Gloria Arroyo is NOT Guilty!

Gloria Arroyo is Not Guilty because electoral fraud in the Philippines has been a tradition in the Philippines Election since Ferdinand Marcos time! And there was no law being pass to stop the electoral fraud traditions! It is continually practice or adopted by all politicians and voters in the Philippines!

cmon crystal! You love the Philippines and the Filipino right? I know you do, so enough is enough!! Have to bring this monster down, she deserves what she gets

This is also the first charge. There will be many more to follow after this one. First to come to mind is the lottery fraud she was part of.

Also I think you are incorrect about the laws being in place to stop the fraud. I would be very shocked if there was not laws in place after the new constitution was written

Plus if there was no laws to stop election fraud then Cory Aquino would have never taken office. Marcos offically won that election:)

How did you get from Mindanao to Canada without going to the Canadian embassy in Manila?

crystal wrote:

Gloria Arroyo is Not Guilty because electoral fraud in the Philippines has been a tradition in the Philippines Election since Ferdinand Marcos time! And there was no law being pass to stop the electoral fraud traditions! It is continually practice or adopted by all politicians and voters in the Philippines!

pasig yankeeNY wrote:

This is also the first charge. There will be many more to follow after this one. First to come to mind is the lottery fraud she was part of.
Also I think you are incorrect about the laws being in place to stop the fraud. I would be very shocked if there was not laws in place after the new constitution was written

This is the beginning of a cultural change in Philippine politics. This is where the cleansing of political activities and habits from the evil and disease of graft and corruption.

This is a similar scenario as it was in Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan during the late 1960s - early 1970s and now those countries have some of the most stable governments in Asia.

My heart goes to the Filipino people. Decades of selfishness, nepotism, indolence and helplessness will eventually be a thing of the past. Just wish this process speeds up.

Crystal, please see the picture of this. Tita Gloria does not care about the common tao. She does not care about you or me, only her family and close friends.

I am not being churlish here Crystal.

Think about it.

pasig yankeeNY wrote:

Plus if there was no laws to stop election fraud then Cory Aquino would have never taken office. Marcos offically won that election:)

Cory Aquino were only using Filipino People to use against Marcos to protect the Hacienda Luisita! Cory Aquino or Aquino Family did not do anything to Filipino people lives except to protect their land of Hacienda Luisita. Corazon Aquino was just sitting down in the Malacananh palace and did not improve Filipino lives. Corazon Aquino was just using the Filipino people but the truth is the Filipino were bot telling the truth why Cory Aquino used Filipino people as her scapegoat for her People's Power! People's Power and Cory Aquino only to stop Marcos for the Hacienda Luisita ! Cory Aquino deceived all Filipino people to used them against Marcos BUT BUT BUT She did not stop all the Corrupt Politicians . She allowed them to continue their practice. Cory Aquino DID NOT!! DID NOT!! Put Marcos to JAIL AND HIS FAMILY and all HIS CRONIES TO JAIL because there was a bargain of negotiations of HACIENDA LUISSITA!! That's the truth!!! THAT"S WHY CORY AQUINO was mad and rallied against GLORIA ARROYO and want her to resign because of the Land Distributions!! CORY AQUINO DID NOT STOP ALL THE CORRUPT POLITICIANS IN THE PHILIPPINES!!! CORY AQUINO_ wants the People's Power only_ TO PROTECT THEIR LANDS IN HACIENDA LUISITA THAT " SUPPOSE TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO ALL THE FARMERS!!! THE LAND SHOULD BE AWARDED AND DISTRIBUTED TO ALL FARMERS BECAUSE SHARING HOLDERS DOESN'T ELEVATE FARMERS LIVES!! only the Aquino and Conjuanco family benefited the land !

pasig yankeeNY wrote:

cmon crystal! You love the Philippines and the Filipino right? I know you do, so enough is enough!! Have to bring this monster down, she deserves what she gets

Why do you want me to stop from telling the truth. It's all true that the country Philippines has been traditionally doing this kind of practice. It's been going on and NO NO Poliricians, Senators, Judges, Supreme Court etc to stop this kind of practice in the Philippines. Even the 5 years old kid in the Philippines knows this practice. During elections all Politicians in the Philippines will do something to win through electoral frauds,- all the Politicians in the Philippines knows these. Why Cory Aquino didn't put Marcos Family, Fidel Ramos, Juan Ponce Enrile , the Roman Catholic Church head and et al in the Philippines to JAIL?? WHY JUST GLORIA ARROYO??? PEOPLE WHO COLLABORATED WITH MARCOS, PEOPLE WHO COLLABORATED with GLORIA ARROYO where are they?, WHY ARE NOT BEING PUNISH AND PUT THEM TO JAIL?? WHY THERE"S A SELECTION OF WHO"S CORRUPT GOVERNMENT CAN PUT TO JAIL? Philippines Politics are TOXIC. IT"S A DISEASE!! It's always been like that.

YES, there's a Constitution Laws in the Philippines, BUT none of them are following the Law! Philippines is not a serious country when it comes to Law because most people always abuse the system. Corazon Aquino did not pursue to put all Marcos Cronies to Jail! Pinoy only choose GLORIA ARROYO because of Land Distributions in Hacienda Luisista! Why would the AQUINO and COJUANCO be Compensated for the land while they already sucked up billions of money from itfor many many years by them.

And the law in Canada says you amd all citizens of the Philippines have to go through the Canadian embassy in Manila to get to Canada. But you have said several times that you have never been to Manila! So how did you get to Canada without going to the Canadian embassy in Manila?

Why are you so terrified of this simple question?

crystal wrote:

YES, there's a Constitution Laws in the Philippines, BUT none of them are following the Law! Philippines is not a serious country when it comes to Law because most people always abuse the system. Corazon Aquino did not pursue to put all Marcos Cronies to Jail! Pinoy only choose GLORIA ARROYO because of Land Distributions in Hacienda Luisista! Why would the AQUINO and COJUANCO be Compensated for the land while they already sucked up billions of money from itfor many many years by them.

And basically Crystal's logic here is that if something has been done for a while in the Philippines then it shouldn't be prosecuted. Therefore do away with any arrests and prosecution of sex tourists. After all how can you punish those people when it's been done for so long there?

That's Crystal's logic. Makes as much sense as a girl raised in Mindanao getting to Canada without going to the Canadian embassy in Manila!!

wtf first a local mayor seeks house arest for the dumb ex president then i hear this on bandila news and read this

MANILA, Philippines — A Philippine court on Thursday gave former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo five days to move to a government hospital after she was arrested on electoral fraud charges at a high-end private medical facility. Her allies decried the move as a political vendetta.

Prosecutors say Arroyo should not receive preferential treatment. They want her detained in jail like any other suspect, but her lawyers say she is suffering from a bone ailment.

Doctors who last week said she was fit to be discharged testified Thursday that she needs additional treatment for a colon inflammation she developed in recent days.

Arroyo's lawyers want her held under house arrest at the private hospital or at home while she fights the charges.

President Benigno Aquino III's government, vowing to uproot corruption and blaming Arroyo for graft while she was in power, have refused to let her travel overseas for medical treatment, even after the Supreme Court ruled in her favor. She wore a head and neck brace as she was turned away from the Manila airport last month.

The arrest of Arroyo, who survived several coup attempts sparked by corruption allegations during her nine-year presidency, has galvanized the Philippines.

Judge Jesus Mupas of the Pasay Regional Trial Court gave Arroyo, 64, until next Tuesday to transfer from the private hospital where she was arrested last month to a government medical facility.

He said that considering Arroyo is under legal custody, "it is difficult to justify if the accused will remain in a private hospital."

The judge said she can bring her nurses and doctors to the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Manila - the same facility where Arroyo's predecessor, Joseph Estrada, was confined after he was toppled in 2001 on corruption charges. He was later convicted and pardoned by Arroyo.

The court said, however, that Arroyo - like other detainees - won't be allowed to use a cellphone or computer.

The court has not yet ruled on the petition for house arrest and Arroyo's allies have argued for lenient treatment and respect for the former president.

Arroyo's son, Rep. Dato Arroyo, last week decried what he called the "nonstop vilification of my mother" and "the never-ending cases" being filed against her.

The Associated Press

she is certainly putting on a good show but not one soul protesting if she was well liked by the people the whole country would be behind her

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, farmers victorious vs Aquino hacienda
By: Rigoberto Tiglao
Philippine Daily Inquirer
10:36 pm | Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
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You’d have to visit Hacienda Luisita to realize how vast it is, why it’s been a symbol not only of elite rule in our country but of its hypocrisy and powers of deceit. It’s the biggest hacienda in the country, with a total area of 64.4 square kilometers—nearly as big as the cities of Manila and Makati combined.
The sugarcane fields as far as the eye can see were a marvel for me when I first visited the hacienda in 1970. It was troubling though to see emasculated sugar workers, their skin blackened by the hot Central Luzon sun, their shoulders nearly buckling under the weight of sugarcane poles, and after that to be served US steak from nearby American Clark Airfield in an air-conditioned hacienda mansion. Class exploitation, class struggle are not ideas but realities in this hacienda, I then felt.
Indeed, it was in this hacienda that the legendary guerrilla Commander Dante, as a teenage cane-cutter, decided to take up arms against the ruling class. Yet it was ironic that it was also in the hacienda that an opposition figure named Benigno Aquino Jr.—who married into the Cojuangco clan that owned the plantation—brokered a historic meeting between Dante and Maoist demagogue Jose Sison, which led to the organization of the New People’s Army. The hacienda until martial law would be a nursery and refuge for the fledgling NPA, which Aquino calculated he could utilize in his fight against Marcos.
It wasn’t Marcos who invented behest loans. The hacienda, together with the sugar refinery, was acquired from the European firm Tabacalera in 1958 by the clan led by President Aquino’s maternal grandfather Jose Cojuangco through a P12.9-million loan from the Government Service Insurance System, and through a $2.1 million-loan from the Central Bank of the Philippines. The loan’s condition though was that the hacienda’s agricultural lands would be sold to its tenants at “reasonable” costs.
Because the Cojuangcos rejected the demands made several times by the central bank and the Land Authority starting in 1967 to implement this condition, the government in 1980 filed a case in the Manila Regional Trial Court to compel them to do so. There are no tenants to distribute the land to, the Cojuangcos replied.
The case dragged on for five years until Judge Bernardo Pardo (years later the Comelec chairman and then Supreme Court justice) in December 1985 ruled that the hacienda’s lands should be distributed to the farmers. Persecution by the Marcos regime, the clan claimed, and ran to the Court of Appeals.
Two months later, the Edsa Revolution of February 1986 would save the hacienda for the Cojuangcos. In 1988 during President Cory’s term, the Department of Agrarian Reform, the Central Bank of the Philippines, and the GSIS informed the Court of Appeals that they were no longer interested in pursuing the case to require the Cojuangcos to distribute the lands to the farmers. The Court ruled that the hacienda would instead fall under the provisions of President Aquino’s “comprehensive agrarian reform program.”
Fortunately for the Cojuangcos, that program provided for an option in which, instead of distributing the land, the landlord may issue the farmers papers called stock certificates, representing their supposed minority ownership of shares in the corporation the landlord sets up to own the hacienda.

This scheme made land reform such a farce that only 12 other much smaller haciendas dared use it. Cory though was the saint of Philippine democracy who could do no wrong, and the defiance by her clan’s hacienda of the Constitution’s land-reform mandate receded in the public mind. Starting in the 1990s, parts of the Hacienda would be transformed into a profitable modern complex with an industrial park, a business center, a shopping mall, two hotels, and a world-class golf course.
In November 2004, after the so-called Luisita massacre in which seven striking plantation workers were killed at the picket line—and seven others murdered one by one by assassins later—the DAR, under Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, accelerated its investigation over a complaint by the hacienda union that the stock distribution scheme was a farce.
In December 2005, upon recommendation of the DAR, the Presidential Agrarian Reform Council—a body Cory set up in 1987, made up of 15 Cabinet members and chaired by President Arroyo—ordered the hacienda’s fake land reform ended, and for the land to be distributed to the farmer-workers.
“Persecution by the Arroyo regime,” the clan then complained.
This time around though, there was no People Power uprising to overthrow the administration that went against them, so they could hold on to the hacienda. The Cojuangcos appealed to the Supreme Court. It is only six years later last week that the Court upheld the Arroyo government’s decision.
The Court’s decision could mean the clan’s bankruptcy. The Court not only ordered the Cojuangcos to immediately distribute 4,915 hectares to the haciendas’ farmer-workers. It also ordered them to pay the farmer-workers P1.33 billion, the proceeds of the sale of hacienda lands that became the industrial and business parks. Agrarian reform laws will peg “just compensation” for the clan at 1989 levels, or just about P200 million. Now I understand why they hate Chief Justice Renato Corona so much.
Arroyo’s critics claim she went against the Cojuangcos to retaliate against Cory’s participation in the July 2005 conspiracy to topple her. The counter-argument could be posed in a question: If Arroyo was overthrown in 2005, would the new DAR and a new Cabinet have ordered real land reform at the hacienda?
Now I understand why they would torment and put a former president in jail on the basis of the say-so of a lone witness implicated in the Maguindanao massacre.“Accountability” and “reckoning” have indeed taken a chilling meaning.
Email: tiglao.inquirer@gmail.com

What exactly are the charges against her?
By: Rigoberto Tiglao
Philippine Daily Inquirer
9:48 pm | Wednesday, November 9th, 2011
Ferdinand Marcos in 1980 allowed his archenemy Ninoy Aquino to go to Boston for a heart bypass surgery, even as the procedure had become routine since 1975 at the Philippine Heart Center. Aquino had been sentenced to death for murder and subversion after five years of trial by Military Commission No. 2, whose legality was affirmed by the Supreme Court.
The Sandiganbayan in 2004 allowed Joseph Estrada to travel to Hong Kong so that the doctor he chose could undertake a very routine procedure to correct his knee ailment. Estrada’s plunder trial was then underway for nearly four years, with credible eye-witnesses against him such as Ilocos Gov. Chavit Singson and Clarissa Ocampo and roomfuls of documents, especially bank accounts supporting the allegations that he enriched himself in office.
In sharp contrast to these past situations, the cases against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo haven’t even reached the very first stage of trial. Yet she is barred from seeking medical attention abroad for a rare disease that couldn’t be cured after three operations.
What exactly are the charges against Arroyo, which Justice Secretary Leila de Lima claims bar her from traveling abroad? The complainants should already raise very red warning signals as to the charges’ authenticity. Two were filed by the party-list Bayan Muna, which is allied with the Communist Party of the Philippines whose New People’s Army suffered serious setbacks under Arroyo’s watch. The other leftist party Akbayan calculates that the publicity in filing its own charges against Arroyo would boost the senatorial ambitions of its leaders. And there is Frank Chavez, who perhaps not so coincidentally filed his attention-getting charges when President Aquino was still looking around for a new ombudsman.
While the term “plunder,” which conjures up images of pillage, in the charges was effectively designed for media impact, it creates a fatal legal flaw. These charges will be thrown out simply because the crime of plunder that she is accused of doesn’t have anything to do with the things she is alleged to have done. The requirement for conviction under the Anti-Plunder Law of 1991 is that there is proof of personal material gain of over P50 million—“an asset, property, and business enterprise or material possession” amassed by the accused government official through graft. Estrada was convicted of plunder because prosecutors uncovered his bank accounts where he kept over P500 million acquired through graft.
All the charges against Arroyo, except one that doesn’t have an iota of credibility, do not even claim that she made money out of graft.
First, the most ridiculous, filed by Chavez: that Arroyo (together with other officials such as the unassailable Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo) transferred overseas workers’ fund to the Philippine Health Insurance System. This “plunder” put millions of overseas Filipino workers under the umbrella of the state’s medical care system.
Second, the most futile: that government funds for fertilizers were allocated to over 500 congressmen, mayors and governors who supported Arroyo’s election bid in 2004. But Arroyo is not charged here for amassing money from the funds. Would any congressmen or local politician testify that he or she received illegal funds?
Third, the most unintelligent: the alleged misuse of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office’s intelligence funds. It turns out that these were allocated for such purposes as emergency operations that saved overseas Filipino workers’ lives. Even Sen. Francis Escudero pointed out that this charge is nonsense, as there is not even an accusation of personal gain on the part of Arroyo.

Fourth, the weirdest: that P72 million in capital gains tax was not collected from the sale of the old Iloilo City airport to Megaworld. Even Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares says that there was no capital gains tax to be collected in the first place, as it is government selling the property.

Fifth, the most media-driven: that ZTE Corp., China’s largest listed telecoms company which this year overtook Apple as the fourth biggest cell phone vendor in the world, gave Arroyo a bribe to bag a government contract. This allegation of a bribe to Arroyo was solely made by one Dante Madriaga, who claimed he overheard it from his employer. He however refused to sign his affidavit, which he had distributed all over cyberspace. The Senate suspected he was fabricating lies and withdrew the security it initially provided him. Sen. Panfilo Lacson disclosed that Madriaga initially asked him P10 million for his false testimony.

And sixth, the most sycophantic charge: De Lima’s own 2007 poll fraud allegation, her “compliance” move to Mr. Aquino’s announcement that his administration would file charges against Arroyo by this month. But her main witnesses are the likes of Zaldy Ampatuan and the clan’s underboss Norie Unas, who are facing or will face charges for the Maguindanao massacre. Their motives—obviously to save their own skins—are so suspect that any principled judge would strike out their testimonies.

It is because of these ridiculous, futile, unintelligent, weird, media-driven and sycophantic charges that a former president is being barred from seeking medical aid abroad that could save her life.

And we haven’t even discussed the unconstitutionality of barring a citizen from traveling abroad without a court order, as constitutional expert Fr. Joaquin Bernas, S.J., explained in a column in this paper. We are seeing the eclipse of reason and justice under this administration.

If De Lima’s order is intended for her senatorial ambitions, she has made a big blunder. Filipinos will not take kindly her callousness over the suffering of a former president, just because of her unprincipled servility to an equally hard-hearted boss.

E-mail for comments: tiglao.inquirer@gmail.com

So how exactly did you get from Mindano to Canada without visiting the Canadian embassy in Manila?

Sige na! If she's not guilty then go ahead and bring her back from her stolen power! And kick Noynoy out just like what they did to the duly president Joseph Estrada. Kaya naman nila di ba! I dare you!

I agree with crystal! You people should know that election fraud are rampant in the Philippines. Even barangay officials commit this kind of treachery. It is wrong and it's good that somebody will get what they deserve. But my question is why treat the former president as a convicted criminal when the case is still on going? Why are they only accusing the former president? How about erap and ramos? Why the current administration attacks the supreme court about it's decisions?
I know pinoys are intelligent people. Try to find out what really is the issue of P-noy against Arroyo. Crystal had supplied something here. Also try to search YELLOW PROPAGANDA in YouTube for a little history lesson.

Givemeliberty wrote:

That's Crystal's logic. Makes as much sense as a girl raised in Mindanao getting to Canada without going to the Canadian embassy in Manila!!

Why get too personal. Try to follow the thread and comment on issues, not on because a person comes from Mindanao or anywhere. I never thought someone who comments here being too narrow minded. Maybe you should better comment on some stupid YouTube videos!