The Supposed Plot Against Arroyo

The International Press seems to take this threat seriously but in the Philippines there is widespread scepticism. A less outright sketical article can be found in the AP. The article below is from the Daily Tribune a regular thorn in the side of the Arroyo administration. The plot is a good excuse to keep Arroyo away from protests. For someone who first got in through people power Arroyo fears demonstrations it seems. I guess she knows that they can on occasion work!


Too hoary a slay try tale
EDITORIAL

02/16/2008
Gloria Arroyo and her military-police generals are incredibly moronic in their ways of justifying their establishing a Big Brother state in their attempts to spy on, and cow the Filipino people into state submission, along with their bid to gain public sympathy.
The assassination plot on Gloria by a group they claim has ties with the Indonesian-based Jemaah Islamiyah, the bandit group Abu Sayaff, a breakaway group of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, and — get this — even the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (NPA), is too hoary a Palace tale, given that, as claimed by the Philippine National Police, the document on this alleged assassination attempt on Gloria, plus other alleged targets, was, uh, found in a seat of a parked car somewhere in Metro Manila by a security guard that had turned over the document, written in Arabic, to the police.
Notice too, that Gloria’s police and military goons don’t quite bring out the details — leaving them vague, such as the non-identification of parking lot, the city itself, but there was, too, the other target claimed, such as unidentified embassies — which means the place of target is Makati — and just where the big rally against Gloria would be held.
As for the entry of the NPAs and the other commies infiltrating the rallies, which is why there are military troops deployed, as well as the police, that is such an old discredited line.
Just how many times have the police and military come up with this claim, and just how many times have they been proven wrong?
How many times did Gloria and her aides come up with coup plot and bombing claims everytime there was what they feared a massive protest action against her, all on the basis of their manufactured “intelligence reports,” only to later claim that they had neutralized these threats?
They are just too moronic for words. What was the business of an unidentified security guard opening the door of a parked private vehicle, and taking with him some documents from that car then immediately bringing this to the police? Was the car suspiciously parked for days on end? Why open the car door just like that just to get documents from the seat when the car could have been rigged with an explosive?
Then too, these assassins must be so amateurish and stupid for them to leave such “incriminating” documents inside a presumably unlocked vehicle. Yet the police and the Presidential Secrutiy Group (PSG) of Gloria claim that this incredulous tale is a serious slay threat. Notice that everytime, the military and police always claim to find “documents” even during claimed encounters with the rebels. They are so good at planting manufactured evidence, complete in Arabic too.
But wasn’t this “big reveal” of a slay plot on Gloria by her prostituted police and military just conveniently timed for Gloria to have an excuse not to attend the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) homecoming where the Commander-in-Chief is traditionally present? And wasn’t it also timed for Gloria to gain public sympathy given the fact that a whooping majority of Filipinos want her out of Malacañang and pronto?
Evidently, while Gloria can bank on her prostituted generals in the police and the military, she can’t quite bank on either the former graduates of the PMA or perhaps even the fresh batch of candidates for graduation of the very young miltary officers.
Talk making the rounds was that the alumni — or at least a group within the alumni -- were prepared to greet Gloria with a manifesto of sorts that would impact negatively on her, plus staging some mild protest action against her, to get the military sentiments against her governance and her prostitution of the military across, the reason Gloria chose not to be in Baguio for the PMA rites.
It is also too coincidental that this assassination report is announced by Malacañang at this particular time, considering that the public focus is on the abduction of ZTE-National Broadband Network.
If as claimed by her police chief, these documents were found last week yet, why come up with these now, and why even bother to announce it at this time?
It would have been better, if, as claimed, the assassination plot is a true one, for them to have kept quiet about it and worked silently to get at the assigned assassins.
Security people do not announce their finds and their moves, to give the assassins — if there is a shred of truth in that claim — a chance to go to ground.
That’s how moronic they, in the police and the military, are.