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Crisis Mode

Cory weighs in

Tweet Former President Corazon C. Aquino appeals for both sides to stick to the system and remain sober. The President’s election lawyer says they have to wait until someone files a case, and then they can respond. No news on AM radio or TV on the actual protest rally, except …

Alcuaz: we need shade

Tweet Linggoy Alcuaz chirps on the radio that it’s too hot for much to happen now, but things should perk up for them in the mid to late afternoon. A little psychological operations on his part: “we believe that most of the ordinary policeman are already with us.” More psy-ops, …

Susan: “No”

Tweet Susan Roces has just left San Carlos seminary after making the statement that she says “No” to people going out in the streets, or mounting people power. She admits she wept upon hearing Ong’s testimony; but once more, as she did at her husband’s funeral, she’s made it clear …

Maza needs Susan

Tweet The serendipitously named Liza Maza, Communist member of Congress, issues the following appeal: June 11, 2005 NO RECOURSE FOR ARROYO BUT RESIGNATION -MAZA “Resign now. It is the one honorable recourse that President Arroyo can take having lost all moral fiber to lead our country.” Gabriela Women’s Partylist Representative …

Peek-a-boo

Tweet Police are outside the gate of San Carlos seminary, asking to get in, ostensibly to inquire as to the circumstances surrounding a mysterious white car with an Armalite (M-16) inside. The police continue to plead for the public’s and Ong’s, cooperation. Susan Roces says the issue isn’t about politics. …

Siesta before the storm

Tweet From “500″ to “5″, the presence of the police at San Carlos Seminary, according to the radio, has shrunk. Naptime for the cops, apparently. Susan Roces apparently continues to be at the seminary, talking to Atty. Ong. Radio says Ong’s house was ransacked by agents of the Central Police …

While we were sleeping

Tweet BY JOVE!: WISH: is the place to begin the day, by finding out what was going on in the Palace while the rest of the country slept (his blog is making history, together with that of the PCIJ as the first real-time journalists’ accounts of a Philippine crisis -except …

Binay transmits Roces message

Tweet Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay: Susan Roces sends her congratulations to Atty. Ong; she hopes there won’t be violence; she hopes they’ll face the media “as soon as possible.” Mayor Binay looks very jolly indeed. Entries related to the ongoing events are now categorized as “Crisis Mode” as they’re being …

Baseball cap man

Tweet GMA7′s Saksi showed a tv screen showing in turn the videotape Ong waved around during his presscon. A man in a baseball cap, face hidden, interviewed by Ong rather stiltedly drones that he, a member of ISAFP, together with some other colleagues, are sick of the corruption of the …