4 ‘mistahs’ in Senate to form own club

By Veronica Uy
INQUIRER.net
Last updated 01:32pm (Mla time) 06/07/2007

MANILA, Philippines -- The four former military officers in the Senate are planning to form their own small group to be called Cavaliers Club, re-elected Senator Panfilo Lacson said Thursday.

Aside from Lacson, the other Philippine Military Academy (PMA) graduates in the Senate are Senators Rodolfo Biazon and Gregorio Honasan and current 11th placer in the official count of the Commission on Elections, former Navy officer Antonio Trillanes IV, who has yet, however, to be proclaimed.

“So it's very easy for us to jell, kaming apat [the four of us]. Pinag-usapan namin kahapon [We talked about it yesterday] when I visited Sonny Trillanes, discuss ko sa kanya ang possibility mag-band kami [I discussed with him the possibility of banding together], for pursuing common advocacies for the good of the Senate, for the institution, not to be obstructionist,” he added.

Trillanes, who is being tried before both a military and civilian court for his role in the short-lived Oakwood mutiny of 2003, remains detained in Fort Bonifacio.

Lacson said the Cavaliers Club could hold some of its meetings in Fort Bonifacio.

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Will this planned Cavaliers Club in the Senate bode well for the much-prayed-for AFP Modernization and transparency?

Or a detriment, considering the past misadventures of most of its probable members?

:armyskeptic:

we are hoping for the former...and praying that the latter does not happen...one is not what he purports to be: a self-sacrificing, graft and corruption-abhorring man who nevertheless knows the real reason how and why he participated in that incident...one was thoroughly schooled in the dreaded METROCOM and while he SEEMS admirable enough, we cannot help but ask "is jueteng a far worse crime than drugs?"...one is famous for -- among other things, a majority of which are the true markings of a megalomaniac -- letting his men go hungry while on the run "to toughen them up during adversarial situations" when in fact all that food supply was reserved for his dogs...and let us not forget that one whose neighbors complained, albeit far from the exposure of the kleig lights, that his son was occupying the quarters the father was supposed to have vacated since his retirement and to add injury to insult, that the son has vacated the quarters also and had been renting it out to civilians... :nono:

ah duminus, if only you were apollo, and this forum was your oracle at delphi...then we would truly have a happy olympus called the philippine senate! :banana:

let them serve and lets judge them later

Trust your intuitions, Sir Duminus. Repentance should not only be in words. It should be in deed. Four counts or four times of attempting to overthrow the rightful government is good enough basis for falling out of grace. It did not only happen during Arroyo's. It happened during Cory. What has he got on cory. It's all about Johnny! And I saw it coming ... from him! And used his aide who should had crowned himself successor. Yun ang talagang banana republic. Ambisyosong kapitalista! Sagot kita, Sir Duminus.