Peninsula faus-pax

i hear this: ressa’s people were checked in at the pen many days (or hours?) prior to mr. trillanes’ and magdalo’s march and violent seizure of control of that establishment. up teacher or former, odina bagnat, id’d in the video huddled with nicanor faeldon, composer of the song that won in a u.n. tilt, really did give an id to the cashiered captain.  the questions in my mind are too many. none have answers.

why did ces and co. check in at the pen, if true? booma cruz of probe and pcij as well as a few of her companions are my friends. but they were not at the pen, since they still work with gma?

i was there and looking for my nephew who had the bad sense to side with sonny trillanes’ magdalo. i never found my nephew but he was the last one, i saw on tv, to be caught. well, at least he wasn’t harmed. i saw sandra — although i never did talk to her nor to any other press people inside or outside the pen. why was she out of the loop?

then the people of the press were ushered out, most of them with cuffs and put on a bus to bicutan.

in another country, that would not have happened.  the media persons would have even been wearing government issued bullet proof vests and gas masks just to help cover the event and not get shot or be tearified by the tear gas.  but these people were in their working or house clothes, none to protect them from gunfire nor the obnoxious gas.

but that is in another country.  here, the media were the reception committee and the darlings of the coup makers, and who knows, probably the ghost writers too. certainly, i heard that too.  or haven’t you?

it’s too late for government to respond accordingly to the assault of maria ressa and crew.  they lack hard intelligence; the supreme court even did a much better job than the executive in verifying the history of the events at pen as they unfolded.  i bet chief justice puno knows much more now than he’s actually showing. more than all the agencies of the government combined  —  about what really transpired at the pen.

at the end of it, the pen was a faux pax.  not so much for trillanes — since he has been a mere pawn from the beginning (expose of navy anomalies, oakwood siege, and so on and so forth).  it was a lesson learned for maria ressa, luchi cruz valdez, ces drilon, and even, God bless her soul, odina bagnat.  how was she placed in the loop at all, for christ’s sake when it was an abs-cbn affair?  close ba sila?

for now, let the sleeping dogs lie.  time will come when the truth will be known and that would be when the media should be able to open its eyes to what is really happening around them.  and us.

there was a time, when i told a horde of gay and lesbian movie writers straight to their faces, that they did not understand a thing they were saying and that did they not read their own newspapers?  the reaction was a storm!

i got a grand time at notorious publicity.  our staff at the office compiled several feet-thick news clippings from those lovely gays and handsome lesbianas in the so-called movie writers’ world of bad writeups against yours truly.

it was hard, it was truly hard to be suddenly famous!  although i never did get any fan calls on the phone.

so there, the pen incident will soon be laid to rest, never mind that there are threats to change this regime and perhaps make a certain tv station the revolutionary government’s favored channel.

thanks, and no thanks!