One Voice..

[baron]

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For me, it’s just the same.

One Voice is just the same voice of the opposition.

It's like the black and white movement clad in another name.
Or simply like the opposition as it uses their own defenses and machineries to negate the probability of the proposed charter change.

Now they have this television campaign, purporting to be a concerned group of people, just like the opposition.

If you will just look who supports this group, behind it is simply the opposition, using the group as a dummy to promote their opposition to amendments to the present constitution.

Maybe they have come across to the recent surveys which states that more and more people are backing up for cha cha. Hence, the massive television campaign. But then, that is just a waste of money.

[wanderlust]

^You can gauge their desperation by the proliferation of "new" groups/organizations that are supposedly an indication of the people's support for them. But in reality it's the same people behind the new orgs.

The P252 million worth of funds for their anti-Charter change media campaign also smacks of the desperation of the old economic elite funding these moves. With the liberalization of our economy under a new charter, they will lose much of their economic and political influence.

[tolstoi]

desperate moves of the OPPOSITION indeed

[iloveyou4ever]

Mga opportunista ang mga taga OPPOSITION!

[Wind Shear]

One Voice is another piece of BS.

[omad]

hey guys, do you have a link to this television campaign or something? your help is very much appreciated :mrgreen:

[istoryador]

For me, it’s just the same.

One Voice is just the same voice of the opposition.

It's like the black and white movement clad in another name.
Or simply like the opposition as it uses their own defenses and machineries to negate the probability of the proposed charter change.

Now they have this television campaign, purporting to be a concerned group of people, just like the opposition.

If you will just look who supports this group, behind it is simply the opposition, using the group as a dummy to promote their opposition to amendments to the present constitution.

Maybe they have come across to the recent surveys which states that more and more people are backing up for cha cha. Hence, the massive television campaign. But then, that is just a waste of money.

In 2004, the pro-GMA organizations were very visible during the campaign. In fact, a nationwide caravan punctuated by a big rally at Liwasang Bonifacio highlighted the NGO’s campaign for President Arroyo’s candidacy. When President Arroyo delivered the 2004 SONA, the NGO’s were inside the galleries of Congress and in the streets to support her.

In 2005, during the height of the political crisis confronting her administration, civil society leaders and members again came in droves in front of Sandiganbayan to support President Arroyo’s SONA.

The pro-GMA NGO’s were also there during the 2005 impeachment process at the House of Representatives. In fact, they spent countless days and nights at the galleries of Congress and in the streets exchanging hoots and catcalls with leaders and members of anti-government organizations.

During the failed coup d’ etat of February 2006, NGO’s leaders were all over major television stations expressing support to the administration and condemning the attempted power grab.

This SONA, however, the NGO’s supporting President Arroyo were nowhere to be found. The so-called pro-government rally along Commonwealth Avenue was a dismal failure and was obviously composed of hakot crowds from nearby barangays like Payatas, Holy Spirit and Batasan Hills. When interviewed, most of them admitted to being paid twenty-five pesos to fifty pesos (P25-P50) each, and 90% of them do not really support the administration and in fact voted for another candidate during the 2004 presidential elections.

So where are the pro-GMA NGO’s?

Could be it that the leaders are now reassessing their stand on various issues confronting President Arroyo and her administration? Could it be that they are distancing themselves from a President whose popularity has not improved? Could this be a signal that they are now ready to join the opposition?

President Arroyo may have delivered a good SONA as gleamed from the numerous applauses that punctuated her speech. But without civil society support, her programs will only be adjudged as elitists and anti-poor.

“Panahon nang ibalik ang kapangyarihan taumbayan,” she declared. But where are the people? Where are the civil society organizations? She seems to have totally forgotten about them.

[omad]

^^ hmmmm.. another copy pasted reply.. trying to pass as his own.. tsk tsk..

taken from INSIDE PCIJ, a reply on a topic entitled "Rains start SONA day" :
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christian1968 replied:

It was indeed a rainy-day SONA. The difference was last year’s SONA was greeted by sunny and clear skies.

And there’s another difference. The absence of pro-Gloria NGO’s.

This is now the big question to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her administration for this year’s State-of-the-Nation-Address, and most probably in other major political events in the future.

In 2004, the pro-GMA organizations were very visible during the campaign. In fact, a nationwide caravan punctuated by a big rally at Liwasang Bonifacio highlighted the NGO’s campaign for President Arroyo’s candidacy. When President Arroyo delivered the 2004 SONA, the NGO’s were inside the galleries of Congress and in the streets to support her.

In 2005, during the height of the political crisis confronting her administration, civil society leaders and members again came in droves in front of Sandiganbayan to support President Arroyo’s SONA.

link
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[potterboy]

ngiga omad oi. sakpan man pirme si istoryador.

syaro naman sad.

[FK]

and shall we call all the members of this group as evil? For me Chrisitian Monsod is more trust worthy than Abalos and those involve in failed election computerization... which by the way, the administration can't even touch or shall I say won't touch.