Palace urges PNP to file raps vs. rally leaders for hurting policemen

Hao siao ito. From the tribune:

Malacañang yesterday encouraged the Philippine National Police (PNP) to make true its promise to file charges against personalities who headed mass protests in Manila last Oct. 14 which injured several policemen.

During a phone interview, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said it is but proper and right for the PNP to file charges against the sus-pected leaders of the protest action since somebody has to be liable for the harm done on the the responding cops.

The PNP revealed plans to charge before the Manila Regional Trial Court 20 personalities suspected of leading Friday's rallies in various key areas in Manila which include party-list Representatives Satur Ocampo, Teddy Casino and Liza Masa and actors Rez Cortez and Pen Medina.

Also to be charged are the leaders of various militant and cause-oriented groups that joined the protests.

Cabinet Secretary Ricardo Saludo said the PNP is only taking the necessary action, emphasizing that nobody could blame the police authorities for doing such thing.

Fine. Go ahead then and arrest these rally leaders and Arroyo critics.

But at the same time, the opposition should file charges against the leaders and implementors of the unconstitutional "no permit, no rally" rule and the martial law-like "Calibrated Pre-emptive response", because even more anti-Arroyo protesters got mauled, beaten up, and injured by Arroyo's police on Oct. 5, Oct. 14 and Oct 21.

The Arroyo admin say that the protesters "provoked" them into using violent means of dispersal, but as we found out recently, attending these anti-Arroyo rallies and marching peacefully is provocation enough for Arroyo's thugs kung walang permit yung rally na yan from pro-Arroyo Manila Mayor and uber-sipsip Lito Atienza. And what's worse is that military dirty tricksters were recently caught infiltrating the anti-Arroyo rallies with the intention to initiate trouble to "provoke" the police to "retaliate".

Those to be charged for violent dispersal should include all Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, PNP Director General Arturo Lomibao, Manila Mayor Lito Atienza and Chief Supt. Pedro Bulaong, MPD chief National Capital Region Police Office Director Vidal Querol, and all those who were caught beating up on the peaceful protesters.



This guy should definitely file charges vs. those who masterminded the violent dispersals.