How we were misled--not once, but twice--on the two deadliest terror attacks on RP soil

People who remember the Rizal Day bombing were misled into thinking na ang erap administration ang mastermind dito. The anti-eraps blamed erap to put more pressure on erap, and it helped led to his downfall.

Well, it turns out later yung JI at si al ghozi pala ang nagpasabog ng bomba sa LRT.

And then, there's this one:

It was the deadliest terrorist attack on the Philippines since the December 30, 2000 Rizal Day Bombing of the LRT, (which a lot of people, especially in the Civil Society Media actually blamed on Erap and Ping.) But read how the Superferry 14 Bombing on Feb. 26, 2004, which took 116 lives, was blamed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on "pranksters."

Alam ng admin na gawa ito ng abu sayyaf, but chose to lie about the true nature of the attacks dahil natatakot si arroyo ibibintang ng mga tao ang terror attack na ito dahil sa pagsali ni Arroyo sa "coalition of the willing" sa iraq, and it will hurt her candidacy.

(And she may be right, since a few weeks later, spain's PM aznar lost because of the terror attack in madrid right before the elections. many spaniards felt that aznar misled the public about who was responsible for the attack. Hindi pala taga ETA, and the voters guessed that aznar was afraid to tell the truth--because if the voters think it was from al queda, then they'll blame aznar for dragging spain into the iraq war and becoming a target of al queda, and vote for zapatero instead. i guess he was right.)

And since there were no WMDs found and iraq is getting more violent during 2003-2004, she couldn't wait to get out of iraq ASAP, once she "won" her election. And that hostage situation and our eventual surrender to the terrorists plus withdrawal made it all clear to the bush admin na ginamit lang ni Arroyo ang US, and GMA has no more use for them and iraq (until sumabog ulit ang legitimacy crisis ni arroyo noong mid 2005)

Amazingly, the Philippine government did not even announce what it already knew about the Superferry 14 bombing until October 2004, after the elections had been safely GARCIED....

The President's managing of that deadliest terrorist attack on the Philippines by denying it's true terrorist nature reveals what a heartless political animal she truly is. Since the Palace was enmeshed in that entirely shameful controversy over FPJ's citizenship and the orchestrating of a series of public opinion polls in preparation for Garci's prestidigitation, and with the election campaign having just gotten underway, GMA was not to be bothered by a bunch of drowned and bombed Filipinos in the cruel seas near Bataan and Corregidor. Better to just attribute it to pranksters, even if there was a clear claim by the Abu Sayyaf, just a day after the bombing that they had done it!

More comments from American Painter. tignan nyo yung treatment ng superferry attack ng philstar.

I recall however, that on the day that the Philippine Star’s front page headline screamed about 50+ people being killed in the London bombing, there was a story on page four about a Ferry being bombed with the loss of 100+ Filipino lives. ON PAGE FOUR! Go figure..........

More comments from DJB:

AP: Oh my God! Please, please don't get me going on Super Ferry 14. That happened just two weeks before Madrid's 3/11, in late February 2004. 116 innocent men, women and childred died, and hundreds more missing never really accounted for.

But even SunStar media claimed the Palace squelched the CLAIMS of ABU SAYYAF that they had bombed that boat and massacred those poor innocent people. Because you know what was going on that very month of February, 2004? The 2004 election campaign had just begun. It was not until October that the President, safely esconced in Malacanang Palace triumphantly announced that they had solved the Super Ferry Bombing: that yup, the Abu Sayyaf did it.

Sir! please have mercy on me and do not write to me again about giving GMA the benefit of the doubt. You remind me of the lives that have been lost to her ambition and her treacherous and selfish cowardice, the deadly consequences of which will yet be visited on us by the Big Lies that so many good people, like you, believe.

And this one too:

2004 FEBRUARY 27 is a date that will live in infamy. It was our September 11, being the worst terrorist incident here.

But candidate Arroyo successfully turned it into just another sea mishap that we are famous for, having no faith whatsoever in the Filipino people's willingness to rally behind their leader, any leader that will defend them with honor and dedication and the selflessness that their ancestors always displayed.

it's obvious na pinu politika lang ni arroyo ang mga terrorist attacks na ito since 12/30.