Palace Declares State of Emergency

[Isteb]

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AMBOT NILA!!!!!Â* MAO TONG BATI SA PEOPLE POWER . . . .Â* Â*

ato ingnon na nasayop si GMA pero unta dili na lang ana . . .

lisud na kaayo rn kay evry time na ang leader masayop, ilis na sad, revolution na sad . . . .

so what do you suggest? unsa may angay nato buhaton? maghuwat lang ta nga mahuman ang term ni gma? unless we do something about this problem, mag sige ra gyud ni ug balik balik.

[mosimos]

Isingit na pod dayun sa mga TRAPO ila interest. Abi kay nagkagubot Cha cha na pod ang solusyon.

Pastilan ning mga politiko, ilaron pa man gyud ta nila. Mag suggest suggest kunohay ug solusyon pero sa tinood para ra gyud na matuman ang ilang self interest.

[mosimos]

at least it is successful, the coup attempt has been averted..the AQUINOS plot to bring down PGMA was fizzled.

at the end of the day, i come to think that this problem rooted on the HACIENDA LUISITA issue!

Ask lang ko, kung moingon ko nimo "Hoy, psst, tolstoi pwede ka mo withdraw ug support sa Presidente?" Coup de etat diay na.

coup d'état (pronounced /ku de'ta/), or simply a coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government against the volonté générale formed by the majority of the citizenry, usually done by a smaller supposedly weaker body that just replaces the top power figures.

The term is French for "a (sudden) blow (or strike) to a state" (literally, coup, hit, and état, state).

There was no overt act. Nagsulti lang si Gen. Lim. Asa may kudeta ana?

lets face it bai mosimos..coup attempt has been brewing before it was averted by the Arroyo administration..if not for the efforts of the Pro-admin/Pro-people military officials to hunt down Lim and Quiruben then maybe a bloody encounter would happend.

kung wala pato na averted bai nag kudeta na cguro ron..dagko na kaayu ngisi cla CORY, ARROYO, ERAP ug mga NPA.

Brewing? Hinimo himo lang ni GMA. GMA has been planning to implement SNE months before to cover up her cheating and legitimacy issues and corruption issues.

She just found a good timing to put into action her SNE. Ngano mag SNE man nga wa may kudeta. Klaro na kaayo unsay definition sa kudeta and last fridays events is not a kudeta.

[mannyamador]

SC: No TRO against 1017
Another Palace order under way, Joker warns
http://news.inq7.net/nation/index.ph...story_id=67894

SHE'S ONLY JUST BEGUN.

While critics slam her proclamation of a state of national emergency, President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo is planning to issue yet another order to rout her perceived political enemies,
Senator Joker Arroyo said yesterday.

"In what form? We don't know but in this country, there is never a secret," Arroyo said. "What
we should worry about is the third one. I don't know if it is creeping martial law but there's
something coming."

The warning came amid what appeared to be a setback for Arroyo's critics in the Supreme Court.

Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban yesterday said that while the high tribunal was giving high
priority to four petitions questioning the constitutionality of Proclamation No. 1017, it
would not be goaded into issuing a temporary restraining order (TRO).

In an en banc meeting, the court set for Tuesday next week a hearing on the petitions and asked
the government to submit by Monday its justification for the President's action on
Friday last week. The court opted not to grant the request for the issuance of a TRO until it
had heard all arguments, Panganiban said.

Senator Arroyo said his sources told him that the President had another order "under way" after she
succeeded in "emasculating" the Senate through Executive Order No. 464 and frightened media
owners with Proclamation No. 1017.

Worse, Arroyo said these orders "were planned in advance" for the "long term" but were being
implemented in a calibrated manner that he described as "presidential terrorism."

The senator said "464 and 1017 are not spur of the moment presidential issuances. Both were
planned in advance. Our own info is there's a third one coming against an enemy we don't know
yet because, you know, it's the President who chooses her enemies."

Arroyo said that Malacañang was emboldened to issue this supposed third order because there had
been no strong public backlash against Proclamation No. 1017 and Executive Order No.
464, which bars officials from appearing in congressional hearings without the President's approval.

Media owners frightened

He also noted that media owners had "become frightened" by Malacañang's threat to take over their
businesses.

"The thing is that the Palace will not stop. Malacañang thinks that they are winning. The
Senate has been paralyzed. The media, for all the braggadocio of the owners, are frightened," Arroyo
said.

Arroyo said that the orders were planned after EO 464 was issued in September last year.

"How would we ever know that 1017 (was) directed against the media? Nobody knew it. But it's not
really (about) warrantless arrests, it's media. The one that has been affected so much (by 1017) is the
media," he said.

"Nobody predicted that. Nobody knew it but now it's very clear. They're not after (Anakpawis
party-list Representative Crispin) Beltran or (Bayan Muna Rep.) Satur Ocampo. They're after media,"
he added.

Arroyo said he did not expect Malacañang to lift the state of national emergency any time soon.

Constitution is no more

"They will not lift it. They're winning from their point of view. You should quit when you're
ahead but they're not quitting. The Constitution is no more as far as Gloria is concerned," he said.

"Gloria, she does not care about how many enemies she has. She doesn't care about winning friends.
She cares only about acquiring enemies. Here in the Senate, Gloria has no friends," he said.

Arroyo also said that media owners should stand their ground against pressure from the Palace.

Chief Justice Panganiban told reporters that the magistrates had agreed that the high court must
resolve the issue immediately because it involved basic issues, including the freedom of speech and
freedom of the press.

"No TRO because due process requires that in significant cases, you must hear the other side.
A TRO is issued in order to maintain status quo. If the status quo has changed, I would have to
convene the court between now and Tuesday," Panganiban said.

"First, we know that there is some urgency so the court required the respondents to submit a
comment within a non-extendible period of five days," Panganiban said.

Highest priority

"Freedom of speech and expression are quite very important, the highest priority in the Bill of
Rights, so any alleged violation would require attention of the court. We are giving it the highest priority," he said.

As of Monday, four petitions had been received in the Supreme Court, including a challenge by the
Daily Tribune, which was raided by police on Saturday.

The fourth case was filed by former Senator Loren Legarda yesterday.

Legarda said directives issued by Ms Arroyo had "invaded almost all freedoms and rights
guaranteed under the 1987 Constitution in the guise of suppressing acts of terrorism and lawless
violence in the country."

These directives, she stressed, "unnecessarily and without any legal purpose drag into its ambit
the suppression of the constitutionally guaranteed freedoms and civil liberties, among
them the freedom of expression and its cognate rights."

Panganiban said the court would consolidate all these cases along with those yet to be filed into
one suit.

Guidelines for broadcast

Also yesterday, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) said it would allow the main
umbrella organization for the broadcast media to draw up its own guidelines on news coverage during
the prevailing emergency.

NTC chief Ronald Solis said in an interview that guidelines formulated by the Kapisanan ng mga
Brodkaster ng Pilipinas (KBP) would be adopted by state regulators and would be applied uniformly
to all broadcast media facilities.

"The NTC will enforce these guidelines even on non-KBP members," Solis said in an interview. "If
they don't accede to it, we'll still enforce it."

Government is prohibiting media entities from airing stories that incite sedition, revealing
troop movements during combat operations, and airing propaganda.

Solis said the KBP would define the parameters.

He said that while the NTC had no way of directly sanctioning foreign broadcast outfits that might
violate government regulations, his office was coordinating with the organization of cable
television operators to see how the guidelines could be enforced.

"But if it's impossible to regulate, we won't do that," he said.

Solis pointed out that the NTC had no power to shut down broadcast outfits under Proclamation
No. 1017, but added that regulators already had such existing powers under their charter.

The NTC chief also stressed that the government would not impose more stringent control
mechanisms to muzzle the press, but would instead only implement existing guidelines, including an
order promulgated in 1989 used to shut down radio stations that were found to have aired details on
troop movements during a coup attempt against the government. With reports from Christine O.
Avendaño, Tara V. Quismundo, Cynthia D. Balana, Michael Sarcauga, PDI Mindanao Bureau

Copyright 2006 Inquirer. All rights reserved.
This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[mannyamador]

From another forum:

Black Friday Flash Protest

Designated time and place of flash protest for March 3:

  Any Starbucks Cafe, 6 to 7 PM

Plan of action:

1) Wear black

2) You and your friends proceed to any Starbucks Cafe near you anytime between 6 to 7 pm

3) Buy a drink. Each person should queue up at the counter, instead of just one ordering for the group.

4) After getting your drink, take a seat or just stand up outside the cafe and hang out for about 30 mins.

5) When your group decides it's time to leave, someone should give the cue and everybody should do the 
  "thumbs down" sign

6) Disperse as peacefully as you came in

Suggested preparations:

1) Invite as many friends, or officemates, as you can

2) If you're an employer or a manager, invite all your subordinates to join you.
  Offer to "treat" them, if you can afford it.

3) Agree to meet in a place (not Starbucks), or if you're from the same office,
  arrange for carpooling

4) From the meeting place, proceed to Starbucks as a group. This will have more
  impact than just agreeing to meet at Starbucks individually

5) If you're staying in a city where there is no Starbucks, any other "cafe" or
  restaurant will do.

Forward this message to as many friends, relatives, colleagues, and egroups. I've
also included below a brief description of the Black Friday Protest Movement, so
those receiving your forwarded mail and hearing this for the first time will
understand what we're trying to accomplish.

Let's paint Starbucks BLACK on Friday.

[slakker]

^ang starbucks ra'y ma-dato ani. hehehe....

[RuSteD]

Naapil baya ang taga oposisyon. Pero wala may wrong sa ila gitawag kang Garci. Paminawa ra gud.

diba its not allowed for persons running for public office to call a comelec official. Calling the comelec within the period sa election is A WRONG move.

[directx]

"Pangagpas"

Mosugot kita’g sa dili pero nagsingabot gyud ang military dictatorship sa atong nasud. Kining labihang kalisud karon, pagwatak-watak sa mga Pilipino ug ka-unstable sa atong gobyerno mao ni magsilbing go-signal nga ripe na ang panahon sa pag-ilogÂ* sa kagamhanan, ug bugtongÂ* ang military ra ang may katakus sa pag dissolve sa civilian government ug pag- destroy sa atong democrasya sa nasud. Ug timan-an nato nga ang military hakog sab sa gahom sama sa taga-opposition. Kong mahitabo nani mahisama na unya ta sa Burma nga gitawag ug “The Land of Fearâ€�. Unya kining mga hangol sab sa gahom nga mga taga opposition lakip na ang mga way hinungdan ug samokan nga mga cause oriented groups nga maoy naghatag ug dugang kalisod sa atongÂ* nasud mawaniÂ* ug manglayas ni, kay mahadlok ning pangihawon sa panahon nga makigbatok sila sa gobyerno militar

[K|D]

i'd rather go for a progressive dictatorship than a failing democracy...

[FK]

onsa man jud basis sa malacanyang ngano nag declare og SNE? kay si Lomibao ni ingon man na theres nothing wrong with Cojuangco and Saycon's meeting.

diba its not allowed for persons running for public office to call a comelec official. Calling the comelec within the period sa election is A WRONG move.

unethical man gani ang pagtawag lang... samot na tingali og mag hisgot ka og tikas.