Or why Gloria Macapagal Arroyo needs to go:
A strong web of direct and circumstantial evidence has pinned her inextricably. Consider the following:
1. Her own spokesman released two tapes of incuminating conversations. Then, Secretary Ignacio Bunye, after playing the tapes made a voluntary admission in the presence of 50 or so members of the Malacañang Press Corps that the female voice on the tapes is GMA's.
The fact that he subsequently retracted that admission, even in a court of law does not necessarily nullify the original confession.
2. Commissioner Virgilio “Garci” Garcillano has disappeared and has not made a categorical and credible denial that the male voice on the tapes is not his. Former Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairmen Christian Monsod and Harriet Demetriou identified the voice on the tapes as Garcillano's and add Garcillano, even during their time, was a notorious operator.
Reports say Garcillano is now in Kota Kinabalu, departing through the backdoor in a private plane escorted by former Philippine National Police (PNP) chief Hermogenes Ebdane en route to Singapore and to the United States.
If the tapes are not authentic and “Garci” did not do anything illegal, why did he flee? Gloria Arroyo should have asked him to face media and Congress to defend her “proclamation.”
3. Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos has turned around and now says Garcillano should not be reappointed. Earlier, he said Garcillano is not even in charge of any Mindanao region, that Garcillano went to Mindanao only four times before the elections, etc. which has been proved inaccurate.
If Garcillano is clean and innocent, why should he not be reappointed? Abalos has unwittingly convicted him, and by implication confirmed the veracity of the “fraud” in the tapes.
4. Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez has threatened everybody including media, from those possessing the tapes, replaying them, even using extracts including ring tones, with criminal prosecution.
If the tapes are fabricated or spliced, and the voices are not those of GMA, Garcillano and First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, why the all-out effort to prevent their playing and circulation?
A TV survey shows 96 percent of listeners believe it is GMA's voice on the tapes.
5. Five bishops, civil society leaders, University of the Philippines professors, students and businessmen organizations have called on GMA to speak up and confront the issue.
The House of Representatives has asked for her comment.
6. While President Fidel Ramos has come out in support of GMA, former President Cory Aquino has not. First, she called for prayers, for sobriety, but nothing expressly supporting GMA. To add insult to injury, at the height of the controversy, she pays a visit to the top of anti-GMA forces, Fernando Poe Jr.'s widow, Susan Roces, giving profuse praises to her.
7. Vice President Noli de Castro makes a surprise visit to deposed President Joseph Estrada. He issues a statement saying while he is not aspiring for the presidency, he is ready to assume when the time comes.
8. The loyalist media organizations ABS-CBN, GMA-7 and the Philippine Daily Inquirer, who went all out for GMA in Edsa II, are now going all out to play the Gloriagate tapes. Listen to dzMM and dzBB and you will hear anti-GMA comments in abundance from sunrise to late night.
(Yeah, but sa radio station lang raw pine-play ito. We need to see the TV and Cablenews stations of ABS-CBN and GMA7 air the tapes too. They should invite credible experts and commentators to analyze and dissect the GLORIAGATE tapes on TV so that their viewers can fully understand the gravity and seriousness of the situation, instead of just trying to muddle the issue and using Malacanang's "talking points" to confuse their viewers. The more people hear and understand what's in those incriminating tapes, the better. - John Marzan)
9. Senate President Frank Drilon has come out to urge GMA to speak up and confront the issues, has refused to stop the jueteng hearings and loyalist Senators Joker Arroyo, Ralph Recto, Manuel Roxas II, Pia Cayetano, Edgardo Angara and others are ominously and defeaningly silent on the wiretaps.
10. GMA lieutenants, former Ilocos Gov. Luis “Chavit” Singson and Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, are threatening to established independent republics, a clear shot at the bow of GMA's sinking ship. If GMA is innocent and stable, why take that position?
11. The hound dogs of GMA — NBI Director Reynaldo Wycoco and PNP Director Arturo Lomibao are now concentrating their fire on known Erap leaders, including a preposterous claim against Laarni Enriquez (again, after Oakwood) threatening to file sedition and serious illegal detention cases.
In an ongoing investigation, why did Lomibao himself, not the official spokesman, Gen. Leopoldo Bataoil, read the Doble affidavit himself?
How can they justify a charge of illegal detention against Samuel Ong, Bishop Ted Bacani and now Laarni Enriquez, when the “victim” himself now admits he received a P2-million payoff? You don't accept money when you are kidnapped. You pay ransom. Worst, Bishop Bacani and now Gen. Lomibao have released the records of cellphone calls by Doble to his wife. If you are the kidnapper, would you allow him to keep his cellphone so that he call out and call the police? Worse, lawyer Sammy Ong said Doble had a gun. If he was kidnapped, would the kidnapper allow him to keep his gun?
12. In spite of all the above, GMA continues to remain not only evasive, but silent on the issue, giving rise to an unmistakable conclusion that silence or claiming the right against self- incrimination as suggested by Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago, is tantamount to an admission of guilt.
“Your honor, the jury, the people find Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo guilty of culpable violation of the Constitution and betrayal of the public trust.”
What does the defendant say? “Your honor, I won fair and square. You know, in war and politics, everything is fair and square, di ba?
Excuse me, your honor my phone is ringing, “Hello, hello, hello Garci?”
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