Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, presiding judge of the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona, has firmly slammed the door to the idea of terminating the trial by declaring a mistrial based on allegations that certain senator-judges were showing bias against Corona by aiding prosecutors.
One, before the Supreme Court issued its TRO on the opening of Renato Corona’s dollar accounts, Tranquil Salvador, a member of the defense, justified their begging the Court to do so in this wise: “We were put in a corner like a cat or rat. So where else can we go?”
In the runup to the 26th anniversary of People Power this month, the contrast couldn’t be starker.
A large part of the lure of “Hidden Cities,” a show on History Channel, is its host, Anthony Morse, 31, born and raised in the United States but who moved with his family as a young man to Chiang Mai in northern Thailand.
Conrad de Quiros wrote that “it’s Joker’s comments about what happened during Erap’s impeachment that take[s) the cake... [His] ingratitude to the thing that swept [him] to power. x x x, Why can’t we afford another demonstration of People Power, full or partial, if it came to that…” And so on and so forth. (Inquirer, 1/2/12)
Joker Arroyo had a mouthful to say last week. Malacañang, he said, was wrecking the objectivity and neutrality of Renato Corona’s impeachment trial. “What I lament is that while the Senate enjoins political neutrality, Malacañang does not. In fact, it caused the filing of the impeachment complaint. Now they’re already looking for the replacement of [...]
True enough it’s the stuff of movies, though not of the action types Erap used to do. More the melodrama ones that featured Sharon Cuneta, or the ones that proliferate on TV today. The ones where the madrasta oppresses the legitimate daughter horribly—and interminably, the pang-aapi carried out over a long period of time, played with much conviction by the usual suspects or kontrabidas —with the oppressed in the end clawing her way out of the mud (bumangon ka sa lusak,) and bringing her oppressor to heel.
The problem when one loses credibility is that even the truth becomes suspect. I remember in February 1986 when the dictator Marcos showed up on television with three military officers who were accused of planning to assassinate him or of staging a coup d’ état. The public did not believe him, of course. Most Filipinos [...]
And so the world reacts rather dramatically to the impulses of evolution. People power of 26 years ago which started in the Philippines and moved quickly to shake down walls in Eastern Europe and South Africa, was thought to be over. When it seemed that the spirit of people power had exhausted itself, it surfaces [...]
President Benigno Aquino III timed the delivery of his major speech of his US state visit, at the annual meeting of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in Washington, on Sept. 21 to coincide with the 39th anniversary of the declaration of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1972. International interest in President [...]
Many Filipinos saw images of Libyans stomping on Moammar Gadhafi’s photo in Tripoli and at its embassy in Makati. That led some to retrieve People Power I clips that record Edsa crowds ripping from a Malacañang wall the Filipino dictator’s portrait. Then, there was Renato Chavez. Renato who? A daily-wage mason, Chavez was among the [...]
Events in Libya, with anti-Gadhafi forces already reaching Tripoli the capital, signaling the overthrow of the strongman, remind us once more of our People Power revolt some 25 years ago. This event heralded not just the end of the Marcos dictatorship but also the chain of popular uprisings around the world that have culminated in [...]
