The story goes: Today, some 200,000 members of the INC will mob the Department of Justice. Yes, a big crowd was there this afternoon – word is, they will stay on and on. They are protesting Justice Secretary de Lima’s “selective justice.”
The plot is: that more and more people will join that crowd and then a big push to EDSA takes place on Friday till Monday. Net25 on its Facebook page says members from 29 districts will be reinforcing their comrades starting tomorrow.
that’s from inday espina-varona’s blogpost yesterday. about a plot to unseat the president in the long-run (yes, in the run-up to the 2016 elections) and, in the short-term, as in, now na, to demand insist importune that the department of justice respect the separation of church and state and desist from giving “special treatment” to expelled INC minister isaias samson who dares file an illegal detention complaint against INC’s top brass, i mean, ruling council. unahin daw kasi ang mamasapano — sampahan ng kaso ang mga pumatay sa SAF 44, OR ELSE they will take it to edsa! who is writing this script? chiz escudero, is that you?
this morning the big news was the strafing of anthony taberna’s coffee shop in qc. taberna is anchor of dzmm teleradyo’s dos por dos, with gerry baja, both INC members. at first i didn’t connect it with the INC protest rally just because taberna had refused to comment on the issue from the start, which i took to mean that his sympathies lay with the INC leadership. and then i saw inday’s fb status:
Attacks on Tunying’s cafe. He has been receiving many, many threats and very angry socmed messages from INC members loyal to leadership — because he kept quiet. I know some people have questions about Tunying… but it hasn’t been easy for him and Gerry this last month.
ah so. complicating it is the fact that taberna and samson are blood relations pala, so his loyalty is under question. the latest is, wala sina taberna at baja sa dos por dos today, and INC members are beginning to gather at the EDSA shrine sabay dumarami raw ang mga tao sa padre faura. kahit saan nila gusto, puwede? kahit gaano katagal, puwede? iyan na mismo ang “special treatment.”
and, oh my, grace poe has chimed in, echoing chiz, of course. aapir kaya sila sa rally? abangan.
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I say, bring it on INC. And you will see that religion or any cult for that matter cannot afford to intimidate an existing government by sheer force of number alone to protect its business interests. The people, the Filipino citizenry, will not allow it.
on twitter someone has called it a “brewing EDSA uprising.” they wish, i mean, INC wishes. but really, kahit pa dumating ang milyon milyong iglesia members, they would never be representative of the filipino majority because they are only a religious minority.
and when they invoke separation of church and state, do they mean that their creed allows illegal detention and bullying, and they answer to no state or law?
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2015/08/29/taberna-shooters-meant-to-scare-me/
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