is cast.

Pursuant to our constitutional mandate as “protector of the people and the State,” and by this act, the patriotic officers and men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police, supported by the masses of our people and the various political forces, give substance to the constitutional provision which says, “The Philippines is a democratic and republican state. Sovereignty resides in the people, and all government authority emanates from them.” Thus, we take the fateful step of removing Mrs. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo from the Presidency and undertake the formation of a new government.

Mrs Arroyo had occupied the Presidency under a questionable mandate, publicly disputed by the vast majority of Filipinos. She stole the Presidency from President Joseph Ejercito Estrada through unconstitutional and deceitful means, and later, manipulated the results of the 2004 elections to perpetuate herself in power.

We have individually and collectively tried all means to resolve this legitimacy issue through the normal electoral, judicial and congressional processes. But Mrs Arroyo used naked power through the issuance of EO 464 and other executive proclamations, and the sheer weight of numbers to paralyze the impeachment process—procured at the people’s great expense – to frustrate us at every turn.

After all these had failed, our people tried to air their grievances in peaceful street assemblies. They thought they were exercising a combination of constitutional rights, which no official or agency of government may legally abridge. But they were stopped and dispersed violently with water cannons from firemen and truncheons from the police.

The abuses of her government continue. The deliberate refusal or failure of the dubious leaders to investigate and prosecute the people responsible for the scandalous “Hello Garci” electoral cheating, the Jocjoc Bolante multi million peso fertilizer scam, the IMPSA bribery scandal, the “Jose Pidal” and the jueteng scandals involving billions of public funds, the Northrail Project scandal, the Venable contract scandal, the NBN scandal, wholesale bribery of congressmen and governors in Malacanang, as well as the unabated and resolved extrajudicial killings of citizens, particularly journalists and members of the judiciary, and the use of military and police officers for some unlawful missions, among others, are clear proof her failure of good and decent governance. There are numerous illegal and immoral activities and transactions conducted by this government with impunity that betray the citizens and the State of their pristine right to exist as a people with decency, dignity and integrity.

With all the avenues closed by the use of naked force, no other means remain but for the officers and men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police to exercise their constitutional mandate take the side of the sovereign Filipino people against the illegitimate ‘president’.

We beg your indulgence and apologize for any temporary disruptions attendant to fighting this righteous cause. We are confident that the will of the sovereign people will prevail. The end of the corrupt and vicious government and its bogus leaders is long overdue.

We support the political and economic reforms that will be initiated by the new government, regardless of the personal cost it may impose upon each one of us.

We, therefore, call on all our people and all the governments around the world to give the constitutional rescue initiated by our patriotic brothers in the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police a chance to work.

To the task of organizing a new government, and pursuing a program of total and no-nonsense reform we commit our full support.

We shall do whatever we can do to prevent any backsliding to the corruption and abuse of power of the immediate past, and advance the cause of truth, freedom, justice, peace and progress for all Filipinos.

God bless the Filipino people, Mabuhay ang Pilipinas!