ANG IYONG BANG PANULAT AY KAYANG MAGMULAT?

October 24, 2008

Reference: Dr. Carol Pagaduan-Araullo, Chairperson

The Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (BAYAN) condemns in strongest terms the arrest of Atty. Remigio Saladero on trumped-up charges of multiple murder in Mindoro. As of this morning, he is being held by police and military forces in a red Toyota vehicle supposedly bound to Mindoro.

The arrest of Atty. Saladero is clearly a case of political persecution. A few weeks before his arrest, Atty. Saladero together with twenty-six leaders and members of people’s organizations in Southern Tagalog, was charged with arson, destruction of property and conspiracy to commit rebellion. They were accused of being members of the New People’s Army (NPA) who allegedly blew up a Globe cell site in Batangas. The enforced disappearance of James Balao in Cordillera, the abduction and torture of 9 peasants in Cavite and this latest arrest of Atty. Saladero prove that political repression in the country remains even as the cases of extrajudicial killings declined after drawing outrage both in the Philippines and the international community.

Atty. Saladero’s clients are workers victimized by low wages and unjust working conditions. His detention will mean depriving the poor of a lawyer who humbly renders his free legal services at the risk of harassment and grave persecution.

Bayan joins the family of Atty. Saladero in demanding the PNP to drop the false charges against Atty. Saladero, to release him immediately and to abort any plan of unlawfully arresting other activists. Bayan also calls on international lawyers groups and human rights defenders to join the Filipino people in demanding the Arroyo regime to release Atty. Saladero. He is neither a murderer nor an arsonist. It is the Arroyos, police and military forces involved in large-scale corruption and human rights violations who deserve to be arrested and jailed for their multiple crimes against the Filipino people.

The Arroyo regime appears to be poised for more attacks on activists as it faces continuing protests for worsening economic crisis, unresolved cases of corruption and human rights violations. Bayan calls on its allied organizations to step up their campaign against the fascist attacks of this regime which aims to cripple the mass organizations that are at the forefront of people’s struggle for land, jobs, dignity, freedom, sovereignty, democracy and social justice. #

Cited as one of notable San Beda College alumni, Atty. Saladero is the Chief Legal Counsel of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) who defended the late Anakpawis Representative Crispin Beltran against fabricated charges by the Arroyo regime. Aside from handling numerous labor cases, Atty. Saladero represented KMU in challenging the constitutionality of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s Proclamation 1017 that placed the country under a state of national emergency and gave powers to Arroyo similar to what the late president Ferdinand Marcos had when he declared martial law.

Cops nab KMU lawyer on murder charges

Arrest ‘cover up’ of Moscow fund mess

MANILA, Philippines — Police arrested a lawyer of the leftist labor group Kilusang Mayo Uno (May First Movement) in his Antipolo City office Thursday night on non-bailable multiple murder and frustrated murder charges filed against him before an Occidental Mindoro trial court.

Chief Superintendent Ricardo Padilla, Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal, and Quezon) regional police chief, confirmed that lawyer Remigio Saladero Jr. was arrested Thursday night by joint operatives of the Calabarzon and Rizal provincial police.

He also confirmed that Padilla has been brought to Occidental Mindoro for turn over to the court.

KMU members and other activists had trooped to Cam Vicente Lim in Laguna Thursday night to protest the arrest.

The KMU slammed the arrest of the lawyer and claimed the police had arrested the wrong person.

It also claimed the arrest was part of efforts to “cover up” the scandal surrounding the apprehension of a retired police general found carrying millions of pesos worth of undeclared currency by Russian customs officials in Moscow earlier this month.

Padilla said the arrest of Saladero was based on a valid warrant of arrest. “We don’t want to violate any human rights,” he said.

But KMU chairman Elmer Labog said the police had arrested the wrong person, pointing out that the warrant of arrest was against someone named Reme Gio Saladero. “The spelling of the name was different. His [Saladero’s] name was misspelled. At isa pa, hindi naman nagpupunta ng Mindoro yan [Besides, he never goes to Mindoro in the first place],” he said.

Labog also said the arresting officers seized Saladero’s laptop and personal computers.

He said the lawyer, who is in his 50s, is “sickly” and suffers from hypertension and diabetes.

Padilla said the KMU should address its complaints to the Mindoro trial court.

“Kami naman, hindi naman namin sinasabi na masamang tao siya, inutusan lang kami eh [to arrest Saladero]. Kung may reklamo sila [KMU], i-explain nila sa court, huwag sa amin [On our part, we are not saying he is a bad person, we were just ordered. If they have any complaints, they should explain that to the court, not to us],” he said.

presidential pardon sa mga guilty na nagsisisi, kalayaan  para sa mga guilty na walang pagsisisi
at kulong parin para sa mga maraming mga inosente.ganito ang uri ng katarungan sa pilipinas.
ilan nang mamamayan at makapangyarihan ang nakalaya sa kabila ng kanilang mabibigat na pag-kakasala.
at mas marami pang mga mayayaman at makapangyarihan na mabigat na mabigat ang pagkakasala
sa taumbayanna nananatiling gumagala ng walang takot o pangamba na baka silay makulong.
hindi hustisya kundi pulitika ang kadalasang umiiral sa pamamalakad ng katarungan sa ating bansa.

para kanino lang ba ang hustisya? sa mayayaman makapangyarihan at may koneksyon sa
Malakanyang.anak ng dating chief justice si CLAODIO TEEHANKEE.JR napanood ku sa t.v
ang magarang nyang kwartong tirahan.parang kwarto sa hotel may 42-inch na plasma TV split type
aircondition unit,queen size bed at refrigerator.kung ganun ang hitsura ng nga kulungan
ngayon sa bilibid prison.mas maraming mayayamang kriminal ang mag gugustuhin nalang na makulong
dapat pantay pantay ang pagtrato sa lahat ng preso at hindi gawin batayan ang pagiging mayaman o pagiging
popular ng isang nakabilanggo sa pambansang piitan

maraming mahihirap ang hindi nabibigyan ng hustisya dahil sa bulok na pamamalakad ng
batas.merong iba na pinagdudusahan ang isang kaso!! na hindi naman nila ginawa
hindi nila kayang dumipensa sa bintang dahil hindi sila makakuha ng matino at magaling
na abogado.meron din ibang mga abogado ang naglalaglag ng kliyente dahil sa mas malaking  offer o ibabayad sa kanila ng kalaban.Iba talaga ang hustisya kay Madam Senyora punyeta Donya Gloria. Ang mahirap mabulok,
ang mayaman at makapangyarihan at kakampi patawarin.

may tinig ang kung sinu-sino at anu ano maliban lang sa katotohanan at katarungan
kelan kaya magbabago ang sistemang iba ang tinitignan sa tinitignan at iba ang naririnig sa
pinakikinggan

Ginawan ko ng tula ang isang napakamakabuluhang quotation ng isang manunulat:

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Activism, I think is the cornerstone of democracy, without activism, there would be repression, oppression, and injustice. Without activism, we would not have gotten rid of a dictator and jueteng-linked actor. Without activism, we would not be enjoying some small freedoms in our jobs, our schools, our communities, and our countries to which activists have spent countless hours, days, and even years. Freedoms for which these activists have laid down their lives and the lives of those they love, so that the country would be better. Freedoms which some people in government and the Armed Forces also enjoy and use to oppress others.

It is to activists of yesterday, that the youth of today, including those in the Armed Forces, owe their cherished liberties.

KUNG WALANG AKTIBISTA
katha ni Gregorio V. Bituin Jr.

Kung walang aktibista
maraming mang-aapi
at magsasasamantala

Kung walang aktibista
patuloy ang kawalang katarungan
sa marami nating kababayan

Kung walang aktibista
patuloy pa rin ang diktadurya
at pamumuno sa bayang
itinuring na pelikula

Kung walang aktibista
wala tayong munting kalayaan
sa ating paaralan
sa pamayanan at sa ating bayan

Maraming aktibista
ang nagsakripisyo ng buhay
dugo’t pawis sa bayan ay alay
ngunit marami sa kanila’y pinapatay

Maraming aktibista
ang dinukot at pinaslang
ng mga taong kaluluwa’y halang
naging desaparecido sa mga magulang

Tama lamang na may aktibista
upang mawala ang mapagsamantala
sila ang nagbibigay ng pag-asa
sa taumbayang patuloy sa dusa

Mapanganib manahan sa mundong ito
hindi dahil masasama ang mga tao
kundi dahil nagsasawalang-kibo tayo
sa mga nakikitang mga kabulukan
sa mga naririnig na kurakutan
sa mga nararamdamang kaapihan

Masarap manahan sa mundong ito
dahil may aktibistang hangad ay pagbabago
nakaukit sa diwa’y pagpapakatao
pag-ibig, at pakikipagkapwa-tao
pagkat nais ay lipunang wasto
pagkat puso’y para sa kapakanan ng mundo

Ako’y mamamatay na isang aktibista
Pagkat ako’y nabubuhay na tulad nila
Nawa ang nalikha ko ngayong tula
Ay maitula ko sa bawat nilikha.