Comments on: Will History Repeat Itself In 2010?

By: Cahtuban

Cahtuban — Sun, 31 May 2009 21:19:32 +0000

Did the history repeat itself again ? See The Scientist.com – Community – in this topic, and give your comment.

By: ara

ara — Mon, 18 May 2009 07:05:36 +0000

ay ara, ngantoy en you ikukuwan. religion pabasulen u. ara, love of country kailangan natin. period.

By: BongV

BongV — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:47:00 +0000

If legislators are not legislators anymore but distributors of pork, then a Batasan is not a Batasan anymore but abbatoir.

WHO voted these legislators in?

WHO can vote these legislators out?

Somalians?

By: Bencard

Bencard — Sun, 10 May 2009 21:12:25 +0000

there you go again, djb, with this bad habit of speaking for everyone else without their prior consent. fyi, there is a difference between the “rules of court” and the “rule of law”, but i’m not gonna tell you for free.

By: Ding Gagelonia

Ding Gagelonia — Sun, 10 May 2009 07:11:04 +0000

Spot on.

By: Jay P. Yan

Jay P. Yan — Sun, 10 May 2009 06:26:37 +0000

UP n grad,

I am not a law student, at least for now. I don’t know mechanics of this filthy game, I admit that. But pork barrel must be spent judiciously. Isn’t that fact universal?

Another, what’s the biggie there? the Law is so pliant, it has never ever been observed by those crocodiles..

By: Bert

Bert — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:21:44 +0000

killjoy!

By: DJB

DJB — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:26:53 +0000

Well, okay UP n grad, spot off, if you think GMA invented those policies and that her own personal plans for staying in power are irrelevant to an issues-oriented person. Or that those against her are just prejudiced because she is Moral Dwarf and they don’t care about what she has done in Mindanao, in politics, on the Rule of Law, on Executive Privilege, on Graft and Corruption, on political killings, on bribery of Congressmen, on the ZTE NBN deal, on Garci, on …. and on…

By: DJB

DJB — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:16:11 +0000

Ding, Primer,
I guess it really doesn’t bother me so much when the government attacks the entire Press and they get the push back of the whole journalistic and media community, as happened in the Manila Pen incident, in which I totally disagreed with what the Press did. I don’t worry too much about press freedom when they do things like that, since the govt is taking on a pretty rambunctious and not exactly resourceless lot. But when they pick off individuals, that is when it is most dangerous because you don’t have the ‘protection of the herd.’

The elephant in the room that is being ignored by the pro-GMA or just plain anti-anti-GMA voices here is the Garci Scandal, for which the responsible parties are yet to be punished. The mere disinterest of the Palace in pursuing the case is damning, since it was not so much a case of electoral fraud as a breach of the Anti-Wiretapping law (a national security statute) by the Commander-in-Chief against her own exalted office of the Presidency and the Comelec, using ISAFP.

This has been my position all along: the real big crime in the Hello Garci Scandal, aside from the electoral fraud, is national security violation by whoever did it. That such persons have never been brought to Court, and there has never been any effort by GMA to do so, points to her very self as the culprit, who must, and will be brought to Justice.

That is the responsibility of the government and every person that cares about electoral democracy and national security.

By: DJB

DJB — Sun, 10 May 2009 03:05:28 +0000

What is truly incomprehensible is Bencard’s position that if history repeats itself, tough. He wants us all to be once, twice, thrice the fool, or as often as his craven graven idols want. He thinks the Rules of Court are all that we need to bother about.