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sibayandoveseries.jpg Danilo “Dani” Sibayan. Doves of Peace series. 1992. Watercolor. Pinoy Arte Filipino Art Gallery. Rightclicked and downloaded with express permission, non-commercial use of course (thanks again!) from the webmaster at  www.pinoyarte.com prices of paintings: check website.

 

From Voltaire Lozada:     

 

      Quote “the thorough surfing of the net regarding these issues led me to your blogsite… i’m a nephew of Jun Lozada, and I thank you for your genuine concern for this country by following these events… 

 

         Quote “GMA 7 was calling up my dad (my dad was the guy who filed the Writ of Amparo, and the same guy whom my uncle had called upon his arrival from Hong Kong) when Harapan went on air. Of course they would be furious because ABS-CBN had ratings all for themselves. But as it turns out, it wasn’t that bad for them, as Harapan turned out to be an extended “1 vs. 100″……My uncle was eager to hear what Abalos would say, and us Lozadas were never taught to back down against anything, basta kaya. He has a good ally with him, truth. No matter how many pawns they throw at him, he’ll stand by his word. It’s just sad to know that these respectable journalists would submit to those kinds of manipulation…            Quote “Mike Defensor: “…tatrabahuhin lang naman namin sa media yan eh.” “ closed-quote. Comment by voltaire lozada — thep29e02beTue, 19 Feb 2008 21:09:45 +0000 28, 2007 @ 10:47 p02 

 

          Dear Mr. Voltaire Lozada,                     I hadn’t expected a letter like yours. Nephews, nieces, sons, daughters, children, shouldn’t have to be  dragged from their quiet happy  lives into the vortex of a disruptive unpredictable uncertain political storm if only we had finished the movements we started and fundamental changes we vowed to institute in  1986 and 2001, but we didn’t; we went on to go back to our comfortable lives, and now, young people like you have to pick up and look for solutions to bigger problems we have created; bigger problems because  the perpetrators are more adept. We finished the plunder case of Estrada, status reports and case folder archived neatly with stories to tell the next generation but the plundering continues on a much larger scale. The massive stealing continues and the perpetrators  have become more brazen snatching witnesses in broad daylight  in front of many people and their wailing wives and brothers and sisters —  as what happened to your uncle. And maybe that’s why many felt responsible for your uncle, and  decided to act all at the same time.  She can ignore only at her peril.     

 

     Maybe the corruption has seeped into certain members of the media, but when the Press does its job, it  does it real well:  it stops time, races after witnesses  and their captors, rouses  all of us up at 2:00 am for the nuns, captures live action in hearings, and gives comprehensive investigation and insight. I guess we have to look at their entire body of work, and we will see too, with the good and the bad, that  throughout the unfolding of this story, the DZMM live coverages, the ANC interviews, the Probe Team and Correspondents’ investigative reports, constantly  and tirelessly informed us.  Not  many were too happy with the Harapan episode, (Abalos’s lawyer being allowed to speak at length, Abalos being given pre-production with his   “exhibits” with yellow highlight projected  on TV but no pre-production for your uncle’s work and no lawyer for your uncle;  the delayed, because remote, audio from your uncle, some senseless questions, and your uncle having to contend with not just Abalos, but the lawyer, Razon, Formoso, Golez, Donald Dee.). We can look too  at the entirety of  all the shows on the subject matter. Last night on “The Correspondents” (ABS-CBN) i saw a well-researched, well-backgrounded investigative report on trade, foreign, and diplomatic relations between the Philippines and China, China’s expansionist ambitions, and how China sweetened these with contracts  like the ZTE deal (i haven’t read any of the contracts and trade agreements so i cannot verify), maybe their good outnumber their bad  nine out of ten, i don’t know, let’s continue keeping each other on our toes.    

 

     I do not know where the “communal actions”, the prayer assemblies, the confessions and expressions of guilt, the  candle-lighting and the stepping-out-of-our-confines would lead us; but i know it will purify all of us. And when it does, we’re all set.  

 

        (just keep away the politicans and candidates-wannabes, they’re the same breed as Gloria).     

 

        Thank you for writing! 

                                                                                                                                                                         –   marichu           

 

Rules of Court

Armed Men: reconstruction of the events

In a live phonepatched  interview of Atty. Reynaldo Princesa, lawyer of ZTE witness Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, by DZMM’s Ted Failon between 8:45 am to 9:10 am, the lawyer said the following:      

         Now that he was no longer bound by the privileged nature of attorney-client communication because his client had been released (by the way, under the Rules of Court, the privileged nature of  attorney-client communication  is carried by the lawyer to his/ her grave; but anyway, we don’t mind that he gave the public the  full story), he will narrate everything that transpired from the time he was told that his client was taken by armed men at the tube of the exit of the airplane and up to the time  his client surfaced; and why they filed a petitions for the privilege of the writs of habeas corpus and amparo.      

       He said:     

         1.Tuesday, Feb. 5, afternoon, the witness was taken by armed men at the tube of the airplane.    

      2.Still  Tuesday, afternoon  to about late evening or 10 pm, the witness was driven around by the armed men, out of town.   

       3.The armed men got a call.  The armed men asked the witness where he wanted to be brought, and he said to the La Salle brothers.          

        4.Between 10pm and 12 midnight of Tuesday  Feb. 5, he and the armed men arrive at the La Salle Greenhills compound. His family was there. The armed men did not leave.      

        5.Atty. Princesa  told the family that even if the client was already at the La Salle compound, the presence of the armed men still constituted restraint, so they should go ahead with the filing of their petition for the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus but he  would add a plea for the writ of amparo because they needed a protection order against the armed men.     

        6.Wednesday morning, the witness was again brought out or taken away from the La Salle compound by the armed men. He was in the custody of the armed men the whole of Wednesday.     

         7.He was brought to the La Salle compound again at 8:00 pm of Wednesday, Feb. 6. It was at this point that he was asked to sign the “affidavits”, un-notarized, the letters “requesting” for security, etc.       

         After the signing, the armed men were still there.      

       It wasn’t clear at what point  the armed men pulled out, but at some point either in the evening, midnight or before dawn, the armed men pulled out.    

          8. Thursday before dawn, Feb. 7 at 2:00 am, the witness decided to go public with the press conference.   

             ( i have to pull out now, sorry for the rush, i haven’t been posting photos and paintings for hurrying out i’ll be back in three hours.  But i’m not armed.)