KILALANG maginoo at walang kaaway si Hen. Eliseo Rio sa labas at loob ng gobyerno. Kilalang telecommunications expert si Rio, isang retiradong heneral. Ito ang daan niya upang maging kalihim ng Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) sa ilalim ng administrasyong Duterte. Siya ang pumalit kay Rodolfo Salalima, ang unang kalihim na nagbitiw sa kanyang tungkulin.
Ito ang isang dahilan upang ikalat ng ilang maingay at makukulit na tagasuporta ni Rodrigo Duterte na sa kanilang kampo nanggaling umano ang siwalat (expose) ni Rio na nagkaroon umano ng malawakang dayaan noong nakaraang halalan. Hindi nangimi na angkinin ng kampo ni Duterte na sila ang may pakana ng mga ipinahayag ni Rio.
Ipinangalandakan ng kampo ni Duterte na ito ang dahilan kung bakit malakas ang loob nila sa desisyon ng International Criminal Court (ICC) na tuloy ang formal investigation laban kay Duterte at mga kasapakat na nahaharap sa sakdal na crimes against humanity kaugnay sa madugo pero bigong digmaan kontra droga.
Ang siwalat ni Rio umano ang pangontra sa plano na dakpin si Duterte at mga kasapakat at dalhin sa The Hague upang sumailalim ng paglilitis doon. Matatakot umano ang gobyerno ni BBM na ipahuli si Duterte sa mga taga-ICC. Takot si BBM sa lalong ikatitindi ng isyung ito.
Hindi namin alam kung nasa tama ang sinasabi ng kampo ni Duterte o sadyang nagpapalakas ng loob lang sila. Hindi namin alam kung totoo ang ipinakalat bagaman batid namin na hindi magaling ang kampo ni Duterte upang makaisip na malalim na pakana. Walang magaling na taga-Davao City. Mga pipitsugin at patapon sila.
Ang tawag sa ginawa ng kampo ni Duterte ay “hijacking.” Inagaw at inangkin ng sapilitan ang siwalat ni Rio. Batid namin na hindi natutuwa si Rio sa nangyari. Marangal na tao si Rio at hindi siya papayag na angkinin ng ganoon kadali ng mga maka-Duterte ang kanyang pinaghirapan.
Pero kailangan niyang lumabas sa publiko at magpaliwanag. Hindi siya dapat pumayag sa pakana ng kampo ni Duterte. Huwag siang padala sa mga kampon ng kadiliman. Kailangan niya rin kunin ang suporta na oposisyon.
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POST ko ito noong Sabado. Maiging mabasa ito ng mga mambabasa ng pahayagang ito.
IS DUTERTE BEHIND EXPOSE ON ELECTION CHEATING?
AM quietly doing the finishing touches on my book “Kill, Kill, Kill, Extrajudicial Killings in the Philippines; Crimes Against Humanity v Duterte e.t al.” when a U.S. based netizen friend sent me this private message: “You know there is possibility Duterte will squeal the Comelec cheating if pushed to the corner by BBM. Good for our country.”
I answered his PM in the briefest way possible: “It was a conspiracy against the Filipino people… I see them slitting each other’s throat.” It was an answer that reflected my ambivalent feeling on the BBM and Duterte camps. I don’t see either camp saving this country from perdition. On the contrary, I see theirs as a quarrel of two big political families over power.
My friend’s message was within the context of the difficulties Duterte and his ilk currently face concerning the crimes against humanity charges, which they face before the International Criminal Court (ICC). The charges have reached the critical stage of “formal investigation,” where the ICC is empowered to issue arrest warrants against Duterte and the murderous clique that implemented Duterte’s bloody but failed war on drugs.
I had nothing much to say except to tell my netizen-friend what I perceived to be the endgame of the current campaign regarding alleged cheating in the 2022 elections: “The worst that we could have there is the impeachment of Comelec officials but not the removal of BBM to give way to Sara.” Yes, I’ve raised the possibility of Sara as the new president. It was not an entirely enticing possibility because Sara could be as psychologically unstable as her father.
The specter of Sara becoming a president to serve BBM’s unexpired term of office could trigger political instability. She is perceived to be even worse than her father, who is perceived to be a murderer of his own people. Both the father and daughter is a pair of despicable stinking political leaders.
Out of the blue, he dropped a different perception and said: “There is another angle – the Supreme Court (baby of Duterte). It could declare Failure Of Elections of 2022 – And hold another snap elections. I don’t really know, I am just thinking.”
I felt my friend was overstretching the issue. He probably drank three cups of black coffee in his home base. I don’t know but I don’t take Duterte to be a sophisticated thinker. I always described him and his group as the “Inferior Davao,” the criminal syndicate from that southern port city. It has an addendum: “Inferior in thoughts, in words, and in deeds.”
I told him that the prospect of a “snap” presidential elections was unconstitutional because the 1987 Constitution has specified the dates of presidential elections. But I mentioned the 1986 “snap” presidential elections, which the Supreme Court allowed after a day of oral arguments in December, 1985.
I remember then MP Emmanuel Pelaez, a seasoned politician, argued so well in favor of the snap elections, saying the country was facing a political question at that time and only the snap presidential elections could answer the political issue. He succeeded in convincing the High Court to allow it. The rest is history.
Somehow, his statement raises the possibility that the current public campaign on election cheating could have been initiated by the Duterte camp. I don’t think that Gen. Eliseo Rio, who singlehanded raises the issue, would like it.
Nonetheless, it would be best for Gen. Rio to answer the perceptions that the madman from the South as the one behind his public campaign of election cheating. It is being hijacked by Duterte to sow fear into the BBM camp.
Is Duterte that sophisticated to think of an anti-BBM campaign?
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MGA PILING SALITA: MEMBER-STATES of the European Union used to be a big market for PH garments exports. Our exports to these countries peaked at over $2 billion a year during the PNoy administration. But we lost it when Rodrigo Duterte took over. The European Commission refused to import garments from us because of the bloody but failed war of drugs. We lost the EU market to Bangladesh and Cambodia. Duterte did not care. Utak Davao kasi… Mas sanay sila sa ukay-ukay. Ngayon, darating si Ursula von der Leyen, presidente ng European Commission. Hindi puede ang utak-Duterte.
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