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Saturday, July 16, 2005
Editorials: Chavit Singson’s CD
So another supposedly taped wiretapped conversation is being distributed in compact disk form, this time involving allegedly former president Joseph Estrada and former armed forces chief Joselin Nazareno?
The conversation contained in the CD, which was distributed by President Arroyo’s supporter and Estrada nemesis Luis “Chavit” Singson, was supposedly about a plot to topple the present administration and replace it with a transition government.
The Estrada camp swiftly challenged the authenticity of the recording, a stance no different from that made by administration officials when the so-called “Garci tape” that linked President Arroyo to election fraud first surfaced.
Indeed, it is possible that the “Erap tape” is not authentic and is meant to, as Estrada’s son Jinggoy said, divert public attention away from the political crisis the Arroyo administration is facing.
But that can be said, too, of the surfacing of the “Garci tape” that Malacañang dubbed as part of destabilization efforts meant to topple President Arroyo from power.
Which just means that wiretapping conversations and splicing of recordings may have become an effective propaganda tool like the surfacing of “witnesses” making one accusation after another, many unsubstantiated, in televised congressional investigations.
In a sense, this shows the deterioration of this country politics and signals the need for reforms that would put a stop to its slide toward anarchy.
Violent dispersal of rally
As expected, the police and militant groups are exchanging accusations, and most probably will file cases in court, as a result of the violent dispersal of the anti-Arroyo rally near the Malacañang sa Sugbu last Wednesday.
That incident has resulted to injuries on both sides, which just proves that one side was as guilty as the other in the ensuing melee.
It is possible, though, that the noise will die down soon enough especially because the police and the rallyists got what they wanted—the former successfully protected the Malacanang sa Sugbu compound while the latter gained the hoped for propaganda mileage.
(July 16, 2005 issue)
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