what you see is not what you get

The newest standoff made by Trillanes last 29-Nov-07 in Manila Peninsula Hotel gained different views from the anti, the pro, and the opportunists in our society.

A common mind knows the latest coup d’état could not topple the government - at least not the Arroyo Government. With our type of politicians, you can't help but doubt if the ideals of Trillianes is for good or for his own agenda.

Did the Arroryo Government truly stop Trillanes? Is Trillanes the flawed-hero that we need? Digging a little after that nationwide event, Trillanes might just won the round this time. Each seconds in that show of force, each bullet that fell, is like a tickling time bomb that the Magdalo Group set. And the army, the police, the administration solons, with their arms and number fell on that trap. The Magdalo group successfully proved and exploited on national television, the power hungriness of the Arroyo Government. Power really drives men mad, but its effect on a woman like PGMA is dangerously leading to tyranny.

On that event, people also saw, the sometimes abusive media power, restrained totally this time. Plus end that day with a curfew implementation and it becomes a spark, a warning to new minds - previously silent, to start speaking here in the vastness of cyberspace.

What you see now, is not really what there is... At least, not the way the Arroyo Government wanted the ordinary Juan to see. We are now learned, if not wiser. The Filipino tax payer - the middle class, after 4 EDSA uprising and widespread availability of Internet use, is now reserved yet smarter and more connected than ever. The flow of information and deeper understanding to the open minds of the ordinary Filipino tax payer is something the government cannot stop and will fail to lie about.

Despite that important event, we all know its just another fanfare.. another waste of our sweat-earned tax money.