I will support GMA in making our country's economy stable

[bad donkey!]

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bitaw bai...ang right to privacy man sad gud kay pwede gamiton sa administration as defense. illegeal na gud daan ang wire tapping so dili jud ni siya pwede dawton sa korte.

[FK]

@bad donkey: nope bai... na prove na nga ang right to public information mo labaw sa right to privacy. mao bitaw napatokar na nila sa congress ang recordings.

[jerx d great]

supporting this government is a great solution to our crisis........

and i believe with our president which is a veteran economic graduate in harvard.....

[trickyboy]

I oppose to that .... until people are freed from poverty!

[nunobone]

verteran economic graduate hmmm.. how come people are not feeling it??

support her?? wait.. i dunno, coz as far as i know i've been supporting her since the time that she won the election, well that if she really did won the last election..
i dont like the idea of supporting a theif, a liar.. what else?

[polie]

a puppet of FVR and JDV...heheheh.....what else?

[jem]

wa jud tay mahimo ana bay!..

bahala na magbinuang ang lain tawo basta pirmi lang ta storya diri sa Istorya kay bibo...

[JoRed]

Arroyo called ‘shameless’ for sabotaging impeach case
PREEMPTIVE REPLY TO LOZANO RAPS WON’T SAVE PRESIDENT, WARNS OPPOSITION

By Amita O. Legaspi
Sunday, 07 24, 2005



The opposition yesterday said President Arroyo's ''shameful'' bribery attempt on congressmen to stop the lawmakers from signing an impeachment resolution against the Chief Executive would not save her but only aggravate her problems that arose mainly from the jueteng and tape scandals.

The President's move was apparently part of an orchestrated plan to preempt her removal from office through the constitutional process, preceded as it was by Mrs. Arroyo's clandestine filing of a reply to an earlier impeachment complaint filed by lawyer Oliver Lozano.

The Lozano complaint was being scrutinized by the opposition in time for the filing of an amended complaint tomorrow by the minority in the House of Representatives when a certain lawyer, Pedro Ferrer, the other day admitted to having submitted the reply in behalf of Mrs. Arroyo last July 18.

Conrado Limcaoco, the President's appointments secretary, and Rigoberto Tiglao, Presidential Management Staff chief, also yesterday claimed they do not know Ferrer.


Malacañang, however, has confirmed the filing of the reply.

Unlike Limcaoco and Tiglao, Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye was apparently privy to the Palace maneuver, admitting that Mrs. Arroyo had indeed filed the reply through the lawyer.

The 13-page answer ex abudante ad cautelam was filed last week and signed by the President and Ferrer before the Office of the Secretary General of the House of Representatives.

It was notarized by a certain Herbert Paul Francisco.

In a statement, Ferrer also yesterday said he is the legal counsel on record of Mrs. Arroyo.

He added he intends to fulfill his mandate to protect the President's legal rights and to refute the charges in the impeachment complaint against her.

“I take strong exception to the claim by the opposition that my filing (of the reply) was in subversion of the impeachment process,” Ferrer said.

He asked the opposition not to impute malicious motives on his actions to protect the President's legal interests, “circumscribed as they are by the Constitution.”

Bunye said filing the reply is both Mrs. Arroyo's right and clear expression of her willingness to submit to the legal process. “Her detractors have no right to cry foul (over) a transparent, legitimate defense,” he added.

The concurrent Arroyo spokesman said the opposition, “instead of bellyaching,” should just concentrate on consolidating their evidence, “which apparently they have failed to do so at this time.”

During a radio interview, Bunye said there is nothing wrong if a lawyer representing the President answers the impeachment complaint.

He added Malacañang has no intention of stopping the impeachment process, the reason the President answered the Lozano complaint.

In predicting more trouble for the embattled President, Senate Minority Leader Aquilino Pimentel Jr. at the same time dared partylist Rep. Eulogio Magsaysay to identify the Malacañang officials and administration congressmen who tried to buy him off with money, “pork barrel'' projects and other concessions in exchange for not signing the impeachment resolution against Mrs. Arroyo.

Pimentel, in a statement, expressed dismay over the revelation of Magsaysay (Alliance of Volunteer Educators) that two Palace emissaries and three congressmen from Lakas Christian-Muslim Democrats and Liberal Party dangled a tempting offer of P500,000 in cash, P4.5-million worth of projects and an extra congressional seat for his party-list group if he would sign a manifestation of support for the President and desist from signing the impeachment resolution.

The senator said this clearly showed that Mrs. Arroyo and her congressional allies are getting “panicky'' over the fact that the impeachment case is fast gaining ground and is on its way to getting the required 79 signatures of congressmen equivalent to one-third of the 230 members of the House of Representatives.

“This indicates that the President's people are now moving around to block the impeachment case. They are getting frantic and afraid that the magic number may be reached and they will do everything to block the impeachment proceedings,” Pimentel added.

“The next thing we will do is to request Rep. Magsaysay to disclose the names of the people who made the offer. He cannot keep this thing hanging. He claimed that the President's men had approached him, but who are they? I think he owes it to the people to identify them. He is a Magsaysay. I think he will live up to his illustrious surname and he will stand by his words,” the senator said.

One Magsaysay, Ramon, became President of the Philippines.

Pimentel denounced the President's “dubious efforts to sabotage'' the impeachment case by ordering Ferrer to file an answer to the Lozano impeachment case without waiting for the House to adopt or revise its impeachment rules.

He said Ferrer has moved for the dismissal of the Lozano complaint to prevent the opposition from amending the complaint and expanding the list of impeachable offenses committed by the President.

According to the Senate minority leader, Malacanang and its allies could not easily dismiss Magsaysay's allegation because other congressmen — from the administration and opposition alike — have admitted being approached by presidential brokers and promised a package of irresistible concessions in exchange for their votes on the impeachment case.

Bunye did not categorically deny the allegation.

“We don't know where it's coming from,'' he said during an interview over Radio Mindanao Network.

He called Magsaysay's accusation as unfair not only to the lawmakers who were dragged into the issue but also to the House of Representatives as an institution.

A Malacañang ally also yesterday defended the filing of the reply.

Surigao del Sur Rep. Prospero Pichay Jr. said during the Kapihan sa Sulo media forum at the Sulo Hotel in Quezon City that Mrs. Arroyo did not sabotage the opposition bloc's plan to file the amended complaint “since it's Ferrer's right to do so” in the President's behalf.

Also during the forum, Ilocos Norte Rep. Imee Marcos branded Ferrer's move as another Palace tactic to derail attempts of the opposition to uncover the truth about last year's presidential race.

Citing prevailing court rules, Marcos said filing of an amended impeachment complaint is disallowed if the original impeachment charge has been filed.

“The Supreme Court's iron-clad decision on this matter is for an impeachment process to be deemed initiated upon filing of such charge,” she noted.

Marcos said Ferrer's move has effectively nullified such amended complaint that they plan to file tomorrow.

“The administration is playing extremely dirty so our camp is having an emergency meeting to discuss how to address this problem,” she disclosed.

Pichay however, said Ferrer's move must not be considered as prempting the opposition bloc's plan because the 13th Congress is yet to draft its own rules on impeachment proceedings.

“Each Congress has its own rules, so we still have to determine whether an impeachment process is considered initiated upon filing of such charge or upon referral of the matter to the House committee on justice,” he added.

Marcos said they will likely proceed with their plan to file raps against Mrs. Arroyo but they can opt to scrap such plan and turn to street parliamentarism “if it becomes clear the administration won't fight fair and square.”

“We are prepared to treat Ferrer's answer as another piece of paper but if other legislators consider this a means to block our case, we will already take to the streets,” she warned.

But Pichay dismissed such threat as the opposition's ploy to undertake a graceful exit from the political battle rocking Malacañang.

“I'm beginning to suspect that maybe they're having difficulty finding probable cause to impeach the President so the threat of withdrawing the amended complaint is really a predicate for their graceful exit,” he said. With PNA