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Monday, January 31, 2011
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Guest: Prof. Louie Montemar
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Guest: Butch Junia
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Guest: Prof. Louie Montemar
Just the tip of the iceberg
DIE HARD III
Herman Tiu Laurel
1/31/2011
As Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia couldn’t have pulled off his larceny on the Armed Forces’ logistics command without authorization from above, so could these superiors of his (i.e. Angie Reyes, other chiefs-of-staff, including various Defense secretaries) also not have conducted these rackets over time without their higher ups ever condoning such acts.
For one, let’s ask who got Reyes to turn against the Constitution in Edsa II by shanghaiing a busload of generals to Gloria Arroyo’s illegal oathtaking, with him even sardonically exclaiming, “Gentlemen, we are committing treason.”
Knowing the answer is key because ever since that fateful day, Mrs. Arroyo has lavishly taken care of Reyes’ fortunes; likewise that of the “cheap” magistrate who administered her oath; and, of course, the vast riches of that noted oligarch slash Edsa pavement dancer who financed her coup — whose ilk Gloria’s economic adviser Joey Salceda claimed nine years later to have “…never had it so good, earning P10 trillion in 10 years” under their Queen’s inglorious reign.
Going by the P300-million loot Garcia had amassed, the former military comptroller may look like a big or middling fish. But once people get to see how much more his bosses may have plundered, he will certainly look like a small fry.
A small fry indeed Garcia is compared to, say, his erstwhile boss, Angie Reyes, who could have amassed P500 million to well over a billion (or even more), and that former Chief Justice, who was alleged to have benefited from the P3-billion Judiciary Development Fund, a scandal circa 2002-2003 that set off impeachment proceedings against him, which Gloria expectedly quashed.
A small fry, too, is what Garcia appears to be especially when placed alongside members of the then expanding Arroyo cabal, whose power addiction grew simultaneous with their own designs to stay in power, such that subsequent elections had to be rigged in order to net the players hefty kickbacks in, say, the ZTE-NBN scandal or even the transitional ruse that was the fraudulent P11.8-billion Smartmatic system.
But then, these billions are definitely miniscule compared to the ten thousand billions of pesos (read: P10 trillion) that the handful of Big Business oligarchs got, starting from the P5-million to P10-million payola-laden passage of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira) by the Edsa II lameduck Congress under Sonny Belmonte, which ushered in a decade of power plunder that, up to this day, is the single biggest economic disaster for Filipino households and livelihoods.
Why, Epira was just a harbinger of all the predatory public utility rate increases that followed. In the years after Edsa II, the oligarchs were always on a roll — be it water, toll ways, or even port and harbor service fees! Good thing that a handful of consumer advocates, like the 89-year-old Mang Naro Lualhati, who won us our first P30-billion Meralco refund, are still around. This Feb. 7, he will be presenting in court Meralco’s P92-billion disallowances and P39-billion overcharges.
If and when the likes of Garcia and Reyes are put away in jail, does anyone believe Philippine society will be cleaned up? Their acts of corruption are but shovels of garbage from the Payatas pit of official corruption.
Who were the collaborators of Arroyo and Reyes all through the last decade in the Senate, Congress, media, religious and business sectors, as well as NGOs?
Ask Roilo Golez who, as National Security Adviser, defended Arroyo to the hilt during the Oakwood protests and investigations and called my radio program on dzXL to stop my reading of the Trillanes manifesto on July 27, 2003 and got me kicked out of the station a week later.
Ask Sen. Rodolfo Biazon to enlighten us as to why a group of retired generals reject him as being part of the so-called “righteous generals” of our soldiery. Ask Sen. Miguel Zubiri, too, who has been vocal on the Garcia issue. Let’s see if he can explain how he won his Senate seat.
Oops, I almost forgot, what about Etta Rosales and the funds she got from Gloria to jumpstart her party-lists and her comrades’ congressional careers?
If anyone thinks Garcia and Reyes’ alleged loots are scandalously huge, they should ask Sonny Belmonte where the former QC mayor’s annual P1-billion pork barrel went to in the past 10 years, and why his councilors’ counterpart pork barrel had grown from P40 million to P50 million a year, amid the worsening squalor of Quezon City’s poor.
What about the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and its officials, who are collaborating in a great financial larceny by keeping the P1.22-trillion Special Deposit Account idle while borrowing heavily year in-year out, adding up to the country’s mounting murderous debt to the global banking mafia?
What about the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s top officials, who implement debilitating taxes on small and medium scale businesses, as well as the onerous VAT on hapless Filipino consumers, knowing that an awfully huge chunk of these go off to feed the insatiable sharks of international Finance?
Garcia is a small fry; Reyes is but a middling shark. And while we should never take our eyes off them, we must all know that the megalodons (or prehistoric, dinosaur-like sharks) are swimming below in the coldest, darkest depths of our predatory sea.
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 6 to 7 p.m. on 1098AM; TNT with HTL, Tuesday, 8 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8, about “Crime and Corruption in Philippine Society” with PMJ’s Tito Guingona and Atty. Oliver Lozano; visit our blogs, http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com and http://hermantiulaurel.blogspot.com)
Herman Tiu Laurel
1/31/2011
As Maj. Gen. Carlos Garcia couldn’t have pulled off his larceny on the Armed Forces’ logistics command without authorization from above, so could these superiors of his (i.e. Angie Reyes, other chiefs-of-staff, including various Defense secretaries) also not have conducted these rackets over time without their higher ups ever condoning such acts.
For one, let’s ask who got Reyes to turn against the Constitution in Edsa II by shanghaiing a busload of generals to Gloria Arroyo’s illegal oathtaking, with him even sardonically exclaiming, “Gentlemen, we are committing treason.”
Knowing the answer is key because ever since that fateful day, Mrs. Arroyo has lavishly taken care of Reyes’ fortunes; likewise that of the “cheap” magistrate who administered her oath; and, of course, the vast riches of that noted oligarch slash Edsa pavement dancer who financed her coup — whose ilk Gloria’s economic adviser Joey Salceda claimed nine years later to have “…never had it so good, earning P10 trillion in 10 years” under their Queen’s inglorious reign.
Going by the P300-million loot Garcia had amassed, the former military comptroller may look like a big or middling fish. But once people get to see how much more his bosses may have plundered, he will certainly look like a small fry.
A small fry indeed Garcia is compared to, say, his erstwhile boss, Angie Reyes, who could have amassed P500 million to well over a billion (or even more), and that former Chief Justice, who was alleged to have benefited from the P3-billion Judiciary Development Fund, a scandal circa 2002-2003 that set off impeachment proceedings against him, which Gloria expectedly quashed.
A small fry, too, is what Garcia appears to be especially when placed alongside members of the then expanding Arroyo cabal, whose power addiction grew simultaneous with their own designs to stay in power, such that subsequent elections had to be rigged in order to net the players hefty kickbacks in, say, the ZTE-NBN scandal or even the transitional ruse that was the fraudulent P11.8-billion Smartmatic system.
But then, these billions are definitely miniscule compared to the ten thousand billions of pesos (read: P10 trillion) that the handful of Big Business oligarchs got, starting from the P5-million to P10-million payola-laden passage of the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (Epira) by the Edsa II lameduck Congress under Sonny Belmonte, which ushered in a decade of power plunder that, up to this day, is the single biggest economic disaster for Filipino households and livelihoods.
Why, Epira was just a harbinger of all the predatory public utility rate increases that followed. In the years after Edsa II, the oligarchs were always on a roll — be it water, toll ways, or even port and harbor service fees! Good thing that a handful of consumer advocates, like the 89-year-old Mang Naro Lualhati, who won us our first P30-billion Meralco refund, are still around. This Feb. 7, he will be presenting in court Meralco’s P92-billion disallowances and P39-billion overcharges.
If and when the likes of Garcia and Reyes are put away in jail, does anyone believe Philippine society will be cleaned up? Their acts of corruption are but shovels of garbage from the Payatas pit of official corruption.
Who were the collaborators of Arroyo and Reyes all through the last decade in the Senate, Congress, media, religious and business sectors, as well as NGOs?
Ask Roilo Golez who, as National Security Adviser, defended Arroyo to the hilt during the Oakwood protests and investigations and called my radio program on dzXL to stop my reading of the Trillanes manifesto on July 27, 2003 and got me kicked out of the station a week later.
Ask Sen. Rodolfo Biazon to enlighten us as to why a group of retired generals reject him as being part of the so-called “righteous generals” of our soldiery. Ask Sen. Miguel Zubiri, too, who has been vocal on the Garcia issue. Let’s see if he can explain how he won his Senate seat.
Oops, I almost forgot, what about Etta Rosales and the funds she got from Gloria to jumpstart her party-lists and her comrades’ congressional careers?
If anyone thinks Garcia and Reyes’ alleged loots are scandalously huge, they should ask Sonny Belmonte where the former QC mayor’s annual P1-billion pork barrel went to in the past 10 years, and why his councilors’ counterpart pork barrel had grown from P40 million to P50 million a year, amid the worsening squalor of Quezon City’s poor.
What about the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas and its officials, who are collaborating in a great financial larceny by keeping the P1.22-trillion Special Deposit Account idle while borrowing heavily year in-year out, adding up to the country’s mounting murderous debt to the global banking mafia?
What about the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s top officials, who implement debilitating taxes on small and medium scale businesses, as well as the onerous VAT on hapless Filipino consumers, knowing that an awfully huge chunk of these go off to feed the insatiable sharks of international Finance?
Garcia is a small fry; Reyes is but a middling shark. And while we should never take our eyes off them, we must all know that the megalodons (or prehistoric, dinosaur-like sharks) are swimming below in the coldest, darkest depths of our predatory sea.
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, 6 to 7 p.m. on 1098AM; TNT with HTL, Tuesday, 8 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable Channel 8, about “Crime and Corruption in Philippine Society” with PMJ’s Tito Guingona and Atty. Oliver Lozano; visit our blogs, http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com and http://hermantiulaurel.blogspot.com)
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Small setback...
DIE HARD III
Herman Tiu Laurel
2/26/2006
"Maliit na setback sa movement,” was the text message sent to us by my text source in reaction to my query about the reported arrest of 1st Lt. Lawrence San Juan yesterday morning. This may be considered an official response to the incident as my text source has proved consistent and reliable, and there has been no denial from the visible and invisible Oakwood young officers’ leadership to what we report of their announced views here. We are informed that a statement will also be forthcoming from them in the coming days which we are supposed to read in a Mass that will be heard in the coming days.
I use the term “Oakwood young officers” referring to what the mainstream media have so erroneously tagged as the Magdalo group. From Day One of Oakwood to this day the group led by Trillanes, et. al. have displayed the symbol that unambiguously defines the spirit, goals and aspirations of their movement. We have also repeated time and again the name by which the group calls itself and should be called: The Bagong Katipuneros. The embroidered caps they use and give out are embroidered with the initials BK and the sun symbol they use is unambiguously of the Magdiwang faction of Bonifacio.
The Magdiwang of Bonifacio raised the 16-ray sun instead of the eight-ray sun of the Magdalo faction. The symbolisms here are crucial to the correct understanding of the Oakwood young officers, for while the Magdalo faction of Aguinaldo is written in genuine Philippine history as the faction that capitulated to the colonizers, the Magdiwang faction of Bonifacio remained true to the spirit and sacrifice of the Philippine Revolution. Is the persistent misidentification and misrepresentation by media of the symbols of the Bagong Katipuneros deliberate?
This column has consistently and persistently used the term Bagong Katipuneros to refer to the movement of young officers that symbolizes the ferment for anti-corruption reform within the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Those who persistently use the wrong term are mostly doing it out of ignorance and the force of habit of just following the diktat of the mainstream newspapers and media, but I will not be surprised if we were to discover someday that the consistent misnaming and misrepresentation of the symbolic identity of the Bagong Katipuneros were deliberate.
The manipulation of mainstream media is not difficult, all it requires is control of a handful of editorial positions in the largest newspaper in the country (supported by the advertising revenues of the establishment corporations) and the two main TV-radio broadcast giants. But much of it begins with the mainstream print media which most of the broadcast news writers, particularly radio, just pick up first thing in the morning, condense and read as news throughout the day. Indeed, if I were a propagandist of the establishment fearful of ideas of real change, I would strike out the idea of a new Katipunan and the reincarnation of Bonifacio’s spirit and Magdiwang movement.
That 1st Lt. San Juan’s arrest is but a “small setback” to the Bagong Katipuneros’ struggle is logical, the four “liberated” young officers being very well-known now. They are actively circulating to serve as catalysts and have become propaganda figures who take a lot of risks. As we wrote before during Faeldon’s arrest there will be others to rise. The Bagong Katipuneros even let their displeasure with Faeldon surface showing that they have enough confidence to exercise discipline among their ranks, reflecting a deeper bench than expected.
The Bagong Katipuneros “sleepers” are in place, coordinated by the many means at the disposal of their comrades. Surprises like Capt. Candelaria Rivas lie in wait; they cannot lose because the young officers constitute the vast majority of the AFP and each moment of the unfolding day is theirs because of their youth. Small setbacks are of little moment in the great endeavor the Bagong Katipuneros embarked on when they chose the name of the true revolutionary movement, the Katipunan, and Bonifacio’s faction as its model.
Another info they sent through text is about the alleged “bomb” reportedly recovered at the Philippine Military Academy rites recently which was actually a DOE (Demolition, Ordnance, Explosive) kit left behind by the DOE team detailed to Baguio, “not a foiled sabotage as they claimed.” Apparently, the AFP top brass propaganda machine and Malacañang have been hatching up a lot of these psy-ops to confuse the public. How many of the “bombings” now being reported, from the “kerosene can bomb” to the pill boxes in various places are actually on GMA’s orders we can’t tell.
While the BK’s struggle for change and emancipation continues, the nation’s plight worsens. The Leyte tragedy following a long succesion of similar catastrophes highlights the “primitivization” of Philippine life. While scientific resources are within reach of every community and Filipino, resources to acquire and use them are impossible to reach. The geo-mapping of communities in landslide danger has been made, and Phivolcs director Punongbayan was martyred doing this, but now we discover that GMA had not appropriated funds for its implementation.
Meanwhile, GMA extends another P680-million tax holiday to Ayala’s Manila Water which reported earnings of P2 billion after raising water rates again and adding 2 percent to the 10-percent eVAT. And Mike Defensor sheds crocodile tears for St. Bernard?
(Tune in to 1098AM, Monday to Friday 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.)
Herman Tiu Laurel
2/26/2006
"Maliit na setback sa movement,” was the text message sent to us by my text source in reaction to my query about the reported arrest of 1st Lt. Lawrence San Juan yesterday morning. This may be considered an official response to the incident as my text source has proved consistent and reliable, and there has been no denial from the visible and invisible Oakwood young officers’ leadership to what we report of their announced views here. We are informed that a statement will also be forthcoming from them in the coming days which we are supposed to read in a Mass that will be heard in the coming days.
I use the term “Oakwood young officers” referring to what the mainstream media have so erroneously tagged as the Magdalo group. From Day One of Oakwood to this day the group led by Trillanes, et. al. have displayed the symbol that unambiguously defines the spirit, goals and aspirations of their movement. We have also repeated time and again the name by which the group calls itself and should be called: The Bagong Katipuneros. The embroidered caps they use and give out are embroidered with the initials BK and the sun symbol they use is unambiguously of the Magdiwang faction of Bonifacio.
The Magdiwang of Bonifacio raised the 16-ray sun instead of the eight-ray sun of the Magdalo faction. The symbolisms here are crucial to the correct understanding of the Oakwood young officers, for while the Magdalo faction of Aguinaldo is written in genuine Philippine history as the faction that capitulated to the colonizers, the Magdiwang faction of Bonifacio remained true to the spirit and sacrifice of the Philippine Revolution. Is the persistent misidentification and misrepresentation by media of the symbols of the Bagong Katipuneros deliberate?
This column has consistently and persistently used the term Bagong Katipuneros to refer to the movement of young officers that symbolizes the ferment for anti-corruption reform within the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP). Those who persistently use the wrong term are mostly doing it out of ignorance and the force of habit of just following the diktat of the mainstream newspapers and media, but I will not be surprised if we were to discover someday that the consistent misnaming and misrepresentation of the symbolic identity of the Bagong Katipuneros were deliberate.
The manipulation of mainstream media is not difficult, all it requires is control of a handful of editorial positions in the largest newspaper in the country (supported by the advertising revenues of the establishment corporations) and the two main TV-radio broadcast giants. But much of it begins with the mainstream print media which most of the broadcast news writers, particularly radio, just pick up first thing in the morning, condense and read as news throughout the day. Indeed, if I were a propagandist of the establishment fearful of ideas of real change, I would strike out the idea of a new Katipunan and the reincarnation of Bonifacio’s spirit and Magdiwang movement.
That 1st Lt. San Juan’s arrest is but a “small setback” to the Bagong Katipuneros’ struggle is logical, the four “liberated” young officers being very well-known now. They are actively circulating to serve as catalysts and have become propaganda figures who take a lot of risks. As we wrote before during Faeldon’s arrest there will be others to rise. The Bagong Katipuneros even let their displeasure with Faeldon surface showing that they have enough confidence to exercise discipline among their ranks, reflecting a deeper bench than expected.
The Bagong Katipuneros “sleepers” are in place, coordinated by the many means at the disposal of their comrades. Surprises like Capt. Candelaria Rivas lie in wait; they cannot lose because the young officers constitute the vast majority of the AFP and each moment of the unfolding day is theirs because of their youth. Small setbacks are of little moment in the great endeavor the Bagong Katipuneros embarked on when they chose the name of the true revolutionary movement, the Katipunan, and Bonifacio’s faction as its model.
Another info they sent through text is about the alleged “bomb” reportedly recovered at the Philippine Military Academy rites recently which was actually a DOE (Demolition, Ordnance, Explosive) kit left behind by the DOE team detailed to Baguio, “not a foiled sabotage as they claimed.” Apparently, the AFP top brass propaganda machine and Malacañang have been hatching up a lot of these psy-ops to confuse the public. How many of the “bombings” now being reported, from the “kerosene can bomb” to the pill boxes in various places are actually on GMA’s orders we can’t tell.
While the BK’s struggle for change and emancipation continues, the nation’s plight worsens. The Leyte tragedy following a long succesion of similar catastrophes highlights the “primitivization” of Philippine life. While scientific resources are within reach of every community and Filipino, resources to acquire and use them are impossible to reach. The geo-mapping of communities in landslide danger has been made, and Phivolcs director Punongbayan was martyred doing this, but now we discover that GMA had not appropriated funds for its implementation.
Meanwhile, GMA extends another P680-million tax holiday to Ayala’s Manila Water which reported earnings of P2 billion after raising water rates again and adding 2 percent to the 10-percent eVAT. And Mike Defensor sheds crocodile tears for St. Bernard?
(Tune in to 1098AM, Monday to Friday 5 a.m. to 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.)
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