WE’RE LITERALLY AT A POINT WHERE THEY ARE RIPPING US APART

This unified front of the opposition, the Yellows, spells a new type of danger for the government. The Catholic priests, Ex CJ Sereno, Senators Trillanes, Drilon, Pangilinan, Hontiveros, Aquino, with the concurrence of the rest are seen on Facebook, in rallies, in church masses, in television news and interviews calling the AFP and the PNP to join them to oust PDu30. The Television channels are routinely and expectedly spreading news perceiving the uncertainty in the country about the high prices of all basic commodities and the inflation sending concerns even alarms, and markets tumbling.

These enemies of the people are the real threat and very dangerous adversaries as they can do anything for all the wrong reasons with their riches, fame, and influence. Their enormous determination to topple the government was shaped by the fact that they are in the same boat which keeps themselves tightly in each other's grip to protect one another till death do them part.

This must be so, because all of them are facing scary, ugly, and humiliating kind of charges that are non-bailable like plunder, mass killing by Dengvaxia vaccines; syndicated corruption; protection racket on drugs and terrorism of the CPP-NDF and ISIS; profiting from tax evasion by the oligarch, election fraud, economic sabotage, Usurpation of authority, illegal government contracts, coup d’etat. Their only chance to save themselves from prosecution is either to kill PDU30 or oust him as president.

PRRD may have the same thing as “I gave my enemies a sword and then they rammed me through.” I HOPE PRRD would see the light of day sooner than later before all of us are stunned by the quick turn of events. Please PRRD, don’t wait until the time that your people will be driven in regress and ruminate after the fact because everything was already too late.

THE FLAT OUT BOGUS SENATOR

Understanding the article entitled “Shabby Family” allegedly from the comments of COMMODORE VICENTE CEJOCO, AFP, PMA CLASS 82-- Antonio Sr, PMA class 1959, when assigned at the PMA Baguio, and his wife riding on the occasion were corrupt. So the syllogism is Antonio Sr and his wife are corrupt. Senator Trillanes is their son. The conclusion is Sen. Trillanes cannot be otherwise but is also corrupt. With such vilification, the refusal on the part of Sen. Trillanes to face head-on the charges thrown against him and to his parents by Commodore Cejoco, is contrary to the impulse of an innocent man, who when accused of wrongdoing is eager to express his innocence at the first opportune time. But Sen. Trillanes did not. 

I agree that the façade that Trillanes wants to portray to the public as immaculately honest person fitted to be a savior to this country is finally removed as the mask is finally exposed because it has been the charade for decades. He is flat out bogus and is moving straight out of his father’s playbook which has drilled into his veins. As it is said, even if you put a dress silk on a goat it is a goat still. 

In fact, from the findings of Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission (PACC), Trillanes’s creed is mine, mine, mine, who cares if there is still left for others to survive; you can rob and steal in your way to glory. It is a mindset based on a mantra to “own everything” if given a chance. In the words of Robert Browning, “Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp/or what’s a heaven for?” 

More words, Trillanes cannot afford to be disrespectful and dare to talk with an unguarded tongue and/or with a baleful pen because he has a treasure trove of vilest and distasteful reputation.

SP SOTTO IS SWIMMING AGAINST THE STREAM

By his impassioned interference to protect Trillanes, SP Sotto has created a spectacle drawing shockwaves rippling around endless road of slum and slime. The Senate Hall must not be used as a haven for thugs especially if he is a menace to the society like Trillanes. That seems to be the issue that PDU30 and Sotto first start to go in opposite directions. 

We, Filipinos know, as an actor-comedian SP Sotto was humiliated in that actress Pepsi Paloma rape case. Maybe, because of it, Sotto is looking for a source of pride to redeem his reputation. However, putting yourself in anybody’s basket that is a menace to the society as Sen. Trillanes, was a corrupt intent and surely, his desires boomerang to humiliate him once more. 

The issue about Senators’ arrest was not without precedence as what SP Sotto inappropriately led us to believe. Sometime in June of 2014, Sotto, as a Senator, was a witness to the arrest of Senators Enrile, Estrada and Revilla in the Senate Hall during Session for non-bailable charges of plunder. Therefore, Sotto cannot feign ignorance about it. For Trillanes who has committed a crime against the State, the stand of SP Sotto and his comrades in acting as a human barricade for Trillanes is raising quizzical eyebrows. 

ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE AT THIS POINT

Looking at PDU30 yesterday on TV, I saw various degrees of dismay and in a sorry state of resignation on his face as he talked with humbleness and awe. The Yellows, the media, the clerics, the oligarchs, NPA-NDF, the Magdalo, led by Trillanes and Alejano who look like a Siamese twin, these fragments have now come together into a synthesis, and a new entity emerges with enormous determination to hold together.

What these enemies are doing now is flipping the paradigm of peace and progress, really creating total chaos, pulling down our government, and leaving behind a divided ruin. How would that be our country’s interest is difficult to fathom. How is it advancing their agenda of sowing disorder and pushing everyone to the grave making our country great again? The law of unintended consequences is surely in play.

I certainly don’t know what concessions PDU30 can make at this point and he almost has nothing left anymore. The Filipinos are now asking PDU30, what could possibly be the plan, what have you got up your sleeve if anything? Whatever it is, you have to do it quick and fast. The situation is now equivalent to a skull offering before the stratospheric banquet of history and it must be set aside and ordered removed from the annals of this fledgling country.

My beloved President, your decision, whatever it is, will only be either we win as a nation, or we are going to crumble. In every tick-tack on the clock that PDU30 will passively sit and watch, the damages to our country accumulate. In every break that he will take, every minute, every second, the enemies will creep in range inch by inch toward our grave of disaster.

The threat posed by the ENEMIES has shifted from being potential to immediate; from being serious to existential. Now, LET’S STOP IT.

INTERPRETING A LAW SO BASIC AND FUNDAMENTAL

It was announced on the TV News last night the IBP allegedly made a stand regarding the issue whether or not the signing of the amnesty of Sen. Trillanes by former Secretary of Defense Voltaire Gazmin instead of former Pres. Pnoy was valid. According to the IBP concerned, it was valid because if a president can delegate his power in the signing of foreign treaties, it can also delegate his power in the granting of Amnesty.

In the decisions of the Supreme Court in the cases of VAN D. LUSPO vs. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, G.R. No. 188487, February 14, 2011; SUPT. ARTURO H. MONTANO and MARGARITA TUGAOEN vs. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, G.R. No. 188541, February 14, 2011, and C/INSP. SALVADOR C. DURAN, SR. vs. PEOPLE OF THE PHILIPPINES, G.R. No. 188556, February 14, 2011, it consistently and continuously ruled as follows:

Public officers exercise discretionary and/or ministerial duties. A duty is discretionary if the officer is allowed to determine how and when it is to be performed and to decide this matter one way or the other and be right either way. This duty cannot be delegated xxx xxx xxx.

On the other hand, a ministerial duty is one that requires neither the exercise of official discretion nor judgment. It connotes an act wherein nothing is left to the discretion of the person executing it. It is practically a mechanical act; hence, it can be delegated to others.

Pursuant thereto, the granting of Amnesty is a discretionary duty of a President of the Republic and cannot be delegated because it is something where he has a discretion one way or the other to grant it or not. Consequently, the IBP concerned is absolutely wrong.

Looking at the present instance with an absolutely objective eye, it is paradoxical and is revolting to conscience that people trained to interpret the law are sowing confusion to the public on something so basic and fundamental to the detriment of their reputation and their profession especially where it is one’s profession and honor that hang in the balance. The sad thing is, they were not fooling anyone at all. They only ended up making a fool out of themselves in the process.

NO PLACE TO HIDE FOR TRILLANES AND LATER FOR ALEJANO AND 31 OTHERS

On October 2010, Pnoy endorsed to Congress his signed General Amnesty for the Magdalo soldiers who participated in 2003, 2006, and 2007, Oakwood mutiny, marine standoff, and the Manila Pen Siege. This Amnesty was in fact questioned before the Supreme Court and was declared valid.

Now, the Magdalo soldiers had Pnoy under their thumb, the General Amnesty was cleared by the Supreme Court, and the food was on their plate. As in a Boodle fight, Trillanes and the other 31 Magdalo soldiers were in haste to complete everything.

The requirements in order to be covered by the General Amnesty would be 1. A personal application under oath; and 2. Admission of guilt which consists of two parts, a) they should admit they are guilty of all the offenses being charged, which are Coup d’etat, Mutiny, and Rebellion; and that b) they should also retract any public statement which is not consistent with the admission of their guilt.

On January 5, 2011, Trillanes, Alejano, and the 31 others filed their personal application for amnesty. However, as to the requirement for the admission of their guilt, they only made a general admission in a wholesale fashion. Consequently, Trillanes, Alejano, and the 31 others, all of them wrongly complied with it. They should have known better that, it’s not enough they’ll make a general statement admitting some wrongdoing or that they’re at fault, but also, they will retract whatever public statements they might have made which is not consistent with an admission of guilt. Thus, the declaration as null and void under Proc. 572.

Had Pnoy started rightly by letting those to be granted General Amnesty file their application first and after which, that's the time the General Amnesty will be endorsed to Congress, the present fiasco would not have happened. Now, it has done so far beyond what Pnoy and Trillanes could have imagined.

THE CONSUMERS AND THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP ARE LIKE BULB AND ELECTRICITY

The major TV channels have now in out-of-control rage that every step they put forward is herding the PDU30 administration to the boiling point. Matter of factly, they are the key to the success or failure to take out PDU30. In the issue of Amnesty against Trillanes, these TV channels have given him the full air time his unedited widespread viscerally vitriolic attacks, which are not only totally unfounded but also tastelessly disdainful that exceeds everyone’s wildest dreams and expectations, being done to the highest Official of the land, PDU30. Likewise, they keep to drum-up the issue of rice shortage filled with much rhetoric and interviews of selected people so carefully tailored to fit the events to square a conclusion our country is already in danger of famine. This is undoubtedly vectored to create the perception of uncertainty in our country.

Once the world perceives there is uncertainty in our country, everything will collapse because every business is held back in a chain reaction from bank runs, the stock market crash, withdrawal of foreign investment, and disorder ensue. Then, people like a swarm of hungry locust will storm every food outlets and groceries ransacking everything, and anarchy takes over. No doubt they are in complicity with the yellows with a common bestial and ignoble purpose to take down this government and put somebody they can pull a string behind so that all the advantages that come around only in their favor in every sense. The owners of these TV channels are a strange people who took joy in the suffering of the people and always experienced schadenfreude when people were miserable.

So, what must be done then? Yes, we, the people, reverently show our attitude of humility, of adoration, of perceiving our smallness compared to the one possessed with money and power like these 3 major TV channels. But if we are being looked down upon like animals that can be butchered anytime at their whims and caprices, My God Forgive us, we must do something about it NOW.

Consider this, we, the consumers and the entrepreneurs are like bulb and electricity that the former only lights up if there is electricity. Therefore, since one cannot exist without the other, we must unite to save our country and our lives. The consumers will ask all the entrepreneurship in the country to give these TV channels the dose of their own medicine by withdrawing and stopping their commercials, endorsements and sponsored programs from these TV channels, respectively. If the businessmen can do this, it is these TV channels that are going to collapse. This mission is undertaken not only to resolve the vagaries of present events but also to build the pathways of tomorrow. ANY MORE BRIGHT IDEAS? PLS POUR DOWN ALL YOUR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS IN THE COMMENT.