Checking in with our coup plotters
Is it the tableware? Is it the mini-refrigerator? Or is it the convenience of valet parking -- which apparently does not apply to certain government vehicles (and which explains the remodeling of the Manila Peninsula lobby in the accompanying photo, taken from Bloomberg News)? So, what is it with fancy hotels and failed coup attempts? There must be some overdue textbook taken by Gringo Honasan from the PMA libray that says luxury hotels provide the best facilities and the quickest service for everyday coup d'etat needs. How else can we explain this stubborn incompetence, this hopeless refusal to learn from previous failures?
Gen. Danny Lim and some Scout Rangers took over the Intercontinental Hotel in 1989. 3 years earlier, the late Arturo Tolentino and his Marcos loyalist generals and KBL civilians took over the Manila Hotel for a week. And then Trillanes and his never-learners took over the Oakwood
Residences in 2003. So what was Trillanes thinking yesterday? Maybe the idiot thought that even if only 1/2 of 1% of the 11 million Pinoys who elected him as Senator showed up at the Pensinsula Hotel lobby, he would ...what? Win something? Someone explain how much of an IQ is needed to learn which way of mounting a coup will not work.
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4 Comments:
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Rex Robles' explanation that Trillanes is working for Mrs. Arroyo explains it all.
His job was to flush out all the gma forces in the military.
That explains why his 2 so called coups were hotel capers, which virtually presented no real threat to Mrs. Arroyo at all and worse, it made her look good.
I love conspiracy theories! But based on the two years I spent as an assistant secretary for plans at the DND in Camp Aguinaldo, where I met a few intelligent young officers, on one hand, and on the other, officers who commanded their men to think of them as intelligent. Where do you think Trillanes belongs?
Ooops, wrong typo, i meant to flush out all the ant-gma.
As for your question, I do not know.
Your guess would be as good as mine.
What I think is that IF Rex Robles' theory is correct, Mrs. Arroyo is one super wily creature and plans to stay way beyond 2010.
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