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Thursday, June 09, 2005
Editorial: Loyalty checks
ALL this loyalty checking by the military on their troops--the latest example of which is done by the Fourth Infantry Division (4th ID) here in Region 10--is but one more sign that all is not well and good for the Arroyo administration.
Why this had to be done at all cannot be questioned because of the heat reaching the Arroyo administration as a result of the ongoing jueteng investigation which if there are grounds for it could reach boiler room temperatures.
However before everything else reaches panic-level proportions we have to ask where all this heat is coming from. The tired cliché of when there's smoke, there's fire holds true especially if we know who set the fire in the first place.
For all we know this is being done by some other quarters in order to divert attention from themselves or is part of a bigger plot to dismantle the present dispensation. And there are suspects aplenty. For one there is Sen. Panfilo Lacson who, despite his gentleman's conduct in the last elections is being accused of rigging up this controversy over the jueteng scandal owing to his earlier "Jose Pidal" exposes.
He may be suspect but aside from that expose there's nothing else to tie him up with so the present government may want to find some other suspects with which their PR machine can go overtime on.
Then there are the three former generals, foremost of whom is former Defense Secretary Fortunato Abat who had made no secret of his displeasure over the administration and has linked up with a coalition in order to bring about change, a move we could only imagine and suspect at this point.
What about the other opposition figures, who had aligned themselves with other sectors like the militant groups in raising a howl and hue over the administration's present conduct of affairs, not to mention that jueteng scandal (again)?
As long as the opposition is there in power there's very little if any that can be done by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in shutting them up. Any semblance of a crackdown and they would shout "martial law again" to the top of their voices.
Hence the constant loyalty checks being done by the military on their troops, which may again face some rumbling within the ranks because of the many follies committed by their civilian superiors.
So long as this jueteng controversy goes on there would be mounting pressure on the President to either resign or face the prospect of suffering the same fate as former President Joseph Estrada.
(June 9, 2005 issue)
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