Villar, Noy both GMA bets - PMP

By Perseus Echeminada (The Philippine Star)
Link: http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=566922&publicationSubCategoryId=63

MANILA, Philippines - A campaign manager of former President Joseph Estrada has tagged Nacionalista Party (NP) standard-bearer Sen. Manuel Villar and Liberal Party (LP) standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III as President Arroyo’s secret candidates.

Outgoing Navotas City Mayor Toby Tiangco told The STAR that the exodus of Lakas-Kampi-CMD stalwarts to NP and LP has exposed Mrs. Arroyo’s support for Villar and Aquino in her bid to promote her political agenda beyond the May elections.

Tiangco, who is on his third and last term, said the latest defection of Albay Gov. Joey Salceda to LP is a clear sign that the President has scattered her political allies to the two parties so she can continue her agenda even after the polls.

“Senators Villar and Aquino should stop accusing each other of being an Arroyo front because both of them are allies of the President,” he said.

Noynoy: Please spare my mother

Also takes umbrage over fitness report

 

By WENDELL VIGILIA

From Malaya

Link: http://www.malaya.com.ph/04122010/news1.html

LIBERAL Party standard-bearer Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino yesterday warned Sen. Manuel Villar and his Nacionalista Party not to drag his mother, former president Corazon C. Aquino, into their efforts to vilify him through black propaganda.

"Sa akin, di bale, alam ko ganyan ang mangyayari sa kampanya. Pero kung may issue sa nanay ko na patay na e sinasama pa sa kwentong kabulastugan, sobra-sobra (na iyan)," he said.

Text messages and propaganda have been spreading in cyberspace blaming Mrs. Aquino for the Hacienda Luisita dispute and for the alleged appointments in the government of her relatives during her incumbency.

The NP has been harping on the legacy left by Noynoy’s parents, Cory and Ninoy, saying it does not make him an heir to the presidency.

Aquino said his detractors are already hitting him and his family below the belt in desperation because of his consistent lead over Villar in surveys.

"Sign ’to na desperado na (si Villar). Sa Tagalog, ang tawag kapit sa patalim. Pero lalabas yung katotohanan. Sabi ng tatay ko, `how do we fight falsehoods and lies? With the truth,’" he said.

Aquino’s warning came after the latest attack allegedly by the NP, which portrays him as psychologically unstable based on a fabricated document which the NP allegedly fed to ABS-CBN.

Tina Monzon-Palma, a seasoned broadcaster, informed Aquino in a press conference in Davao City last Friday that the fake psychiatric documents came from the NP, from which news anchor-reporter Ces Oreña-Drilon based her story.

The Ateneo de Manila University Psychology Department has already disowned the documents which alleged that Aquino suffered from depression in 1996.

Its alleged author, Fr. Carmelo "Tito" Caluag, called the document "bogus" while the school noted that he is neither a psychologist nor a psychiatrist.

Villar vows justice for Luisita victims

By Christina Mendez (The Philippine Star)  

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=560191&publicationSubCategoryId=63

TARLAC City, Philippines – Nacionalista Party (NP) standard-bearer Sen. Manuel Villar Jr. and running mate Sen. Loren Legarda (Nationalist People’s Coalition) vowed to pursue justice for the victims of the so-called Hacienda Luisita massacre five years ago.

Villar and Legarda, along with NP senatorial bets Adel Tamano, Toots Ople, Gilbert Remulla and Ilocos Norte Rep. Bongbong Marcos campaigned last Saturday in the home province of Liberal Party (LP) standard-bearer, Sen. Noynoy Aquino.

Villar said he would allow the wheels of justice to run their course if he becomes president and would look into the issue of land distribution after the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP) under the administration of Aquino’s mother, former President Corazon Aquino, failed in their family-owned Hacienda Luisita.

Legarda, on the other hand, said that those who have committed crimes and human rights violations in connection with the massacre should be brought to court.

She also took potshots at Aquino, saying that a candidate who has no respect for the rule of law and tolerated the killing of the aggrieved Luisita farmers should not be elected to the presidency.

Tamano expressed concern that the issues surrounding the non-compliance of the Aquino-Cojuangco clans to subject the 7,000-hectare Hacienda Luisita to land reform will not be resolved under an Aquino presidency.

Noynoy cashing in on the people’s ignorance

from The Daily Tribune Backbencher by Rod P. Kapunan

http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100130com3.html


All because there is a growing clamor for a reduction of taxes, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino is cashing in on that sentiment, in the hope of easing the pain of being tagged as an intellectual loafer. For one, the Jesuits, who have been acting as the shepherds of the country’s elite, are already batting the idea of canonizing Cory Aquino, and they have every reason because it was she who restored to them the privilege of tax exemption while playing the dual role of attacking and collecting donations from the government.

This is why Noynoy, and obviously upon the advice of the hypocrites and the self-righteous, has come out in favor of a tax rate moratorium. Thus, people who are not familiar with the way the system works, easily buy the idea.

But no government can wholly rely on taxes to sustain its operational expenses. It must have its own source of income to sustain the ever-increasing expenses mostly confined to improving the welfare of our people. Even the icon of modern-day capitalism, the United States, would fold up if it just relied on taxes to sustain its domestic expenditures and overseas military aggression.