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It is but a few days before feb 4, 2007 when everyone like me who believes in feng shui, will move this or that appliance or furniture here and there and put whatnots in their proper places after the old whatnots are exposed to sunlight and sprayed with rock salt for cleansing. To everyone, advance kung hei fat choi greetings!
The signalling of a new era has come for those born in the year of the boar, the rat and a few other chinese horoscope signs. By the year 2008 experts say, a new 12-year cycle will begin (the year of the rat is the first sign in the chinese horoscope). It will be a time of transition, hopefully from bad to good, or good to better. Well, at least, the incorrigible optimist (sometimes) that I am, perhaps many or most of us will truly find the changes for the better a bit refreshing.
However, while the calendar is still fixed on the period before the year of the boar, certain sour developments about a loyal soldier of the lady CEO were communicated to us from a far flung place in the Visayas.
Dear ezky,
I am sorry to be the one to bring bad news about Benny, our mutual friend. He was killed by assassins and during autopsy, a total of 16 bullets were ascertained to have found their way into his body.
While there is reported serious wrangling within the political opposition -- really a considerable number of opposition officials like Sotto, Aquino-Oreta, Enrile, etc. (Why?) are leaving their allies in their camp. But this did not prevent them from making my allies leave my political party too.
In our place here in Samar, Hon. Benny Astorga, Mayor of Daram, Samar was killed on the mid morning of 25 January 2007 allegedly by the hired killers of an opposition Congressman, Rep. Catalino Figueroa. They say that a number of suspects have been picked up by authorities in Biliran Province. The congressman had been suspected to be involved in several ambushes and raids to kill his political opponents in Samar including another Mayor -- Mila Tan. The congressman is said to be extremely notorious in Region 8 for being ruthless against anyone and everyone who happens to cross his path.
Administration allies are allegedly being sidelined due to efforts of the government of Mrs. Arroyo to accommodate as many personalities from the other side. Some, according to Benny’s relatives and friends, even get killed. Look at the case of Rep. Luis “Chito” Bersamin. His assassination remains an unsolved case.
This killing of Astorga is supposedly part of the wide ranging campaign of the opposition and their allies in the forces of destabilization to decimate the administration candidates. It did not just claim yet another victim in the person of Mayor Astorga. This campaign is many other things besides, including the suspected killing of persons that are from the camp of the destabilizers themselves.
Surprisingly, in the case Benny’s assassination, only IBC Channel 13 -- a government-sequestered television channel made a report of the killing but all the other TV and even radio stations did not even report, if briefly, the assassination.
Figueroa, opposition congressman very loyal to the former regime, suspected mastermind in the killing is therefore free from being in the public's eye. Did money change hands, as they say in the Inquirer or some other newspaper, when the media outlets suddenly stopped reporting about the Bersamin case -- that up to now is an unsolved murder? If it did, then the one who bankrolled the damage control operations must have known about the assassination in advance or had been the one who planned it so that he knew what to do with media when the corpse turns up?
The killing of Astorga is supposed to be a significant development since Mrs. Arroyo knows the Mayor’s sister, a manager of a government financial institution, one of the remaining public officials in the country who is fiercely honest and very incorruptible.
Benny’s sister’s husband, had been supportive of Mrs. Arroyo but had been consistently sidelined for the past four or so years in the distribution of Malacañang favors -- just like very many of Mrs. Arroyo’s fierce loyalists. This killing of Benny Astorga, understandably, is claimed by the Mayor’s relatives as the lowest point in Mrs. Arroyo’s leadership because there is no word of condolences from Mrs. Arroyo who conveniently just left for Switzerland, went back and may have merely snubbed the assassination.
Mrs. Arroyo, they claim, cannot protect her own people even as she has been dodging one assassination attempt from another, one coup d’ etat from another -- many thanks to the consistent advanced intelligence from her loyalists so that she cannot concentrate on the welfare of her own people -- even if they have been serving her loyally and suffering from neglect for the past six (6) years or more.
Their question is: What if Mrs. Arroyo is suddenly deserted by her loyalists or worse, if they turn against her. It is not a question, according to them of what they are capable of doing, but the karmic effect of Mrs. Arroyo’s sidelining her own people in her suspected endless money making and desire to merely survive from one day to the next.
The political opposition is in complete disarray. However, there is no guarantee that the situation is not going to turn for the better for the opposition if the government will continue to commit the grave mistake of ignoring the suffering of its loyal people who are wallowing in poverty and want while their president is placating and almost literally already sleeping with the enemy!
Indeed, a serious number of opposition leaders are leaving their allies in the destabilization camp, but this is also because Mrs. Arroyo is taking them with open arms.
All the government’s successful campaigns (Mindanao and
For the nth time, those who care for her have consistently recommended that top level support be given to all her people that have religiously been doing their work without nary a thank you from their president! It had been sincerely recommended that Mrs. Arroyo takes stock of the assets and loyal personalities who up to this time are still delivering the goods to her, especially very timely intelligence on efforts of enemy forces to overthrow her government but they continue to be sidelined and now many of them are even dead or in grave danger.
Mrs. Arroyo should do this as soon as possible before it is too late.
I certainly sympathize with the bereaved relatives and closest friends of the late Benny Astorga, a no-nonsense leader. If something happens to the lady CEO, of course, I will also sympathize with her own relatives and friends. The year of the Boar is trumpeted to be a time of change. I dearly hope, that it's forecast about a change in government will not happen so soon and in our country at that. Maybe lady CEO should be seriously reading this blog from now on.
And now, so much for the gory stories.
Again, Kung hei fat choi!!!
Oy vey!!!
I simply cannot know what to do in 2007, as our expert feng shuists all keep saying, 2008 is my year. Thus, 2007 is a year, daw, for lying low.
How do I lie low? At least when you lie down, you're already low. Do you have to lie down lower than the bed? Or than in a mattress pulled down from bed? Or lower than the floor? I'm happy I have no basement or cellar. I'd be damned spending my time down there just lying down. Unless some idjit takes me away and I'll definitely lie very low six feet below. (I hope it's not going to be god, at that.)
Happy New Year of the Boar to all! Specially to sis!!!
All of You just keep about what you're doing and be good at it (Ecclessiastes bull_s_).
Most of all, maybe your hand will try out at better blogging, you never really know. eh he, eh he, eh he!!!