So my advice to you all is to download the Rashma Hali tape excerpt (mp3 file), then with the transcripts by your side (in case na hindi mo makuha ang pinaguusapan nila), pakinggan mo yung mp3 file. If you wanna know how kidnappers talk or discuss re their potential victims, pakinggan mo yung tape excerpt.
Here's Ellen Tordesillas on Rashma Hali:
Gloria Arroyo’s people didn’t need practice for the operation they mounted to get T/Sgt. Vidal Doble out of San Carlos Seminary last Sunday.
With his wife and children under the military’s custody, Doble succumbed to the pressure and turned around, discrediting the video tape that Samuel Ong, former NBI deputy director had presented as proof that he (Doble) had a hand in the taping of the conversations between Arroyo and Comelec Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano about rigging the 2004 elections.
The term they used is "soft touch". In the GMA-Garcillano tapes, the word "soft touch" appeared as they planned the kidnapping of a Comelec employee in Tipo-Tipo whom they feared was in the custody of the opposition.
Listening to the taped conversations, one would think the persons are gangsters planning a kidnapping operation. There’s a part where Garcillano was talking with an unidentified man about someone they want to be in their custody. They planned to pick up the person’s family members.
Here’s that portion of the tape:
Unidentified man: Nasa Manila.
Garcillano: Nasa Maynila? Delikado. Hindi ba natin ma-contact?
UM: Walang ano…Ini-off ang cell phone. Pinahanap ko sa isa.
Garcillano: Pakikuwan lang. Delikado yan.
UM: Oo nga. Sabi ko sa ISAFP dito (garbled) na Zamboanga para may bargaining chip tayo diyan, e damputin na natin yung pamilya na rin niya. Kasi baka makapagsalita.
Garcillano: Oo nga e.
After that, there was a portion where Garcillano told the unidentified man: Maghanap ka ng well-meaning na kamag-anak niya, Huwag mo munang ipakikidnap ang pamilya. Soft touch muna.
The conversation between Gloria Arroyo and Garcillano was about a certain Rashma Hali.
GMA: Did you get my text about Tipo-Tipo?
Garcillano: Oho, oho Ma’am. Kuwan, that is what I am being fearful about kung si Rashma Hali yun. That is why we are asking people to look for her so that we can confront her.
GMA: She’s probably being held by them.
Garcillano: Ma’am?
GMA: She is probably being held by them already.
Garcillano: She is here. That is why if it is possible, we will have her family call her up from Zamboanga.
GMA : Ok, ok.
The next GMA-Garcillano conversation was still about the Tipo-Tipo lady:
GMA: Hello
Garcillano: Yes, Ma’am.
GMA: Ano, nahanap na ninyo?
Garcillano: Ma’am?
GMA: Ano, nahanap na ninyo yung sa Tipo-Tipo?
Garcillano: Ang Tipo-Tipo ho, hindi pa.
Rashma Hali, the Tipo-Tipo lady, was still the subject of the conversation between Garcillano and the unidentified man:
Garcillano: Kaya ito, kung anuman, malalaman ko hanggang umaga ng maagang-maaga kung ano talaga ang score doon so I can (garbled) get his …her family kung halimbawa.
UM: Oo
Garcillano: Sabagay medyo matindi na ito. Kasi nandoon naman si Lomibao. Nandoon. Ewan ko kung sino pa ang nandoon. May isang colonel na nandoon. Sabi ko, kung kailangang kunin, kukunin na yung pamilya niya.
UM: Uh-hum
Garcillano: E Lokohan na rin ano. (garbled).. Walang naman alam yan.
UM: Kaya nga, kaya nga.
Garcillano: Eh, ewan ko, kung pupunta uli sa (garbled), pakidnap ko siya. Nakaano.
UM: Eh, hindi naman pumupunta. Pero ang balita ko, nandidito na sa Parañaque.
Garcillano: Nandito na yung ano.
UM: Nandito sa Parañaque noong Saturday.
Garcillano: Let us ask somebody to look for and get his..her family kung puede.
Here's more from Ellen Tordesillas on June 17:
There were other conversations of Garcillano with an unidentified man about kidnapping Hali and her family.
Mid-June 2004 newspapers carried stories about kidnapping charges involving Hali and her daughter, Fherdaosia, filed by the administration against FPJ lawyers Harriet Demetriou and Rufus Rodriquez.
Demetriou said Hali came to her with tally sheets in the Tipo-Tipo count showing that FPJ was a victim of dagdag-bawas or vote shaving. To prove that Hali was not coerced, Demetriou had her revelations videotaped.
The kidnapping charges precipitated the walkout of other laywers of FPJ’s Kilusan ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino. After that, Hali changed her mind about exposing the election anomalies she witnessed.
Shades of the military-mounted operation to get T/Sgt Vidal Doble from the San Carlos Seminary last Monday.
Asked about the taped GMA-Garcillano taped conversation, Demetriou said yesterday: "Hindi natutulog ang Diyos" (God is not asleep.)
If you ask me, this talk of silencing a COMELEC whistleblower via kidnapping deserves more attention than it is getting from the press.
But that's just me... ;)
Download the audio tape excerpt on the Rashma Hali kidnapping attempt here.
And may God save us all from this gangster administration.
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3 comments:
Pres. Arroyo and her goons used intimidation, bribery and kidnapping tactics to silence dissenters. Jose Pidal money laundering star witness’ Udong Mahusay was abducted from his safe house and later recanted his testimonies in the Senate. Arroyo administration was in panic when excessive show of force applied to Makati City San Carlos Seminary standoff between Gloriagate whistleblowers and government “rescuers”. Gestapo-like operations to silence potential witlessness is a shade of martial rule.
Off Topic:
I just heard thru the grapevine, gma's marriage to mike A has been annulled. they found out they're siblings. di ba ang sinungaling kapatid ng magnanakaw?
"I just heard thru the grapevine, gma's marriage to mike A has been annulled. they found out they're siblings. di ba ang sinungaling kapatid ng magnanakaw?"
I heard different. Balita ko, ang sinungaling ay asawa ng magnanakaw. LOL.
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