It’s been a month and a day and no matter how the Aquino regime tries to present to the grieving families of the 44 fallen Special Action Force (SAF) policemen and the Filipino nation, it still falls short of giving justice where justice is due. What’s really wrong with telling the Filipino people the whole truth and nothing but the truth on the Mamasapano tragedy? Don’t they know that the “truth shall prevail” and set them free?
The problem with the Malacañang sycophants, they still believe in that gospel spread by Nazi Propaganda Minister Josef Gobbles who once quipped “A lie repeated a thousand times assumes the substance of truth.” But we all know a substance of truth, is still ain’t the truth! The beauty of telling the truth is that… there is only one story to tell.
Let me remind you that when the Agrava Commission came up with supposedly the truth as to who killed the late Sen. Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr., father of President Aquino, many of us didn’t buy the Agrava Commission story. Many of us have a general idea of who killed Ninoy. But when Cory Aquino became President, she didn’t bother to find out who killed her husband. When the convicted triggerman in the Aquino assassination M/S Pablo Martinez was released, he was supposed to tell the truth about that killing… but P-Noy didn’t give him the time of day. Then a few weeks later, Martinez died in a mysterious road accident. Thus it only fueled more talk about that conspiracy theory.
Let’s bring you back to the Warren Commission that investigated the assassination of US Pres. John F. Kennedy. Few Americans believe in that very thick and official US Government report and this resulted in countless books on conspiracy theories as to who killed JFK. This is because the Zapruder film clearly shows that Pres. Kennedy could have been hit by a rifle from the grassy knoll, which was never investigated by the Warren Commission. So when the truth is concealed… conspiracy theories surface.
Our latest reports on the case of the 44 fallen SAF policemen comes from that mysterious text messages supposedly between P-Noy and suspended Philippine National Police Chief (PNP) Chief Alan Purisima which was published in many publications. Who made these text messages to be publicized? We don’t know. But a report from ABS-CBN’s Ted Failon that went viral was being spread saying, “The text message quoted came from prepared transcript of text messages, not directly from cellphones or Telco’s memory CPU. In other words, the text in transcript maybe edited to give us what the text self serves or not original unedited message.”
So for as long as issues like this suddenly appear and are made public but are not really authentic, it only serves to confuse or mislead our people away from the real truth. Then there’s the issue of US involvement in Oplan Exodus, which the Aquino regime vehemently denied for three weeks only to turn around to admit that the Americans shared intelligence in this operation. Then no less than relieved PNP SAF Chief Director Getulio Napeñas admitted that there were at least six Americans in his tactical command.
At this point, no one knows when will the whole charade end. But one thing is sure, something is terribly wrong with the way this country is being run by our top leaders. Last Saturday, a major news daily featured two colored photos in its front page. One of Moro women waving peace signs in a rally in Quiapo. But below that photo was more telling because it showed teenage kids belonging to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) brandishing high-powered weapons of various calibers with impunity.
If those kids did the same thing at the Quezon City Circle or in Cebu’s Fuente Osmeña, police would immediately pounce at them for carrying high-powered weapons outside their homes without a license. This only shows that in this country… we have a double standard in the application of our laws. If this is true to firearms carried by MILF or BIFF, a double standard also exist in of all places the hallowed halls of the Senate.
Last Feb. 15, the political and entertainment world saw the wedding of Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero to actress Heart Evangelista and it is hoped by their well-wishers that they would finally live happily ever after. But last week, Rappler came up with a telling report entitled, “How can a 2nd “Poorest” Senator afford a Balesin Wedding?”
Rappler point out that two years ago, Sen. Escudero was rated as the “Poorest” senator with a declared net worth of only P4.017 million. Sen. Escudero’s 2013 SALN showed that his net worth jumped to P8.243 million, thus he is now the second poorest Senator, next to Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV. So the question really is, how could Sen. Chiz afford that Balesin wedding? Was it a gift by his ninong Bobby Ongpin of Alphaland?
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