Why I will vote for Satur Ocampo in 2010

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Submitted by john_torres on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 1:01pm

1. Because Satur Ocampo is a good man.

He is a good man in the most essential sense: his selflessness has enabled him to live and work for the poor and the oppressed of the Philippines. He chose to forego his own wants and needs and patterned his life after the lives of great men and women. He is self-sacrificing, he is compassionate, he practices what he preaches. He lives simply. He has no measure for his own greatness as humility is ever-present in his character. He has no ambitions for himself, only for the causes he espouses and the poor whom he represents.

2. Because Satur Ocampo does not work for money.

As a journalist, he was offered bribes, and he never accepted them. As a congressman, he was also offered the same, and again he refused them. His principles are not for sale. He is a man who cannot be bought. He tirelessly works for the Filipino people , for the cause of human rights, for social justice and equality. He believes that fighting for justice is its own reward, and the very hope that one day true democracy and freedom will dawn on the Philippines is enough payment for his efforts.

3. Because Satur Ocampo is a gentleman and respects women and the youth.

He has the highest respect for women and their rights. He recognizes their value in society, and deeply appreciates that women are equal with women in building a better country for tomorrow’s Filipinos. He supports their aspirations and their ideals. He believes that Filipinas can serve well beyond the hearth and home — they belong in every arena where genuine progress and development can be achieved for the greater good.

He respects the youth. He relies on the enthusiasm of the youth and believes that they truly are the future. Hence he does his best to be an inspiration to them. Teaching indirectly by being a living example. A leader worth emulating. He encourages the youth to be daring and to not sell their votes. He believes that it is not enough to simply register for the polls; it’s not enough that one votes. It’s important to him that the youth be well aware whom they are voting for and why; to realize that the democratic exercise is the least they can be involved in if they genuinely want change to happen.

Satur challenges the youth to aspire to higher challenges.

4. Because Satur Ocampo fights for human rights.

And unfailingly so. His track record as a human rights advocate and a genuine freedom-fighter is beyond reproach. He has fought against fascist regimes and their policies and programs that undermine and attack human rights and not once has he buckled down. As a journalist and as a congressman, he has helped expose issues that seriously impact on the civil, political and economic rights of Filipinos. He has not shied away from sensitive issues of national concern, and instead fearlessly spoke out either in support or against them as the case may be in relation to the public welfare.

The US-Marcos dictatorship’s attempts to break to his spirit failed, and so have succeeding governments’. The Macapagal-Arroyo government’s own moves to have him jailed and locked-away in Hilongos, Leyte backfired because it was clear even to the blind that the charges against him were malicious and manufactured. So long as he breathes, he will defend the cause of human rights and be a defender of Filipinos.

5. Because Satur Ocampo is a good husband, father and grandfather.

Family is important, and he has done his best to be a role model as a father, as a husband, as a grandfather. Despite the various challenges that he has met in the conduct of his life’s work and committment to serve the people, he has not neglected his family and has done his best to there for them. He also remains the loyal and loving son to his elderly mother who still resides in Pampanga.

6. Because Satur Ocampo does not have personal ambition.

In his humility, he still believes that he is not worthy of the admiration and respect people from all walks of life give him. Evan now as he is being asked to represent the basic sectors in the senate, he remains critical of his own self and his worthiness. He is, however, not one to turn away from duty when it is presented to him, and he will do all in power to do his duty faithfully and well.

7. Because Satur Ocampo’s heart is for the masses.

He grew up the son of peasants, and he genuinely knows what poverty and deprivation are. He studied and worked hard not to leave behind his class origins, but so he could learn and find means to help his family, and by extension others like them. His commitment to help his family extended and expanded to others, and as he grew older, his committment only strengthened, sharpened, and grew in scope and depth to lead towards goals of social emancipation.

He is a defender of peasants’ rights and their call for genuine agrarian reform.

He is a defender of labor and migrant rights. He believes in socialized housing, subsidized/free education and health services. He is against militarization in the countryside and believes that all foreign debt should be cancelled or at least an indefinite moratorium on debt payments should be implemented. He believes in defending the country’s economic, political and cultural sovereignty from the influence and interference of foreign powers. He is against trade liberalization at the expense of economic sovereignty and security. He is against privatization and deregulation of major industries, and lobbies for nationalization and greater state subsidies for social services.

He believes that it is the Filipino masses themselves who will free themselves from enslavement, and they themselves will lead efforts to build a renewed Philippines.

8. Because Satur Ocampo believes in science and progress for the people.

He believes in establishing a system of education that is nationalist, scientific and mass-oriented. He believes that Filipino scientists and researchers need to be supported — their works given attention and encouraged. To him, the Filpino system of education needs to be overhauled and reoriented towards serving the needs of the people and the establishment of an economy that is self-sustaining and aimed towards raising the standards of health and living of the Filipino people.

9. Because Satur Ocampo is one heck of a good-looking senior citizen who will also fight for the rights of the elderly.

For instance, he wants the EVAT to be repealed, and at the onset, for the EVAT to exclude all medicines for senior citizens.

10. Because Satur Ocampo, for all the reasons previously mentioned and more, is better than most other candidates running for the senate put together, and I want my vote to count.

Curious lang tabi. Ano tabi

Submitted by rejtatel on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 1:42am.

Curious lang tabi.

Ano tabi an naginibo ni Ka Satur sa kongreso? Ano man daw an saiyang na-awtor na ley? Ano tabi nagresibi man daw siya nin pork barrel? con iyo, saen tabi ni Ka Satur ginamit an kwarta? anong proyekto para sa saiyang "marginalized sector" na piyarepresenta an saiyang nagibo?

Hapot man sana tabi yan.

Mabalos.

[Let's be guided not by the letter that Killeth, But by the Spirit that Giveth Life]

Ito po ang mahabang listahan

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Submitted by donna_quintana on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 5:53pm.

Ito po ang mahabang listahan ng mga House Bills na ginawa ng Bayan-Muna :
House Bills:
1. House Bill 6393: An Act Ensuring the Effectiveness of All Official Development Assistance (ODA) Loans and Grants Amending for the Purpose Republic Act No. 8182 Otherwise Known as the Official Development Assistance Act of 1996, as Amended, and for Other Purposes.

2. House Bill 6092: National Elderly Filipino Broadcasting Day

3. House Bill 6091: Ethnic Origin Act of 2009

4. House Bill 5925: An Act Amending Section 4 (c) of Republic Act No. 7432, Otherwise Known as The Senior Citizens Act, Thereby Exempting the Bank Deposits of Senior Citizens From The Twenty Percent (20%) Withholding tax on Interest Income

5. House Bill 5924: An Act Amending Article 266-A of Act No. 3815, Otherwise Known as the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines, As Amended
6. House Bill 5923: An Act Providing for the Grounds and Procedure to Validly Restrict the Constitutional Right to Travel
7. House Bill 5841: An Act Declaring July 7 of Every Year a Special Working Holiday to Commemorate the Founding of Katipunan

8. House Bill 5840: Anti-Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation Act of 2009 / Anti-SLAPP Act of 2009

9. House Bill 5839: An Act Establishing Senior Citizens Ward in Government Hospitals and Appropriating Funds Thereof

10. House Bill 5832: An Act Amending Article 26 of Executive Order No. 209, Otherwise Known as the Family Code of the Philippines, As Amended, Granting a Filipino Citizen the Right to Remarry After His/Her Alien Spouse Validly Obtains a Divorce Abroad

11. House Bill 5831: An Act Amending Section 4 (e) of Republic Act 7432, Otherwise Known as The Senior Citizens Act of 1992, As Amended, Granting Free Hospitalization to Senior Citizens in Any Government Hospital

12. House Bill 5659: An Act Renaming the Alabang-Zapote Road in Las Piñas City, Metro Manila to General Edilberto Evangelista Avenue

13. House Bill 5658: An Act Amending Title 1, Chapter 1, Section 12 of Executive Order No. 209, Otherwise Known as The Family Code of the Philippines, Requiring Applicants for a Marriage License to Present Their Certificates of Non-Marriage to the Local Civil Registrar, in Addition to the Other Documents Required Therein to be Presented

14. House Bill 5657: An Act Expanding Government Legal Services to Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos in Distress, Amending for the Purpose Republic Act No. 8042 or the “Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995”

15. House Bill 5600: Human Rights Defenders’ Protection Act of 2008

16. House Bill 5476: National Teachers' Day Act of 2008

17. House Bill 5030: Health Workers' Day Act of 2008

18. House Bill 4928: An Act Requiring Military and Police Personnel to Obtain a Human Rights Clearance as a Condition Precedent for the Validity of Their Promotion and/or Appointment to a Higher Rank, Position or Office

19. House Bill 4927: An Act Prohibiting and Penalizing the Deputization of Any Unit of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and/or Any of its Para-Military Groups for Law Enforcement Duties in Labor and Agrarian Disputes

20. House Bill 4926: An Act Renaming the Don Mariano Marcos Avenue in Quezon City, Metro Manila to Senator Lorenzo Tanada Avenue

21. House Bill 4369: Recognizance Act of 2008

22. House Bill 4162: An Act Classifying the Sale of Electricity by Generation, Transmission and Distribution Companies and Electric Cooperatives, and the Services of Franchise Grantees of Electric Utilities, and Sale or Importation of Machinery and Equipment Directly Used in Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electricity as Value-Added Tax Exempt Transactions, Amending for the Purpose Sections 108 (A) (ii) and (109) (1) of the National Internal Revenue Code, as Amended by RA9337, and for Other Purposes

23. House Bill 3958 - The Rice Industry Development Act of 2008

24. House Bill 3636: An Act Declaring March 6 of Every Year as Bud Dahu Day in Commemoration of the Bangsamoro People's Resistance to Foreign Occupation, Their Continuing Quest for Peace and Self-Determination, Appropriating Funds Therefor and for Other Purposes

25. House Bill 3535: An Act Decriminalizing Libel, Repealing for the Purpose Articles 353, 354, 355, 356, 357, 360, 361 and 362 of Act No. 385 as Amended, Otherwise as the Revised Penal Code

26. House Bill 3462: An Act Providing Emergency Income Tax Relief for Ordinary Taxpayers and Recalibrating the Income Tax Rates of Individual Taxpayers, Amending for the Purpose Chapter III, Sec 24 (A) (1) (c) of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, as Amended

27. House Bill 3442: An Act Classifying the Sale or Importation of Petroleum Products and Raw Materials in the Manufacture Thereof as Value-Added Tax Exempt Transactions, Amending for the Purpose Sec 109 (1) of RA 8424, Otherwise Known as the Tax Reform Act of 1997, as Amended by RA 9337, and for Other Purposes

28. House Bill 3288: An Act Recognizing the Observance of November 17 of Every Year as the International Students' Day in the Philippines, and for Other Purposes

29. House Bill 3259: An Act Punishing Military Commanders or Superiors for Crimes or Offenses Committed by Their Subordinates Under the Principle of Command Responsibility

30. House Bill 3031: Petron Renationalization Act of 2006

31. House Bill 3030: - Centralized Petroleum Procurement Act of 2007

32. House Bill 3029: Downstream Oil Industry Regulation Act of 2006

33. House Bill 2619: An Act Declaring Torture a Crime and Prescribing Penalties for Commission of Acts of Torture

34. House Bill 2618: An Act Declaring September 21 of Every Year as a "National Day of Remembrance" in Memory of the Struggles and Sacrifices of the Heroes and Martyrs of the Martial Law Era

35. House Bill 2589: An Act Providing for a Mandatory Nationwide Child Nutrition Program in All Public Elementary Schools and Barangay Day Care Centers

36. House Bill 2588: An Act Strengthening the Right of the People to Free Expression, Peaceably Assemble and Petition the Government for Redress of Grievances, Repealing BP 880 and for Other Purposes

37. House Bill 2587: An Act Strengthening Philippine Disaster Management and Creating the National Disaster Management Commission and Providing Funds Thereof

38. House Bill 2493: An Act Prohibiting the Establishment of Political Dynasties

39. House Bill 2492: Low Cost, Safe and Effective Medicines Act of 2007

40. House Bill 2441: Student Entitlements Act of 2007

41. House Bill 2440: An Act Imposing a Three-Year Moratorium on Tuition and Other Fee Increases on All Educational Institutions

42. House Bill 2380: An Act Protecting the Right of Students of Courses Requiring Professional Licensing Examinations to Enroll in Review Centers of Their Choice and Providing Penalties for Violations Thereof

43. House Bill 2295: An Act Converting the Accumulated Value-Added Tax (VAT) Payments of Low-Income Workers into Credits for the Compensation-Based Income Tax, Amending for the Purpose Chapter VII, Sec 35 of the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, As Amended and for Other Purposes

44. House Bill 2263: An Act Defining and Penalizing the Crime of Enforced or Involuntary Disappearance

45. House Bill 2224: An Act Prohibiting the Entry, Sale, Processing, Field Testing and Release of Crops and Food Products Containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) Into and Within the Country and Imposing Penalties for Violation Thereof

46. House Bill 2223: Freedom of Information Act

47. House Bill 2026: An Act Prohibiting the Naming of Public Properties and Government Services After Incumbent Elected Public Officials,Their Kin, Spouses and Relatives Up to Fourth Civil Degree of Consanguinity and Providing Penalties Thereof and for Other Purposes

48. House Bill 1793: An Act Repealing RA 7492, Otherwise Known as The Mining Act of 1995

49. House Bill 1716: An Act Promoting the Development and Use of Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS) in the Philippines, Amending RA 8293 Otherwise Known as the "Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines", Providing Penalties Thereof, and for Other Purposes

50. House Bill 1715: Whistleblower Act of 2005

51. House Bill 1275: The University of the Philippines Charter of 2007

52. House Bill 1274: Private School Fee Regulation Act of 2007

53. House Bill 1115: An Act Repealing the Automatic Appropriation for Debt Service by Amending Sec 31 of PD 117 and Sec 26, Chapter 4, Book VI of EO 292, Otherwise Known as the "Administrative Code of 1987" Which Reiterates En Toto Sec 31 of PD 1177

54. House Bill 1114: - An Act Mandating Compensation to Victims of Human Rights Violations During the Entire Period of Martial Law From Sept. 21, 1972 to Feb. 25, 1986 and Appropriating Funds Therefore

55. House Bill 1113: An Act Providing for the Repeal of RA 9372 or the Human Security Act and for Other Purposes

Para din po sa infromation ng lahat, author din po ang Bayan-Muna ng mahigit 1195 na House Resolutions.

Tungkol po sa pondo ng mga kongresista, ang Catanduanes po ay isa sa mga nabigyan ng tulong ng Bayan-Muna (Rawis Day Care Center / Public Library, Rawis, Virac, Catanduanes, to name a few).

Salamat.

If indeed Ka Satur is a good

Submitted by rejtatel on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 1:19am.

If indeed Ka Satur is a good man, as pading John T. expounded, and with all his efforts and accomplishments as a legislator in the lower house, as donna_quintana belabored to provide above, there is no reason why Ka Satur should not be voted for in the Senate...

While Ka Satur's association with Bongbong Marcos and Villar was a surprise, I think the better approach still is this: let's judge the person by his own character and merit instead of his "guilt by association".

Having said the above,I trust of course that Ka Satur has a damn good reason for "dancing with the wolves"...

Yeah Dancing with the Wolves...

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Submitted by ilaya on Tue, 02/23/2010 - 2:19am.

The political frontier out there is hard to face head on. Like a tsunami the man knows he has to ride on the surge and keep afloat to continue the struggle. Just hope and trust no political expediency breaks the man most his political principle...that is the cries of the masses....that will always be the lightning and thunder reminding him while dancing with the wolves....

Totoo yan Manoy John

Submitted by botog on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 2:07pm.

"The US-Marcos dictatorship’s attempts to break to his spirit failed"...that's why kairiba nya na ngunyan si Bongbong Marcos ano Manoy John?

Reportedly, 60M ang bayad ki Dolphy ni Villar at 30M + house & lot naman ki Sarah Geronimo. Sabi ngani kang media, magastos daa ning 7Billion si Villar masiguro sanang gumana sya sa eleksyon. Siguradong MANGURAKOT ini mabawi lang ang "investment" nya. Bako daw Manoy John? Helinga ang nangyari sa C-5.

Kung gumana si Satur at si Villar, ano daw ang gigibuhon ni Satur ta malang magiging kurakot si Villar ta 60 to 65K lang naman monthly ang sahod ning presidente. Siguradong uru-aldaw nasa rally ini si Satur para patalsikin si Villar. Bako daw Manoy John?

"His principles are not for sale. He is a man who cannot be bought"...talaga lang ha?! Kinugos nya na ngani ang Marcoses buda ang very obvious na corrupt na si Villar, yet cannot be bought pa?

satur instead of lito lapid.

Submitted by arikdik on Thu, 02/18/2010 - 2:32pm.

Regardless of his involvement in the great purge inside the npa between 86 to 91. Regardless of the mass grave from leyte to Mindanao. Regardless of his barbaric and terroristic act together with sison. Regardless of his vampire instinct. And regardless of his motto “power grab at all cost”.

I will vote satur instead of lito lapid? nyehhh never!

Indeed for Satur instead of Lito Lapid

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Submitted by ilaya on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 2:28am.

Lito Lapid the guerrero image ngeeek!!!The allegations are to destroy and demolish the man... vote the man...his a living martyr...continuing the fight for the people against all odds short of crucifixion from the forces of Pilates...Why not vote for him Barabas...? can't we stop the stoning and torture? or finally crucify the man?

Ini ang Tawo na Gustong ipako sa Kruz nin puersa ni Pilato..

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Submitted by ilaya on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 5:31am.

bako tabi kaming COA para mag audit nin pork CDF ni satur.. sa sobrang ngitngit ni bert gonsalez and ni gloria saiya kaawat na kutana na kinasuhan nin graft si satur kung sya nagkurakot! para sabihon ko saimo su daycare jan sa rawis pinaguibo an nin bayan muna.

Dai ka pa nahimasmasan kang issue ki bongbong? si bong bong na nani mismo ang nagsabi" satur is giving me a hard time." naipahayag na ang prinsipyo kang mutual adoption ki villar, dai ikukumpromiso ang paninidugan lalo s ahuman rights violation nin mga marcos.. kung igwang salong tawong padagos na natindog para sa derechos humanos si SATUR ini, one of the most tirtured political prisoner sa panahon ni marcos!

Gabos na makandidato igwang bahid nin trapo, anu ang kaibahan ni villar, inako nya ang plataporma nin MAKABAYAN Coalition asin inako ang kandidatura nina satur and liza para sa senado!

Kung manggana si villar nata man ta dai pagbatikuson kung may maginibong salla, sabi ngani prinsipyo ang iiral bako utang na boot.. asin jan abante asin nasa high moral ground sina SATUR at LIZA!

purging sa hillonggos leyte asin sa bukidnon.. kampanyang ahos.. puro akusasyon na dissmiss na nin korte.. mga paratang na guibo guibo nin militar asin nin administrasyon ni goya tanganuing uyagan asin gipiton sina ka SATUR! alagan ang matanos dai madadaog asin maiintimida nin mga arog kaining panraratak! aram nin tawo kung siisay ang saindang kasurog asin kakampi..

SATUR OCAMPO at LIZA MAZA man syempre sa SENADO!

ps.

author ng REP. ACT 9262 anti violaence against women and children

principal author: establishing the committee on peace and national reconciliation

principal author: anti-torture law

co author: senior citizen law

co author: anti-no permit no exam bill

Principal author: law that strengthens the Public Attorney's Office
Principal protagonists against the EVAT, CHA CHA and other anti people bills in congress!

paratang na guibo guibo nin militar ?

Submitted by arikdik on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 3:49pm.

To Suffer Thy Comrades: How the Revolution Decimated its Own
By: Robert Francis Garcia

Quezon City / Anvil Press / 2001

Editor’s Note: To Suffer Thy Comrades describes in detail Bobby Garcia’s life as a New People’s Army guerrilla based in Southern Tagalog, particularly his experience – together with many others – of interrogation and torture during the anti-infiltration purges of the 1980s. The book won the Manila Critics Circle National Book Award (Social Science category) in 2001 and reached #8 on National Bookstore’s bestseller list in late 2002. The subject of much current debate, it is now in its second printing.

Garcia is one of the convenors of PATH (Peace Advocates for Truth, Justice and Healing), a network of NGOs, survivors and their families, peace and human rights groups, and academics. PATH calls on the Philippine Left to undertake a serious process of self-reflection, works to document the purges and assist the victims, and advocates a Truth Commission in the Philippines to objectively investigate human rights violations committed by state and movement alike. He currently works as programme officer of ASPBAE (Asia-South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education).

Adapted from the author’s remarks at the book launch on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2001.
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I would like to begin by saying that this is not a feel-good book. Some of the things written here could make you squirm, some could make you cry. The book talks about a very dark period in the history of the Philippine revolutionary movement. It talks about the torture and death of hundreds of revolutionaries at the hands of their own comrades. It talks about purges.

Some friends ask me why I had to write about this at all. It has been a long time already. This has been settled. It has been “assessed.” I tell them I did it to satisfy two needs: my own need to understand and society’s need to know. The movement failed to satisfy either of them. My own quest for understanding has never been easy. The so-called objectivity and detachment that normally attend research undertakings were absent in this case because I was part of the phenomenon I was investigating. It was enormously difficult because silence has a way of insisting upon itself.

I am also aware that many people would not want this book to come out at all. It bares things so unpleasant to talk about. But for me, it proved even harder to shut up and let bygones be bygones.

The most frequent reproach I receive from comrades is that the movement is like a family. Internal family matters, especially really unsavory ones, should stay within, they say. The “skeletons in the closet” are better kept away from public attention and scrutiny, for they are private affairs which are the sole responsibility of the family. I’ve heard this argument from so many different people, it seems to be the “official line” of the movement.

I readily agree that the movement is like a family, with its own problems and its own secrets. I accept that, and I make no bones about it. I have also been a part of that family, and I honestly hold some warm affection for it to this day. For one thing, many of my colleagues are still there, making their own sacrifices for the “cause.” But I can assent to silence only if the “skeletons” are figurative. Not when skeletons are literally out there, buried somewhere in shallow mass graves awaiting their due.

I likewise believe the public has no right to interfere in arguments between couples. They can discuss and debate and raise their voices as much as they want. But once the husband beats up the wife, or vice versa, or if children are being abused, it ceases to be a private affair. It becomes a concern of society, which then has the right to intervene. And when a family member dies at the hands of another family member, it is a crime. Society has the right to know and the responsibility to take action. As far as the sanctity and privacy of the family is concerned, we draw the line at domestic violence.

That is also how I look at the movement. Members can debate endlessly and throw polemics in each other’s faces all they want, but the moment they begin torturing and killing people, it is no longer an internal matter. For then we come to questions of accountability and fundamental human rights, in which we all have a stake.

Other people have objected that this book could be harmful to the movement because it can be used by the enemy. Perhaps. Truth revealed is dangerous in the hands of the wrong people. But it is a hundred times more dangerous if truth is not revealed at all. Nothing is more dangerous than atrocious acts unaccounted for. After the Holocaust of the Jews, after the brutality of apartheid, after the mass rapes of Bosnia, survivors have borne witness. How can there be trials and expiation if the atrocities are never known? For justice to prevail, there must first be knowledge. Truth is more than a weapon. It is a prerequisite.

This book may not be perfect. It has its lapses and some may disagree with its analysis. But no one can deny the reality of what I try to illustrate. At the very least, I hope the book will serve as a first step toward coming to terms with the demons that have haunted the revolutionary movement for so long. I have always held that the movement would come out better and stronger if it would face up to these events and undertake a sincere process of reparation and rectification that involves the public, the very people it supposedly serves. I just want to start that process. I hope the movement and all those who took part in these events, whatever their role, will not turn their back on it.

I am happy to say that in writing this book, I have come to a great deal of understanding. It was both an education and a process of acceptance. For many of my tormentors were my close friends. I no longer hold it against them. I now understand why they felt compelled to do the things they did. I am no longer angry at them… except for a very few. But I hope you could at least grant me that.

Ultimately, I can declare that I do not regret having been part of the movement, notwithstanding the painful doses it administered. It gave me a vast field of experience that I couldn’t dream of getting elsewhere. (Not that I would want to experience it again.) It afforded me a deep insight into the human character – both its frailties and its potential to do great things against all odds.

Of course if the movement would ask me to carry an Armalite rifle again and live in the forest with the mites, the mosquitoes, and the snakes, I would have to beg off. But to them I say with honesty, without bitterness, and with so many words to read between the lines: best wishes and more power.
http://www.catanduanesforum.com/blog/qoute-qoute-qoute
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paratang na guibo guibo nin militar ? better ask bobby garcia.

Recycled accusations

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Submitted by donna_quintana on Sat, 02/20/2010 - 6:04pm.

The problem with these rabid elements of AFP/PNP, they kept on recycling fabricated accusations and stories against Ka Satur and other progressive individuals. Wala na po bang bago? Paulit-ulit, hindi naman napatunayan.

Walang korapsyon sa panunungkulan nina Ka Satur at Ka Liza bilang mambabatas. Hindi tulad ng pamunuan ni Gloria at ng AFP/PNP minu-minuto, oras-oras at araw-araw ay punong-puno ng pagnanakaw at pang-aabuso. Nakakatawa kasi po karamihan dito sa atin ay balat-sibuyas. Sumagasot lang kami sa mga panlalait at paninira ninyo. Kung binabalikan at sinasagot kayo ay pinalalabas ninyong kami ang nagsimula.

Manoy Arikdik, ikaw po ang unang nagsabi na “tiny-head ako” at kayo ang mahilig mag-name-calling dito. Ang sa amin ay sagot lang sa mga salita ninyong tila baga’y hindi na salita ng isang edukadong tao. Binabalik ko lang naman po sainyo ang mga sinasabi ninyong wala-sa-tono.

Request ko lang saiyo Sir Dave Templonuevo, huwag ka pong maging bias. Hindi lahat na tao ay aayon sa panlasa mo. Timbangin mong maigi kung sino ang unang nambabato ng mga personal na salita bago mo kami huhusgahan. Kung allergy ka po sa mga aktibista, militante at progresibo okay lang po iyon basta huwag mo naman kaming masyadong gigipitin gamit ang “powers” mo bilang may-ari ng site na ito. Kung ganyan po ang kalakaran dito, sana nilagay na lang sa membership creed ng CF na ang allowed lang na sumali dito ay iyong mga taong umaayon sa gusto ninyo. Pasensya na po, huwag tayong pikon. Usapan lang naman po ito. Palitan ng kuro-kuro depende sa paninindigan at paniniwala natin.

Salamat!