The Trillanes Blitzkrieg: Makati Pen Standoff

Sen. Trillanes, Army General Lim, et al have made their point during the six-hour stand-out at Manila Pen. The inept corrupt Arroyo regime must be dismantled and the longer bogus President Gloria Arroyo clings to power the more sufferings to the country and its citizens. Brigadier General Danilo Lim is just doing his constitutional mandate-the protector of the Filipino people and the State.


Trillanes, Lim, Guingona
taken after Pen standoff
PNP uses tear gas, armored vehicle


BY ASHZEL HACHERO AND ELLEN TORDESILLAS

SEN. Antonio Trillanes IV and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim were arrested yesterday at the Manila Peninsula hotel in Makati City after a six-hour standoff following a hearing at the Makati regional trial court.

They were arrested on the basis of a warrant citing them and their followers for contempt for walking out of the hearing.

Trillanes, a former navy lieutenant who is detained at the Marines headquarters in Fort Bonifacio, was at the Makati court for a coup d’état case filed against him and 30 other officers for leading the Oakwood mutiny in July 2003.

Lim, former commander of the Army’s Scout Rangers and alleged leader of a supposed power grab attempt last year, was called to the hearing to testify on a "gentleman’s agreement" reached between government and the mutiny leaders in July 2003. Lim has been in detention at Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal since last year.

As they took positions inside the hotel, Trillanes said: "We have had enough. We are calling on the people to join us here in Makati. We are not going to tolerate this kind of torment."

After about six hours of being holed out at the hotel, Trillanes announced they were surrendering.

"We are going out for the safety of everybody. We won’t be able to live with our consciences if some of you get hit or get killed in the crossfire," Trillanes said.

The announcement came after elite police forces battered down the hotel door with an armored vehicle and fired tear gas into the lobby.

"We have been witness and victims of the kind of ruthlessness this administration is giving to the people. Like soldiers we are going to face this," Trillanes told reporters.

Trillanes faced the media together with Lim, Bishop Julio Labayen, former Vice President Teofisto Guingona, Fr. Robert Reyes, and other personalities and supporters also holed out at the hotel.

The group of Trillanes and Lim were later taken by a bus of the National Capital Police Regional Office and brought to the NCRPO headquarters in Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan. Malaya
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It is no surprise. It seems that China and the corrupt Arroyo regime are involved in anomalous projects.

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Malacanang's cash bribes came from PNP intelligence funds

Cash gifts’ from Palace via PNP intel funds
By Angie M. Rosales
11/13/2007
The P500,000-cash bribes stashed in brown gift bags handed to congressmen and local executives didn’t come from the governors’ league, nor from President Arroyo’s political party Kampi (Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino) but from the intelligence and counterinsurgency funds of the Philippine National Police (PNP) — at least P160 million worth in cash — further bolstering charges that the cash bribes were handed out with the knowledge and consent of Mrs. Arroyo, having allegedly taken this from the police intelligence budget, over which she exercises control.
The amount could reach as much as P1 billion as an alleged paper trail shows there were purported “clearinghouses” used in the release of the funds, suspected to be the funds allocated to the PNP, as pronounced by Mrs. Arroyo, for counterinsurgency or counterintelligence funds ordered released by the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) several months ago.
Opposition Sen. Panfilo Lacson came up with this disclosure on the eve of the scheduled opening of the Senate inquiry into the alleged payoff incident right inside Malacañang last Oct. 11.
Citing sources from the PNP, the agency where he used to be the director general during the Estrada administration, Lacson claimed the alleged cash bribes, worth at least P160 million given to congressmen after the dialog with Mrs. Arroyo, were provided by the Police Anti-Crime Emergency Response (Pacer) and the Police Security Protection Office (PSPO).
“We have sources in the PNP who disclosed to us that the cash gifts handed out in Malacañang to the congressmen as supposedly Kampi funds actually came from PNP funds. Remember President Arroyo authorized the release of P1 billion for counterinsurgency
operations and we received reports from inside the PNP itself that part of that fund to be used for counterinsurgency after it was cleared, went instead to the DILG (Department of Interior and Local Government) or the Napolcom,” Lacson disclosed.
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What press freedom?

Photo: Neo-Angono Artists Collective

It appears that the National Press Club is an extension propaganda arm of Malacanang. The subdued press freedom mural is total revision of historical events. Philipine bogus President Gloria Arroyo is best remembered as the suppressor of civil liberties in the Philippines.


A mural on the history of press freedom in the Philippines commissioned by one of the country's oldest press organizations is creating controversy after several portions of the final artwork was altered without the artists' consent before its unveiling last week.

The Neo-Angono Artists Collective said the National Press Club made "slipshod alterations" on the 8x32 foot oil on canvas artwork several days before it was unveiled before President Arroyo on October 26. ABS-CBN News
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Oil Crunch

Sky high oil prices coupled with massive corruption could trigger people’s revolt against inept Arroyo regime. The OFW’s and expatriates are directly affected by the rising oil prices and prime commodities in the Philippines. They have to send more hard earned-dollars to their families and extended families back home. The price of crude oil in Asia is $92.78 per barrel and keeps rising.