Learning history lessons
According to Manuel L. Quezon III’s Blog Imee Marcos allegedly asked the Makati crowd this question: “Will we tolerate liars and thieves?” This from the daughter of the former dictator who ravished the country, looted millions of pesos and lied about everything including his own health? Is there greater hypocrisy in recent history?
And the more disturbing fact is that the people answered “NO!” LAUGHABLE!!! How about they throw tomatoes and cart off Imee Marcos and her family to jail while saying that? How about kicking the butts of the Estradas straight to jail?
Are the Filipinos really just a forgiving people or do we suffer from memory loss. Sure, most of us can recite historical dates, places and names off the top of our head at any given time. But can we say we did learn anything from our history. Studying history, theoretically and ideally, is more than just an exercise of memorization. More important than the dates, places and names are the events, the values and the ideals. More important than the date June 12, 1898, is the democracy that most of us bastardize at every turn by turning a blind eye and tolerating corruption and lack of governance. More important than the births and deaths of Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Aguinaldo and Ninoy Aquino are their lives, their ideals and the principles they fought hard for.
After countless years of independence, democracy, freedom and sovereignty, we remain slaves to our own lack of understanding and appreciation for our history and its lessons. We complain daily about the sad state of our country and how politicians have driven our country to the ground. What we fail to recognize is our part in this crisis. Would we have suffered as much if we are not so quick to forgive, forget and trust again? Would we be in the same cycle of poverty and hopelessness if we remained vigilant and prudent in choosing our leaders? Would we be asking these questions now if only we learned more than just dates, places and names from our history?
Will we continue to tolerate liars and thieves? Will we continue to victimize ourselves?
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I saw the anti-Gloria rally via GMA news… and
1. I find it so ironic that on stage it says there ” IBALIK ANG DIGNIDAD NG PINOY” ..but who do we see on stage.. One of them the very famous Aimee Marcos… Famous for her father’s dictatorship… Famous for The Marcos Martial Law… Famous for her family’s ill gotten wealth which they got from the our country’s coffers… Are we suffering from amnesia? The very family who made our parents… uncles and aunts.. grandparents.. And anyboy/everbody suffer when Martial Law was declared…is the very one telling the president to step down because she’s a thief, liar, and criminal?.. The people even applauded her after the said speech. Supporting her…Forgetting that her family is also charged with the same acts..As if she’s a Hero..Did they forget who she is? Nagka amnesia ba tayong mga pinoy? Me, definitely NO;
2. Also… Armida Seguion-Reyna was interviewed at the said rally and she said something like this….” Kailangan na talagang pababain si Gloria… This is the worst dictatorship that our country is experiencing..” Question?… Worst? Did she forget Martial Law? Or maybe it’s a mental relapse thing because of old age? For someone who is in the public eye.. She should have checked her facts, thought of what she says when interviewed.. and made sure when she says something in public.. it’s the truth and a definite FACT … especially for something that is very sensitive as this is.. in a time were people are emotional and confused… Also she says this is a Dictatorship? If this is a dictatorship… In the FIRST place, she and the rest of the people rallying in the streets will not be there freely saying those nasty things about the government and the President if the President herself was a dictator.. Please remind Armida…. Send her books about Martial Law…. It seems she may have forgotten her history.. Or maybe she was enjoying her life during the martial law period that’s why she did not remember.. But if she was suffering just like the rest of the Filipinos at that time.. then EWAN! And if people listen to her (mali2x) rants .. They are also mga MALALAKING EWAN.
If you are interested.. here is also some information that we have gathered on some PERSONALITIES accusing the administration and telling the President to leave her position:
1. Wilfredo “Boy” Mayor
~ Jueteng witness who admits to being a former operator of jueteng
in the Bicol Region.
~ He claims to have given Monthly Jueteng Payola to bagmen of
Congressman Mikey Arroyo.
~ He was an opposition candidate for Mayor in Daraga, Albay in the
2004 elections. He lost the elections.
~ Mayor admits that he has no evidence to show that the money he
claims to have given these bagmen went to Congressman Mikey Arroyo
2. Richard Garcia
~Jueteng witness who is a self-confessed former operator of the
illegal numbers game in the Bicol Region.
~ He claims to have given Monthly Jueteng Payola to bagmen of
Congressman Mikey Arroyo. He admits that he has no evidence to show that the money he claims to have given these bagmen went to
Congressman Mikey Arroyo
~ A former member of the PC-INP and a known “asset” of Ping Lacson
3. Sandra Cam
~ She claims to have personally given Jueteng Payola to Congressman
Mikey Arroyo and Congressman Iggy Arroyo at the Congress Session hall (while Congress was in session). She claims to have deposited Jueteng Payola for former Region 5 Regional Director Gen. Restituto Mosqueda.
~ Ran for Mayor in Masbate under Reforma in the 2004 elections and
lost.
~ Has a pending illegal recruitment case and pending large-scale
estafa cases
~ Known in Bicol to have engaged in all possible illegal activities and to be “close” to generals previously assigned in the Bicol region. The staff of known hotels in Bicol would know this.
~ Reportedly a lover of Governor Tony Kho linked to several election-
related incidents, including dynamiting houses of political opponents, kidnapping and murder.
~In her testimony before the Senate, Cam admitted to being a supporter
of Governor Tony Kho, who has been charged with masterminding the
killing of Representative Tito Espinosa. The case is still pending in court
4. Alan Paguia
~ He initially claimed to be the source of the audiotape
~Known to be a former lawyer of Erap and reportedly gets a monthly
salary of 1 Million pesos a month from the detained former president.
~ License as a lawyer was suspended by the Supreme Court
~His credibility and background was being questioned; and more critical, was his own admission that he made the annotation and thereby tampered with the original audio tape
5. Samuel Ong
~Former NBI deputy director
~Came out on National TV on June 10 and claimed that he was the source of the original copy of the audio tape and that it was given to him by an Intelligence official (ISAFP) who was later identified as Tech. Sgt. Vidal Doble. Doble claims that he was offered 2 Million pesos and Ong threatened his family.
~Ong had often organized mass actions to support his ambition to be
director of the NBI.
~During the NBI investigation of the Dacer-Corbito murder case, the
principal suspect Superintendent Teofilo Vina who could link Ping Lacson to the case was killed in Cavite in January 1993. It is known that Ong who was still influential the n as deputy director had a hand in this to get Lacson of the hook. During the 2004 elections, he was ordered by Lacson to join the FPJ camp to serve as Lacson’s eyes and ears.
~ AND AFTER ONG WAS BYPASSED BY ARROYO FOR THE TOP NBI POST and chose Wycoco instead. He said that he fears for his life. One would wonder how these words would come from a person who once aspired to be an NBI director. He chose a career in the National Bureau of Investigation that entails agents to confront death threats on a daily basis. Was the media presentation, with Ong almost crying out of fear for his life and character actor Rez Cortez beside him a mere “sarzuela”? WE SHOULD TAKE NOTE THAT SINCE PGMA BECAME PRESIDENT, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A CASE OF AN EXECUTION OR PROLONGED INCARCERATION OF ANY OF HER CIVILIAN CRITICS INSPITE OF THE FACT THAT A LOT THESE CRITICS HAVE GONE OVERBOARD.
6. Senator Nene Pimentel
~ Senate President during the Erap administration.
~ Resigned from then majority party when the envelope containing the Jose Velarde account was no t allowed to be opened by majority of senate members.
~ Held the Microphone during PGMA’s oath taking at Edsa 2.
~ Went back to criticizing PGMA when he was not chosen as Vice
President after EDSA 2.
~ His No. 1 soldier is his long time ally in PDP Laban – Mayor Jejomar Binay. During EDSA 2, Binay brought in the goons to intimidate protesters from the business community in Makati. Since then, Makati has been the site of destabilization attempts against PGMA namely the Coup/Mutiny in Oakwood and their planned EDSA 4 in San Carlos last June 11. Binay was one of the first people seen in San Carlos Seminary.
~ Still has ambitions to be president.
7. Senator Ping Lacson
~ He once said that he despised and he never wants to be a politician.
~ He is on his 2nd term as senator and he ran for president during the 2004 elections
~ Has always portrayed a clean, incorruptible image. he always says that he never took a singl e centavo from illegal means, jueteng included. He has also boasts of not utilizing his pork barrel.
~ Lacson has a pool of media personnel on a monthly payola. Lacson’s
most effective media tool is mass-based publication Abante where Ping Lacson writes in a regular column. Mr. Allen Macasaet, Owner of
Abante, reportedly has been receiving 5 million pesos a month from Ping Lacson since 2003 . 37 year old Allen Macasaet, lives in posh Ayala Alabang and reportedly owns a Ferrari (worth 12 Million), a BMW 9 series (worth 11 Million), a Porsche 911 (worth 10 Million), a
Jaguar (worth 8 million), a Range Rover (worth 9 million), two
Chevrolet Suburbans (worth 2.5 Million each), a Ford E150 Chateau
Van, and a Honda Accord – all purchased brand new. Perhaps, his
neighbors in Ayala Alabang can attest to Mr. Allen Macasaet’s
ownership of these luxury vehicles. NO WONDER 95% OF ABANTE HEADL INES IS ANTI-PGMA. And what a good choice of newspaper… masang masa… could readily reach millions of ordinary filipinos.
~ Now comes the Million Dollar Question ???? Where does Senator Ping Lacson (who boasts that he does not get his PhP 200 Million a
year “pork barrel fund) get funding to finance a successful senate campaign, a decent but unsuccessful presidential campaign, and still
afford a very generous media payola???
~ He has been linked to kidnap-for-ransom of rich Fil-Chinese nationals, illegal drug trafficking, Kuratong-Baleleng massacre, Dacer-Corbito slay.
~ In 1993, Ping Lacson reportedly was getting the biggest monthly payola from jueteng lord and convicted rapist-murderer Mayor Antonio
Sanchez of Calauan, Laguna. Thus, the attempt to cover-up Mayor
Sanchez’s crime by initially pointing to Kit Alqueza, son of general
Dictador Alqueza, as the mastermind of the celebrated rape-slay of
Aileen Sarmenta and boyfriend Allan Gomez. Ping Lacson was then head of PACC who presented the young Kit Alqueza to then vice-president Erap Estrada and media.
~ Ping Lacson has had access to suppliers of wire-tapping devices as
early as his PACC days. During a raid of the CIDG after EDSA 2, wire-
tapping devices purchased during Ping Lacson’s term as PNP chief were confiscated from camp crame and stored in CIDG’s warehouse. Said confiscated devices remain stored in the CIDG warehouse until this day.
~ With his seemingly infinite monetary resources and political clout as 2nd termer senator, it is highly probable that Ping Lacson himself owns the latest model of wire-tapping/ bugging devices.
~ Even with the exposure of his links to people behind the audiotape, he was still the one who had the tape authenticated by a private Australian firm.
~ He came out with the results from the Australian firm on the night
Friday, June 10. How could he have gotten a copy of the original when
Sammy Ong (who claims to be acting on his own and says he does not
know Ping Lacson) only surfaced with the so- called original copy on
the afternoon of June 10? The previously claimed original was the annotated and tampered version of Alan Paguia.
~ Ping Lacson’s former men in the PACC that could implicate him in his criminal activities are either dead (Supt. John Campos, Supt. Teofilo Viña, Kit Mateo) or hiding in the US ( Michael Ray Aquino and Cesar Mancao). Lacson quickly points to his enemies as behind the execution of his former trusted aides. If this allegation were true, why would Lacson’s enemies target his men instead of killing him (Lacson). The fact is Lacson ordered the execution and hiding of his former men before the May 2004 elections to make sure that no one could directly implicate Lacson in his criminal activities. Perhaps Samuel Ong should fear Lacson as Ong is also a person who could implicate Lacson in the present destabilization moves.
~ After the 2004 elections, Ping Lac son became supportive of PGMA’s
government and even did not join the opposition’s protest actions during FPJ’s wake. He believed then that if he behaved this way, he would be a sure bet for President come 2010. However, he again started to be PGMA’s biggest critic recently. Perhaps PGMA’s illegal drugs campaign which has closed down the most number of Shabu Laboratories in recent years and anti-kidnapping campaign is already
affecting Lacson’s treasure chest and he fears that by 2010, his funds would not be enough to run a successful presidential campaign against a popular Mar Roxas
What a disgusting question from this girl(are we going to tolerate those liars and thieves?)this is my amswer to you:IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE.
Prove your accusations with solid evidence, not hearsay and bitterness of lack of information. I have not seen a single solid evidence of what the Marcos’ alleged looting of the country’s wealth you claim they did. Do you guys have anything in paper? And not in a “he said she said” style? You can go on and on pointing and claiming but what backs up your statements? Was it because somebody told somebody that another somebody that knows the Marcos’ told someone? Has any of the Marcos’ stole from you personally? You called Marcos a dictator, so are we a better country now 21 years after? You are entitled to your own opinions, which comes to mind “will we tolerate liars and thieves” or will we just accuse them cause it’s a popular thing to do and a very credible blame for how miserable our country is today, and guess what?, not one of them is convicted as of this day, and non of them are in the seat of power. Does that mean the presidents after Marcos just didn’t give a damn
Yes,it was already proven many times,look at all the millions of dollars that Swiss banks returned to the Philippines!!!But marcos is already dead,so they can’t do anything to imelda,it’s the late dictator who must stand trial but he was already a goner!!!Just ask yourself,how can a president of a poor country could acquired all these mansions 29 of them with a meager salary as a president,he can’t have businesses as president,it is against the law,so there you are,read the presidential plunder,it’s all in there with evidence but uncle Sam can’t indict imelda,because it must be marcos who must stand trial.We will see,when marcos jr. testify against his father’s crony,Mr.Tan!
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