For fulfilling their duty to report on matters of abiding national significance, 21 journalists, editors, and executives of seven news organizations were unexpectedly slapped last Nov. 29 with multiple libel and cyberlibel suits by Energy Secretary Alfonso Cusi and Davao-based billionaire Dennis Uy. Their supposed crime? Publishing “libelous and false statements” about Cusi and Uy’s involvement in the controversial multibillion-dollar sale of a combined 90-percent stake in the Malampaya gas field project to the Uy-led Udenna
If it had been up to then-governor Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile would have been rounded up and at a bare minimum, thrown behind bars for planning to oust Ferdinand Sr. in a coup. Enrile had planned a coup for December 1986 — but Marcos’ announcement of a snap election had spoiled that plan. Still, they were set on a February coup attempt. Ferdinand Jr., who’d received special forces training (which explains his particular fetish for wearing uniform fatigues throughout the closing days of the 1986 Edsa Revolution), was among the hawks demanding an uncompromising and fierce response
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