THE ANTONIO Trillanes IV “peep show” is on its final episode and happening live in the Senate.
It’s been running non-stop since Tuesday but the ratings are very low and the only people interested in it are the usual suspects.
For all his bravado and posturing Trillanes has exposed himself as all form and no substance, a coward at best.
But then again, moi is not surprised. He fancies himself as a reformist soldier whose expertise is taking over 5-star hotels with his mates and gorging themselves on the hotel’s expensive steaks and wines, along the way pilfering the silverware and surrendering to the police after 5 p.m.
How he was elected senator of the Republic still leaves a lot of natives puzzled to this day. From day one since Rodrigo Duterte became president Trillanes took it upon himself to be the “national nuisance” attacking just about anything even remotely related or connected to Duterte.
He was having his time throwing everything including the kitchen sink and the toilet against the President thinking he can get away with it until this finally happened:
Excerpts from the Sept. 4 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer:
Duterte revokes Trillanes amnesty, orders his arrest
President Rodrigo Duterte has revoked the amnesty granted to Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.
Duterte signed Proclamation 572 on Aug. 31 to revoke the senator’s amnesty given by former President Benigno Aquino III in 2010.
In the proclamation, Duterte said Trillanes did not file an Official Amnesty Application Form as per certification dated August 30, 2018, issued by Lt. Col. Thea Joan Andrade, stating “there is no copy of his application for amnesty in the records.”
The proclamation also stated that Trillanes “never expressed his guilt for the crimes that were committed on the occasion of the Oakwood Mutiny and the Manila Peninsula Siege.”
Despite Trillanes’ “failure to apply for amnesty and refusal to admit guilt, his name was nonetheless included among those granted amnesty” in 2010 and was approved by former defense secretary Voltaire Gazmin, the proclamation read.
“The grant of amnesty to former LTSG Antonio Trillanes IV under Proclamation No. 75 is declared void ab initio because he did not comply with the minimum requirements to qualify under the amnesty proclamation,” Duterte said.
The President ordered the Department of Justice and the Court Marshall of the Armed Forces of the Philippines “to pursue all criminal and administrative charges” against Trillanes.
Duterte also ordered the military and the police “to employ all lawful means to apprehend” the coup leader “so that he can be recommitted to the detention facility where he had been incarcerated for him to stand trial for the crimes he is charged with.”
And it’s finally game over for Antonio Trillanes IV. Or is it?
As of press time he is still holed up in his office in the Senate building hiding under the drawers of Senate President Tito Sotto.
When he learned that his so-called amnesty was declared void ab initio he immediately announced that he will not resist being arrested. However, in a quick change of tone he sought refuge in the Senate to avoid his impending arrest and court martial.
And we call that in Ilonggo as puti itlog.
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV is as real as the onscreen orgasm of Dakota Johnson in that semi-erotic film “Fifty Shades Darker”. In short, his public image is contrived or manufactured to make him look like a “soldier hero”. The sad part is that a number of naive idiots bought it “hook line and sinker”. Why even the fake moans and climax of your friendly neighbourhood hooker is more believable than the pronouncements of Trillanes.
Of course everything about Trillanes as a “warrior soldier” is farthest from the truth. He is not a soldier, never is and never was. He is a sailor and there’s a whole lot of difference between a soldier and a sailor. Perhaps the only similarity is both professions are under the umbrella of the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
While it is true that Trillanes is a graduate of the Philippine Military Academy he never joined the Army or the Marines. He was never a combatant. He did not serve in the front, never saw action in the battlefields of Basilan and Sulo as most fresh graduates of the Philippine Military Academy traditionally do.
Trillanes joined the Philippine Navy right after graduating from the Philippine Military Academy. He was a Supply Officer and finally a Procurement Officer. I don’t think Supply and Procurement Officers are killed in action; a heart attack or stroke probably.
Now he is faced with the greatest battle of his life and his first act was to run and hide under the drawers of Senate President Tito Sotto with his tail tucked between his legs.
Trillanes should get former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay as his lawyer. His record in the Supreme Court remains to this day unblemished with victory. (brotherlouie16@gmail.com/PN)
