A dramedy in the Philippines...a short-lived FAILED MUTINY!
By tombiz
@tombiz (2036)
Philippines
November 30, 2007 6:17am CST
November 29, 2007...the Philippines experienced yet again another failed mutiny from a small group of usually unarmed military and civilian personalities lead by the now-famous Senator Trillanes and General Lim and supported by former VP Guingona. As expected, the mutiny failed to ignite the all-out support from other military personnel and the great masses...and so the result of failure was already expected.
With these developments, the Philippines is now again back on the map of having an unstable democracy in this side of the world. Though some may disagree with this assessment, I believe I am personally tired of this type of drama gripping the whole country and broadcasted to the whole world.
Yes, the administration of GMA committed a lot of misdeeds along the way some big some small, but I do not personally support any kind of military action to unseat her from power. This is like making another mistake to correct the present mistakes that we already have.
Well, at the end of these things, GMA is still at Malacanang and we go back to normal lives...but thanks anyway for a very exciting, thrilling and melodramatic "Pinoy Big Brother" type of entertainment.
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6 responses
@mihopopcorn (248)
• Philippines
30 Nov 07
Trillanes is a loser who could hardly get his act right. He does NOT deserve media attention. He is no better than a lunatic and petty troublemaker with no plan of action or legislative platform. He is an insult to the senate, the military, the country, and to every baboon and orangutan in the animal kingdom.
@rsa101 (38166)
• Philippines
30 Nov 07
It was such a very quick and was very unfortunate event for Trillanes and his cohorts. There were several factors that stopped him from succeeding from his planned takeover. First was the weather, it was raining and even the people who might have supported him was delayed so the military supportive to administration was able to stopped it as soon as it developed into full blown people power. The opposition's mumness has also discouraged them from pursuing further inflammation of the situation nd there were many other factors that really mde it more as a disadvantage to them. I guess they were just humpered by many miscalculated moves. They never learned from their oakwood experience that these things really doesn't work in our country. We are very civilian government. It just means that if we want to change it is always the people first to ignite before the military can really make its move as we have witnessed in the previous people powers.
@erminiasanjose (1588)
• Philippines
9 Dec 07
I don't think this is at all a mutiny. Trillanes walked out from the court. He is a detention prisoner and so he should have been stopped from doing any further movement away from the court. He marched openly to Manila Pen which is far from the court... and then... it is the government and the military which did the show of force... funny. Over 2,000 men were deployed against a small unarmed group and 5 armed personnel carriers, one of which destroyed the entrance. To gain entrance? That's foolishness. Only few intelligent and well trained military personnel could have solved that and there would have been no damages. It is the duty of the government to provide protection to life and property and not at all to kill and destroy. What happened is a show of inefficiency and a wrong show of force. It's irritating but that's the Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines with her ewans...
@mensab (4200)
• Philippines
1 Dec 07
any action, small or big, can lead to change. i think this is what trillanes, lim and et. al wanted to have when they launched the short-lived mutiny in makati. any inaction on the present condition and situation is tantamount to not caring at all or apathy for the plight of the filipino people. have we learned anything from the event? if ever there is to be learned, i hope it is not about arroyo nor trillanes nor lim nor other personalities, but it is about the worsening condition of our governance and masses. if only we care enough for these, we can put an appropriate perspective on the makati mutiny. and if we stick to the persons involved, i think we will never learn and we will see more mutinies and activities like this.
@orlydlsantos (45)
• Philippines
30 Nov 07
I agree with you 100%.This has nothing to do with whether you are pro-GMA or not.It's all about economics and what some stupid people would do just to satisfy their own selfish intentions.All my existing and prospective foreign investors were really frightened and wanted to defer any transactions.But I really commend our AFP in handling the situation.Good thing they flexed their muscles.
@tombiz (2036)
• Philippines
30 Nov 07
You are right. personally, I am already tired of these type of things happening again and again here in our country. solving the problems we have does not means resorting to extra-constitutional ways of doing it. We might even be creating more problems by doing so. However frustrated we are with the present government, it is never right to give way to a military-backed way of ousting GMA. Again, we are just shooting ourselves in our feet.
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@antoinette7777 (162)
• Philippines
1 Dec 07
i think we have matured. filipinos are sick and tired of coup d'etat . are you?
