Idiot Noynoy Akinu Lover Makes Mockery of Inaugural Speech of President

Originally posted in Tathagatha blog

On June 30, 2016, 9:55 am Mr. Alexander Parel, Customer Care Manager at Jobstreet.com, fervid lover, beneficiary and rabid dog of Nonoy Akinu, the poseur-fake presidentita of the cursed Akinu Regime, head of the narco-political party the Liberal Party, claims to be the first to get a copy of and show to the public the draft of the Inaugural Speech of His Excellency Rodrigo Roa Duterte, President of the Philippines.

Mr. Alexander Parel uses the license of such devious idiots unabashedly promoting the Liberal Party – the Philippines’ biggest narcopolitical and largest kleptomaniac syndicated organization agenda like Maritess Vitug, Solita Monsod, the ABS CBN, Pera Ppler (rappler.com), Philippine Daily Inquirer, among others, to destroy the present administration to ensure that the shadow government-in-waiting technically having a “President-in-reserve” Cong. Leonor Robredo, will once more come to power. Parel has this to give us about the Speech of His Excellency Rodrigo Roa Duterte, President of the Philippines:

Transcript of Duterte’s Inauguration Speech

Alex Parel blog Speech PRRDPresident elect Rodrigo Roa Dutere will be inaugurated as Philippine President on June 30, 2016. He will have the shortest inaugural speech for a Philippine President, less than 10 minutes. Below is the draft transcript of his inaugural speech.

 Mga minamahal kong kababayan.

 I reiterate what I said during my campaign, I will rid of crime in three to six months. Criminals have no place in this country except jails, detention centers, and God forbid, funeral parlors.

Stop or leave. If you can not or will not, you will not survive. You can either leave vertically or horizontally.

[say expletives here]

[tell a dirty joke, the dirtier, the better]

[wait for people to laugh at the joke]

[say something about the media] I tell you, do not f**k with me. [repeat last statement, with emphasis]. I will not grant interviews, don’t f**k with me, except for Mocha Uson.

[say something about the Catholic church] You know, I was molested by priests when I was young. [curse the priests]

I do not care if I burn in hell for as long as the people I serve live in paradise. [follow up with more inspirational quotes]

[say a hyperbole, exaggerate it]

To the police involved in illegal drugs, stop what you are doing. You have no place in this government. Stop, or I will kill you!

[say few more expletives for effect]

I will bring back death penalty. I will kill all the criminals, the rapists and drug pushers.

Mabuhay tayong lahat!

The stupid idiot blogger uses the email address: agp0402@yahoo.com

On May 9, 2016 12:02 pm during the recent elections, this person writes about his beloved abnormal poseur president Nonoy Akinu:

Thank you Mr. President

img_6208Now that we are done voting for our preferred candidate, I believe it’s about time we acknowledge the good things that this government has done. There has been too much blame and complaint thrown against this administration. For all its worth, I believe he has done good for our economy. And my family benefited from this.

He hasn’t done much, and could have done better. But with all the faults attributed to him, and in spite of it, thank you President Aquino for leading this country for a good six years. As Christians, we are all commanded to pray for our leaders. I pray we have done this part more than destroy his character.

“First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior.”

It will be another good six years for the next President to lead our country. And whoever is elected, he/she needs our support even more. Because this next leader will not have the mandate of the majority.

Everyone of us clamor for change, a change for the better I hope, and not for the degradation of this country. This clamor is not an exclusive cry, as we all go through the same problems trying to work hard for our family. But change will not come from one person alone. If we want our country to be blessed, the change we look for must start from each and every one of us. We must work, and we must work hard.  We must work and not wait for dole outs. We must work more and complain less. That is how we earn respect. As individuals and as a country. Most of  all, we need to change the evils that is within us, and seek God.

“If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

My prayer is that when the next President is announced, we must all, as one nation, regardless of preferences, support our next leader for as long as he leads us within the bounds of our laws, and the laws of God.

This moron states that he is not a writer but he has been blogging for a long time since 2002.

We wonder what he is up to next?

Publish another advanced copy of His Excellency Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s next speech but something that he will lace with garbage and several dirty cans of worms? He might do just that. This little dirty piece of shit, like his idol, the fake presidentita appears to be capable of anything under the sun.

Now, after his recent antics, we wonder what he is up to next?  But wait, he states in his profile he is a devout Christian. He does not say however that as a Christian he should be more respectful and therefore he is allowed to rat about anything under the sun. Just because he is a lover and adorer of the narco political party – Liberal Party and he hates the administration of H.E. President Rodrigo R. Duterte.

About a month ago, he said Christians must “pray for our leaders…” instead of, as he says, destroy “his character.”  He says further, “It will be another good six years for the next President to lead our country. And whoever is elected, he/she needs our support even more. Because this next leader will not have the mandate of the majority.

His Excellency President Rodrigo R. Duterte was just about to take his seat and he and his likeminded bobos have already been attacking the leader left and right. Meanwhile, he has nothing to say about all the corruption of Akinu, bringing cash to foreign countries and storing them in houses and warehouses (Akinu and his minions appear to be very afraid of banks – their overarching greed has made them fear being discovered.)

This Mr. Alexander Parel also claims that: “I do not promote argument, but my aim is to come to an agreement. You may disagree with what I write, and I welcome differences in opinion, for that is our right. I just ask that we do so with respect.

Respect my ass!

Mr. Alexander Parel and his ilk abound in numbers. However, they have not yet seen the real and true extent of the people who have become disgusted and loathsome of the Akinu regime where crime, deaths, killer disasters, drugs and the blackest of other tragedies clearly abounded.

Most certainly, Mr. Parel is selectively blind about all of that. Specially the cheating in the last elections that installed a fake Vice President in the country after this beloved Philippines suffered being wrongly ruled by a fake presidentita, the bading Nonoy Akinu.

Shown below, in his own words, is Mr. Alexander Parel’s profile:

About A Not So Examined Life…

About this blog

“An unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

Welcome to A Not So Examined Life…

The title of this blog is borrowed from a quote attributed to Socrates. In my own odd way, this is my attempt to examine people’s ideas and beliefs. This is my observation of people’s behavior towards suffering and pain, laughter and joy. This is my attempt to understand life’s paradox.

My desire is to write something that would challenge people to think, from the heart. I won’t claim that my ideas are absolute but I hope to draw out certain discomforts in people in order to move them. I hope to challenge ideas and beliefs, eventually to have a better outlook of life and everything surrounding it.

I do not promote argument, but my aim is to come to an agreement. You may disagree with what I write, and I welcome differences in opinion, for that is our right. I just ask that we do so with respect.

About me

I am not a professional writer but I have been blogging since 2002, or even earlier when blogs where not yet called blogs but just web pages where people write up anything.

I work for one of the leading internet recruitment websites in the Asia-Pacific. Ironically, while I work for an online company, I do not have enough time to go online. This means I may not be able to write for a month, or even a year, until I find a spark of inspiration from maybe the most mundane things one can think of.

I also previously worked for companies in the pre-need, insurance and communication industries, for sales administration and customer experience. I led a team of quality assurance auditors, and appointed editor-in-chief for the company’s newsletter. But that is not who I am. That is only what I do for a career. A piece of who I am may be found in what I write about.

By the way, I am married to my beautiful and adorable wife Mariane, and happily at that.

If you have questions or comments, send me an email at agp0402@yahoo.com.

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Parel daughter Alex Parel

In contrast to the mockery speech of Mr. Alexander Parel, here is the actual speech of His Excellency Rodrigo Roa Duterte:

Inaugural Address of President Rodrigo Duterte
Oath-taking of the President of the Philippines
Malacañang Palace | June 30, 2016

President Fidel Ramos, sir, salamat po sa tulong mo (thank you for your help) making me President; President Joseph Ejercito Estrada; Senate President Franklin Drilon and the members of the Senate; Speaker Feliciano Belmonte and the members of the House of Representatives; Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court; His Excellency Guiseppe Pinto and the members of the Diplomatic Corps; incoming members of the Cabinet; fellow workers in government; my fellow countrymen.

No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.

It is the people from whom democratic governments draw strength and this administration is no exception. That is why we have to listen to the murmurings of the people, feel their pulse, supply their needs and fortify their faith and trust in us whom they elected to public office.

There are many amongst us who advance the assessment that the problems that bedevil our country today which need to be addressed with urgency, are corruption, both in the high and low echelons of government, criminality in the streets, and the rampant sale of illegal drugs in all strata of Philippine society and the breakdown of law and order. True, but not absolutely so. For I see these ills as mere symptoms of a virulent social disease that creeps and cuts into the moral fiber of Philippine society. I sense a problem deeper and more serious than any of those mentioned or all of them put together. But of course, it is not to say that we will ignore them because they have to be stopped by all means that the law allows.

No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.

Erosion of faith and trust in government – that is the real problem that confronts us. Resulting therefrom, I see the erosion of the people’s trust in our country’s leaders; the erosion of faith in our judicial system; the erosion of confidence in the capacity of our public servants to make the people’s lives better, safer and healthier.

Indeed, ours is a problem that dampens the human spirit. But all is not lost.

I know that there are those who do not approve of my methods of fighting criminality, the sale and use of illegal drugs and corruption. They say that my methods are unorthodox and verge on the illegal. In response let me say this:

I have seen how corruption bled the government of funds, which were allocated for the use in uplifting the poor from the mire that they are in.

I have seen how illegal drugs destroyed individuals and ruined family relationships.

I have seen how criminality, by means all foul, snatched from the innocent and the unsuspecting, the years and years of accumulated savings. Years of toil and then, suddenly, they are back to where they started.

Look at this from that perspective and tell me that I am wrong.

In this fight, I ask Congress and the Commission on Human Rights and all others who are similarly situated to allow us a level of governance that is consistent to our mandate. The fight will be relentless and it will be sustained.

As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.

I know that there are those who do not approve of my methods of fighting criminality. They say that my methods are unorthodox and verge on the illegal.

My adherence to due process and the rule of law is uncompromising.

You mind your work and I will mind mine.

Malasakit. Tunay na Pagbabago. Tinud-anay nga Kausaban (Compassion. Real change.)” – these are words which catapulted me to the presidency. These slogans were conceptualized not for the sole purpose of securing the votes of the electorate. “Tinud-anay nga kabag-uhan. Mao kana ang tumong sa atong pang-gobyerno (Real change. This is the direction of our government).”

Far from that. These were battle cries articulated by me in behalf of the people hungry for genuine and meaningful change. But the change, if it is to be permanent and significant, must start with us and in us. [applause]

To borrow the language of F. Sionil Jose, we have become our own worst enemies. And we must have the courage and the will to change ourselves.

As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.

Love of country, subordination of personal interests to the common good, concern and care for the helpless and the impoverished – these are among the lost and faded values that we seek to recover and revitalize as we commence our journey towards a better Philippines. The ride will be rough. But come and join me just the same. Together, shoulder to shoulder, let us take the first wobbly steps in this quest.

There are two quotations from revered figures that shall serve as the foundation upon which this administration shall be built.

“The test of government is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide for those who have little.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

And from (Abraham) Lincoln I draw this expression: “You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong; You cannot help the poor by discouraging the rich; You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer; You cannot further the brotherhood by inciting class hatred among men.”

My economic and financial, political policies are contained in those quotations, though couched in general terms. Read between the lines. I need not go into specifics now. They shall be supplied to you in due time.

However, there are certain policies and specifics of which cannot wait for tomorrow to be announced.

Therefore, I direct all department secretaries and the heads of agencies to reduce requirements and the processing time of all applications, from the submission to the release. I order all department secretaries and heads of agencies to remove redundant requirements and compliance with one department or agency, shall be accepted as sufficient for all.

I order all department secretaries and heads of agencies to refrain from changing and bending the rules government contracts, transactions and projects already approved and awaiting implementation. Changing the rules when the game is on-going is wrong.

I abhor secrecy and instead advocate transparency in all government contracts, projects and business transactions from submission of proposals to negotiation to perfection and finally, to consummation.

Do them and we will work together. Do not do them, we will part sooner than later.

On the international front and community of nations, let me reiterate that the Republic of the Philippines will honor treaties and international obligations.

On the domestic front, my administration is committed to implement all signed peace agreements in step with constitutional and legal reforms.

I am elated by the expression of unity among our Moro brothers and leaders, and the response of everyone else to my call for peace.

I look forward to the participation of all other stakeholders, particularly our indigenous peoples, to ensure inclusivity in the peace process.

Let me remind in the end of this talk, that I was elected to the presidency to serve the entire country. I was not elected to serve the interests of any one person or any group or any one class. I serve every one and not only one.

That is why I have adapted as an article of faith, the following lines written by someone whose name I could no longer recall. He said: “I have no friends to serve, I have no enemies to harm.”

On the international front and community of nations, let me reiterate that the Republic of the Philippines will honor treaties and international obligations. On the domestic front, my administration is committed to implement all signed peace agreements in step with constitutional and legal reforms.

Prescinding there from, I now ask everyone, and I mean everyone, to join me as we embark on this crusade for a better and brighter tomorrow.

But before I end, let me express the nations, on behalf of the people, our condolences to the Republic of Turkey of what has happened in the place. We offer our deepest condolences.

Why am I here? Hindi kasali ito diyan (This is not part of my speech). The past tense was, I am here because I love my country and I love the people of the Philippines. I am here, why? Because I am ready to start my work for the nation.

Thank you and good afternoon.

Source: Presidential Communications Office

Crying, laughing in Malacañang by critically ill patient

Originally posted in Corrimhao blog
I decided to resume my sojourns that were stopped when I had flying over fatigue when I was in Europe. Just think feasting on a table full of nearly untouched leftovers (the best of French and German, Romansh – Swiss canton of Grisons – cuisine). Then gorging just a few gallons of 100 year old or older wine. Haay! It was a feast without anyone to share it with. (That’s my problem with being a member of the cawacwacan clan, duh!)
I landed in Malacañang one night after the elections and I was shocked after hearing a kind of wolfen howl from one of the rooms in that place famously known as a snake pit.
A huge ambulance vehicle was there and a lot of people in white – apparently doctors and nurses complete with nurse caps. They all appeared to be discussing a “patient”. Word went around back and forth about “blasted Cabinet Secretaries not attending Cabinet Meetings of President Noy”.
“Galit na galit talaga!” was the buzzword. “Inaatake siya!” was a scare word. “Baliw na baliw na talaga!” was repeated many times as a pejorative, it seemed from my own take of the situation. “Sabi ng PSG ‘Basted’ siya ni Mam Leni Robredo kahapon. “May mga iba na ako no! sabi daw ni Mam Leni.” I wish I am updated with chismis (gossip), didn’t get that much.
“Walang nangyari sa kanila daw.” Some said, “Talaga, walang nangyari? Owwws?” That however, I did not understand.
When I snuck my latest newly minted Sam— mobile phone into a crack on the roof, this was the image I got. It was of the idiot who got himself installed in the Philippines’ highest office by accident and by fraud.
One Very Critically Ill Patient in Malacañang

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A Little Nostalgic Journey

Of all the cawacwacan I know, no one seems to have the same class and ability as Yours Truly, who models (and now does Designs, a promotion for moi) and jetsets among Kings, Princes, Sultans, Sheikhs, and Presidents, Prime Ministers, oh as well as too many unmentionable pseudo Mr. and Ms. Big Time.
The ones they call the closest friends of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the illuminati, are the real Mr. and Ms. Big Time. Have you ever heard of fake royalty? Wow, they have lima-singko (five pieces a nickel) in Italy, even Sweden, Russia, Spain, France and many other places.
I will never miss the real ones from the fakes. Aside from being a part of my cawacwacan clan, I think I have a rare talent for being born from my Nanay and Tatay with a photographic memory. Hmm, stop smirking there inggit lang kayo (you’re just jealous).
See more of this post here.


 

Traitors in our midsts

Former Press Secretary Rigoberto Tiglao exposed the hoax about the supposed Jabidah Massacre that poseur president President Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino the 3rd, the regime’s creation Regional Governor Mujiv Hataman and the corrupt administration’s ersatz “peace” panel have been pushing recently together with their mouthpieces in the local demonization, smear campaign and smokescreen experts doing business in the style of Rappler headed by Marites Danguilan Vitug, her BFF Glenda Gloria and other anti-people pseudo writers.

Former Secretary Tiglao states that this poseur chief executive, playing hookey with disgraced Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak, have been pressuring the National Historical Commission to install a marker on the Jabidah Massacre at Corregidor Island – the scene of the supposed carnage that never happened at all. Here is Secretary Tiglao’s take on the issue that was published in Manila Times:

National Historical Commission: No ‘Jabidah’

Rigoberto Tiglao
March 29, 2015 10:28 pm

Unlike the gullible President Benigno Aquino 3rd and his “peace” negotiators, and despite intense pressures put on this government body, the National Historical Commission has refused to recognize that a “Jabidah massacre” occurred.

Corregidor Marker

In his speech in 2013 in Corregidor commemorating the “Jabidah massacre,” Aquino ordered the National Historical Commission (NHC) to officially acknowledge the purported atrocity, “to recognize it as part of our national narrative.” He even led the groundbreaking rites on the island for what was supposed to be the commemorative site for Jabidah.

The NHC—by law the only government agency with the “authority to determine all factual matters relating to official Philippine history” — refused to obey Aquino. It did agree, though, to some kind of a compromise in the hope of calming him down.

It authorized a site in Corregidor as a “Mindanao Garden of Peace.” However, despite feverish lobbying by Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) Governor Hajiv Hataman and Chief Peace Adviser Teresita Deles, the NHC refused to even put the word “Jabidah” on the marker in that “garden of peace.”

The Filipino text of the marker (see photo) translates as follows:

“(This site) served as a camp for the training of Moro youth headed by staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. This started in Simunul (now a town in Tawi-Tawi province) 17 December 1967, and transferred to Corregidor, 3 January 1968. The reports of killings of several members on 18 March 1968 served as a fuse for the dispute (“sigalot”) in Mindanao that led to the national crisis in the decade of the 1970s. This Mindanao Garden of Peace symbolizes the goodwill (“kabutihang-loob) among Filipinos to attain peace and progress in our country.”

What “Jabidah” marker? Left, photo on March 19 from the Philippine Daily Inquirer with a caption that says chief negotiator and Governor Hataman and other peace activists celebrate the new “Jabidah” marker. Right, actual marker authorized by the National Historical Commission, without the word “Jabidah,” only the words “mga ulat.”

While the marker obviously does not acknowledge that a “Jabidah massacre” occurred, top government officials such as chief peace adviser Deles, the chief negotiator with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) Miriam Coronel-Ferrer, and the government’s Mujiv Hataman — with the help of a gullible press — portrayed last March 18 that the marker “recalls the Jabidah massacre of the Marcos era.”

That Aquino, Deles, and Ferrer believe in the Jabidah hoax reveals two features of their thinking:

First, they are obviously so gullible or just lazy to find out what Jabidah was really all about, that they have accepted what the Moro militants, or what the equally gullible press, have told them. If they are that ignorant about Jabidah, they will be more wrong about the entire Muslim problem in Mindanao, which their negotiations with the MILF are supposed to solve.

Second, they have completely been fooled by the MILF, and have been brought almost totally to the rebel group’s kind of thinking. Why should they represent the government in dealing with the MILF when they now think the same way, so that they are practically on the same side?

While I applaud Dr. Diokno and the NHC for resisting not only Aquino’s pressures but those of the NGOs and even the peace panel, I disagree with the Commission’s crediting the Jabidah hoax as serving as fuse for the Mindanao conflict.

The Jabidah controversy that erupted in 1968 had burnt out and practically forgotten by 1969, and it had been solely Nur Misuari and his Moro National Liberation Front who were invoking that hoax as the Moro casus belli. Word had quickly spread among the Muslims though,  even among the militant ones, that Jabidah never occurred. Only lazy journalists and historians, as well as NGO save-the-world do-gooders, who gave weight to the role of the Jabidah hoax to the Muslim conflict.

After all, it is preposterous to believe that a hoax could create such a vast social crusade as the Moro rebel movements.

So what was the fuse of the Mindanao conflict? There wasn’t really a single fuse, but a complex set of factors that led to the Moro uprising, one of which is so mundane you wouldn’t believe it. I will discuss these on Wednesday.

On the other hand, in support of the fake president’s stand, Rappler published a nobela-like treatise on the canard that a Massacre actually took place in Corregidor Island to boost the ego of their local boss Aquino and their Malaysian and other foreign masters.

All the supposed evidence about Jabidah that this hideous Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino the 3rd, his allies here and abroad like his fake peace panel made up of Teresita “King” Deles, Mirriam Ferrer, foreign agent Mohaqer Iqbal (true name Abbas) and Rappler (pronounced Pera pler) are promoting is too polluted for comfort. The information was fed by political foes of the late President Marcos, like the Montano family for one, to their Muslim “coached witness”, that is now dead and buried, the extremely corrupt media, among others.

There is everything to gain for the insane poseur president Aquino and his local and foreign allies.  The untold damage it will wreak upon the sovereign Philippine nation is horrendous.  But the local-foreign cabal will not stop. As evidenced by the below piece de resistance from the Pera pler (Rappler), they will try everything, indulge in all manner of devious acts to promote chaos, confusion and instability in the Philippines while Malaysia, their benefactors in the USA and Europe will continue to achieve their grim objectives in the Asian Region – including sowing Terrorism in the Philippines and exporting terror to other countries around the world.

They have already stopped former Philippine President Marcos from creating the One Asian Currency and a unified people in the Asean; they have kicked Marcos out of the Philippines; they might even as well have been the ones that murdered too many individuals that hold the keys to unlocking the Marcos wealth. And recently, political and social media gossip is rife that Aquino, Mar Roxas, Leila De Lima, Amando Tetangco and Cesar Purisima have forked 45,000 metric tons of Marcos’ gold over to Centennial Energy (Thailand) Company Limited owned and run by a suspected high stakes money launderer, Raveeroj Rithchoteanan. 45,000 metric tons of gold will fetch a prize of United States Dollars One Trillion, Eight Hundred Fifty Five Billion Six Hundred Seventy Three Million and Five Hundred Fifty Thousands (US$1,855,673,550,000).  Other reports state that the deal is worth United States Dollars Three Trillion (US$3,000,000,000,000.).

Therefore an enormous size of wealth is behind the forced ruination of a family, the fall of a nation by hook or by crook.

Jabidah and Merdeka: The inside story

The officers who participated in the Jabidah massacre have not fully come clean. In the end, it may have left a legacy of lying and cover-up in the military.

Marites Dañguilan Vitug and Glenda M. Gloria

(Editor’s note: On March 18, 1968 – exactly 45 years ago today – at least 23 Muslim trainees were shot to death on Corregidor Island in what has since been known as the Jabidah massacre. Below is a summary of “In the name of honor?,” the chapter on the Philippine government’s clandestine operation to invade Sabah written by Marites Dañguilan Vitug and Glenda M. Gloria in their book “Under the Crescent Moon: Rebellion in Mindanao,” which was first published in 2000.)

MANILA, Philippines – As it was a special government operation, details of Oplan Merdeka were known only to a few people. But the general concept was explained to the officers who were involved in it. The Philippines was to train a special commando unit – named Jabidah – that would create havoc in Sabah. The situation would force the Philippine government to either take full control of the island or the residents would by themselves decide to secede from Malaysia. Many Filipinos from Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, and parts of Mindanao had migrated to Sabah. Oplan Merdeka was banking on this large community to turn the tide in favor of secession.

About 17 men, mostly recruits from Sulu and Tawi-Tawi, entered Sabah as forest rangers, mailmen, police. The Filipino agents blended into Sabah’s communities. Their main task was to use psychological warfare to indoctrinate and convince the large number of Filipinos residing in Sabah to secede from Malaysia and be part of the Philippines. Part of their job was to organize communities which would support secession and be their allies when the invasion took place. They also needed to reconnoiter the area and study possible landing points for airplanes and docking sites for boats.

The project did not exactly start from ground zero. Even before then Army Maj Eduardo Martelino sent his men to Sabah, Philippine armed forces intelligence was already eavesdropping on the island. In the early 1960s, there was concern over the possibility that a Pan-Islamic movement financed by Libya’s Muammar Qadaffi would reach the southern Philippines.

Martelino himself went to Sabah 3 times on secret missions as head of the Jabidah forces, he would reveal in a newspaper interview on Aug 1, 1968. The landing points he used were Tambisan Point, Lahad Datu, and Semporna. Some of his men traveled on one of the 50 or more fast-moving fishing boats owned by big-time smuggler Lino Bocalan. They frequently travelled from Cavite to Sabah, where they loaded thousands of cases of “blue-seal” cigarettes. At that time, imported cigarettes were not allowed into the Philippines.

Bocalan, only 31 then, was already a millionaire. In his coastal home in Cavite in 1998, Bocalan admitted: “Marcos told me he needed help for Sabah. My duty was to finance the operation. I spent millions (of pesos)… I fed the Filipino trainees in Sabah, paid their salaries. I sent my brother and my people to Tawi-Tawi and Corregidor to give food and money (to the recruits.).”

Malaysia seemed an easy and vulnerable target at that time. The Federation was still new and fragile, having come into being only in 1963. Ferdinand Marcos cast his covetous eyes on a country that was still on its way to political cohesion.

On the ground, though, trade relations between Mindanao and Sabah picked up. Traders made regular clandestine visits and their business was classified as “smuggling.” Feeling the need to reduce smuggling in that zone, the government looked for a special operations officer to map out an anti-smuggling campaign plan.

Thus, all 3 factors converged and became the context as well as backdrop for Oplan Merdeka: the fear of a Pan-Islamic movement creeping into Mindanao, a vulnerable Federation of Malaysia, and an anti-smuggling operation.

FAILED DREAMS. This is where a Jabidah recruit, Ernesto Sambas, continues to live in Simunul, Tawi-Tawi. Photo by Karlos Manlupig

Simunul training

The training of recruits from Sulu and Tawi-Tawi was done in Simunul, a picturesque island-town of Tawi-Tawi (Read: Jabidah recruits plotted Sabah standoff). From August to December 1967, Martelino, assisted by then Lt Eduardo Batalla, set up camp and trained close to 200 men – Tausugs and Sama (the dominant ethnic tribe in Tawi-Tawi) aged 18 to about 30. A number of them had had experience in smuggling and sailing the kumpit, a wooden boat commonly used in the area. What enticed the young men to Martelino’s escapade was the promise of being part of an elite unit in the Armed Forces. It was not just an ordinary job. It gave them legitimate reason to carry guns – carbines and Thompson submachine guns. It gave them a sense of power.

Camp Sophia, named after Martelino’s second wife, a young, naive, and pretty Muslim, was inside a coconut plantation, fenced by barbed wire. A hut housed a powerful transceiver and served as a radio room. Bunks were made of ipil-ipil and makeshift twigs. A watchtower stood tall in the perimeter, facing the sea. It was a world of their own making, with the trainees wearing distinct badges showing crossbones and a black skull with a drip of blood on the forehead. Their rings were engraved with skull and crossbones.

Today, no trace remains of a military camp in Simunul, not a single marker. What was once Camp Sophia now looks deserted, planted to palm and coconut trees with wild grass.

Bound for Corregidor

On Dec 30, 1967, anywhere from 135 (the late Sen Ninoy Aquino’s count) to 180 (former Capt Cirilo Oropesa’s count) recruits boarded a Philippine Navy vessel in Simunul bound for Corregidor, a tadpole-shaped island guarding the mouth of Manila Bay. For two days and one night, the troops sailed from the southernmost tip of the Philippines to Corregidor. They spent the New Year at sea and reached the island off Cavite on Jan 3, 1968.

Corregidor was the last bastion of Filipino-American resistance against invading Japanese forces. It was the site of many deaths and some describe its history as written in blood. Today, it is a tourist destination, with the ruins of battle well preserved.

However, Jabidah is never mentioned as part of Corregidor’s storied past. The hospital turned military barracks and the airstrip where the killings took place are not included in the routine tour. But graffiti of trainees’ and trainers’ names, places (“all from Sulu,” “Siasi market site,” “Tapul, Sulu”) and one memorable date – “Jan. 3/68,” when they arrived in Corregidor – bear witness to Corregidor’s connection to another island.

Before the recruits docked in Corregidor, the old Corregidor hospital was cordoned off and declared a restricted area. It was to be the military barracks. The trainees were to stay inside the bombed-out hospital on the topside of the island, the highest point on Corregidor, surrounded by trees and bushes.

Once on the island, the trainees were ordered to cut the trees surrounding the camp. They were taught to dig foxholes and use parachutes. They kept a rigid schedule, and were up at 5 o’clock in the morning for a two-hour jog followed by drills. Lectures took place in the afternoons.

Ernesto Sambas, a recruit from Tawi-Tawi, recalls seeing many other soldiers on Corregidor, but their batch from Simunul was confined to one area on the island. It appears that there was discrimination against the Tausug trainees. Sambas said he got his pay but those from Sulu did not. As a commissioned officer, Sambas also noticed the growing restlessness among other Muslim youths. The recruits were getting impatient because they couldn’t send a single centavo back home. Their promised pay of P50 a month was never given. The officers were aware of the agitation among the recruits. They knew that it was just a matter of time before mutiny erupted.

As a precautionary measure, then Lt Rolando Abadilla and the rest took shifts guarding their own barracks at night. Sambas remembers that they sent at least 16 of the Muslims back to Sulu because they were always complaining.

By the fourth week of February 1968, some of the trainees started to get restless. Since their arrival in Corregidor, they had not been paid a single centavo. Their food was miserable. They slept on ipil wood and cots. Meanwhile, their officers pampered themselves in comfortable, air-conditioned rooms at the Bayview Hotel, across the Manila Bay, a short boat trip from Corregidor.

REMEMBRANCE. Graffiti that reminds tourists of the gruesome killings in 1968. Photo by Angela Casauay

Sent packing

The trainees decided to complain and secretly wrote a petition addressed to President Marcos, signed by about 62 trainees. Others placed their thumb marks. They wanted their pay plus an improvement in their living conditions. Martelino visited the trainees and assured them of their pay. He later met with the 4 leaders of the petitioning group. To this day, 3 of them remain unaccounted for.

After this, the trainees were given fiesta food: goat, beef, and Nescafe coffee with milk. Almost every night there was music and dancing. But with the good food and entertainment came the bad news: the rest of the signatories of the petition were disarmed. Effective March 1, 1968, all 58 of them were considered resigned.

Some 60 to 70 trainees, meanwhile, were transferred to Camp Capinpin in Rizal. On March 16, another batch was taken away from Corregidor. These 24 men boarded the same boat that had brought them to Corregidor in the New year. Then Sen Ninoy Aquino, who led a Senate probe on the issue, later met this batch in Jolo when he did his own sleuthing in March.

On March 18, another 12 recruits were told to prepare for home. At 2 am, they left camp. These men, till today, are unaccounted for. Soon after, on the same day, another batch of 12 was told that they were going to leave at 4 am. Why a dozen per batch? Because the plane, they were told, could carry only 12 passengers. Jibin Arula, the most famous of the Jabidah survivors, belonged to this second batch.

Arula’s memory of this day remains vivid: “We went to the airport on a weapons carrier truck, accompanied by 13 (non-Muslim) trainees armed with M-16 and carbines. When we reached the airport, our escorts alighted ahead of us. Then Lt Eduardo Nepomuceno ordered us to get down from the truck and line up [Nepomuceno was later killed in Corregidor under mysterious circumstances]. As we put down our bags, I heard a series of shots. Like dominoes, my colleagues fell. I got scared. I ran and was shot at, in my left thigh. I didn’t know that I was running towards a mountain….By 8 am, I was rescued by two fishermen on Caballo Island, near Cavite.”

A presidential helicopter swooped down on Corregidor shortly after the killings. Officers and men belonging to the Army Special Forces leaped out of the aircraft and engaged in a clandestine cover-up mission to erase traces of the massacre.

When they landed, the teams of soldiers found burned bodies tied to trees, near the airstrip, on the island’s bottom side. The order from Army chief Gen Romeo Espino was to clean up the place and clear it of all debris. From afternoon till sunset, they collected charred flesh and bones and wrapped them in dark colored ponchos. They could not keep track of how many bodies there were. They also picked up bullet shells lying on the airstrip. The trainees had been shot dead before they were tied and burned.

At the crack of dawn the next day, they loaded the ponchos in the helicopter and flew over Manila Bay. They tied heavy stones to the ponchos before dumping them all into the sea. The remains sank, weighed down by the stones. The soldiers made sure nothing floated to the surface.

Major players died

If Marcos and his men were to be believed, the killings on Corregidor never happened. The expose on Jabidah, they said, was part of a grand plot by the opposition to discredit the Marcos regime. They said Arula, a survivor of the massacre, was an agent planted by Malaysia after it had uncovered Jabidah’s purpose.

The Armed Forces top brass never ordered a search for missing persons, living and dead. No real investigation took place, except for a few Senate and Congressional hearings which yielded inconclusive findings. The young and intensely energetic opposition Sen Ninoy Aquino Jr, using his deft journalistic skills, put some of the pieces of the Jabidah puzzle together, but the picture remained incomplete.

Eight officers and 16 enlisted men were court-martialed in 1968. All of them, however, were cleared in 1971. The major actors are by now all dead.

After Jabidah, Abadilla gained notoriety as head of the Military Intelligence Security Group that arrested and killed political activists. In 1996, communist guerrillas shot him dead while his car was held by traffic at a busy intersection along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City.

Abadilla’s immediate commander in Oplan Merdeka, Eduardo Battalla, had been killed much earlier, in 1989, when he bungled a hostage incident involving a bandit, Rizal Alih. Batalla, then a general, was the regional Constabulary commander in Western Mindanao. (Editor’s note: We earlier said Battala was commander of the military’s Southern Command then. We regret the error.)

Martelino, who executed Merdeka, was reported to have been imprisoned in Sabah in 1973. Martelino returned to Sabah after his acquittal, his daughter Pat Martelino Lon recalls. They believe he is dead, but a few of his former colleagues think he may still be languishing in a Malaysian prison.

Some senior military officers and men talked to us in 1997 and 1998 to fill in the gaps of this story. A number of them participated in the operation as leaders who gave orders or followers who implemented such orders. Others knew or were close to the people who were recruited to Jabidah.

For many soldiers involved in Operation Merdeka, there was nothing wrong with a plot to take back a territory they believe the Philippines owned. Looking back, they say that if not for the bungled training, the killings would not have ensued and Oplan Merdeka would have pushed through.

But the Jabidah massacre tainted the reputation of the military. Those who participated, either in actual training or in the clean-up operations, have not fully come clean. In the end, it may have left a legacy of lying and cover-up. – Rappler.com

Clearly, nothing will motivate these propagandists more than power, money and the devious satisfaction that they are able to make fools out of the Filipino people once more.

Furthermore, attributing their lies about acts purported to have been committed by other human beings, do not make a dent on their conscience because they have no conscience at all.

The great volume of printed matter and web posts if produced in hard copy, will fill up almost to the brim or at least more than half of a plastic drum used as container for toxic chemicals. And the fabrications, lies and canards woven into those print matter are even more poisonous than many toxins and venoms combined.

Not unlike a pretend senator that was propelled into the senate by his sponsors so he can wreak havoc upon sponsors’ pet peeves and mortal foes, these specialists in demonization, character assassination and Hitlerian Goebbels-like black propaganda, have a batting average of 50% of their victims’ reputations ruined and the individuals are shamed and barred from making counter attacks against these demolition PR special forces or else, their victims, like Chief Justice Renato C. Corona or Gen. Angelo Reyes die because of too much pain and suffering.  In the case of the latter, he is believed to have killed himself or was shot by an assassin – either way you look at it, the victim is dead. And both character assassins, Rappler and the pretend member of Senate, answer to Aquino.

When campaigns like this cause immense harm to the security of the country, the indictment of the criminal perpetrators, is in order. And they should be tried and convicted for no less than Treason, meted out the heaviest kind of penalty that need not be presently writ for as long as the punishment corresponds to the degree of danger that the offender has exposed the entire nation to.

Must Reads:

Jabidah Massacre – Wikipedia

Malaysia sabotaged Philippines’ Sabah claim

Clearest indication that Jabidah was a hoax

The real fuse of the Muslim Revolt in Southern Philippines

Only Aquino was fooled by Jabidah hoax

Ninoy did not expose Jabidah, he doubted it ever happened

When Media is The Tyrant – Postscript

The Nation Forum. 1987.

Postscripts June 11, 2016

UN Rapporteur Prof. Christof Heyns, race: European but hails from South Africa (Afrikaans) issued statements against the Philippines to press the point of respecting members of media, “stop instigating deadly violence.” Professor David Kaye, from the United States has toured the world teaching about international law and denounces the Philippines incoming president’s supposedly giving permission to kill journalists.

Journalists’ killings: UN experts urge Philippines president-elect to stop instigating deadly violence

GENEVA (6 June 2016) – Two United Nations independent experts on summary executions, and on freedom of expression today urged Philippines president-elect Rodrigo Duterte to stop instigating deadly violence immediately. The experts strongly condemned Mr. Duterte’s recent statements suggesting that journalists are not exempt for assassination.

Speaking at a press conference, Mr. Duterte reportedly stated that most journalists killed in the country have done something wrong. ‘You won’t be killed if you don’t do anything wrong,’…

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When Media is The Tyrant

The Nation Forum. 1987.

The sad fate of our generation is that since the 1980s, there had been no more real honest to goodness journalism. Much more so in the Philippines. In this country, in a significant way, journalism died. When Corazon Cojuangco Aquino came to power, journalism further regressed.

With the exception of three or four media organizations in Metro Manila and a few more in the rest of the country, there is no more credible Philippine media. To say in the jocular that those who were merely made to run an errand to buy suka (vinegar) suddenly became journalists, in the 1980s is to trivialize things. However, in many cases, this is true, most particularly in the entertainment industry. Barely graduates of elementary school, hardly finished in high school and unlearned college dropouts and graduates – many from out of place disciplines – invaded the entertainment journalism sector.

Unschooled, uncouth and foul…

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What is media, Smart, Globe trying to prove?

The Nation Forum. 1987.

Yesterday evening, Philippines media released news about the deployment by the two monopoly multinationally-owned telecom networks in RP of the illegally obtained 700 Megahertz radio frequency spectrum.

During the broadcast, it was bruited about that in the experience of Smart communications, the speed of internet increased from 2 Megabits to 224 Megabits per second.

This means that the Smart infrastructure is not yet ready for the 700 Mhz spectrum.  The high speed level of this spectrum is in the gigabits – therefore the bragged about 224 Mb is just shit.

Furthermore, the reporter, on whose orders we don’t know, attributed to the International Telecommunications Union heaping praises intended for Smart and Globe – very subtly – by supposedly giving hallelujahs to the 700 Mhz.  Which spectrum was formerly illegally being kept like a closet mistress by Raymond Moreno under Liberty Telecom Inc. (LTI), sold to Atty. Miguel Arroyo thereby changing…

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