Re: Fw: Timeline of Events Regarding Gloriagate, Juetenggate



Pietro E Reyes, III wrote:
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:25:34 +0800
> From: Simbahang Lingkod ng Bayan <slb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Dear SLB friends,
>
> Many have asked for some sort of a timeline of recent events related to the
> crisis our nation is in. Here's what we have compiled. Hope this helps. God
> bless us all.
>
> Timeline of Events Regarding Gloriagate, Juetenggate
>
> (sources: abs-cbnnews.com, newsbreak, simbahang lingkod ng bayan)
>
> May 30 - Philippine senators open hearings into opposition allegations that
> Arroyo's husband and other relatives took payoffs from gambling syndicates.
> Archbishop Oscar V Cruz presents self-confessed jueteng lord Wilfredo "Boy"
> Mayor to the Senate. Mayor accuses presidential son Mikey Arroyo of
> collecting jueteng money.
>
> June 4 - Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye tells the media the opposition is
> plotting to release an audio recording of conversations between President
> Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Elections Commissioner Virgilio Garcillano.
>
> June 6 - Media air allegations that Arroyo pressured nation's election
> commissioner during tight 2004 presidential vote count, cite audio tape of
> purported phone call.
>
> - Bunye plays two conversation recordings to Palace reporters,
> acknowledging that one of the voices belongs to the President.
>
> - Richard Garcia, a self-confessed jueteng bagman, corroborates
> Mayor's testimony in the Senate.
>
> June 7 - Opposition lawyer Alan Paguia releases a shortened version of the
> three-hour conversations purportedly between the President, Garcillano, and
> First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo, among others.
>
> - Garcillano denies that it is his voice on the tape.
>
> June 8 - Malacañang relieves Brig Gen Marlu Quevedo, chief of the
> Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (ISAFP), after
> the ISAFP comes under suspicion in the wiretapping scandal. (But he still
> continues to hold the post.)
>
> - Rep Ignacio "Iggy" Arroyo's aide, Edgardo Ruado, claims the
> "Gary" in the recording sounds like him.
>
> June 9 - Bunye withdraws earlier statement that it's the President's voice
> in the recording
>
> - Sandra Cam appears in the Senate, saying she personally
> delivered jueteng money to President Arroyo's son Rep Mikey Arroyo and
> brother-in-law Rep Ignacio "Iggy" Arroyo.
>
> June 10 - Samuel Ong, former deputy director of the National Bureau of
> Investigation (NBI), comes out with the "mother of all tapes," pointing to
> ISAFP as the source. He takes sanctuary at the San Carlos Seminary.
>
> - Sen Panfilo Lacson says an Australian voice identification
> firm has certified the recordings as authentic.
>
> June 11 - Susan Roces visits Ong in the San Carlos Seminary
>
> June 13 - ISAFP agent T/Sgt Vidal doble's wife says Ong was detaining her
> husband in the seminary. Ong tells the media Doble gave him the recordings
> then leaves the seminary.
>
> June 14 - Sen Francisco Tatad claims a US firm has confirmed Arroyo's voice
> in the recording.
>
> June 15 - NBI files sedition charges against Ong.
>
> June 16 - Sen Franklin Drilon calls for the President to break her silence
> on the voice recordings.
>
> June 17 - Doble says that, according to Ong, President Estrada's mistress,
> Laarni Enriquez, was the source of the PhP2 million that Ong gave to him.
>
> June 21 - Lawmakers open probe into allegations that Arroyo tried to sway
> 2004 election result, veracity of audio tape.
>
> June 22 - Vice President Noli de Castro meets with former President Joseph
> Ejercito Estrada.
>
> June 27 - PGMA's unprecedented act of public contrition, aired nationwide
> on television in which she admitted that it was she who was talking in
> wiretapped phone conversations with a high COMELEC official.
>
> June 28 - PCIJ reports on Cabinet Doves
>
> June 29 - Arroyo says her scandal-prone husband has agreed to leave the
> country.
>
> - Susan Roces condemns the President for stealing the
> presidency.
>
> June 30 - House of Representatives plays Alan Paguia's tape.
>
> - Former President Corazon Aquino rejects the option of
> another "People Power"
>
> July 1 - Supreme Court grants the petition of some opposition figures for a
> temporary injunction stopping the implementation of Republic Act 9337 (the
> Expanded Value Added Tax [EVAT]), which had been signed into law on 24 May
> 2005 and whose implementing rules and regulations were released on 27 June
> 2005.
>
> - Opposition leads a rally on Ayala Avenue in Makati
>
> - SWS Metro Manila survey shows majority believe PGMA told COMELEC official
> to cheat.
>
> July 4 - Legal threats to Arroyo's economic reforms including key tax
> package hit peso and stocks.
>
> July 6 - Former President Corazon C. Aquino and four bishops visit PGMA in
> Malacañang and urge her to resign
>
> July 7 - PGMA makes an important public announcement
>
> - she says she is not resigning
>
> - she announces a Cabinet revamp
>
> - Vice President de Castro cuts short overseas holiday after
> Arroyo summons him to meeting.
>
> July 8 - Sacked ministers call on Arroyo to quit.
>
> - Manila is put on highest alert level, army and police say.
>
> - Army says it will not intervene in political crisis.
>
> - Former President Corazon C. Aquino calls on PGMA to resign
>
> - Makati Business Club calls on PGMA to resign
>
> - Liberal Party asks PGMA to resign
>
> - Former President Fidel V. Ramos visits Malacañan and manifests
> support for PGMA
>
> July 9 - The Association of Major Religious Superiors in the Philippines
> (AMRSP) issues a call for PGMA to resign
>
> July 10 - The Catholic Bishops´ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issues
> a statement ("Restoring Trust: A Plea for Moral Values in Philippine
> Politics"), which takes off from moral principles and a clear statement on
> the socio-pastoral role of the Church, and on this basis does not demand
> that PGMA resign, but in effect calls her to accountability and recognizes
> the compatibility with the Gospel of such means of accountability as
> nonviolent appeals for her resignation, the demand for a Truth Commission,
> and the filing of an impeachment case.
>
> July 12 - International rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings
> said separately that their outlook downgrade of the Philippines reflected
> prevailing political uncertainty. Both Fitch and S&P reportedly cited the
> suspension of the EVAT law implementation and political uncertainty as basis
> for their downgrades.
>
> - SC gives former Finance Secretary Cesar Purisima 5 days to
> present counter-reasons on why he should not be charged with contempt of
> court.
>
> - Opposition lawmakers on Tuesday said they will revise an
> existing impeachment complaint filed by lawyer Oliver Lozano instead of
> filing a separate impeachment charge at the House of Representatives. San
> Juan Rep. Ronaldo Zamora said opposition congressmen are also eyeing taking
> control of the impeachment complaint after it was endorsed by Alagad
> party-list Rep. Rodante Marcoleta."
>
> July 13 - 30,000 to 35,000 according to PNP, 40,000 according to Inquirer,
> 70,000 according to Rep. Paras joined the rally in Makati. seeking PGMA's
> and VP Noli de Castro's resignation
>
> July 14 - Gov Chavit Singson, released to media a CD containing wiretapped
> conversations allegedly between former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada and
> several other persons, including former AFP Chief of Staff Gen Joselin
> Nazareno. Plans to assassinate "pandak" (believed to be PGMA) and "tanda"
> (could either be FVR or Gen Abat) could also be heard from the tape.
>
> July 18 - Purisima apologizes to SC. In a four-page statement, he denied
> that he hinted Malacañang had a hand in pressuring the Supreme Court to
> suspend the unpopular EVAT
>
> July 19 - Pulse Asia releases latest survey showing that 8 out of 10
> Filipinos want PGMA out.
>
> - President Arroyo on Tuesday repeated that she won't step down
> and announced the creation of a Truth Commission to look into vote-rigging
> allegations against her.
>
> July 21 - Impeachment complaint filed vs VP De Castro by lawyer Elly Velez
> Lao Pamatong, saying the VP committed betrayal of public trust and culpable
> violation of the Constitution when he failed to fix a community tax
> certificate to his certificate of candidacy during the last elections and
> did not have it sworn before a notary public as required by law.
>
> - A group of young officers who nearly ousted President Corazon
> Aquino in a 1989 coup attempt announced in a three-page statement it was
> breaking a 10-year-old peace agreement to try and bring down President
> Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and save the country.
>
> July 22 - Sen Ping Lacson holds "true state of the nation address" or TSONA
> at the Manila Hotel. He says that Mrs Arroyo personally supervised the
> cheating in the last elections.
>
> July 25 - PGMA delivers short State of the Nation Address (SONA). She asks
> legislators to start the "great debate on Charter Change."
>
> - Opposition lawmakers files an impeachment complaint against
> President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, accusing her of election fraud and
> corruption, but failed to garner the 79 votes needed to immediately send the
> case to the Senate for trial. Only 42 congressmen signed.
>
> - Biggest anti-Arroyo rally so far. Organizers say 80,000 came,
> police estimates the number at 35,000, Inquirer sees between 40,000 to
> 60,000.
>
> July 26 - Impeachment complaint versus COMELEC commissioners by lawyer Elly
> Velez Lao Pamatong and former Ilocos Sur Governor Antonio Villanueva for
> alleged "culpable violation of the Constitution and betrayal of public
> trust," when they were branded "nuisance candidates" in the last
> presidential elections.
>
> July 27 - Sandra Cam holds press conference and discloses that she has
> information about a summoning of COMELEC regional directors before the 2004
> elections to meet PGMA in a hotel, where they were also allegedly given PhP
> 2 million each by Lilia Pineda, wife of suspected jueteng lord Rodolfo
> "Bong" Pineda.
>
> July 28 - Presidential Management Staff chief Rigoberto Tiglao said it is
> inappropriate for the President to commit herself to any term cut because of
> the legal ramifications.

>
>And the sun comes up every morning in the Land of the Perpetually Stupid....The air quality has gone to *** and is causing major health problems...pollution is everywhere in the cockroach rat infested hell hole...garbage continues to pile up on city streets and back alley-ways...kidnappers running around by the truck load...teachers continue to teach students to spell cat with a "K" and that you spell hello "hallo"...crime and corruption are running rampant and in the muslim south people carry guns in public and use them...terrorists are allowed to roam free as they are "suspected" terrorists....major business is pulling out at a record pace (FedEx just announced a pullout in 2008 from Subic Bay)...the Judiciary continues to hand down sentences that are laughable and/or refuse to hear cases for the common man...the Pluracracy keeps 1% of the population wealthy, keeps the middle class from emerging and the vast majority of the population dirt poor and perpetually stupid...piss poor schools for the commoner...piss poor infrastructure for the common working class... keep the minds of their subjects busy on a Soap Opera like operation that occupies the Palace...that way elected officials can rape government coffers, extort money from legitimate business, and provide safe havens for their criminal syndicates...Other than that its just a SUPER place!

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