Rebel without a cause?
This is my interpretation of what I saw after what happened last Thursday, when Senator-elect Antonio Trillanes IV together with his group tried to instigate the Filipinos to oust our President Gloria M. Arroyo and occupied a 5 star hotel in the financial district of Makati. Not too long ago, Senator Trillanes together with the so-called Magdalo group of soldiers occupied Oakwood Hotel, also in Makati. Being tried for this crime and imprisoned, he could not serve his term as a senator despite being elected by 11 million people in the recent Senatorial elections. Frustrated, perhaps, these were his thoughts, the day he and General Danny Lim walked out of a court hearing: When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect. -Thomas Paine- Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they m...