Here comes Joseph Erap Estrada again speaking what he is really made of with his usual coarse masculine voice, bouncing over sized belly and pomade-laden signature hair style:Â that, he is a premiere patron of illegal numbers game.
As if the number of years he spent behind bars (oh, I forgot, he spent his time on a remodeled jail as if having a well-deserved vacation in the Bahamas) are not yet enough after being convicted on a plunder case for accepting tons of cash from jueteng kickbacks during his very short Presidency. And up to this day, despite being pardoned by the present administration and enjoying the life of a free man, Mr. Estrada still denies having been involved in the proliferation of jueteng. Talking about denials.
The Presidentiable of Illegal Numbers Game
Erap Estrada already declared his candidacy for next year’s presidential race as first signaled by his TV ad running like a man with a heavy metal ball chained right at his groin. This despite some legal questions being raised by many camps especially from the very office that has given him the presidential pardon.
But what is he exactly to do when he becomes president? Oh, my sheer thought of it makes me suicidal.
Of course he has lots of plans for us:Â putting up more mansions for his burgeoning mistresses; bringing back the glory days of the Boracay Mansion by putting coral reefs and more white sand from Boracay Island; spend more time playing in the casino with Atong Ang; invite more bigtime spenders for mahjong games until the wee hours of the morning in the Palace; kill the on-going case of the Dacer-Corbito murder case; and maybe marry Mommy Dionesia for her to become the next First Lady of the republic.
Sounds exciting?
What is more exciting is of course his usual pro-poor stance and programs. At last, we Filipinos will experience how it is to become rich citizens! How? To reach this penultimate goal of governing the nations as president, one step is to legalize the numbers game like jueteng to uplift the lives of the poor. Further he said:
“I’m not tolerating it but I”m for the legalization of jueteng…until we can find alternative jobs for the people. “If you stop illegal gambling they might go to drugs.â€
Wow! Are we really having this guy who reasons out that if you stop X they might go to XXX as one of our choices for the presidency? Man, that sucked up all the rationality I still have inside my brain.
Joseph Estrada really speaks up what he is made of. And this is already one big reason for him not to be elected to the presidential office…once again.
Unless the jueteng lords and all their cohorts could outnumber us; or we are all getting afraid that our people might resort peddling illegal drugs if we stop jueteng.
Anyone who wants to have a president who is a premiere patron of illegal numbers game/jueteng, kindly raise your hand. And John Rambo is gonna shoot you.
Image from The Great Reich
Boy, If he wins the 2010 Election, it likes hitting ourselves in the head with another stone. Furthermore, it will be a mockery of our institution.
Bro, I still owe your favicon, right medyo busy lang lately… we’ll do it over the weekend.
Great Post as usual!
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Indeed, it is like picking up one big rock and hitting our heads once again if we still go for him for nexy year’s polls.
No problem bro, I am in no hurry with the favicon.
Thanks for appreciating my post.
Until now, I do not know if Erap can still run to begin with. SC or Comelec has not come up with an official ruling on this matter. I remember an Asst Solicitor General personally (not on an official level) told me that Erap can run. He even showed me the deliberations (transcript) of the Constitutional Commission on banning the president for reelection. Whether the Supreme Court has the same interpretation, that I do not know.
Ang tagal na nung issue na yun, 4th year undergrad pa lang ako.
I think he should clarify first if he could run and don’t just rely on Rufus Rodriguez, the first to claim that Erap can run.
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There was this column by Fr Joaquin Bernas, SJ that showed the deliberations of the Constitutional Commission about the issue of banning the President for any reelection.
I believe the intent of the drafters of the Constitution was clear, in quoting THE PRESIDENT [Cecilia Muñoz Palma] of the Constitutional Commission:
This was reaffirmed by Commissioner and former Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. in his amendment to the same provision:
Then again, the Supreme Court will be the one to finally decide on this matter.
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kahit mga professors ko, ayaw pa rin magbigay ng solid na comment. Haay.
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Masalimuot kasi na isyu to bro, this is I think kasi not only a legal or a constitutional issue but also a political issue with political game that would be played by many sides.
And it will not only be resolved by some justices for whatever the constitution really says but also of political affiliations and patronage.
And actually it is not only Rufus Rodriguez who is saying the affirmative for the legality of Erap running for the presidency again. Amado Valdez too of UE College of Law.
Today, Erap and Binay has this centerfold ad on Inquirer with quotes from the Chief Justice and Justice Palma that he could run.
Well, it may or may not be legal for him to seek the presidency again after being pardoned, but the last say is still from the voting public.
wow, whoever made that photo of Erap is really a rubbish person, the lowest of the low in my humble opinion. This blog is very condescending to portray a man of integrity. Well, you might question his integrity because of his conviction but then again, who convicted him but the real criminals themselves in the guise of robes, academic transcripts, religion and media. Ok, I might as well reiterate that I respect your blog and I will just consider this blog as your opinion so there you go, I am ready to agree to disagree with you. Let’s see who the masses will vote for in 2010 unless the US gets in the picture again as well as Garci. How about a deal, say, whoever wins in the 2010 election, that you and I respect that result provided this is done in a clean and honest election. I would also request that people try to be more objective than subjective of their treatment of Erap. After all, what is your option to the poverty? What is your answer to the same questions ask of Erap? I say you would say the same thing that the rest of them said. “I will create a job to eradicate poverty” without going into specifics. Oh well, huling hirit pa, in my humble opinion, this blog is a waste of time but I just got to respect that as that’s how democracy works.
Thanks Francis on coming over and sharing your thoughts on this non-sense blog. And you even shared an awful lot. Greatly appreciated.
I can sense that you are one big fan of Erap.
I will beg to disagree that Erap is a man of integrity, and he will not become the one person with integrity just because those people seated in the Palace are also thieves or may for you are even greater sinner than the Former President.
This is what I overwhelmingly disliked with Erap and his minions: they try to create and perpetuate an atmosphere where the masses should hate the upper class and other strata of the soceity wherein they themselves are rich capitalists and clans trying to portray they are poor.
If I am asked of the same question I will say that I will not legalize and put into jail all illegal games especially jueteng. This kind of job is not empowering the masses and will actually make them remain on being poor.
How to create jobs? This is not a dole out thing that Erap and some other presidentiables are trying to portray. Creating jobs is not a band-aid solution to have a good stature to the voting public. It should always go the roots. Why do people do not get decent jobs? Because many are not qualified and uneducated. Without good education people will remain to poor; intellectually, capacity for self-improvement.
And indeed, that is the beauty of democracy, that is how it works. Only that democracy is ruined and tarnished when it falls to the wrong hands and leaders.
And I will bet with you. I will respect the result given of an honest and clean elections. But Erap I will also bet, will not win the elections.
Politicians love the masses… They want them poor, else they will lose supporters and attendees in rallies. They will lose fans, wailing people outreaching both hands to receive half kilo of rice or 50pesos everytime these “poor loving and poor caring leaders” visit them.
And you wonder why poverty cannot be eradicated? People living in other countries should come down and try to make a living here in the Philippines to fully understand how these traditional greedy politicians run this country like shi*t.
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The poor is the flesh that feeds the pockets of greedy traditional politicians. It is not actually their material poverty that these politicians are after. It is their ignorance that these politicians cling on to like leeches and capitalize for their personal interests.
I’m not that alarmed with Erap’s candidacy because we somehow have learned a thing or two from his short stint at the Presidency and EDSA 2.
This is evidenced by him placing 3rd place in the recent SWS surveys.
The ball is now on the COMELEC once Erap files his certificate of candidacy and for the Supreme Court to finally decide whether he can run or not.
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And that will be I think a tedious legal process certainly with political powerplay in it:
First, because the COMELEC and ultimately the SC cannot decide on the issue if Erap has not filed yet his candidacy and groups will file also a disqualification case against Erap.
Second, the SC does not resolve cases speedily.
Third, there will be also a question not only of Erap’s eligibility to run for the Presidency according to the constitution but also on the issue of the conditions of the pardon given to him by GMA.
Fourth, the SC is more than 90% GMA appointees and we all know that the SC and the legislature is not totally devoid of political patronage and partisan intrusion and lobbying. And this will play a big role to SC’s decision on this matter.
But if ever the SC will affirm Erap’s right to run as constitutional, the ball will be passed on the hands of the voting public if he should be elected once again as president, and jueteng lords will have once again a grand fiesta.
More than the things you’ve said, what’s more dangerous about the SC deciding in favor of Erap’s reelection bid is that it would set a precedent for future ex-Presidents to follow.
And the first in-line among those ex-Presidents is GMA whose proven to have taken a very keen interest in staying in power.
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PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO LAGYAN
MO NG CCTV CAMERA ANG MALLS.
kasi KUNG MINSAN NILALAGAY.
SA LOOB
NG BULSA NG BAGS. KAYA LAGYAN MO
NG CCTV CAMERA MARAMING NAGNANANAKAW SA LOOB.
NG MALL NGAYON.
Hi Cherilou! I guess you are sharing a different thought but nonetheless, your comment is posted here.
And maybe let us also put more CCTV cameras in the Palace to see all the politicians who put in loads of cash on their bags. LOL!
ERAP PARA MAGHIRAP !!!!!
Hi Sir Manuel Buencamino! I really appreciate you coming over.
Exactly! Erap for more miseries and corruption and illegal activites for 2010. And only fools and his eunuchs will vote him to assume the presidency once again.
i don’t know why people still vote for him. i guess it’s due to frustrations of our present leaders. what if erap promises to give cash to the poor? surely, surely, a lot will take the bait.
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And I don’t know exactly what is running inside Erap’s head, running once again? Duh!
How about a presidentiable giving a house and lot? Everyone loves him… and many will vote him too.
Erap is trying desperately to recycle old worn-out political machinery grounded on shallow political platform.
Pababalikin pa ba yan e napatalsik na nga?! Wala yan. Nagsasayang lang siya ng pera. Pero ok lang sagana naman siya dun.
Imbes na mangampanya siya para sa pagka Presidente, give the funds na lang na gagamitin niya sa mga mahihirap. I’m sure mas masisiyahan mga tao sa gagawin niyang yun.
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Actually, yan din ang talagang iniisip ko bro. Bakit ba kailangan niyang tumakbo? Waste money on a fight that is from the very beginning could never be won?
Eh kung idonate niya na lang yung gagamitin niya na campaign fund sa pagpapatayo ng more GK communities and houses, or more scholarship for the poor.
Yun talaga ang totoong pagtulong sa mahihirap na kanyang magagawa…and maybe could then redeem himself.
Running for Presidency is a lucrative business. Plus the fact that we don’t have transparency on campaign funds/donations make this even more enticing.
What is 100Million pesos spent when you received 500Million in donations?
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More lucrative and safer business than peddling illegal drugs.
Put in 100 million in the table, winning or losing, you will still have a very big amount to gain from your campaign funds. Right Mikey? LOL~
Oh my! That’s not a very pretty picture of a former actor.
I really do think that the former president has got to give his ambition of becoming a president again a rest.
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Thanks for the comment!
Hay, he should have indeed just taken a good time with retirement and rest all his political ambitions.
Bro, I guess in the movies, you can shoot a scene again and again until you get it right. Maybe, there are those who think this is also applicable in the Presidential Elections?
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He thinks that he is still shooting a movie scene with this new rerun for the presidency? Could we just shout it out loud just like what a movie director does: “Cut!”
Great point, Doc Z. Ahehehe.
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This blog is a waste of time, Francis?
Tell us, why are you here in the first place? Ah I see, you need to put in good words for your idol. Well, you’re free to do that.
Perhaps you need to make a much clearer case than the first comment you made. Because you’re making no sense at all on top of being disrespectful.
You’re making bets that Erap will win the election? Well, that’s so vintage Erap – he’s got you infected too, I see – with his fascination for the numbers game.
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Ang dugo mo Bro, ehehehe!
You got the answer Bro, he is really for Erap as a die-hard fan and he is betting on his Boss to win the elections next year: a very obvious reason why he wants for jueteng to be legalized…he loves betting and the numbers game, LOL!
He said that this blog is full of non-sense…obviously, he is the one who has not made any sense at all…LOL!
Halo-halo muna…ehhhehe!
What? I spent too much time distant from my home country I have to admit. This Erap guy is the same guy I used to watch movies about being some sort of a cowboy? And he is now about to run for Presidency? Maybe I’ll declare myself as a “balikbayan” and hire you to campaign for me, hehe. Anyway, Elmot, you know I am not very in to Philippine Politics. Much of what I know right now is because of your thoughts and opinions which you gratefully share here in your blog. Trust me, I do not share anyone’s opinion that your blog is a waste of time.
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Thanks Bro for appreciating my posts and at that in some ways I am giving you some infos about political happenings here in the country.
Wow! Jan and I will certainly be all happy campaigning for you, ehhheeh!
Well Bro, that guy is the first one to say that this blog is a waste of time, but he said an awful lot…he is enjoying some time reading my post then, LOL!
“oh brother.”
wala na. yun lang ang nasabi ko. lol.
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Yes Brother? ehehheh! LOL
erap is anti-pinoy. if he really cared so much for this country he should just do what he can for the poor as a private citizen. he’s got the resources to initiate meaningful projects without being president.
erap has no soul. he will risk bringing this country further into hell just so he can fulfill his selfish aspirations. what an anti-pinoy.
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I am pretty sure you are also high on campaigning for voters education for next years national polls. Thanks for coming over and sharing your thoughts on the issue.
His resources could have been used better if he will just channel them to some useful and sustainable projects than wastes hundreds of millions into campaigning.
It’s quite unnerving to think of a reprise of the Erap presidency.
Do we really need his “brand” of leadership? Are we that hopeless? Is getting yet again the top job in the country the only way Erap can redeem his tarnished image and discredited presidency?
Come on.
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I think we as a voting public are not desperate or hopeless to have him back in the presidency.
But I think it is the other way around. Erap is the one who is hopeless and desperate to clean up his name trying to paint an atmosphere of being the underdog and the champion of the underdogs, that he will bring back to the masses what is due them; in order to clean up his tarnished reputation brought about by what he says the collusion of the intellectuals and elite.
But in politics, no more take two if you are done.
I THINK PEOLPLE ARE THE MISSING THE POINT.
BECAUSE the people should not vote towards a former Public official.
That the people convicted of a crime of plunder.
ERAP IS NOT CONVICTED
TO JAIL BECAUSE GMA IS NOT DOING SOMETHING.
AND PUT CCTV CAMERAS BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE ARE DOING THEFT AND SHOPLIFTING IN THE MALL.
THAT IS MY COMMENT FROM: CINDY, 28 TALABA, BACOOR CAVITE
LOl! nasa itaas pala mga comments ko, nagtatago. Parang mga politikong nag aambisyong mapansin pero nagtatago sa likod ni Erap.
Erap will be a good source of revenue. From donations from all “types” of people. Malamang malaki laki rin ang ambon pag ka-kosa, este, kasama ka niya. ka – erap kumbaga.
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Nakalimutan mo yata Bro ang sabi ni Erap: “Walang kai-kaibigan, walang kamag-anak” LOL!
In your dreams…:D Sana maambunan tayo, LOL!
Well just shows how much more mundane our country will become when Erap wins again.
Who thinks gambling might make people rich? Yeah, a little wee percentage might win it big but the majority will lose a lot more. Gambling is not the answer to poverty no doubt because the house always wins and the gamblers (the poor people in this case) are at the losing end.
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Thanks for the comment!
I agree on that thought that gambling only makes the capitalists and investors in this kind of business richer and the poor gets poorer. It only makes them rely their lives’ direction and future on sheer luck.
Erap?!?! sos dyos ko pow sana wag na magpapaloko mga filipinos!!! kung ako sa mga filipino pagbinigyan ka ni erap ng pera kunin mo,pero wag mo iboto
)… Our country need Good and Honest Leaders not a Politicians… ako nga this coming 2010 parang indi nga ako boboto eh kasi wala naman ako nakikita mamaganda na tatakbo sa mga presidential candidates. puro lng lahat publicity!!! lahat mga moto “for the poor, for global environment etc etc” pagnakaupo na wala naman my nagagawa!! BS!!
other thoughts:
1.erap 2010 (womanizer, drinker, plnunder)
2, gibo 2010 “pagnanalo yan cgurado mga scandal ni arroyo basura na yan”
3,nonoy aquino 2010 nong senador sya wala akong alam na my nagawa sya sa bansa at hacienda bla bla etc
4. villar 2010 C5 road scandal
…. kaya ako sa inyo wag nalng sayang boto ko puro trapo !!!!
Hi Lourenz, thanks for the comment!
I know na maraming trapo talaga sa politika dito sa bansa na puro sariling interes na lang ang mga isinusulong imbes na kapakanan ng lahat.
Pero hindi ako nawawalan ng pag-asa at hindi ako sang-ayon na sa mga kadahilanan na binanggit mo ay dapat huwag na lang tayo bomoto.
Ang pagoboto ay mahalagang karapatan at kasangkapan natin sa pagbabago.