Sunday, December 02, 2007 'Trillanes should go back to school and learn the law' By Erwin Ambo S. Delilan and Jerome S. Galunan, Jr.
NEGROS Occidental Representative Ignacio Arroyo, Jr. (5th District) strongly denounced the seditious acts of Senator Antonio Trillanes, the Magdalo Group, and other political opportunists for sowing threat and disturbance to national security Thursday.
Bacolod lone district Representative Monico Puentevella said such action taken by Trillanes and Brigade General Danilo Lim was a desperate move to avoid detention.
Both Trillanes and Lim had really "burned their bridges," Puentevella said.
"Now, they must really pay what they'd done. The law must take its course. No one is above the law, even a senator," Puentevella stressed.
"I appeal for calmness and sobriety for all Filipinos as well as the people in Occidental. Let there be peace in our beloved country," Congressman Arroyo said. He added, "Senator Trillanes should go back to school to learn the law. He's no better than a terrorist because he is terrorizing the country."
Negros Occidental Provincial Police Director Rosendo Franco disclosed that despite the stand off in Makati Thursday, still they only stayed put and remained calm here in Negros.
"We will remain loyal to the Constitution," Franco added.
BAYAN-Negros Secretary-General Felipe Levy Gelle, Jr. said the Makati standoff was a result of the continuing and festering problems involving the Arroyo regime, which has long disregarded the rights and welfare of the people in its bid to desperately cling on to power.
Gelle said, "Her failure to address these issues led to widespread dissent from the people and even from the ranks of the military."
