Joc-Joc Bolante must tell all; Gloria visibly bothered

Lest we forget, now that Joc-Joc's back and intimated his willingness to "tell everything" about the fertilizer scam, the People wants him to answer these questions:

1. Who are his principals?
2. Who assisted him in distributing the funds?
3. How much money did he kept for himself?
4. Who did he called when he exiled himself in the US? 
5. Who visited him in jail? How many times?
6. Who are those who supposedly are out to kill him or silence him?
7. What things will he reveal that he thinks might cause him his life?
8. Did he ever called the president during the time he's operating the scam?
9. Did he felt some remorse when he was spending those years in jail?
10. Any regrets on serving government?

Updates:

• Senator Jinggoy Estrada asked the Senate to immediately send Joc-Joc to the Senate holding area to be examined by the Senate physician. He believes that Joc-Joc is just faking it.
• The Ombusman just asked Joc-Joc to submit his counter-affidavit in response to the government's graft case against him.
• Senator Ed Angara said he will not re-open the fertilizer scam case. He still believes that the warrant for Joc-Joc's arrest by Villar is invalid. His former ACCRA partner, ex-Senator Franklin Drilon thinks otherwise.
• Gloria is seen visibly tired and disturbed during the Global Forum on Migration and asked media not to ask questions about the Bolante case.
• The palace just issued a statement that it welcomes Bolante's return.

BY THE WAY, heard from my source inside St. Luke's Medical Center that allegedly the First Gentleman uses the resident cardiologist as "courier" between him and Bolante. We have yet to confirm this.

Also, Bolante reportedly received numerous calls (both cellular and landline) from unknown callers.

As of the moment, Bolante is being guarded at the hospital by the Senate security personnel, the hospital's security and even the Quezon City Police. 

Meanwhile, some spotted former Vice President Teofisto Guingona entering the St. Luke's Medical Center.

New Philippine Revolution and PinoyObserver will remain vigilant. Let's continue our vigil for the Truth.

Skin the Old Bureaucrats!

A recent meeting between Genuine Opposition (GO) Senator Jinggoy Estrada and Gloria's Golden Haired Boy Mike Defensor created speculations about a possible "power-sharing" scheme between the forces of Gloria and Erap. Jinggoy confirmed these "preliminary talks", saying that the possibility of a merger between the GO and Gloria's KAMPI in 2010 is strong. It seems that this "unified front" will field common candidates, possibly with the standard bearer coming from GO and the Vice President from KAMPI.

So, that explains why the "Genuine" opposition is so silent about the plight of the Filipino People nowadays. It confirms the acceptance of GO of the "political truce" offered by this administration. That's why we don't hear Adel Tamano or any other GO personality lambasting the administration for an overpriced oil, soaring food prices, Northrail project, ZTE-NBN, graft and corruption and continuing human rights violations.

This just shows how totally alike these two forces are. They are NOT Genuine Oppositionists nor are they legitimate nationalists. They are part of the old cancer which inflicts so much harm against the People. They are the scums who play fiddle with our abusers, making them our abusers too.

Expect no hope come 2010 because we will just be seeing a turnover of power from one sorry bureaucrat to another equally greedy one.

I remember what Senator Cheez Escudero once said, that the role of the Genuine Opposition in the Senate are those of fiscalizers. Good term. But is this what we expect of them in these critical times?

No.

We want people like him rising up to the challenge. We want people like him to stand up and take the cudgels of leadership for and on behalf of the Filipino People. We want young nationalists to lead us in protest against this administration.

Where are the Patriots, I ask in previous posts?

The Patriots are those who belong to the red fronts and the green fronts. They are those who take part in those Black Friday protest rallies. They are the Black and White, the Grey Fronts, the Young Rebels, the May 1 rebels, the Teofisto Guingonas of the New Generation, the Young Officers Union of the New Generation, the Magdalos, the Patriotic Marines, the Coalition for National Salvation, the Bagong Tao Movement (BTM), the Mar Roxas legions, and the true Marxist-Leninists of our age.

They are the young mothers and the old mamas. They are the daddys and their sons. They are the enlightened ones who long for change.

We don't need to debate about this, BenigNo. No. Debates are those for the cowardly and people of huge egos.

Action is what we need right now. Talks are cheap. Let us ACT NOW AND UNITE FOR THE FUTURE OF THIS BELOVED COUNTRY.

RISE UP, O PATRIOTS OF THE NEW PHILIPPINE REVOLUTION! RISE UP AND WRITE HISTORY!

A Full Life--The Memoirs of Teofisto Guingona, a Patriot

I had the excellent opportunity to read the memoir of a Patriot today. Reading it brings back memories of those times when Filipinos stood for something beautiful--not because of politics nor money--but about ethics and good-old ideological principles.

Ethics, ah, that's new. Nowadays, we look at politicians in the same mold as we look at hooligans. We can't seem to find something good or something moral about them. For us, there's nothing ethical nor beautiful about politics. Politics is dirty. Politics is all about money. Politics is something abhorrent, even despicable. And ethics is something aesthetic, not political.

Guingona's milieu is something different, even dreamy. It was the golden age of Philippine politics. It was a time when our country was finding our identity, our own place under the hot global sun. It was an era where we are looking for some pillar to stand on.

This humble man from Agusan was fortunate enough to shine side by side with all those legal, political, economic and ideological giants of our age. He shone in a different light. He belongs to those luminaries but his light shone more brightly than them.

Those whom he had the pleasure of meeting and befriending all betrayed the People's Cause when their time came to govern. When they held the fate of the Nation in their hands as policy-makers, their true colors showed. They forgot why God put them there, not to steal billions from us, but to help us.

Not Teofisto Guingona.

He stood for the people's cause. His voice rang loud when the tentacles of dictatorship plunged this country into the abyssmal pits of chaos and delusion. He fought side by side with men of substance when it was not the time to do so. He suffered in poverty when most of his friends prospered under the blessing of a Madman.

He went against the grain because it was right, it was moral and it was his duty as a Filipino to do so.

Guingona was a true-blue rebel. He rebelled when everybody was trying to rationalize irrationality. He struggled when everyone says it's okey when in fact, it was turning totally nasty and brutish for the People.

Guingona fought for the rights of the Christians and the Muslims. He understood their pain.

Guingona struggled against tyranny, oppression and poverty. He saw the world not in rosy-colored lens, but with clear spectacles hardened by the ultra-violet light of reality.

He stood like the Atenean he is, a blue eagle, standing proudly in that landscape of dark clouds and an almost deserted Philippines. Now, he's the last of the Mohicans. His contemporaries have all joined the heavenly pantheon of heroes. But, I pray that the Almighty still prolong the life of this man, since the People still need him.

I had the pleasure of meeting the man.

During the managed turbulence of EDSA Dos, I ate lunch with him, along with some generals. It was in his modest home in New Manila. When we were eating, he asked me about things related to the struggle, for which he replied, " you can fool the people sometimes, but you can't fool the people everytime."

He referred to me as a bright man and told me that if I'm ready to be jailed should we fail in what we're doing. Without nary a flinch, I said yes. I've been jailed before when I militated against the Military Bases Agreement, along with PAG-IBIG president Miro Quimpo and former Chief of Staff Mike Defensor. Like Guingona, I stood against the grain. And even at this ripe age of 37, I am still at it, hoping that the time will come when the People, the true owners of this land, govern this country through a Council of their choice.

Guingona will remain an inspiration to a new generation of Patriots. I am quite certain that in the next few months or years, a new breed of Patriots will emerge and form a New Class--the creative class. This creative class will rewrite history. This time, it will be a glorious one when the People will become the masters of their fate, not the slave of the State.

For you, my Patriot, we will honor you by continuing what you fought for--a New Philippine Revolution.