Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Welcome to the Philippines?!?

Dec. 29, another historical mark in our country.heres the deal. During the trial of the magdalo soldiers on their case of mutiny and atempted mutiny for brig. gen. Lim an unexpected event happened. After the defense have asked questions for Lim the court went to a reccess.After the reccess its the prosecutions turn to cross examine,but it never reached that part. From the back Faeldon, a member of the magdalo approached Lim and said "Sir,tayo na." and stood up and started walking away.

The Justice Pimentel shouted out to the guards and escorts that "Dont let Gen. Lim to go out!" but the crazy thing is all the guards and escort just watched.Only two dared to ask and stop them but they were shrugged off easilly.It was going easy and looked plan from the start being able to reach the ground floor with little to no resistance whatsoever.

Next Scene, The streets of Makati. -Traffic was halted by uniformed officials -blocked by unidentified cars. -people were asked and persuaded to join."Kailangan kayo ng bansa nyo!samahan nyo kami!" these lines were mentioned. All over this the press followed.until they reached their next destination.HOTEL PENINSULA. rushing inside.without care for anything or the properties of the said hotel it is here that they made their so called "Stand-off". On the Government' Side. immediate reaction? "Send the PNP!not the ARMY!they might join them!" What happened next? tanks appeared. The Special Action Forces arrived. Guests of the hotel evacuated. Front gate machined gunned with 60 rounds to weaken the wall by a tank. front door banged by tank to be destroyed. hotel teargassed. Magdalo surrendered. Bishops of the church also arrested. Mediamen arrested. All this happened in one day.All part of the so called Democracy and freedom of expression. But do we really know what is Democracy?one clear thing is that the power of the people is absolute.but the rule of law is a safeguard restriction.so which should be followed?the rule of law?or the power of the people? welcome to the philippines...Happy Bonifacion Day. †Shattered.Angel†

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Correction: it was not Marine Capt. Nicanor Faeldon who "escorted" Gen. Lim out of the courtroom. It was Lt. (sg) James Layug.