I think the Arroyo Admin is planning a violent dispersal tomorrow

A show of force, if you will.

Kaya nag-declare ng non-working holiday sa Metro Manila ang Arroyo admin is probably because may binabalak silang hindi maganda sa mga rallyista bukas sa SONA ni GMA.

Since walang pasok sa July 25 ang mga estudyante at mga manggagawa, alam ng pekeng admin na ang mga taong lalabas bukas sa kalsada are most likely mga "Gloria resign" protestors. And my guess is that the 15,000 policemen deployed all around Metro Manila are instructed by higher-ups not to be tolerant of these anti-GMA rallyists -- no matter how peaceful they conduct themselves -- because matagal nang binabalak ng admin na "turuan ng leksyon" ang mga kumokontra sa Arroyo and show us Filipinos "who's boss". The excuse they will use for excessive force will be COMMIE INFILTRATION of the rallies tomorrow.

THE military and the police are hysterically raising the Red bogey in the run-up to the State of the Nation Address of President Arroyo on Monday. We hope it’s just the worn-out tactic of trying to scare the moderates from joining the anti-SONA protest actions. What we fear is that the AFP and the PNP might be cooking up something and already laying the ground so the communists would be blamed.
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The purported "communist infiltration" probably would be used by the police and the military to justify harassment of protesters. Lomibao has warned that "out of line" jeepneys and buses ferrying protesters from the provinces would be barred from entering Metro Manila.

Well, the zealousness in enforcing franchising rules would be commendable had the police also barred those buses from the provinces which hauled the warm bodies to the pro-Gloria rally at the Luneta last Saturday. But that’s the way things work. The AFP and PNP are strictly neutral for Gloria.

"Communist infiltration" could also be used to justify a crackdown on protesters. Policemen, with the support of soldiers, could break up any attempt by protesters to mass. All in the name, of course, of protecting these protesters from the violence the communists are purportedly planning.

There are other possibilities, worse ones. Some hardliners in the Arroyo cabinet, most of them retired military men, are itching to crush the opposition with a mailed fist. It would take only a few teams of provocateurs to turn a peaceful demonstration into riot and mayhem.

And the communists would be conveniently blamed.

Nag warning na ang DepEd na wag sumali ang mga estudyante sa rally bukas:

Dahil na rin sa pagiging aktibo ng ilang teachers group sa panawagan ng pagbibitiw ni Pangulong Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, nakiusap ang Department of Education (DepED) sa mga guro na ipagpaliban ang paglalahok sa mga mass actions partikular sa darating na Lunes at sa halip ay bigyan na lamang ng konsentrasyon ang kanilang pagtuturo.

Sa isang statement na nilagdaan ng mga opisyal ng DepEd sa pangunguna ni Education Undersecretary Ramon Bacani, nanawagan din ang departamento sa mga magulang na maging aktibo at involve sa mga aktibidades ng kanilang mga anak. Ito marahil ay dala ng nauna nang panawagan ng mga students groups na mass walkout ng mga estudyante sa Lunes.

May mass walkout rin pala sa Lunes na plinaplano ang mga estudyante, kaya inunahan ng ng Arroyo admin na mag-declare ng holiday, para walang pasok (katulad rin yan ng announcement ni GMA na pinagbibitiw na niya ang lahat ng cabinet members niya to pre-empt the resignation of GMA's 10 cabinet officials.) Then they used scare tactics to warn the parents na magiging magulo bukas, para yung parents ang pipigil sa anak nila na lumabas ng bahay at sumali sa rally.

Well, kung may gulo bukas, most likely manggagaling yan sa Administration kaysa sa protestors. If you've seen how they have violently dispersed the FPJ rallies during the canvassing of votes in 2004, you know what these people are capable of.

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