Theories abound, depending on whom one asks, on how the issue of jueteng, from Cruz’s initial allegations to the continuing investigations on both Houses of Congress, has ballooned to such proportions. The more popular version is that is it is about who gets to control the jueteng-STL “industry” for the next six years. While this theory also holds water, the less talked-about angle is how this “struggle” came to be and how it is bound to be fought until the next national elections.
Insiders, in hushed chatters and muffled whispers, allege that it has got something to do with the “battles from within” the Palace – Aquino’s “kingdom divided.”
Trace the history of “Balai” and “Samar,” they say, starting from the campaign period, to Aquino’s choice of appointees, to Sonny Belmonte’s Speakership of the House, to how Kiko Pangilinan lost his bid for the Senate presidency, all the way to Jesse Robredo’s token appointment as DILG Secretary in an “acting capacity” and Rico Puno’s designation as Undersecretary in-charge of “anything police,” and you shall then have solved the puzzle.
This, they say, will explain why Robredo, known ally of Isabela ex-Governor Grace Padaca and Pampanga ex-Governor Ed Panlilio, has been under attack from “Samar,” since he started his half-baked term as DILG Secretary. Know, too, who initiated and negotiated talks for the withdrawal of the Panlilio-Padaca presidential-vice presidential tandem in favor of the Noy-Mar partnership and you shall then have known who initiated the retaliation against Puno.
Ask yourself, they say, “Who stands to benefit from Robredo’s removal or resignation from the DILG?”
“Who is second in command; who is the President’s closest friend in the department?”
The problem, they say, is nobody was really able to predict how warning shots meant to intimidate could set off napalm blasts that indiscriminately scorch. Both camps were pulling at the President’s strings, now they’re all in a tangled mess of yarns and spins - bound to sustain casualties whoever wins the battle, the victor only to be decided in 2016.
Aquino’s “straight and righteous path” is an aberration of political engineering – it has two overlapping lanes, both too ambitious for either to be righteous.
They say he intends to reconcile these lanes, assuming such is still possible, which is why Mar Roxas went with him to the United States and Chiz Escudero soon followed.
I say, let them fight and deplete their resources, until somebody more deserving emerges. (DPG)
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Senator Chiz Escudero did not follow President Aquino to the US. The senator is one of the panelists of the PhilDev USA Forum and Gala in California.
http://www.af-usa.org/forumgala.html
Of course. It was all business. Aquino went to address the UN General Assembly and Roxas was part of the delegation because of his experience as an investment banker and former trade secretary.
Aquino and Escudero met at the Fairmont, did not talk politics, and only "listened to music."
Roxas did not join Aquino in California because he's not into Aquino's and Escudero's choice of music.
The earth is flat and is the center of the universe.
Oh I forget, "Samar" did not circulate text messages that Roxas used a fake ID and introduced himself as Education Sec. Luistro, to get into the UN.
"Samar," too, was not responsible for past text messages, "explaining," among others, why DILG Sec. Robredo has got a potbelly.
Naughty.
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