DANG! DANG! DANG!
I HATE TRILLANES. I hate what he did - and to all the idiots who voted for this crybaby, I hate you too.
He and his supporters (and stupid freaks who voluntarily acted as shields for these morons) should have been totally blown away by the tanks and made it worth the destruction of my favorite hotel's gorgeous renovations. I know I might sound extremely callous. But do these people realize how difficult it is to build a country? Their actions were obviously self serving. And in the end, it's poor people like me and you and all the employees of the Pen who get stuck with having to rebuild our country's image after all their whining and irresponsibility has cleared.
Here we go again. Three steps back for the country. And now that Trillanes and his merry medley of melodramatic morons are still alive and walking away unscathed, make that fricking four. Sometimes, I think we are too nice. These guys make me miss martial law.
Sigh. I don't normally wish ill upon anyone. But really, Trillanes' drama was uncalled for and the government acted accordingly. C'mon guys! The election is in two years, just wait till then if you want Gloria out! Sigh. I truly wish that the government finally pulls through with the "eradication" of these military and civilian troublemakers though (if not through "extreme" means then by locking them away and really throwing away the key). Let it be known that I do not support the motives and methods of Trillanes, Guingona, Labayen, Reyes, et al. And considering that NOBODY went to the Peninsula to support them except for Bibeth Orteza, I'm pretty sure A LOT of Filipinos agree with me too.
Gee. I can't wait for all of my tour cancellations to start flooding in. And poor Pen, they were at 90% capacity, had to cancel a wedding, and now have to work overtime to restore their lobby and reputation.
posted by carlosceldran @ 5:30 PM
62 Comments:
i feel the same way. I'm pissed at Trillanes and the people who voted for him.
nakakaburaot na mama
KIIILLLLL HIM!!
AND SHOOT CES DRILON WHILE YOU ARE AT IT,
i do hope people see trillianes for the fart that he is. the nerve of him to say he surrendered for the safety of the civilians in the hotel - the same civilians he told NOT to leave in the first place. GRRRRR....
all in all what a supreme waste of time!
the pathetic thing is that, in the spirit of "unification", we'll probably see trillanes in the senate again, as opposed to death row, where he should be.
and although i'm beginning to look fondly on martial law, i'd hate to see GMA having absolute power.
what's a poor country like us to do?
amen.
WTF is going on with this country? First, the typhoons. Then an earthquake. Now, this pathetic waste of time?
No wonder we're the 90th most livable place in the world. Trillanes and co. may have pushed us even further. God, how awfully people-pissing!!!
A poor country like ours can now think about changing the constitution. The system is rotten. With GMA at the helm or not.
sa lahat ng nangyari, sa pagsira sa lobby ng manila pen ako pinaka-affected. since tangke ng gobyerno ang sumira at rumatrat nun, malamang gobyerno ang magbabayad. at saan manggagaling ang bayad? sa mga taxes natin! haayyy.
sana di na nakigulo yung mga pari. si running priest ha, parang ang sarap nyang tisurin the next time makita ko sya tumatakbo sa UP acad oval.
AND SHOOT CES DRILON WHILE YOU ARE AT IT...
- Ahahaha!
This smacks of immature behavior, the acts of one man who simply cannot get over losing. What's the point, really? Why the penchant for action? Honestly, whoever sits at the helm will always have his/her share of ouster calls, but this is ridiculous, this is clearly undemocratic. Why can't we just for once, as a nation, shut the f**k up and let our leaders get on with their business, as we should ours? Strategically, you do not hit your target while they have a advantage. Logic dictates that you strike when they are at their weakest...or after their political term. Please exercise patience and wait, but not before letting history serve as the judge as to whether our leaders did a good job.
Cowards. Grandstanders. Megalomaniacs.
bakit hindi sila sa SOGO nag camp out? para pang-masa talaga..hypocrites...
i hate him too. i just moved in to australia but i really feel bad on what happened.. his ways are unjust.. if he lives to 'the end justifies the means' then, he did it the wrong way.. if he wants PGMA to suffer then wag idamay lalo na yung mga civilian.. plus that curfew thing my god, for a freedom induced country?? i just feel so bad :(
trillanes must change his ways, and instead of lending help to build the country pinapagulo nya lalo..
i totally agree with your post..
.... and try to explain why a guy like Trillanes is not locked up... in any other country he would get life for his first coup attempt.
Only in da Pilipines! ;-)
We need New Rules!
I was so frustrated watching the peninsula incident today. what the hell was trillanes thinking and was he really hoping for 11 million people who voted for him to show up?
I was also very very disappointed with the way the media acted in peninsula. i admire their courage but they did jeopardize the situation. They needed to respect the pnp and when they got arrested abscbn anchors didn't stop complaining until Mr. puno had to repeatedly say that they will just be asked a few questions...i was turned off by SOME media correspondents who covered the incident and worse the anchors on tv, their comments and questions made me feel like i was in high school. we do notice the ahhhhhs and hmmmms...
maybe, the pnp and abscbn should learn a few things from watching csi and 24 ...
Before anything else, I want to state that I do NOT like Trillanes, I do NOT support what he did, I do NOT think he should ever have been allowed to run for office, and I definitely did NOT vote for him.
However, to say that we should just wait for 2010 to get rid of or punish GMA is wrong. If you had an employee (and, essentially, she is our employee) who you seriously suspect broke the law, would you wait till their contract was over before you did anything about it? In fact, if you had a boss who was embroiled in one scandal after another, would you just wait for her to leave on her own, without doing what you can to make sure she was fired and punished? Let me make it clear that I do NOT support coups, nor will I EVER look fondly at Martial Law (hi, Cynch! ;-)) or any form of dictatorship or draconian rule. But it's very simple: GMA has been implicated in so many illegal activities that her right to govern is now in grave doubt, to say the least. She does not deserve to stay in power.
And please, I hope nobody says that all politicians are corrupt anyway, so we should just accept it. They are corrupt BECAUSE people accept it.
I agree with you, Carlos!
Wow! We stayed at the Peninsula... very confortable hotel.. hope it reopens soon! Politics and violence.. :(
putang ina nilang lahat
Why didn't they just kill the damn moron.
Damn that Ahole trillanes. I hope GMA finds a deep ditch for him to sleep in. Patayin nalang yan! why can't people wait until the next election? We should learn to follow the law. GMA is there to stay until 2010. Unless she gets impeached, we have to let her do her job. Things were getting better until this came along. That stupid trillanes! I noticed a pattern here. This stupid trillanes loves staying at fancy hotels. Is he so poor that he has to take the hotel hostage in order to get into one? I wish trillanes dies now!
What absolutely killed me was that the guy couldn't speak. He had his moment, what with all the cell phones, cameras and microphones in his face, HE HAD HIS MOMENT to say something – anything! – to make us understand his actions. And all we got was broken Tagalog, broken English and a lot of very awkward pauses. The media really had to dig deep to come up with their sound bites.
That stupid trillanes guy disrupted our lives again. I can't believe he won the election. I was just wanted to hear from the tvnews that Trillanes and his gang died in the hotel seige together with members of ABSCBN who refused to follow the PNP for them to vacate the hotel.
Such cowards, I thought they said they were willing to stay there till the end? Tank lang pala nagsurrender na.
And on hindsight, although I hated the media people reporting every move the government was doing while trillanes and the gang could probably monitor their opponent's steps through tv and radio, the viewers were able to get a glimpse of how tanga trillanes was whlile being interviewed (I totally agree with Wendy's observation).
trillanes and the gang should be killed by firing squad since they weren't killed this afternoon. Include the ABSCBN reporters with them please!
*correction*
I just wanted to hear...
i hope the oftentimes too gullible masses don't herald him as a modern day hero or something, as they are liable to do given that they always tend to favor the underdog regardless. that trillanes guy has delusions of grandeur or whatever, like he thinks he's the designated savior of this nation. trillanes, you are so full of sh*t!
and what about those bishops? nevermind guingona who's probably more senile than my 90 year old gramma... what's this country coming to?
What annoys me most is Trillanes' utter incompetence!! At least the anti-Cory coups of the 1980s were tactical enough to attack TV and radio stations to create propaganda and whip up public support. But Trillanes' coup is a farce! Why would the president resign just because you and some 30-odd men hole up in a hotel?
Worse, di na nga umubra nung unang sinubukan sa Oakwood, sinubukan pa ulit? And without an improved plan! Utang na loob!!
Of course, the bigger fools are those that follow (and vote for) an obvious fool.
BBC 24 london covered that damn incident for 3 hours.So that's 3 negative hours for the Phil.I din't know what to react to this latest Trillanes show.Bizzare was how the BBC anchors viewed it.Sayang,one british expat being interviewed by the BBC said that the Phil.economy is actually doing great before this hoolaboola.Akala ko nga matapang si Trillanes,eh nag-siga lang ng konte surrender na.
IndioBravo
Who voted for TRILLANES? the poor.
Attention those poor people. You guys deserve the pit you're in.
Trillanes keeps his brain in his rear end! I could have been sympathetic with the man for his cause if he could have barricaded himself in Quiapo and probably lots of Masa will be joining him. But his choice of venue the core business center of Makati and a posh hotel that’s is a very stupid action and on the eve of the busiest holiday season - Christmas. How many expats are checked in at that hotel that would keep the picture of the standoff forever in their memory bank? I recommend we send him and his group a one way ticket to Afghanistan!
First I heard of this was on the morning news this morning (in Melb, Aus)as there are apparently a number of Aussies staying there. I couldnt' quite believe that it was the Pen these tanks were driving into! I had no idea why (the news was very brief) so thanks for the post. But yes, not a good image when one of the most fancy hotels is shown on tv with soldiers and tanks entering the lobby. Again, a big shame, it's a popular corporate hotel for some Aussie companies when working in Manila.
The gang of Baboons.. Trillanes, Lim and Guingona.
If only Trillanes could speak English and articulate, I'll support his Malacañang bid. But, my trained Monkey shows more intelligence than the guy!
Check this out from the Enquirer Editorial:
In the same way that a sinner finds there is a pattern to his sins, ex-coup plotters or former mutinous soldiers end up repeating old battle plans, even those that failed to work the first time. On Thursday, Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, the leader of the Magdalo mutineers who took over the Oakwood apartment building in 2003, was once again at the forefront of a mutiny of sorts. He led a small group of soldiers and civilians -- initially estimated at around 30 or so -- in a forced takeover of a luxury hotel in the middle of the Makati Central Business District. His objective was to force President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to resign.
He was joined by Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, a respected soldier who has taken part in previous coup attempts and was implicated in the Fort Bonifacio “standoff” that led to the declaration of a state of emergency in February 2006. In that standoff, mutinous military leaders called on the Catholic bishops to come to their aid. Only two of the country’s hundred or so bishops responded favorably to this latest act of adventurism, with one of them saying he just happened to be at the hotel when Trillanes and company arrived in force.
In other words, this armed undertaking had failure written all over it. It had the DNA of the ineptly executed Oakwood mutiny and the inadequately prepared-for standoff. The idea that a commander-in-chief can be forced out of office by taking over a secluded building in Makati was ridiculous in 2003; it is only pathetic now. The idea that a mass of supporters, the possible nucleus of a People Power uprising, will throng to an inaccessible camp was preposterous in 2003; it remains risible today.
Let us be clear. The Arroyo administration, and especially the heavy-handed leadership of Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon, is responsible for deepening the frustration of the officers and soldiers facing various charges related to the mutiny and the standoff. They have not received the kind of respectful treatment they may have expected from their brother-soldiers; they have reason to feel sorely aggrieved, even deliberately humiliated.
At the same time, there is no excuse for what Trillanes and company have done.
The intellectual dishonesty of lawyer JV Bautista, calling the armed entry into the Manila Peninsula hotel a “political act” and not an action contemptuous of the very court Trillanes and Lim had walked out of, is self-evident. The arrest warrants newly issued against Trillanes and Lim were signed by the same judge they had disrespected.
But worse than Bautista’s attempt at spin was Trillanes’ own political arrogance or rank ignorance (it is hard to tell which), where he all but offered himself, a newly elected senator, as an alternative to an “illegitimate” president. Any hope of the young radical reaching out to the millions of Filipinos who are deeply unhappy over President Arroyo’s performance died the moment he said that: It was incredible hubris -- and the very opposite of the issue-oriented politics he says he advocates.
Before surrendering, Trillanes explained Thursday’s bizarre caper as a logical outcome of his “moral obligation” as a public official and ex-soldier. This is, we are afraid, a deeply misguided reading of his duties. He cynically put people in harm’s way, exploited the reporters and cameramen who covered him as his own protective shield, deliberately harmed the country’s image -- and for what? To prove to the nation that his alternative to the “ruthlessness” of the Arroyo presidency was his own brand of incompetence.
It seems Trillanes’ victory in the May 2007 polls made him forget the lasting lessons of the July 2003 mutiny: As the public opinion polls showed soon afterwards, the people sympathized with them and their cause, but vigorously condemned the violent path they had chosen.
“Dissent without action is consent,” Lim told the nation. He could be right, but even if we were to take him at his word, we still need to ask: Is “action” necessarily defined in terms of violence? That way lies mass suicide.
From the BBC..
What college granted him his Degree? Pre-requisite should be versatility and fluency in oral language,he is neither.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7110000/newsid_7118500/7118521.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1
After reading the comments I've come to the conclusion that Trillianes sounds a lot like Bush. I just hope our spoiled incompetent bastard leaves the White House in 2009 and doesn't try to pull any stunts. For what its worth best wishes and I hope things turn around for your country and mine soon.
how true is it that for all his posturing as the voice of the soldiers fighting rebels in mindanao, trillanes was basically just an OFFICE SOLDIER who never saw a single forest in the south because the navy, of which he was part of, doesn't really do counter insurgency work...
and atty. argee guevarra.... i remember voting for you as university student council chair when you had that "new sense" party that was alternative to the trad parties in up. so... the men pen is the new tirad pass, huh? must be you were (are?!!!) either too full of yourself or think too little of the katipuneros. YOU said you were ready to be martyrs... hmmm somehow, i can't imagine the revolutionaries getting scared of... teargas
to think that the peso is getting stronger, economy is picking up et. al. *sigh*
and if they did succeed in overthrowing the current admin, what next? wala din naman silang plan B kundi puro lang daldal.
only in the philippines would a mutineer become a senator. COMELEC should not have allowed people with pending criminal cases (esp. treason)to run for public office. Can't they revise their rules?
I think OA naman ang reaction ng ABS-CBN news team on their 'arrest'. They're acting like ignorant cry babies over a petty matter.
Haven't they watched movies and news from abroad? If a bank is held up, everyone inside the bank is a suspect until cleared. If they chose to remain inside the hotel after having been given a warning to vacate, then that's the risk they take. Masyadong malalaki ulo nila. Years of getting special treatment as media personnel has gotten to their heads.
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah, broken record so what's new, blah blah blah, edsa uno, edsa dos, edsa tres, edsa cuatro, cinco seis siete ocho nueve diez once doce trece blah blah blah blah blah, thank god i have a passport to get away...note to self and friends: DO NOT CHECK-IN AT EXPENSIVE HIGH PROFILE HOTELS...what the fuck is wrong with you filipinos?
Katrina, I think you had one of the most logical comments. Sure we hate Trillanes for what he did but how come all of a sudden everyone has forgotten all the stuff GMA has done - the scandals (NAIA 3, ZTE), election cheating, extrajudicial killings, palpak & weak decision making, poor appointments (Raul Gonzalez and all the military types in the cabinet) …
And Carlos, I think the presence of the journalists are pretty much what saved your beloved hotel. And speaking of the hotel it wasn’t Trillanes who rammed a tank into the entrance but the military over-reacting.
Also, I don't think what happened yesterday made any dent in the economy (except the Pen & some shops' sales incl mine). Martial Law however, would take us "3 steps back".
Did anyone notice that moron ABS-CBN correspondent DOLAN CASTRO crossng the yellow tape DO NOT CROSS THE LINE so as just to ask if the warrant of arrest has been served? The more moronic Makati Police just glanced at him & no reprimand as to his blatant disregard for the cordoning off the secured area. And.. more more more morons!!
Notice those media people having group "pa-cute" photo-ops b4 the seige?? AAAAAAAAGH!
Let it be known that I am running for president come 2010.
Please vote for me.
trillanes has now taken the place of juan ponce enrile as the politician i hate the most.
he's a senator now, for crying out loud, he can't do things like this anymore. if he puts himself into the political system by running for office, then he's agreeing to effect whatever changes he's standing for WITHIN that system. if he's just going to takeover a hotel anyway every time he doesn't get his way, then what was the point of running for public office in the first place?
also, being elected to public office means that he doesn't just serve the 11 million idiots who voted for him. he serves ALL fricking what is it, 80? 90? million of us filipinos now.
it's a bigger game -- there's not just 11 million people to consider, but a whole country, and its image, and its economy to consider before acting. maybe it's all just too much for his minute brain to comprehend.
he wasn't making a stand, but running away from his verdict. it was the megalomanic equivalent of running home to mom. no wonder his "stand" fizzled out so quickly. there was nothing behind it but an escape from responsibility.
oh and yes, ditto on the crappy coverage by abs cbn. histrionic correspondents and brain-dead anchors. konting dignidad naman diyan.
I'm not so sure but the first newsbreak I saw on ABS CBN was during Game Ka Na Ba where they reported about the press con at the Pen. I just wonder if that was the first newbreak of ABSCBN, why was their report about the stupid rebels leaving the Makati RTC so delayed while it happened earlier at 10am and they had that footage with Ces Drilon even with them from the RTC then walking to the Pen. Was it a deliberate delayed news report so that the gov't couldn't act right away? Was ABSCBN also into this plan? Please correct me if there was an earlier news report since I just turned on the tv for the game show yesterday.
if it failed before, what made him think that he would be successful this time? because he's now a senator? uhmm..
he is guilty of the crime he was on trial for, what right did he have to walk out of it? and not only did he walk out, he also had the nerve to repeat his wrong (at ang yabang pa nung paglakad niya papuntang manila pen..)
i don't know exactly what happened during the trial but something tells me he did this all for a VERY selfish reason, the day before an actual scheduled anti-Arroyo mobilization.
and i did notice the photo-ops that the reporters were doing. weirdos.
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Carlos, pwede paki tanggal lang yung picture ni trillanes.... kakaasar ng mukha niya
I agree, please remove his pic. Nakakinis makita.
you could replace it with this.
I agree with you 100%. That Trillanes guy has certainly lost a few, no, make that a LOT of screws in the head. And to think that he still has the galls to make himself seem like the hero after all of this. What planet is he on?!?? Doesn't he know that he was the one that caused for all of this hoopla to happen in the first place anyway?
I think the media, especially ABS CBN, has gotten too paranoid too. They're too concerned about their rights blah blah blah that they have failed to look at the bigger picture. They had to be called in to make sure that all the Magdalo idiots are caught. It wasn't anything personal. Gee, get over it already!
Maybe if we give KSP guys like Trillanes, Guingona and the rest of these jackasses a TV show they could just all shut the f*$& up. Perhaps they could be given a segment in Jojo Alejar's show.
don't worry so much about negative overseas image right now...people in the States & Europe are far more focused on their bad domestic economic news, housing slowdown, and the coming recession rather than what happened in Manila last week.
news from the Phils is generally so bad (or presented as bad) that additional incidents like this no longer make a difference to its international image -- they just perpetuate the conventional wisdom.
that said, time to jail these f****** What these people do is eat up scarce resources - time, energy, focus, and so on. it's just exhausting.
Doesn't the Philippines have in its constitution a law against treason?
If so, what is the punishment?
I believe that this example can be classified as such and that the parties involved must be charged with exactly that.
An aside: Canada hasn't had the death penalty since the 70's and by and large, due to the United States being our neighbour, the penal system of Canada is considered to be more 'forgiving' if you will; focusing on rehabilitation and re-integrating felons back into society after they've done their restitution.
Where am I going with this?
Well, the civilian side might be 'forgiving' but Military law is different. IF I remember correctly the few short lectures on the subject when I was a young recruit in the Canadian Forces, Treason committed by a member of the Armed forces is prosecutable through Court Martial and if found guilty, was punishable by firing squad well up until very recently. (civilan justice system is different from military justice system) Canadians may be peace-loving, but they take threats to their sovereignty and constitution seriously.
So that said, I've noticed that a lot of Filipinos subscribe to swift justice, heavier penalties, and little chance of pardon. How come these guys get away with this kind of stunt? Or, I guess I should say, THESE kinds of STUNTS! Not their first time.
Sure, there are widespread allegations of corruption in Glo's administration. But stupid ventures like these don't do squat to fight that. My loyalties would be to the constitution and to the people that this constitution is supposed to serve. Heavy handed power grabs, or at least the deluded desire to power grab with scarcely a platoon strength, like this is unconstitutional and socially irresponsible. If they were stupid enough to think that this had any chance of succeeding at all, how can they expect to run a country?
Heck, it FAILED miserably when they had a small Battalion (320personelle = 3 companies) last time they tried. How stupid are they to think that they'd have more success with 30 times less people? Ugh...
Hmmn..
Ok, a special detail I missed for I am not a Philippine resident: Trillanes was actually in jail and in trial (for the previous thing he did) when he was elected? Well, if it's not written in Philippine law that you cannot run for public office whilst undergoing trial, let alone in trial for a treasonous activity, then it ought to be now.
I apologize to you Mr. Celdran, for filling up a huge amount of space here.
However, if anyone is curious about the international migrant Filipino perspective, then here I am as one example of that.
Knowing only bits and pieces of the story (and only bits and pieces of the previous Trillanes misadventure) my impression was "A coup attempt? Again? And from the same guy???"
More than disgust, more than condemnation, is the overwhelming disbelief that someone would try and pull it off twice.
And so, a few assumptions arise: What nation lets someone jeopardize their peace in order in such a way? How come these guys got away doing it not once, but twice? How light are the Philippine laws against treasonous acts and acts of terrorism?
But anyway, in the hour that passed since my first post, I have done some reading and have learned of the Original Oakwood Mutiny ( http://images.gmanews.tv/html/research/2007/11/oakwood_mutiny_timeline.html ) and the steps that Mrs. Arroyo took. So now a better picture has emerged.
Well, at least for me.
For the rest of the world content on hearing only the small bits and pieces, the same unflattering assumptions of a weak government and a weak judiciary system that cannot even prosecute traitorous individuals persist.
Some credit should go to the PNP SAF, Marines, AFP and all those involved in the fast military response in securing the hotel's grounds and displaying a huge show of force.
http://militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=124581&page=3
Honestly, that portion of this fiasco was, for some, THE one face-saving factor for the motherland. They looked professional, willing, and ready to rock. These photos of heavily armed and dedicated troopers was one of the things that the world saw and among the thousands of words that they spoke was that the Philippines CAN and WILL respond to threats.
The canceled wedding was of my uncle's acquaintance. effin' pissed the groom aright.
does anyone have a gun
Another one for the history books... The things that can happen only in the Philippines... I am so beaming with pride. damnit!
Another stupid act and bad publicity for the country, what next, coup at Shangri-la (wag naman sana, grabe di makatarungan ang nangyari sa Pen)...People who vote for Trillanes are idiots, I hope they have learned that he was not worthy of their votes or a senatorial post...thank you, kaya di ko siya binoto, alam kong di niya ito linya....he should have stayed home and plant kamote!
Somebody said GMA is an employee that can be terminated, hence no need to wait for 2010 elections. No mam, yung HR policy natin, walang matatanggal kung hindi magresign or ayon sa due process. Failing to understand this, that's why there are so many Trillanes roaming around with only one thing in mind: coup.
"These guys make me miss martial law."
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Carlos, you kill me.
All Filipinos need to learn what democracy and " The Rule of Law " means . Then you need to damn well apply it . Your military needs to be de-politicised , your Police force should become the civilian arm of the Govt that it is in most countries . That includes removing " Military style ranks " eg: General etc ....nothing says Third World Banana Republic more !
Finally , take your vote and use it wisely ....if you dont learn from history , you are doomed to repeat it !
We just held an election here in Australia , none of us liked the prick in power , we bided our time and then voted the arsehole out ! Thats how its done , not a fucking soldier in sight !
Learn your history , you got rid of the Spanish , British , Japanese and the Yankees . arent you tired of tearing your country apart ? Of being laughed at by Thailand , Malaysia , Singapore et al ?
Sigh .
Mark, I have another solution for those who support Trillanes and his cabal: Bring Trillanes, his loyal troops and politicos together with all those who cheered his coup to a small island and let them have all the coup they want. Pero sila-sila lang. Wag na nila idamay yung mga ibang kababayan na naghahanap buhay ng tahimik. By the way, I recommend an island small enough to be swallowed by the sea when global warming is at its final stage.
Mark. I am a Malaysian and I beg to disagree. We do not "laugh" at Filipinos and the misfortunes that happen to them.
We too have had our difficulties, and Mahatir was not the easiest of leaders to love. So we are not to judge.
The Philippines' political/social system is a flawed one and the problems that arise are quite common among countries that are trying to rise out of the third world. It is all part of the process.
Mark. Your comment was quite insensitive and simplistic. It's obvious that you are ignorant of the problems third world countries face and the solutions needed to fix them.
It's easy to judge from the priviledged place where you are in Australia I'm sure.
Mark, please come to the Philippines and bestow on us your wisdom and experience in Third-World governance. I am sure we have a lot to learn from you, like humility, sensitivity, and a deep understanding of what it's like to live in a country like the Philippines. NOT!
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