brokenspirit

Last Feb. 13, 6:00 A.M, Andrew and I went for a jogging together with some members of kabataan party list at Fuente Osmeña. It was a bit cold then but we both didn’t mind the weather when we started talking bout picture.

It’s been a while now that we both started taking picture of deferent events, crazy moments or anything under the sun. But never had a chance to know that we have a lot in common. I mean come on, he got his own life and I live my own. Though we were friends but we were never that close.

So when we found out that we both love photography things go little interesting. Well, I’m not saying like we were flirting with each other. But we shared out experiences when it comes to photography. What type of composition we love to photograph or our style in taking pictures.

Then we stumble to a very interesting topic…. Our dream camera!

Men! We both hope that we can have a canon DSLR and Nikon DSLR may be. And shock ourselves that we always visit the same camera shop at our nearest mall. We have the same teary eyes after leaving the shop. Wishing the same wish… hope I can buy that camera.

A look that gives mystery into my soul. I have never seen someone with such expressive eyes, though your soul is speaking into my heart. You have these soulful blue eyes that I want to dedicate Pablo Neruda’s poem; leaning into the afternoons. And to sing you this song that is repeatedly playing on my site (you rise me up by Josh Groban). You have this charm that can make everyone’s heart melt like butter. You are too playful in your entire photograph. You have the gift that transform picture in a masterpiece.


But I know that you will never see me the way I see you, for all I know you are just a guy that I have bump on to when I was browsing to art pictures in the net. May be, I did fall for the guy I saw on the web…

I do need the psychologist asap… sound crazy? I think not! Most of us might say why do I need a psychologist which in fact I’m totally not crazy. And for now I need one to help me cope up with my psychological stress that can be dated back as early as high school. Well because most of the symptoms were evident.

I think the only thing that kept me alive during those times is because of my spiritual advisers (in present times were untraceable). Delaying the frustration that a weak spirit (me) is experiencing that time, telling me that there is something more in life. That I should not loss hope, for there is a reason why I am still alive. But the thing is it only delay the problem but didn’t solve it. It’s like giving a patient having a cancer with a pain killer instead of curing cancer. Well I don’t hate them for that, I do appreciate their attempt to help me out.

Well now that after hundreds of years, and believing that it’s gone, here we go again. It’s just like a ghost in the past that keeps hunting me again. Now I have decided that it’s time to see a psychologist to help me out before things got worst.

now i do need to finish this article or else i'm done... like four days ago i was given a task to make an article about a particular person. well i have started the fist two paragraphs of this article but still having trouble constructing it. got my head in pain bec. of this. well i need to gather more info bout the topic. and i need devine intervention to save me. and now this person is wasting my time for setting a meeting that until now far to reality. men got my hands full at this time and here come people need me for something again. some times i just want to clone myself, so i can perform the all the works needed for day-to-day work.

Every day I walk with the living but feeling death has already got me to the grave. I found myself again drowned with fear and sadness that I can feel that “I am nothing”. With out value and worst than a surplus product which has already zero value. Yes a negative value… that is me right now. I’m helpless still living in the past and trap. And sometime I just want to go on top of the tallest building available and shout to the skies that lighting will struck me.
I am wasting my strength and I am just going in circles. I’m dizzy with this type of set up that I have no one to share my sadness and frustrations with the world. Those I am close with are miles away from me. They are too far that almost unreachable.
And now, I am starting to hate life again. That its not fair!!!!

Stanley Karnow, in his book In Our Image, said the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the U.S. government brought the concept of death squads to the Philippines, specifically in Central Luzon, in the early 1950s through known CIA operatives Gen. Edward Lansdale and Charles Bohannan. These death squads have been known to perpetrate the annihilation of personalities from progressive organizations since then and to this day, and are seen as the culprits in the escalation of political killings in Central Luzon.

BY ABNER BOLOS
Gitnang Luzon News Service
Posted by Bulatlat













Southern Tagalog activists display pictures of their martyred comrades in a protest against political killings






Tirso Cruz, 33, officer of the United Luisita Workers’ Union (ULWU), was shot from behind while walking home along with his father and brother in their village in Pando, Concepcion town inside Hacienda Luisita (120 kms. north of Manila), shortly past midnight last March 17.


The two assailants rode a motorcycle and wore ski masks to cover their faces. Cruz died instantly from nine bullets from an M-16 rifle used by the assassins. After committing the murder, the killers poked their guns at Cruz’s brother and calmly drove away passing an army detachment some 100 meters away.





The soldiers and Citizens’ Armed Forces Geographical Unit (CAFGU) members inside the detachment at the time of the shooting did not bother to investigate or help the victim. They even put out the lights when a barangay tanod (village security) member ran to the detachment minutes after the shooting to report the crime and plead for help.


“Death squads”


The cold-blooded murder of Cruz, the 14th martyr of Hacienda Luisita, bore the trademarks of a “death squad” operation. Aside from the characteristic motorcycle and ski mask, it was carried out with a deadly, surgical precision in a populated area very near a military outpost.


Not one of the perpetrators of the 601 killings and 151 enforced disappearances since Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo assumed the presidency has been tried and sentenced. The public’s verdict: the death squads were let loose and are being protected by the government.


In Central Luzon, at least 98 people have either been killed or abducted and presumed dead since January 2005 to May 17 this year, and almost all are blamed on the government’s death squads, states Karapatan (Alliance for the Advancement of People’s Rights)-Central Luzon.


The number of victims increased significantly when Maj. Gen. Jovito Palparan was designated as commander of the 7th Infantry Division in September last year, says Sr. Cecille Ruiz, Karapatan-CL chairperson.


Palparan is one of the main implementors of Oplan Bantay Laya, the government’s counterinsurgency program. The 7th ID covers the seven provinces of the region –Bulacan, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Zambales, Bataan and Aurora.


Ruiz said 53 persons were killed and 24 were abducted and remained missing since Palparan was transferred to the region. The incidents represent 78 percent or more than three-fourths of all cases monitored in the region by Karapatan-CL from January 2005 to May 2006.


Sixty per cent of all murders and enforced disappearances in the entire country from September 2005 to the present occurred in Central Luzon and coincided with Palparan’s transfer, states Karapatan-CL.


CIA


Stanley Karnow, in his book In Our Image said the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of the U.S. government brought the concept of death squads to the Philippines, specifically in Central Luzon, in the early 1950s through known CIA operatives Gen. Edward Lansdale and Charles Bohannan.


The death squads were then known as “skull squadrons” because of their practice of beheading their victims who were mostly suspected members or supporters of the Hukbo ng Bayan Laban sa Hapon (Hukbalahap or People’s Anti-Japanese Army) or the Hukbong Mapagpalaya ng Bayan (HMB or People’s Liberation Army).


Col. Napoleon Valeriano of the Philippine Constabulary (PC) supervised death squad operations to suppress local peasant resistance under CIA direction, Karnow wrote.


During the Marcos dictatorship, the PC organized an armed group known as “Monkees” in Tarlac province, and other similar groups in the region, that killed hundreds of suspected members or supporters of the newly-formed New People’s Army (NPA), as well as the political opponents of Ferdinand Marcos.


It is well known that the Marcos dictatorship reigned with covert CIA backing. Human rights records show that 1,166 people, mostly unarmed peasants, were killed at the height of the dictatorship from 1972 to 1983.


After Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino was installed president in 1986, armed vigilante groups and fanatic cults organized by the Philippine military sprouted across the country. They were a component of the government’s “total war” counterinsurgency campaign within the aegis of the “low intensity conflict” doctrine of the U.S. government.


As many as 50 vigilante groups were formed in the entire country. Records show that 1,064 persons were killed, including 135 cases of massacres, during the Aquino presidency.


The groups, like the Alsa Masa and Tadtad in Mindanao, gained notoriety for mutilating the bodies of their victims. Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, a U.S. military adviser and a high profile CIA operative, is widely believed to be involved in the formation of said groups.


Invariably, albeit without public acknowledgement, death squads are an integral part of the government counterinsurgency program.


Oplan Bantay Laya


Oplan Bantay Laya (OBL) is a five-year program of the Arroyo government aimed at eliminating “threats to national security.” It started in 2002 and at first, targeted “terrorist” groups and the armed secessionist movement in Mindanao island.


The OBL was formulated by the Philippine government as its part in the “global war on terror” doctrine of the US.


In 2003, the OBL program was shifted to neutralize and destroy the threat posed by the New People’s Army (NPA) and the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP). Central Luzon is among the seven regions identified by the military as priority targets in the implementation of the OBL.


In 2004, the Arroyo government received $4.6 billon for military and economic assistance and $30 million for counterinsurgency exercises from the U.S. government.


The gruesome shooting of seven strikers on Nov. 16, 2004 at the picket line at the Cojuangco-owned Hacienda Luisita placed the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the Philippine National Police (PNP) and President Arroyo in a defensive posture as the government was blamed for the carnage.


Bible


In January 2005, the government declared that the strike of the plantation and sugar mill workers in Hacienda Luisita has become “a matter of national security” through a Power Point Presentation entitled Knowing the Enemy which was made available to the public.


The AFP also came out with a book titled Trinity of War which, like the presentation, deals on how the government intends to destroy the CPP and the NPA basing primarily on their study of the events in Hacienda Luisita.


The book and the presentation has, since then, served as the Bible of the Arroyo government, especially the generals in the AFP and PNP, in the counterinsurgency campaign within over-all the framework of Oplan Bantay Laya.


But the circulation of the materials in the military and police hierarchy, as well as the general public, also signalled the start of intensified killing and grave human rights violations of leaders and members of militant organizations not only in Hacienda Luisita, but in the entire region and the rest of the country.


In the book and the presentation, legal organizations and institutions suspected as “fronts” of the CPP and the NPA are considered “enemies of the state.” Foremost among these are the party-list organizations Bayan Muna (People First) and Anakpawis (Toiling Masses) and the sectoral organizations belonging to the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan or New Patriotic Alliance).


Even traditional groups such as church and media organizations were not spared and listed as “enemies of the state.” The accusations drew widespread indignation from the public.


“Enemies of the state”


At noon on March 3, 2005, a sniper shot and killed Abelardo Ladera, 45, a Tarlac City councillor. Ladera is from barangay Balite, inside Hacienda Luisita, a popular Bayan Muna leader in the province and ardent supporter of the striking Hacienda Luisita workers.


Ladera is third on a list of seven individuals that in the book and the presentation are described by the military as instigators of the Luisita strike and therefore are “enemies of the state.” The assassination of Ladera was followed by a long string of murders and gross human violations of leaders and members of militant organizations in Central Luzon that has not stopped to this day.


The names of most of the people killed in the region appeared in various military “hit list” or “order of battle” before they were killed. The lists are drawn supposedly from intelligence reports.


Luisita union leader Tirso Cruz, who was also an elected council member in his barangay, was tagged by the Northern Luzon Command (Nolcom) as the “secretary of the revolutionary committee” in the village several months before he was murdered.


To be included in the list is has been considered as a sure prelude to a death squad attack in utter disregard to existing laws and basic human rights.


Last month, because of the increasing number and regularity of the murders and the refusal of the Arroyo government to investigate and punish the perpetrators, an editorial of the Philippine Daily Inquirer described the killings as a ”systematic policy of extermination” of the critics of the Arroyo government.

The terms “death squads” and “political killings” have also become part of the popular vocabulary.


Global


Death squads have appeared not only in the Philippines but all over the world.


In a collection of books and articles gathered by author Ralph McGehee entitled CIA Support of Death Squads that was posted in the Internet in 1999, death squads were alleged to have been organized and supported by the CIA in 43 countries, most of them coming from the Third World including the Philippines.


According to the materials, there appears to be several but common patterns on how death squads are born and operate. Among these are:

Death squads appear whenever there is a strong popular movement against poverty and oppression resulting from “US dominance” in said countries. Death squads also appear when a “progressive” government takes power and resists US impositions.

The US government, through the CIA, trains, provide arms and finances the death squads in cooperation with the regime in power.

Death squads are a part of official policies and programs, although not publicly admitted.

High-profile implementors like Gen. Jose Alberto Medrano of El Salvador, Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras of Haiti and Maj. Gen Jovito Palparan of the Philippines are employed.

The killings continue until the objective of weakening the popular resistance is not met or unless there is very strong local and international condemnation and pressure

Blatant


In the Philippines, as in the case in Central Luzon, the operation of death squads is blatantly used in the framework of Oplan Bantay Laya.


Instead of prosecuting soldiers accused of the crimes, Maj. Gen. Palparan even points the blame on the victims themselves.


In a recent published media interview, Palparan was quoted as saying: “They (the victims) should ask themselves, what are they doing?”


Last week, bowing to widespread indignation and a report from Amnesty International that is critical of the role of the Arroyo government in the killings, a government task force was formed to investigate the incidents. The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) has also started its own investigation.

But based on the experiences of other countries, and our own experiences in toppling the Marcos dictatorship, it will take a lot more than investigations to stop the killings. Bulatlat

A 3,000-strong peaceful march calling for an end to political killings and human rights violations successfully reached historic Mendiola bridge, only to be dispersed by water cannons and truncheons twenty minutes later.

Led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) and the Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP), the marchers demanded that Mrs. Arroyo declare an end to the state policy of killing activists and political opponents which, according to human rights watchdog Karapatan, has victimized 679 civilians

The latest casualty in the Arroyo policy of killing activists was Marcos Bangit who was shot dead last night in Echague, Isabela. A native of Kalinga province, Bangit was serving the Elders Desk of the Cordillera People’s Alliance. Until 2004, he was provincial coordinator of Bayan Muna in Kalinga province.

The protesters arrived on Mendiola Bridge at exactly 12:00 noon, to shouts of victory from passersby and the marchers themselves. The anti-riot police started dispersing them with water cannons twenty minutes later. But unlike the first march that reached Mendiola on April 6, this time the protesters held their ground longer. The police had to order the firetrucks to follow the marchers who retreated to nearby Bustillos Market.

“Remove the fascist military from the rural areas,” the marchers shouted, in an apparent reference to soldiers led by the likes of Major Gen. Jovito Palparan who is now terrorizing civilian communities in Bulacan province.

Some flashed placards bearing pictures of some of activists assassinated by suspected military elements.

Leading the protest were Bayan Secretary-General Renato Reyes Jr., Bayan Chairperson Dr. Carol Pagaduan Araullo, Anakpawis Rep. and KMP Chairperson Rafael Mariano, Bayan Muna Rep. Teddy Casiño and leaders of farmers’ organizations from Central Luzon and Southern Tagalog.

House Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur C. Ocampo swiftly condemned the dispersal of the peaceful march. “The Arroyo government again bare its fascist pangs on people who were only asking for an end to political assassinations. The people will never forget and forgive her barbarity in treating opponents and critics.”

The protesters reached Mendiola close to three hours since they started marching from UST along España. They were initially stalled for two hours by a phalanx of anti-riot police near the corner of Morayta and España streets.

Sensing that authorities were intent in preventing them from approaching Mendiola via Morayta and Recto, the protest leaders decided to take P. Noval Street and other side streets until marchers successfully reached Mendiola Bridge at about high noon.

CHED REGION VII DIRECTOR: The President is Wrong!
National Union of Students of the
Philippines

- Visayas







Press Release

May 21, 2006




CHED REGION VII DIRECTOR: The President is Wrong!






The President does not know the law






During the meeting with the Regional Multi-Sectoral Committee on Tuition Increase last May 19, Dr. Enrique P. Grecia, CHED Region VII director told the body that PGMA is wrong in releasing press statements that she is not allowing schools to raise tuition more than the National Inflation Rate (NIR). The issuance of the recent CHED Memorandum No. 14, which she approved May of last year, prevents this from happening.




“The President does not know the law.” Dr. Grecia said after analyzing the contents of the memorandum. This reflects that PGMA is ignorant of the laws of the land. More so, PGMA is manipulating the people not to be active in expressing concerns regarding the surmounting tuition.




All for Politics






“The public display of concern for the students and the youth shown by PGMA is all for politics. There is no sincerity in her acts; it is all a pretense to save her rotting image. There is no hope for the youth in her. There is no hope for the country with such a president,” stated NUSP Vice President for the Visayas, Ma. Fe Jayme.




Thinking that the people will be foolish to believe yet another ploy from her office, PGMA issues this press statement. The people should be more vigilant against the façade of concern that PGMA is showing because it is all for her glory, it is all to raise her ratings and publicity. There is no truth to all her promises.




Concrete Actions






“This idiocy caused by memorandums that do not benefit the students should be further reason for us, students, to unite. The problem brought about by surmounting tuition increases will not only affect us. The struggle is for our parents who pay for our education,” called Jayme.




“What we do now and the opposition we launch against tuition increase will not only benefit us but the coming generations as well.”




“Education is our right but PGMA doesn’t appear to know that. With an inutile president, we have to take these matters into our hands and struggle for what is rightly ours and oust the ignorant president,” Jayme concluded.

i wish it will all be gone by morning. the same pain i have to live up every day. dark clouds that formed over our heads for the past week and five days. it is one of the most darkest days of our lives. emotionally it leaves my body powerless and eventually turns to death. inside my head, it tells me that i should be strong for little Ghe-ghe. but some times when i'm alone i feel the pain, the great pain and it scares me that may not have the strength to battle this problems. yes i am weak, i'm not like nanay or tiya… i'm just Ian the mouse, the scared one.

in this world where capitalism is god, where poor people suffers til death. you still say to me that i should keep my head down and pretend that there is peace. well i did, i did bow to them... to the gods. i even worship them just to survive... to keep my self alive. i offer them gold and all my possession, i even became their slave. but the sad part is, in the end of the day i lay on the ground lifeless.

darkness is almost over and the sun will appear soon. i will be welcoming the sunrise in summers. its been 31 days and 30 nights since you left and the last time i have heard your voice.

i miss you!

i just hope that i can say it to you, but the sad things is i can't. here i am standing in the dark again, hiding from the light. the sadness that i have keept from the people. yes i did feel the pain, and again it's swallowing me and killing me slowly. and in silnce i will cry.

yes i still remember you every time the sun appears in the horizon. yes i still remember you as i open my eyes to the wonders of the world. and yes i remember you every time i'm alone and one to talk to. like; when i ride a jeepney to where ever i go. or like of example when i pour cold water each i time i take a bath. i see you! and in moments like this while i'm writing this, i still think ok you.

and soon the sun will appear again in the horizon, i will think of you. until on it's setting. until the moment i close my eyes, i will be thinking of you.

media men are under surviellance, since the lifting of the proclamation 1017 non has change but even worsen. the national telecommunication commission issued new set of guidelines.

These circulars state that "all radio broadcasting and television stations shall, during any broadcast or telecast, cut off from the air the speech, play, act or scene or other matter being broadcast and/or telecast, if the tendency thereof is to propose and/or incite treason, rebellion or treason, or language used therein or the theme thereof is indecent or immoral."

from pcij.org/blog

Identified as having a pro-Estrada editorial position, the government was clearly after making sure it didn’t come out with a devastating issue on Friday’s events.And so, the crackdown continues.I seriously propose that the BLAWggers start preparing a common position for bloggers who find themselves shut down for content found offensive by the government…. That government people spread the rumor,despite it’s not being true, suggests they’re out to damage the reputations of those they can, even if they don’t go after them legally. The experience of the PCIJ when it had an entry affected by a court ruling, also comes back to mind.

from manuel l. quezon 3 blog.

before day ends you texted me. me... i didn't expect that. of all people you are the one.

i still remember the day that we have parted, you still give that wonderful smile like the ones you gave when you were introduce to me. you and your friend were shy. may be because you aren't that good in our language or may be you were just shy. you were very cute when you stare at me, as if you were looking at me right down to my very soul. i could say that their something magical in you and i just couldn't figure it out.

at that time, my mind was clouded with pain of the break up of my recent relationship. the very pain that stops me to be close to you. to go near you is like hell, it seems my heart was ripped off. may be i was scared that people might think that i am just using you to get over someone.

i don't want to hurt you, you deserve something special for you are special. like morning in summers, when you wake up and see the sun appear in the horizon that brings gladness in everyone's heart. and you can't notice that every time you see that wonderful sight you just can't help but smile.

then at the moment, when your fingers caressing but perfectly those stings of guitar, those strings though angels sings in the accompaniment of that old but not that old guitar.

but 3 days were short for the two of us. and the time has come us to go and continue our tasks. i was the first one to leave, you and your friend tried to stop me from walking away. but it was too late, for i must leave. like Cinderella in that fairy tell story, that when the clock strikes 12 mid night it means its time to go back. with a heavy heart i took my first step to the door and walk away. i didn't gave you my number when you ask me to (that night when you sing a waray to us together with your friend), i said to myself, its better to forget about you and forget this night. the night that my heart aches healed as you pluck those melodies right through my heart. that stitches the broken pieces of my heart.

a month later an unknow number appear in my cellphone with a message saying hi. and that was the day that i could not stop myself again from drifting closer to you.

four months later after that sad parting time. i'm still here mumbling to myself. why can't i forget about you. i stopped texting you, why your picture appear in my mind. what is this, i can't define. and every time you text me even just to say hi, my heart jumps in and out of my chest. but inside my head, its like my brains is tumbling around, tumbling around, round and round and round until you get dizzy and drop like hell on the ground. its like your brain stormed your heart with questions. but your heart can't answer you logical brain for heart can only feel the happiness and pain.

Palace sets 3 terms for emergency rule
Worsening peace and order, terrorism, oil crisis


First posted 00:39am (Mla time) Oct 13, 2005
By TJ Burgonio, Gil C. Cabacungan Jr.
Inquirer News Service



Editor's Note: Published on page A1 of the Oct. 12, 2005 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is keeping the declaration of emergency rule as an option to handle a crisis situation that may be triggered by a terrorist attack, a breakdown in peace and order, and a steep surge in oil prices.
Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita yesterday made this admission, but sought to cushion public fears by saying that this option, if exercised, would be on a temporary basis.
"This option is always open, and [Justice] Secretary Raul Gonzalez was open enough to say as a responsible Cabinet member [that] he has been making preparations on things that he thinks might happen," Ermita told reporters at his weekly briefing in Malacañang.
"The situation might be OK today but a day or two later, [it] could be different. I suppose the framers of the Constitution have certain provisions on how to address different situations," he said.
Ermita cited three factors that could force the President's hand to push the emergency rule button -- terrorism,
oil prices and peace and order -- all of which the government had declared in the past few weeks as emerging threats to economic and political stability.
"I think the objective is to be able to control the situation in a manner that will give a result that will be better for the greater majority of the people," he said.
Quoting two opposition leaders, the Inquirer reported late last month that the Department of Justice (DoJ) had prepared a draft proclamation that stopped short of an imposition of martial law.
But Gonzalez denied this, saying he and his staff had merely been studying the idea of a government takeover of vital industries if rising oil prices would trigger an economic crisis.
Subsidy
Ermita stressed that the government was not taking over private property just to show that it was a better manager.
He cited as an example Gonzalez's proposal for the government to take over oil firms if oil prices soar sky-high.
"The different agencies will take into consideration [whether the government] is ready to subsidize [oil] at a certain point. Should that happen, the reason for this is to be able to control the situation so that the problem can be addressed in a manner that is manageable," he said.
But he added that he was "not a financial wizard" and could not say whether the government could subsidize [oil prices]."
Ermita said the public should not worry too much about the declaration of emergency rule because it would end soon enough.
"That is not permanent, anyway. Even the Constitution provides a time frame for whatever action the government takes if an emergency situation happens," he said.
No fear
Ermita said that while the government could not blame anyone for speculating on the President's motives in declaring emergency rule, it did not mean that keeping the option open was intended to make the public "afraid."
While conceding that Gonzalez's draft proclamation on emergency rule had caused "uneasiness" in the public, Ermita defended his colleague's initiative.
"It is only proper for [Cabinet officials] to do something that they have to do in case we have to prepare for something," he said of the draft proclamation that had supposedly not reached the President's desk.
Ermita also said he did not see why Gonzalez should be compelled to disclose the contents of the draft proclamation, especially to the opposition, not only because it did not have Ms Arroyo's imprimatur but also because it would "unnecessarily cause uneasiness and uncertainty."
Lacson's warning
But opposition Senator Panfilo Lacson cautioned Gonzalez against recommending the declaration of emergency rule to the President.
Lacson told reporters that Gonzalez should not play with the people's fate: "We should warn [him] that he is treading on dangerous grounds here, because he might be pushing us Filipinos to the edge. They (Malacañang) might be surprised one day when chaos breaks out in the country.
"If they insist on proclaiming a state of emergency, which is also tantamount to undeclared martial law, they might stoke mayhem instead of quelling it."
Lacson recalled that he and other allies of deposed President Joseph Estrada were charged with rebellion and ordered arrested without warrants by Justice Secretary Hernando Perez in the aftermath of the Labor Day siege on Malacañang in 2001.
"We questioned it before the Supreme Court, and [the tribunal] rebuffed the declaration of a state of rebellion at that time," he said.
Vigilance
Senate Majority Leader Francis Pangilinan called for more vigilance in view of persistent rumors that the administration was merely waiting for the proper time to declare a state of emergency.
"The best attitude to take given all these rumors is to remain vigilant. Part of this vigilance is not to allow ourselves to fall into the trap of believing rumors and not to allow ourselves to be unwitting tools in the spreading of the same," Pangilinan said in a text message.
Lacson voiced doubt that Gonzalez prepared the draft emergency proclamation on his own, as he had claimed.
"It's highly impossible that he was acting alone when he prepared the draft. Even the executive secretary, while denying that he knew about the planned declaration, his own staff said there is a copy of the proclamation right in [Ermita's] office," Lacson said, adding:
"Who are they fooling? They cannot fool us all the time, and they cannot cover lies with more lies."
No way
But Lieutenant General Samuel Bagasin, Armed Forces deputy chief of staff, said in a phone interview: "I would like to assure you there's no talk [within the military] about martial law or emergency rule.
"We don't believe it will come to pass. The current situation does not warrant it. At present, the level of violence and lawlessness does not warrant the institution of a state of emergency."
Bagasin, the third highest military official, said the AFP was not preoccupied with martial law rumors.
But he admitted that a declaration of martial law or emergency rule would be a "political decision" made solely by Malacañang, and the military would "just be on the receiving end."
AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Generoso Senga, who was in Cebu City yesterday for a field visit of the AFP Central Command, did not respond to phone calls.
When asked for comment about the martial law and emergency rule issue, Senga sent a brief text message: "Tsismis (Rumors)."
No truth to it
Earlier in the day, Brigadier General Jose Honrado, chief of the AFP Civil Relations Service, issued a statement saying: "There is no truth to what the so-called prophets of doom are continuing to preach, as these unscrupulous individuals and groups are insisting that the declaration of martial law is in the offing and that military personnel are hatching a coup plot to overthrow the government."
In a phone interview, Honrado was asked whether the military would support a martial law declaration.
He replied: "We cannot answer that question because the preconditions do not exist. There should be anarchy in the streets, but this does not exist."
The Command Group, the highest body in the Philippine National Police, is unlikely to recommend to Malacañang a declaration of a state of emergency or martial law at this time, a top PNP official told the Inquirer on Tuesday night.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said: "The government will just be equated with the Marcos regime, and we should avoid that. The police will not recommend or encourage such a move now. I believe that's the belief of the whole police force."
But not encouraging a declaration of a state of emergency does not mean refusing to support it once it is made, the official said. With reports from Dona Z. Pazzibugan and Luige A. del Puerto
Copyright 2005 Inquirer News Service. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

Give My Love (english Version)
Edwad Chun

When i look in your eyes i can see that you
Want to be with me but you’re so scared
And i don’t know what to say or do
But the tears keep falling from your eyes
And i know that
Times won’t change my love
And i can’t do nothing to keep you

Oh, i’ll give my love oh when i hold you tight
Give my love through kisses oh so bright
And you know that i can’t change my love
Take my love all through the night…

As the hours pass away
You think that love ain’t here to stay
Feel a beat from your chest
But you don’t give doubt a moment’s rest
You dream the future and all you see is dark
Listen to your heart, baby, the truth will set sparks

Now i’ll give my love oh when i hold you tight
Give my love through kisses oh so bright
And you know that i can’t change my love
Take my love all through the night…

Oh, i’ll give my love oh when i hold you tight
Give my love through kisses oh so bright
And you know that time won’t change my love
Take my love all through the night…

I’ll give my love oh when i hold you tight
Give my love, through kisses oh so bright
And you know that i can’t change my love
Take my love all through the night…

love this song i go loka about it

The Arroyo Resign Movement of the Youth with the League of Filipino
Student from San Francisco, USA chapter will be having a Solidarity
Night this saturday, July 30, 2005, 6pm at CENDET auditorium. this
willl be attended by different organizations and convenors of the
said alliance.

This will also give way to the media to ask wuestions regarding the
Alliance LFS USA's stand about the current political crisis and the
recent campus repression experience by an ARM d' Youth coordinator
in UV.

Your presence will be of much help to air opinions and grievances.

Thank You

For reference:

Jaydar Medrozo
SPOKESPERSON
ARM d' Youth
09278301014

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makapataY jud ni mo
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Reminding all chruvas and kumikembot pipz, bukas national day of protest (magstre-street party nanaman tayo). Hope to see you there (di natalaga ako aabsent bukas, honest talaga!). Salahat ng member sa family dito sa Ubec (Cebu) 1 pm po tayo, assembly area guisano metro, tapos mamarcha tayo patungong Malacañang of the south. Magready na lang kayo, may nasagap kasi akong chika na may fire truck na naka parked doon (please bring extra shirts bukas and antipyretic na gamot). K?!!! kitakits nalang mga kapatid…..Ü