Comments on: Are We Safe?

By: Ding Gagelonia

Ding Gagelonia — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 09:01:10 +0000

Hey Prime this input surely is though provoking. I’ll push some buttons and get guesstimates.

In the meantime would care to share your gut feel in the context of your own sense of just where JPE is coming from.

Sumasakay lang kaya siya?

By: Primer

Primer — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:32:29 +0000

Maybe Sen. Enrile can tell us whether these bombings are ‘manipulated to pave the way for emergency rule or martial law’?

I remember when I was a young officer working for then defense secretary Enrile, he asked the commanding general in a command briefing how much in ammunitions would have been expended in a gunbattle that lasted for more than 4 hours.

The general, obviously, failed to provide an enlightened answer. I do recall that then Col. Biazon was present too.

But what is the point? Even if we ask the AFP or the PNP, they hardly provide ask convincing answers. I guess, the kind of ‘intellectual culture’.

By: Kamote

Kamote — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:18:27 +0000

Happy days are here again!

By: Joe America

Joe America — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:27:58 +0000

UP n grad,

If we are intelligent and civilized human beings, as we claim terrorists are not, we should rid the planet of these awesome weapons that do not distinguish between military and civilian, adult or child.

I note that Obama and the Russians have reached a tentative agreement this past week to pare the respective arsenals by about 500 nukes each. Still leaves 2,500 there, but it is a beginning.

The Philippines is loaded with hand guns, and should take the same baby steps to get rid of them, rather than taking pride that it still resides in the gunslinger era of the 1800′s.

Why seek to do anything such a weird place as North Korea would want to do? Talk about a dysfunctional place, representative of the opposite of the freedoms and kind living that the Philippines SHOULD hold dear.

US, too . . .

Joe

By: Ding Gagelonia

Ding Gagelonia — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:18:59 +0000

I know Rep. Golez.

He’s a pretty level headed guy. He does not oppose just to oppose.

By: Ding Gagelonia

Ding Gagelonia — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 01:16:52 +0000

They are brothers.

By: Primer

Primer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 23:51:03 +0000

Is this Golez related to Rep. Golez and another Golez with a flag rank in the Navy?

Just curious if Rep. Golez is dyed-in-the-wool oppositionist.

By: UP n grad

UP n grad — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:23:16 +0000

And then, on a different plane, there is the matter of North Korea. Personally, I do not have a reading on whether or not Pinoys in Pinas are supportive of North Korea’s ongoing project to develop its own technology to have atomic bombs (plus the missiles to deliver the payload).

The arguments in support of the assertion that world peace is better served by Non-proliferation is getting pitted against the very simplistic “… if USA and France and England (and India and Pakistan) have it, then why can’t North Korea (and Pinas…later)?”

By: UP n grad

UP n grad — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:49:04 +0000

Discarding the terrorism view aspect of the “… Are Pinoys in Pinas safe?”, are Pinoys in Pinas safe?

Soon enough the mainstream media may be replete with new instances of bank robberies and kidnappings as fundraising for 2010-elections get into full swing.

And there is the matter of plain-vanilla crime, like this one.

http://filipinovoices.com/up-vulnerable

By: Hyden Toro

Hyden Toro — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:28:58 +0000

To all Military Officers who are thinking of participating in the grab of power. Do not fight for a Corrupt President. Do not die for
her. Think of yourself, your future and your families.

If we will topple the Gloria Arroyo regime. If she grabs for power. She will be subjected to Human Rights abuses charges. And, is eligible as a good tenant in The Hague, Netherland.

Will you go with her until the end?