GMA7′s Saksi reports Atty. Ong was disaffected over being passed over for the position of top honcho of the National Bureau of Investigation. Former police general Wycoco got the job; since then, according to Wycoco, Ong has held a grudge against the President.

A priest (“Fr. Anton”) at the seminary has been interviewed on the radio. He says the position of Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Rosales is for the protection of human rights; is obligated to protect lives; is non-partisan; is against anarchy as being against God’s order. The Archbishop of Manila has given orders for no one to [...]

There doesn’t seem to be the concept of sanctuary, which is still respected in some Catholic countries (i.e. once you seek sanctuary in a Catholic church, the civil authorities can’t go get you). The NBI says it wants to take Atty. Ong into “protective custody”. A hapless general is pleading on radio for the priests [...]

Additions to the permutations: Brother Eddie Villanueva received his TV station franchise with the ok of then President Ramos. Jess Sison, Villanueva’s spokesman who is at San Carlos seminary upon the invitation of Linggoy Alcuaz (Copa-original), is a known Ramos man; Alcuaz’s fellow Copa-original, Pastor “Boy” Saycon, is a known close Ramos associate. FVR has [...]

Senator Panfilo Lacson has just phoned in to TV and said that he sent the controversial tapes for analysis to Australia, and that he’s received a report that the tape has not been tampered with. A subsequent report on the identities of the voices in the tapes is on its way, according to him. Going [...]

Jesus Sison, spokesman of Jesus is Lord head and presidential candidate Eddie Villanueva, is at San Carlos Seminary, summoned there, he says, by Linggoy Alcuaz, who was active in anti-Estrada protests but who’s joined the opposition. So, there’s the potential of a couple more reservoirs of warm bodies for mass actions: not only the Church, [...]

What follows is a statement from the convenors of tomorrow’s protests against the government. The statement makes for interesting reading, and the implications of the statement should be understood. Pilgrims for Peace Statement on the National Day of Mourning June 11, 2005 We in Pilgrims for Peace, an inter-faith and multi-sectoral network of peace advocates, [...]

San Carlos Seminary, in Guadalupe, Makati, is the place to be right now. Apparently Atty. Ong has been brought there, which suggests he’s under the protection of the clergy. A funny incident just took place in which Senator Ramon Magsaysay, Jr. apparently on his way to a dinner at Rockwell (nearby) was called in. There [...]

Tonight to tomorrow determines the strategic lay of the land for the contending camps. On the side of the President: those who don’t like the opposition; those who are loyal to her, personally; the Philippine National Police. Against the President: the Communists; the Estrada loyalists; other oppositionists; ISAFP (the intelligence service of the AFP); a [...]