Malacañang yesterday warned opposition local chief executives that their arrest is imminent if they insist on holding mass protest actions to call for the ouster of President Arroyo should the Department of Justice (DoJ) cancel any permit to rally.
Press Secretary and concurrent presidential spokesman Ignacio Bunye, during a radio interview over RMN-dzXL, said the Arroyo administration has the power and is prepared to quash any threat to national security, including the arrest of leaders from the political opposition.
“The best person who could explain this is Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez himself... our government has the power to face any threat that would destabilize our economic and national security..,” he stressed, adding it is now the DoJ that has the final say whether Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay and other local executives who belong to the opposition could still hold mass protest actions against the President.
"The best person who could explain this is Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez himself"... heh heh... la lang. kasi anything coming out of raul gonzalez's mouth is funny eh.
- It's de Quiros best article to date. Read it here.
- From Jake Macasaet:
Kung wala tayong Jojo Binay, mayor ng Makati City, wala nang rally laban kay Pangulong Arroyo ang matutuloy.
Tanging si Binay lamang, isang matibay na haligi ng oposisyon, ang nagbibigay ng permit kahit kanino para sa mga rally.
So true, so true! More:
Ang mga mayor ng ibang bayan at ciudad sa Metro Manila ay hindi nagbibigay ng permit para sa rally. Para bang nasa bulsa silang lahat ni Pangulong Arroyo. Huwag magbigay ng permit.
Kung ganu’n, kasama ang mga amuyong na ito ni Pangulong Arroyo sa paglabag sa Saligang Batas. Wala namang nagdedemanda dahil alam nila na wala silang panalo sa sistema ng hustisya sa kasalukuyan.
Kaya tuloy na tuloy ang pagsupil ng rehimeng Arroyo sa karapatan ng mga tao na garantisado ng Saligang Batas.
Marunong talaga sa pulitika itong si Pangulong Arroyo. Dahil kampi sila sa kanya, ipinagbawal na ng Simbahang Katoliko ang paggamit ng EDSA Shrine para sa mga rally.
Pero noong itapon si Pangulong Estrada, nangunguna ang yumaong Cardinal Sin sa pagsasalita sa EDSA Shrine. Tahasan pa nga niyang sinabi na "guilty" raw si Pangulong Estrada samantalang umpisa pa lang ng kanyang impeachment trial.
Ang nakapagtataka sa mga obispong Katoliko lalo na si Msgr. Socrates Villegas, na ang utak ay hinubog ni Cardinal Sin, ay kung bakit bawal gamitin ang EDSA Shrine kung ang kalabang Pangulo ay kakampi niya.
- Herman Tiu Laurel says Arroyo has gone bonkers:
Before we go into how we intend to challenge the CPR, let's clarify why we think it's a serious psychological condition already that afflicts Gloria and cabal. First, this talk of “emergency rule” that secretary of Injustice Raul Gonzalez says he's been mulling with Speaker Jose de Venacia. He clarified that it's not about martial law but the prospect of government taking over key private industries in oil and the power sector, air and shipping transport lines, to meet the impact of the global oil crisis. But these industries are not at all the cause of the nation's crisis, its Gloria and company!
True, the companies in these sectors are taking advantage of the country and must be reined in; but Gloria and company with their track record of plunder of the nation's coffers would be even more rapacious than them. They probably feel there's no more to plunder from government coffers and must now target the rich lodes these corporatocratic pirates have to themselves. There is one thing good that may come out of this scenario, the political and corporate velociraptors may manage to devour each other up. In the process, the Filipino may find himself free of such vampires finally.
There's more proof coming out that Gloria herself has gone off her rockers. Gloria's one time trusted Cabinet member and former Social Welfare and Development Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman showed how megalomania has overtaken her. She quoted Gloria as saying, “Bring in the muscle, let's bring in the fear” and using “national security” as pretext to cover up her insecurity. We're dealing with a mad woman here, prepared to trample on the Constitution, hurt and maim citizens, dismember our country, create civil war and even burn the country and watch a la Nero over Rome.
- Neal Cruz: People no longer afraid of martial law
IT WOULD BE THE HEIGHT OF STUPIDITY for the administration to impose martial law or emergency rule now. Such a move would achieve nothing. It would only reveal that the administration is desperate and in panic-and it would hasten the downfall of President Macapagal-Arroyo. Declaring martial law or emergency rule could be compared to throwing the turtle into the river-the militants would like nothing better.
I don't think martial law would be as effective as it was during the Marcos regime. Today, the people are no longer afraid of it. They know they can fight back and eventually chase the President out of Malacañang as they did with Marcos.
Neither are the people afraid to be arrested and imprisoned. They have learned that arrest and detention is a shortcut to fame and to a fruitful career in politics and government. Many of the oppositionists who were imprisoned by Marcos graduated to become senators, congressmen, Cabinet members, etc. They could not have created even a ripple in the political pond had Marcos not made heroes of them by having them arrested.
If not for Marcos, they would still be nobodies instead of the prominent personalities they are now. Many of them were elected or appointed to public office with no other qualification than that they were imprisoned by Marcos. To be imprisoned then was a badge of honor.
So if GMA (Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo) were to impose martial law or emergency rule, the opposition would just love it.
People who have so far been reluctant to join the street protests would suddenly be angry and realize that they have to do something to prevent another dictatorship. Street rallies would get bigger; it would be the heroic thing to do. What the opposition have been unable to do, GMA would do for them.
So I don't think GMA, or Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez, are serious in imposing emergency rule. It is possible that they themselves purposely leaked the martial law threat as a trial balloon-to scare people from joining street marches and from criticizing the administration so much. Now they know people are not so easy to scare anymore.
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