Filipino Police Arrest Opposition Leaders

by **Rigorous Intuition** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 7:47 pm

Police arrested at least three vocal critics of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and raided a newspaper Saturday following her declaration of a state of emergency to quash a coup plot. Arroyo set off an uproar with her decree Friday as Filipinos celebrated the 20th anniversary of dictator Ferdinand Marcos' ouster in a "people power" revolt, and even some supporters. ... The emergency declaration bans rallies, allows arrests without warrants, permits the president to call in the military to intervene and lets her take over facilities - including media outlets - that may affect national security. Early Saturday, police barged into the offices of The Daily Tribune, which has been among Arroyo's strongest critics. Officers confiscated editorial materials and a bundle of newspapers headlining Arroyo's declaration. Police also were posted at the door, but it was not clear if they intended to close the offices, said publisher Ninez Cacho Olivarez, whose family owns the paper. <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/25/ap/world/mainD8G0BUV00.shtml">www.cbsnews.com/stories/2...UV00.shtml</a> The "state of emergency to quash a coup plot" apparently forestalled a demonstration by junior officers on the 20th anniversary of Marcos' ouster intended to encourage a popular rising against Arroyo. Remember the mutiny of junior officers in 2003, and why? (And remember Michael Meiring?) From <a href="http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/2004/10/michael-meiring-blast-from-past.html">this post:</a> [The junior officers] accused the military brass and the Arroyo government of conspiring with the United States in "Operation Greenbase," which involved the staging of bombings on the island of Mindanao in order to justify an increased US presence in the country. Some particulars of what they were alleging: * Senior military officials, in collusion with the Arroyo regime, carried out last March's bombing of the airport in the southern city of Davao, as well as several other attacks. Thirty-eight people were killed in the bombings. The leader of the mutiny, Lieutenant Antonio Trillanes, claims to have "hundreds" of witnesses who can testify to the plot. * The army has fuelled terrorism in Mindanao by selling weapons and ammunition to the very rebel forces the young soldiers were sent to fight. * Members of the military and police helped prisoners convicted of terrorist crimes escape from jail. The "final validation", according to Trillanes, was Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi's July 14 escape from a heavily guarded Manila prison. Al-Ghozi is a notorious bomb-maker with Jemaah Islamiah, which was linked to both the Bali and Marriott attacks. * The government was on the verge of staging a new string of bombings to justify declaring martial law. Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=rigorousintuition>Rigorous Intuition</A> at: 2/25/06 4:49 pm

by **pugzleyca3** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:02 pm

The people's nickname for Arroyo is "The Midget".

by **Floyd Smoots** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:30 pm

That was most Politically Incorrect, pugzleyca3!!! My mother's sister's uncle's cousin-in-law once DATED a midget; and, from what I've been able to gather about the liason, a Grand Time was Had by All. So knock off the "heightist" rhetoric. You get my drift, you suspected "Cat-Lover"??? <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:"> You're probably prejudiced against Martians, too!!! <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/alien.gif ALT="0]"> Interstellar Justice League President, F&l*o#y+d-zcvbxqrmylpongzzz I SERIOUSLY NEED to send you some of my books on "How to Deal With Aliens". Apparently, YOU haven't got a CLUE!!! Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=floydsmoots>Floyd Smoots</A> at: 2/25/06 5:34 pm

by **pugzleyca3** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 8:49 pm

That is what they call her. My husband just returned from there the first week of this month and when I read Jeff's post aloud to him, he told me about this nickname. "The Midget" in reference to Arroyo is meant in the most disparaging way. Politically correct or no... that's the fact. The people who call her that could care less about being politically correct, they are fed up with her. I've never met an alien I didn't like. And I am a cat lover, wanna make something of it? Huh? Huh? HUH? Say something bad about my cat... now those are fighting words. <img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/mad.gif ALT=">:">

by **Qutb** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:07 pm

Yes, I've been thinking about Michael Meiring and the allegations made by the young officers in 2003 as events have unfolded in the Philippines. I bet Arroyo has some very competent CIA advisors organizing the clampdown.

by **Floyd Smoots** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 9:54 pm

pugz, My cat Homer the not-purebred-but-still a Maine Coon Tabby weighs in at 17 lbs., and could probably "eat your cat's lunch?". His second-in-combat would be Fat Elmo, approx. 14 lbs., a feisty taffy tabby. Forget about Newt, the almost-ancient, soon-to-be 13 year old calico. What a lightweight. She never met a bird that didn't scare her when it farted, but, she takes no fecal-matter from Homer or Elmo. Don't bet your paycheck on the outcome! Of course, in the real world, I hate to see anyone, especially cats or dogs, fight with each other. I'm too much of a bleeding heart "literal" to ever really enjoy a fight, unless it's against the Satanic New World Order! I used to be inspired by Winston Churchill's speech prior to or during(?) the Battle of Britain..........We will fight them in the air, we will fight them on the beaches, we will fight them in the streets........fine, inspirational rhetoric, BUT, written by whom for him (?), and given/orated/bloviated by a full-fledged member of the old, Old, OLD Illuminati, Free Masonic Coming-Soon-To-A-Neighborhood-Near-You, NEW WORLD ORDER!!! So, to return to "post", why should any of us be surprised to find it appearing in our WW2 acquired "colony", the Phillipine Islands??? Just askin', mind you.

by **greencrow0** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:12 pm

Hi Everyone: I've always found the Philippines to be a mysterious place politically in that the media never tells the truth about what is going on there...the reason likely being that the Philippines is basically an occupied country under successive puppet presidents but it's not supposed to get out that the people do not want the Americans there...so there is a lot of energy spent on obfuscation whenever the people rise up against the latest puppet...this was so during the Marcos regime and lately with this Arroyo...there have been recent revolts within the army against her regime but the reasons behind these revolts have been covered up. I'm just wondering what the reason is behind this latest revolt...is it connected with the recent 'mudslide'? I.e., are the people angry at the way the mudslide disaster was handled? At the fact that US marines were invited to 'help'? I wonder if the people think that the landslide was an event triggered by the US so its marines could come in 'legitimately' and 'help out' in that remote area. I know that the US military 'helping out' immediately after the tsunami invoked this kind of reaction amongst some of their pacific rim 'beneficiaries'. Anybody have any info on this? Thanks, GC

by **Floyd Smoots** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 10:20 pm

....Can you spell "Katrina"? It smells very much like the Same Sh*t Different Day, different part of the planet, different people, but, "The Beat Goes On".

by **ewastud** » Sat Feb 25, 2006 11:20 pm

I have not lived in the Philippines for quite a long time now, but I was a Peace Corps volunteer there from 1979-1982 (during Marcos's martial law regime) and a few years later I was a Univ. of Hawaii grad student doing research there for 3 months from January to April 1986 during the Marcos-Aquino election and subsequent People Power Revolution in February of 1986. I remember that weekend and Monday-Tuesday well when Marcos was shuttled off to Hawaii where I had come from. There are many political intrigues (parapolitics) and without good intelligence, it is very hard to tell what is really going on in the country politically. There is much deception, and the US leadership has been quite willing to pull the rug out from any "puppet" it seems to be supporting -- such as President Quirino in favor of Magsaysay in the 1950's with the assistance of the CIA's Edward Landsdale, or with the replacement of Marcos with Aquino in 1986. According to journalist Robert Parry in his book Secrecy and Privilege, Marcos had illegally funded the Reagan-Bush 1980 campaign with $4 million and in 1984, with another $6 or 8 million. Yet that did not stop them from ousting him. According to Parry, before they agreed to rescue Marcos from a bloody overthrow to a safe exile in Hawaii, he was required to hand over certain specific files in his possession which documented these illegal Marcos campaign contributions. They must have had some good intelligence within the Philippine government to know of these files, it seems to me. Now, according to sources like Wayne Madsen, there seems to be an Opus Dei element tied to Dick Cheney that is behind the opposition forces trying to overthrow the Arroyo government. The spy Aragoncillo who was arrested about a year ago operated from the VP's office and reportedly had ties to Michael Aquino. I am not sure who, if anyone, is "clean" in Philippine politics, but I would not put much trust or confidence in an opposition that may have ties to the Evil Dick Cheney. I thought it quite odd, though, that Arroyo's movie star political opponent last year suddenly died very soon after that election which some have claimed to have been rigged. That seems a strange "coinky-dink" to me, but who might be responsible if this was a political murder, and why? Madsen thinks that Cheney wants someone else in Malacanyang Palace who will be more subservient to Washington and let Philippine workers go risk their lives in Iraq in Halliburton/KBR operations. They need some good, cheap, expendable labor to make satisfactory war profits for criminals like Cheney. Arroyo called back and put a ban on such labor after violence against Filipinos in Iraq one or two years ago.

by **greencrow0** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:46 am

Thanks for that insight. I remember there were some soldiers who held up [lay seige] in a Manila shopping mall a couple of years ago. What was that all about? GC

by **marykmusic** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 2:47 am

Cheap workers have been a major export of the Phillipines for a long time. Yes. The whole place is aswarm with American military presence. Yes. Dictatorship regimes propped up by the American government is par for the course, and these politicoes get very wealthy while in office. Yes. There has been an underground movement in the Phillipines ever since the Moro rebellion when the US first took it over. Yes. Our media doesn't report very much of what's rally going on there, does it? Never did. That's why folks here always manage to be surprised when the power base shifts. --MaryK

by **StarmanSkye** » Sun Feb 26, 2006 5:18 am

Hmmm ... INteresting speculation re: Cheney's link to overthrowing Arroyo -- OR is the intrigue/blackmail info being used to pressure her to rescind labour restrictions so Halliburton can hire cheap Phillipino workers? The legacy of Phillipine corruption throughout civil service and military has long links to the US, and apparently senior military and intelligence officials still have deep ties to the CIA/NSA. The US is apparently smarting over its basing-eviction, crimping the navy's forward-supply warehousing logistics and eliminating a very popular R&R stop. Despite long and popular public opposition to the US military presence with many negative consequences of base neighborhood communities pandering to American servicemen's indulgences, what finally galvinized overwhelming political pressure against the US basing was Church, human rights and media attention to practices of sexual indenture and sexual exploitation of children -- even when servicemen were apprehended, they were released to MPs and seldom if ever charged -- the navy covered-up even the most outrageous abuses, essentially condoned by top officials. The Navy apparently felt that any publicity about servicemen being accised of child molestation or rape would be counterproductive. Odd -- I couldn't find ANY updates to the charges of false-flag terror bombings made in 2003 -- like the whole controversial issue fell into a black hole. But I think the claim that 'terrorist bombings' were staged to create pretext for closer US military-intelligence 'cooperation' is very sound. This is a story from that period: --quote-- <a href="http://www.geocities.com/sanlakasonline/pr/03/au/ogb.html?200625">www.geocities.com/sanlaka...tml?200625</a> August 14, 2003 Sanlakas, Partido ng Manggagawa Militant solons urge House to probe OPERATION GREEN BASE, ‘Palace Coup’ plot Militant party-list groups Partido ng Manggagawa (PM) and Sanlakas today urged the Congress leadership to conduct an investigation that would shed light on the Magdalo group’s allegations that the Arroyo administration plotted a sting operation dubbed “Operation Green Base”. The plan, which includes a series of bombings in Davao City and Metro Manila, is designed to pin blame on the secessionist Moro Islamic Liberation Front. PM Rep. Renato Magtubo and Sanlakas Rep. JV Bautista also want the Congress to establish the veracity of another allegation raised by Lt. SG. Antonio Trillanes IV regarding a “Palace Coup”. Under this plan, a series of bombings in Metro Manila and Baguio City would give GMA a reason to ask for an emergency power and eventually declare Martial Law. “Until now, the families of the victims in the Davao bombings are screaming for justice. Both Senate and Congress should make ways to ferret out the truth behind these allegations,” Rep. Magtubo said. “If it is true that this government indeed, dirtied its hands on the issue of Davao bombings, in the name of justice, Senate and Congress must wield their powers whoever’s head is on the line,” Rep. Bautista added. PM and Sanlakas will also seek for the investigation of the alleged selling of ammunitions to the rebel groups. Magtubo added, “GMA has always been talking about all-out-war in Mindanao. But never did we imagine that the AFP where she stands as Commander in Chief can afford to make money out of the soldiers’ blood.“ Magtubo and Bautista also slammed the Arroyo government for doing early ‘damage control’ and ‘psywar’ propaganda campaign outside of the on-going investigations on the July 27 mutiny. “GMA is desperately doing all the magic to save her already tainted “Strong Republic”. Obviously, the disciples of Malacañang are tiring themselves trying to find ways how to save the skin of GMA from further shame,” Rep. Magtubo concluded. --unquote-- Some further info to flesh-out Ewastud's ref. Madsen's claim re: Opus Dei and high-level espionage to undermine Arroyo. --quote-- The Opus Dei, a shadowy and sinister Roman Catholic group, is running "an espionage and political assassination team in the United States," writes former NSA analyst Wayne Madsen, who quotes "knowledgable sources" in Washington. (<a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/intelwhispers/intel.htm)">www.waynemadsenreport.com...intel.htm)</a> Former FBI agent and Cheney staff aide Leandro Aragoncilla and Michael Ray Aquino, a former officer of the Philippine National Police's Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force were arrested for taking clasified documents from Vice President Dick Cheney and FBI computers in order to damage the political career of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the President of the Philippines. The documents were then passed to Phillipine political leaders closely aligned with the Opus Dei movement which had planned a coup against Macapagal-Arroyo. Madsen notes that the aborted April 2002 coup against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was also supported by Opus Dei elements in Venezuela. According to Madsen, the arrest of Aragoncilla and Aquino has been linked to "Opus Dei espionage and political black bag operation that reached into the highest levels of the FBI." Both Robert Hanssen, a former FBI agent and convicted Soviet spy, as well as Louis Freeh, Jr., the former head of the FBI, are members of Opus Dei's St. Catherine of Siena's Church in Great Falls, Virginia, according to WayneMadsenReport.com Opus Dei, which reportedly has more than 85,000 members around the world, was founded in 1928 by Jose Maria Escriva. Unlike the Roman Catholic Church itself which condones and protects pederasty by priests, Opus Dei is a masochistic sub-cult which promotes the use of hair shirts, self-flagellation and the cilice, a belt around the thigh with metal prongs pointing inwards. Dan Brown, author of the best-selling novel "The DaVinci Code" portrays Opus Dei as a ruthless organization of religious fanatics whose members even resort to murder to keep the Church's secrets. "There is this perception of 'Octopus Dei' as a vast international conglomerate sitting on bags of cash with which they are influencing elections around the world," says John Allen, author of "Opus Dei: Secrets and Power Inside the Catholic Church." Allen estimates the "worldwide assets of Opus Dei at $2.8 billion, which is dwarfed by the $102 billion revenue of the American Catholic Church alone," reports the New Zealand Herald (<a href="http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10348687)">www.nzherald.co.nz/sectio...=10348687)</a> "Corporal mortification" is the name for pseudo-spiritual masochistic rituals practiced by Opus Dei members. They include use of the "Cilice," a spiked chain worn around the upper thigh for two hours each day and the "Discipline," a cord-like whip used on the buttocks or back once a week for self-flagellation. --unquote-- (reposted at: <a href="http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=94&contentid=2872&page=1)">www.conspiracyplanet.com/...72&page=1)</a> **** Sort-of related, linked to CIA/ISI manipulation of Al Qaeda 'terrorism': New issue of Counterpunch Subscriber-only reports on: EX-STATE DEPT.SECURITY OFFICER SPELLS OUT 9/11 COVER-UP -- Official Describes "Hands Off" CIA/FBI Response to Al Qaeda 1994 Assassination Plan for Clinton in Manila, Says It Points to Pakistan's ISI Involvement in 9/11 I expect this issue will hit the blogsphere in the next several days if it hasn't already -- Keep yer eYeS open. Starman

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