Tapos ang sasabihin ng mga kakampi ni GMA, "let's move on" na lang! Let's "forgive and forget" na lang!
From Ninez Cacho Olivarez:
The illegal raid conducted by the police and military goons of Gloria Arroyo on a rented home that served as a safehouse for an opposition-allied document expert-witness while seizing the election documents and other studies he had kept, really stinks to high heavens.
With the return by these goons of the seized private property to the opposition a week after the raid, it has become only too clear that the intent of Gloria and her goons was not only to rob the opposition of its evidence of poll rigging, but after being exposed publicly, also exchanged some of these poll documents that show blatant fraud with the fabricated documents.
The opposition charge of the inclusion of election returns (ERs) coming from Cebu which were not part of the documents being studied by Segundo Tabayoyong, as these have been stored in another site has been questioned.
There was, after all, so many days that the seized property stayed in police custody and just who, other than the opposition, would know which original and incriminating ERs and certificates of canvass were fabricated, if not the Gloria Arroyo camp, whose poll rigging ways even had the assistance of the police, now headed by a police chief whose name was mentioned in the Gloriagate tapes?
Why should there suddenly be a Cebu ER, when this was not supposed to be in the batch of seized documents, for instance? Cebu, as it is well-known, was where a lot of cheating was done to favor Gloria.
No doubt too, there are missing documents for which the raiding team cannot account, so it says instead that all the boxes containing the documents seized have been returned. There were also several videotapes said to be footage of poll fraud committed during the elections that are missing.
The Gloria goons, despite claims that the raid was legal, can't quite make their story stick. For one, they had no search and seizure order from a proper court. The court's permit is essential in that the probable reason for the raid would have been noted by the judge who issues the order.
But this legal step was dispensed with by the elements from the police Criminal Investigation and Detention Group and the Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (Isafp) because they certainly couldn't come up with a legitimate reason to raid the opposition safehouse and seize election documents belonging to the opposition.
And the same goons couldn't quite come up with a claim that the raiding party was off to raid a shabu lab, or a jueteng or smuggling operation or even pounce on a kidnap gang holding a victim, as such a raid would not yield that which they would have told the judge was the reason for the raid and seizure.
The superiors of the Gloria goons claimed they went ahead with the raid because of a complaint from the owner of the house to Isafp (!) of suspicious activity. What activity, they did not say. But it was checked out with the security guards of the village in San Mateo that there were no visitors coming and going to that rented place. So what was so suspicious about Tabayoyong's activities?
As things stand, they are in hot water today, because there will be a probe on the illegal raid and seizure of private property and also the planted guns and magazines, whose ownership the police now claim they cannot establish since these are not registered. But of course they won't be registered, as these come from the raiding team itself, which has a lot of unregistered firearms.
But even more disturbing is the fact that the head of the Interior ministry, Angie Reyes, along with the police chief, Gen. Arturo Lomibao, the Defense chief Avelino Cruz and the AFP chief of staff, condone these illegal acts of their men, as all claimed the raid and seizure of the election documents and other videotapes were legitimate.
Since their superiors defend them all the time even when it is clear that the laws have been violated by their men, and worse, that these illegal operations are politically motivated and serving the personal political interests of Gloria Arroyo, how can they be expected to uphold the law and the Constitution, much less institute reforms in the police and military or even instill discipline and professionalism in these establishments when the top officials themselves defend all these illegal acts and encourage their men in uniform to engage in partisan political activities.
And they claim to be serving the people and the country?
They should hang their heads in shame instead.
It really is time for the Senate to give them a good dressing down and even recommend their being charged for violating all laws and the Constitution.
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