Martial Rule, January 2008

INFOWARS
Herman Tiu Laurel
1/18/2008



Let’s not beat around the bush anymore, January 22 is the signal for the first step towards the Gloria-Esperion Martial Rule. All government pronouncements about so-called “destab” moves by the Magdalo or General Lim’s men are BS. The arrest of the five discharged Scout Rangers is nothing but a “Rambo” act scripted and directed by Esperon and the Military Intelligence Group. They are victimizing innocent brave soldiers to use as unknowing props for their stage-managing of the pretext for their martial rule, punishing the innocent families of these heroes of the AFP who’ve certainly done more for the cause of the country than such election-cheating and crooked generals like Esperon et al.

They have drummed up the fake “destab” (or what the media calls “destab me”) to justify the systematic installation of the materiel for martial rule: scaring media from doing its solemn duty to get to the truth of every crisis situation (the Iraq “embedded journalists” Raul Gonzales spoke about in the government corporate directorship holder Alvin Capino’s radio interview are controlled journalists as proven by the discredit CNN and BBC has earned for that); the 2,000 to 10,000 troops by Esperon’s minions for January 22 is not “overkill”, it is ridiculous and clearly meant to position troops to use in suppression of whatever dissent that may arise when their iron rule is imposed.

The political opposition’s response to the unmistakable moves of Gloria and her corrupt military centurions has been muted. If they could ratchet up the decibels of protest against these moves they may be of some help in averting the dire scenario. Right now, it is up to the democratic and progressive forces of dissent to take action against the mounting actions of the Gloria regime towards the imposition of martial rule. This started with the legal assistance and press conference the former fellow detainees of Sen. Trillanes and Gen. Danilo Lim (whose men were the discharged five seized again by the MIG) Attys. JV Bautista, Argee Guevarra, myself, and lawyer Atty. Trixie Angeles.

The wife of Sgt. Orlando Valencia made an indignant and emotional appeal yesterday at the press conference at the Treehouse in Quezon City, demanding to know why the authorities have arrested her husband who had just started on a family driver job and could not possibly have any involvement in any illegal activities. Sgt. Valencia drove for a Medal of Valor awardee Scout Ranger colonel who is also detained with fellow awardees Cols. Querubin and Parcon in Tanay, and Valencia had been in the crucial military encounters that made them heroes in the eyes of other soldiers. The wife of Sgt. Perania joined the press but restrained herself due to her hypertension.

Both Mrs. Valencia and Perania expressed the desperate straits their family are in, without the head of family to earn their daily bread. “How”. Mrs. Valencia asks, “can my poor husband be expected to be running around in destab activities when he is trying eke out a living.” The alleged firearms taken from the five men consists of three weapons that don’t even work, apparently just taken out of some MIG warehouse. Mrs. Perania asked how her husband can be involved in anything illegal when they live right inside a military camp. To support the lame charges, the counsel of the five believe the MIG is preparing through torture one of the five arrested to “squeal.”

The insidious designs of Gloria and her corrupt cabal to hold on to power are being pushed forward due to the apparent improbability of getting the Cha-cha through, while the opposition to Gloria in various institutions such as the Catholic Church is rising – and a march of some religious groups and leaders from La Salle Greenhills to the People Power Monument is expected for today, January 18. At the same time, the media is becoming alert to the threat posed by the scare tactics Gloria’s minions repeat with increasing frequency to intimidate the press and media; while some may be threatened, others will resist and the Gloria regime will ultimately pay a huge price for this.

The Gloria regime will never be a source of peace and stability because of its illegitimate, bloody and perfidious origin and character: it rape of the Constitution, its trampling of the Will of the People from the 1998 elections, it illegal grab of power, it murder of dozens in the 2001 May Edsa Tres which has now grown to hundreds killed in the Gloria-Palparan “summary killings”, it impoverishment and starvation of the people over the years, its destruction of the national economy, its rapacious plunder of the national coffers, its fire sale of our national crown jewels, its complicity in the highest power and water rates in Asia, it breeding of the national culture of corruption, ad nausea.

If Gloria and Esperon manage to succeed in foisting martial rule, it won’t last long anyway. Marcos managed to make it last because of the cohesion of the military community under his leadership at that time, anda governance that really reflected a desire for national development and industrialization. Gloria has done nothing to give meaning to her leadership and inspire the military institution, and she has managed only to soil the good name of the institution by making it complicit in election cheating and national corruption. Marcos eventually went down in ignominy, Gloria will burn when she goes down.

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