PHNO-HL: AT THE SUPREME COURT: JUSTICES CONTINUE TO BOYCOTT CJ SERENO

AT THE SUPREME COURT: JUSTICES CONTINUE TO BOYCOTT CJ
SERENO

MANILA, OCTOBER 1, 2012 (INQUIRER) By Jerome Aning
- And then there was one.
Only Associate Justice Jose Perez (photo) joined Chief Justice
Maria Lourdes Sereno on Monday at the weekly flag-raising ceremony at the
Supreme Court, albeit a few minutes late.
The absence of the 12 other justices was noticeable during the event that for
reporters covering the beat had become a sort of Kremlin-watching spectacle
before the fall of the Soviet Union on who's in or out of the leadership totem
pole.
Participants at the Monday morning event on Padre Faura usually line up on
the steps of the court's main building in front of the flag pole. No-shows could
easily be spotted.
During the past three Mondays following the Aug. 25 appointment by President
Benigno Aquino of the junior justice, bypassing five senior magistrates, to
replace the ousted Chief Justice Renato Corona following an emotional
impeachment trial, at least seven members of the high court had shown up for the
raising of the colors.
Flag and heraldic code

[PHOTO - NEWLY APPOINTED CJ SERENO FINDS SELF ALONE AT SC
FLAG RAISING RITES]
Leading the absentees was Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, who had
been bypassed twice for top honcho of the high tribunal—first by Corona in 2010
and this time by Sereno, at 52 the youngest among the magistrates to occupy the
post until the mandatory retirement age of 70.
Carpio was a member of the court's first division that ruled on March 25,
2009, in Martinez et al. v Lim that flag ceremonies inspire patriotism and evoke
the finest sentiments of love of country and people and pointed out that
Republic Act No. 8941, or the 1998 Flag and Heraldic Code of the Philippines,
penalized those ignoring the weekly ritual.
The administrative case concerned a sheriff who berated several employees of
the Romblon prosecutors' office for skipping the ceremonies. He was charged with
grave misconduct and sacked. The court acquitted the sheriff.
Citing the case, lawyer Romulo Macalintal said absent magistrates could be
held liable under RA 8941 for betrayal of public trust.
"The law clearly mandates the holding of flag ceremonies every Monday in all
government offices. The justices are not exempted from this. In fact they
ordered the holding of flag ceremonies in halls of justice and courthouses,"
Macalintal told the Philippine Daily Inquirer in a phone interview, referring to
a Sept. 21, 2001, court circular.
"The justices should not place themselves above the law. They should be
models and examples of law-abiding citizens," he said.
"You may not like the Chief Justice but what we're talking about here is love
of our country, our flag and national anthem. If they are displeased with her,
they should not show their displeasure to our flag and anthem."
Privileged to have Sereno
On Monday, a group of students from the Communication Society of St.
Scholastica's College in Manila attended the event and distributed copies of a
two-page statement expressing support for Sereno, who later greeted them.
"Today, with a new leadership in the Supreme Court after democratic processes
have been observed, our country is privileged to have its first female Chief
Justice … Let us remember that the Supreme Court is the last bastion of justice
and freedom," the statement read.
At the sidelights of the Judicial Excellence Awards ceremony at the Manila
Hotel Monday, Carpio downplayed the issue.
"I've attended more flag ceremonies than anyone. Don't look at that too much.
At the end of the day, you look at the decisions of the [justices]. I think
those are the things that are more important," he told reporters. "We support
Chief Justice Sereno because she is the Chief Justice."
"I do not wish to put color to their non-attendance," said presidential
spokesperson Edwin Lacierda. "Suffice it to say that Chief Justice Sereno will
be there for a good 18 years. There will be 52 weeks (in one year) and 18 years
of flag-raising ceremonies. So, we don't wish to discuss that anymore." With a report from Michael Lim Ubac
FROM MALAYA
SC justices continue Sereno boycott

[PHOTO -Support for Sereno. Students from St. Scholastica's
College in Manila trooped to the Supreme Court to give their statement of
support to Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno]
THEN there was one.
For the fourth straight week, justices boycotted flag-raising ceremonies at
the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.
And it was worse yesterday when only Associate Justice Jose Perez showed up,
aside from Sereno.
The flag ceremony started late, and Perez arrived later.
Traditionally, magistrates show their support to a newly appointed chief
justice by appearing at his or her side during the first flag-raising ceremony
to send the message to court employees that the judiciary is united under one
leader.
Sereno was named top magistrate last August 24.
During Sereno's first flag-raising ceremony as chief justice last September
4, she was joined only by five of the 13 other magistrates. They were Associate
Justices Perez, Roberto Abad, Jose Catral-Mendoza, Estela Perlas-Bernabe and
Bienvenido Reyes.
Absent were Antonio Carpio, Presbitero Velasco Jr., Teresita Leonardo-de
Castro, Arturo Brion, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin Mariano del Castillo and
Martin Villarama Jr.
Last September 10, with Sereno during the flag raising were Abad, Del
Castillo, Villarama Jr., Catral-Mendoza and Reyes attended the ceremony.
Last week, only Velasco Jr., Leonardo-de Castro, Brion, Peralta, and Bersamin
showed up.
A small group of students from St. Scholastica's Manila attended the
ceremonies as an expression of support for Sereno.
"Today, with a new leadership in the Supreme Court after democratic processes
have been observed, our country is privileged to have its first female Chief
Justice, Hon. Maria Lourdes P. A. Sereno...Let us remember that the Supreme
Court is the last bastion of justice and freedom," a representative of the
school said, reading from a two-page statement from the school's Communications
Society.
FROM SUNSTAR ONLINE
Supreme Court justice: Attending flag-raising ceremony not a
requirement Tuesday, September 25, 2012
MANILA -- Senior Associate Justice Carpio (photo) broke his
silence over reports that he and other magistrates have been skipping the weekly
flag-raising ceremonies in protest to the appointment of Maria Lourdes Sereno as
Chief Justice.
Carpio, along with other senior members of the Supreme Court, were noticeably
absent from the activity since Sereno took over the judiciary in late August.
Her appointment defied the seniority tradition in the Court, dashing hopes of
other justices to make it on top someday.
"It's up to you if want to attend (the flag-raising) or not," Carpio told
reporters late Monday.
Carpio said the justices will rally behind Sereno "because she is the Chief
Justice" but sources related the chief magistrate failed to earn the trust and
confidence of her senior colleagues.
The non-attendance of some justices should not be seen as lack of support for
Sereno, added Carpio, who led the High Court for two months after the ouster of
then Chief Justice Renato Corona on May 29.
"Don't look at that too much. You look at the decisions at the end of the
day. You look at the decisions of the Supreme Court, how they vote and what
decisions they took. I think those are the things that are more important," he
said.
Earlier, noted election lawyer Romulo Macalintal warned of possible
impeachment case against the justices for violating the Philippine Flag law,
which requires all government offices and educational institutions to observe
the flag-raising ceremony every Monday morning.
Macalintal said failing to follow the law would make the justices accountable
for betrayal of public trust, one of the grounds for the removal of
constitutional officers like the members of the High Court. (Virgil Lopez/Sunnex)


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PHNO-HL: HRW: PHL GOVT PREMATURE IN CLAIMING PROGRESS IN HUMAN RIGHTS CRIMES

HRW: PHL GOVT PREMATURE IN CLAIMING PROGRESS IN HUMAN RIGHTS
CRIMES


[PHOTO -Jovito Palparan Jr. INQUIRER FILE
PHOTO]
MANILA, OCTOBER 1, 2012 (INQUIRER) By Fat Reyes - A New
York-based human-rights watchdog on Wednesday said that the Philippine
government was premature in claiming that it had made significant progress in
addressing human rights issues, insisting the need for the government to
successfully prosecute those responsible for extrajudicial killings.
"The question isn't what the government plans to do, but what it has already
done. Up to the present, there have been no successful prosecutions of military
personnel for extra-judicial killings," Brian Adams, Asia Director for the Human
Rights Watch, said in a statement.
The statement came in reaction to a meeting that was held between Justice
Secretary Leila de Lima and members of the United States House of
Representatives in Washington on September 24.
Earlier reports said the US lawmakers were pleased with the measures being
undertaken by the present administration of President Benigno Aquino III to
improve the country's human-rights record.
In his statement, Adams argued that while the rate of killings since Aquino
came to power in 2010 had certainly gone down, the killings still persisted.


"Unless the government prosecutes those responsible for past and recent
abuses—and ensure that there are institutions capable of doing so—there is
nothing to prevent these abuses from increasing again in the future," Adams
said.
Among high-ranking military personnel charged with human-rights abuses is
fugitive former Army General Jovito Palparan Jr.
He is charged with the 2006 abduction and illegal detention of University of
the Philippines students Karen Empeño and Sherlyn Cadapan.
Former top government officials charged with murder related to extra-judicial
killings are former Palawan governor Joel Reyes and his brother Mario, Dinagat
Island Representative Ruben Ecleo Jr., and the Ampatuans of Maguindanao.
The fugitive Reyes brothers are charged for the killing of
environmentalist-radio broadcaster Gerry Ortega while Ecleo for the murder of
his wife.


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PHNO-HL: CEBU: MSGR. GARCIA PROUD OF 'MATCHLESS' COLLECTION OF RELIGIOUS ICONS

CEBU: MSGR. GARCIA PROUD OF 'MATCHLESS' COLLECTION OF
RELIGIOUS ICONS

[PHOTO -BELEN COLLECTION Msgr. Cris Garcia shows off his
collection of Belens housed at the Collegium Societatis Angeli Pacis Immaculate
Heart of Mary Refuge in Cansojong Talisay City, in this file photo taken on Dec.
20, 2008. Garcia said some pieces in the collection were a century old. LITO TECSON/CEBU DAILY NEWS]
CEBU CITY, OCTOBER 1, 2012 (INQUIRER) By Connie E. Fernandez
Inquirer Visayas - Msgr. Cristobal Garcia has always been proud of his
collection of religious icons and paintings.
He displayed them in exhibits during the weeklong festivities to celebrate
the feast day of the Holy Child Jesus every third Sunday of January.
Some of the religious images can also be seen at the museum inside the
compound of the Society of Angels of Peace, a congregation Garcia founded in
Talisay City, Cebu.
His collections range from 300-year-old heirlooms to newly carved pieces,
paintings, statues and "stampita" (scapular) bought in and outside the country.

So far, no one in Cebu can match Garcia's collection. Those who know him say
that he can very well afford these expensive art pieces.
After all, his family partly owns the country's second biggest power
distribution firm, Visayan Electric Co.
Garcia, however, has come under fire following a National Geographic report
that identified him as "one of the best known ivory collectors in the country."

In the report, Garcia told NatGeo writer Bryan Christy how to smuggle Sto.
Niño into the United States.
Louie Nacorda, a renowned iconographer and a friend of Garcia's, acknowledged
that the monsignor was keeping ivory pieces although he said he didn't know how
many as these were part of Garcia's vast collection of religious figures, icons
and paintings.
Unfair
"He (Garcia) has an ivory collection. I have an ivory collection. But to say,
there is an ivory trade here, it is unfair. We just buy our ivory things in
religious stores in Manila. There is no market here in Cebu. Every time I save
money, I visit different stores in Manila. I buy it," said Nacorda.
The same holds true with Garcia who can afford to buy ivory pieces whenever
he goes out of the country, he said.
Gift from grandpa
Nacorda said collecting paintings, icons and statues had become an expression
of his and Garcia's spirituality.
Garcia's collection started when he was just 5 years old when his
grandfather, Gil Garcia, gave him his first image—the Sto. Niño de Belen from
Spain.
In an interview in 2008, Garcia recalled that he was at a store with his
grandfather when he saw the Sto Niño sitting on hay and flowers, and encased in
glass.
"I pointed to it and told him that that was what I wanted for my birthday,"
Garcia said in a Cebu Daily News (CDN) article published on Jan. 13, 2008.
The gift led to a collection of more than 100 Sto. Niño paintings and icons.

Gift from friends
Some of his collections, however, were given by friends, who had heard about
his passion.
He also kept an image of the Sto. Niño de Praga, which he found in a trash
can in Anaheim, California.
In another CDN article dated Jan. 16, 2005, Garcia explained that his
collection was a consequence of his devotion.
'Matchless' collection
Garcia, chairman of the Cebu Archdiocesan Commission on Worship, doesn't hide
his collections. He displayed them at the Cathedral Museum of Cebu two years ago
as part of the activities leading to the fiesta of the Sto. Niño.
The other exhibit was held at Ayala Center Cebu.
Fr. Brian C. Brigoli, head curator of the Cathedral Museum of Cebu and vice
chairman of the archdiocesan commission for the cultural heritage of church,
recalled that Garcia handled everything—from the curatorial design to the
equipment and fixture in the exhibit.
All those on display—about a hundred—were personal collections of Garcia.

But Brigoli said that none of these items was made of ivory, apparently for
security reasons. He, however, said Garcia had told him that he had an ivory
collection.
Brigoli said he was impressed by Garcia's collection. "He was a serious
collector," said Brigoli. "No one can match his collection. It was extensive."

19th century painting
The collection includes statues, paintings, icons and stampita.
Brigoli, a conservator, recalled that he conducted a training program in
Garcia's congregation on how to preserve paintings. One of the paintings he saw
was dated early 19th century.
"He told me about his passion for collecting. Whenever he goes to other
places, he sees to it that he buys one for his religious collections. Even when
he was still a boy, he used to collect things," he added.
Source of enjoyment
Brigoli explained that Garcia displayed his collection, not to brag about it
but to use the exhibit as a "medium of education, medium for evangelization and
source of enjoyment."
He said the exhibit was Garcia's way of showing and sharing his devotion with
the Holy Child Jesus and inviting the people to share his faith.
In the CDN article four years ago, Garcia said he decided to hold an exhibit
of his collection to share his faith.
"Looking at the image of the Sto Niño has taught me about who I am. He has
invited me to a spiritual childhood which, as I said, has an effect on me," he
was quoted as saying.
Brigoli said he felt sorry for Garcia for how he was depicted in the NatGeo
article.
He said Garcia should not be blamed because what he had in his possession was
not the raw material of ivory—elephant's tusks—but carved images that had been
passed on several times and whose sources could not be traced any more.
Brigoli said Garcia did not have the connections to be able to smuggle ivory
pieces from every country he had been to.
Bishop Cruz calls for stop to ivory use By Tina G.
Santos Philippine Daily Inquirer 1:06 am | Wednesday, September 26th, 2012
Archbishop Emeritus Oscar Cruz (photo) called on the public to
refrain from using ivory tusks for religious images.
Cruz said the use of ivory tusks for religious images should be stopped
"because it is contrary to the signs of the times."
"Elephants are already endangered and that reason itself dictates that we get
rid of ivory. There are better materials like kamagong, iron, wood, molave.
Besides, the moment you have ivory in an image, you're courting danger because
they are attractive to thieves and they are saleable," Cruz said in an
interview.
Cruz added, though, that he didn't know of any Church law expressly banning
the use of ivory for religious images.
Dangerous to Church
For activist priest Robert Reyes, turning religious icons and altars into
kingly material possessions is dangerous to the Church.
"Sacred images are important symbols but they need not be of gold or ivory,"
Reyes said in a statement sent to the Inquirer, in reaction to reports on the
Philippines' involvement in the illegal trade of ivory from elephant tusks to
transform them into holy images.
He said what made the religious icons sacred was "our faith not the value of
the material of which they are made."
Cruz admitted that he himself had put up two museums—one in San Fernando,
Pampanga and another in Dagupan—where religious images made of ivory were
stored.
"There was a time when ivory was freely marketed because there were no
worries about the elephants being endangered at that time. The marketing of
ivory in those times was not an issue. But this time it's different," he added.

"Is this priest [Msgr. Cristobal Garcia] guilty of ivory smuggling, I don't
know. What I know is that even former First Lady Imelda Marcos was very fond of
collecting ivory images. It's true that there used to be lots of ivory and they
were used for religious images but that was when there was still no prohibition
on trading and the elephants were not endangered yet," he said.
"I don't want to comment on what sin he [Garcia] committed. I just want to
say that it's improper if you'll trade ivory nowadays, we should no longer be
making new images out of ivory tusks. But if you collect existing images because
you worry that they may be lost or taken away by thieves, that's OK because I
did that myself," he added.
Reyes assailed the priest named in the NatGeo report who tried to rationalize
the Church's use of illegally traded ivory.
Fr. Vicente Lina Jr., director of the Diocesan Museum of Malolos and curator
of his archdiocese's annual Sto. Niño exhibit, was quoted as saying in the
report that icons carved from ivory was a form of "offering to God."
Crooked line
"It's straightening up a crooked line: You buy the ivory, which came from a
hazy origin, and you turn it into a spiritual item. See?" Lina told NatGeo.
"His voice lowers to a whisper. 'Because it's like buying a stolen item,'"
the report said.
Popularly known as the "running priest" for his passion on initiating
marathons to raise public awareness about social and political issues, Reyes
said the justifications of the priests in the article were "disturbing."
"I wonder whether we can proudly say, 'we don't have elephants in the
Philippines but we have elephant tusks turned into sacred objects of worship,'"
he said. With a report from Delfin T. Mallari Jr., Inquirer
Southern Luzon


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PHNO-HL: PH IN ILLEGAL IVORY TRADE: PRIEST AT CENTER OF INT'L CONTROVERSY

PH IN ILLEGAL IVORY TRADE: PRIEST AT CENTER OF INT'L
CONTROVERSY


[PHOTO -SAVE THE ELEPHANTS: Kimani, a huge bull elephant cared
for in the Ol Pejeta conservancy near Mt. Kenya, Africa, wears a collar
containing a SIM card. The conservation group Save the Elephants spearheads the
project where it places mobile phone SIM cards on elephants' collars then sets
up a 'geofence' using a global positioning system that mirrors the
conservatory's boundaries. The elephants can then be tracked, saving them from
poachers. AP]
MANILA, OCTOBER 1, 2012 (INQUIRER) By Kirstin C. Bernabe -
Thousands of elephants are butchered every year for their ivory tusks that are
carved into religious objects, including the most-prized Sto. Niño (icon of
Jesus Christ as a boy) in the Philippines, a National Geographic investigation
of the direct link between religion and ivory smuggling shows.
The country has become one of the destinations of the illegal ivory trade
mainly because Filipinos are fond of religious statues made only of the finest
materials, said the cover story of the magazine's October issue titled "Ivory
worship." It was written by Bryan Christy, who visited the country five times
for the story.

[PHOTO -FROM THE
PHILIPPINES CONNECTION: In an overfilled church Monsignor Cristobal Garcia,
one of the best known ivory collectors in the Philippines, leads an unusual rite
honoring the nation's most important religious icon, the Santo Niño de Cebu
(Holy Child of Cebu). The ceremony, which he conducts annually on Cebu, is
called the Hubo, from a Cebuano word meaning "to undress."]
Christy went to Cebu and met one of the best known ivory collectors in the
country, Msgr. Cristobal Garcia. He is "the leader of a group of prominent Sto.
Niño collectors who display their icons during the Feast of the Sto. Niño in
some of [the province's] best shopping malls and hotels," the report said.
"His anteroom is a mini-museum dominated by large, glass-encased religious
figures whose heads and hands are made of ivory: There is an ivory Our Lady of
the Rosary holding an ivory Jesus in one, a near-life-size ivory Mother of the
Good Shepherd seated beside an ivory Jesus in another. Next to Garcia's desk a
solid ivory Christ hangs on a cross," it said.
Heirlooms
They are not just investments but heirlooms as well, said the NatGeo report.

"Many believe that what you invest in devotion to your own icon determines
what blessings you will receive in return. For some, then, a fiberglass or
wooden icon is not enough. For them, the material of choice is elephant ivory,"
it added.
For a Third World country where most people are living below poverty line,
some may see this devotion as lavish but for others, it is "an offering to God."

"The elaborate displays [of Sto. Niño] are often owned by families of
surprisingly modest means. Devotees have opened bankbooks in the names of their
ivory icons. They name them in their wills," it said.
Christ himself
The report said some Filipinos believed that the Sto. Niño de Cebu (Holy
Child of Cebu) was Christ himself. It noted that 16th century Spaniards
"declared the icon to be miraculous and used it to convert the nation, making
this wooden statue, housed today behind bulletproof glass in Cebu's Basilica
Minore de Sto. Niño, the root from which all Filipino Catholicism has grown."
The Sto. Niño is believed to be a replica of the icon devotees believe Ferdinand
Magellan brought to Cebu in 1521.
"I don't call it extravagant," said Fr. Vicente Lina Jr. (Father Jay),
director of the Diocesan Museum of Malolos and curator of his archdiocese's
annual Sto. Niño exhibit). "'I call it an offering to God.' He surveys the child
images, some of which are decorated in 'lagang,' silvery mother of pearl flowers
carved from nautilus shells," said in the report.
Crooked line
"When it comes to Sto. Niño devotion too much is not enough. As a priest,
I've been praying, 'If all of this stuff is plain stupid, then God, put a stop
to this,'" Father Jay was quoted as saying in the report.
He went as far as saying that the ivory used for the statues were smuggled
but for him, "it is like straightening up a crooked line."
"Father Jay points to a Sto. Niño holding a dove. 'Most of the old ivories
are heirlooms,'" Lina said. "'The new ones are from Africa. They come in through
the back door,'" he was quoted as saying.
"'It's like straightening up a crooked line: You buy the ivory, which came
from a hazy origin, and you turn it into a spiritual item. See?" Lina said, with
a giggle. "His voice lowers to a whisper. 'Because it's like buying a stolen
item,'" the report said.
Int'l embarrassment
"If this allegation is true, this illegal wildlife trade would be an
international embarrassment for the Philippines and the Filipinos. This must
stop," said Antonio Oposa Jr., an environmentalist lawyer.
Oposa said his group was studying other possible legal actions it may take.

"[If these were true,] we see violations of the CITES (the Convention on
International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora), Wildlife
Conservation Act, Anti-Fencing Law, Customs Code and others," he said.

Probe
Without judging before hearing, Oposa said his group had asked the Department
of Justice, National Bureau of Investigation and Department of Environment and
Natural Resources to investigate the people responsible for the illegal trade in
the country.
"We have also asked the Interpol to conduct an investigation on the people
behind this illegal wildlife syndicate," he said.
"It has long been known in the international circles that the Philippines is
a source, a buyer and a conduit in the illegal wildlife trade. This must stop,"
Oposa added.
Christy said he met with Garcia to understand the country's ivory trade and
to get a lead on who were behind 5.4 tons of illegal ivory and 7.7 tons that
customs agents seized in Manila in 2009 and 2005, respectively, and 6.1 tons
bound for the Philippines seized by Taiwanese authorities in 2006. He said the
seizures represented 1,745 elephants assuming an average of 10 kg of ivory per
elephant.
New ivory gets into the country from Africa through Muslims from Mindanao by
bribing authorities along the way, according to Lina.
"And you just keep on paying so many people so that it will enter your
country," Lina told Christy.
Tips on smuggling
In the report, Garcia told Christy how he could smuggle an ivory Sto. Niño
into the United States.
"'Wrap it in old, stinky underwear and pour ketchup on it … so it looks
shitty with blood. This is how it is done,"' Garcia told Christy.
"Garcia gave me the names of his favorite ivory carvers, all in Manila, along
with advice on whom to go to for high volume, whose wife overcharges, who
doesn't meet deadlines. He gave me phone numbers and locations," Christy said.

"If I wanted to smuggle an icon that was too large to hide in my suitcase, I
might get a certificate from the National Museum of the Philippines declaring my
image to be antique, or I could get a carver to issue a paper declaring it to be
imitation or alter the carving date to before the ivory ban. Whatever I decided
to commission, Garcia promised to bless it for me," the NatGeo writer said of
Garcia's advice to him.
Christy said in the report that "a few families control most of the ivory
carving in Manila, moving like termites through massive quantities of tusks. Two
of the main dealers are based in the city's religious-supplies district,
Tayuman. During my five trips to the Philippines I visited every one of the
ivory shops Garcia recommended to me and more, inquiring about buying ivory."

"More than once I was asked if I was a priest. In almost every shop someone
proposed a way I could smuggle ivory to the US. One offered to paint my ivory
with removable brown watercolor to resemble wood; another to make identical
hand-painted statuettes out of resin to camouflage my ivory baby Jesus. If I was
caught, I was told to lie and say 'resin' to US Customs. During one visit a
dealer said Monsignor Garcia had just called and suggested that since I'd
mentioned that my family had a funeral business, I might take her new, 20-pound
Sto. Niño home by hiding it in the bottom of a casket. I said he must have been
joking, but she didn't think so," Christy said.
On sick leave
The Philippine Daily Inquirer repeatedly called Garcia through his two mobile
phones on Monday afternoon but there was no answer. It was learned that the
monsignor was on sick leave and was in Manila.
Christy said the Philippines' ivory market was small compared with, say,
China's, but it is centuries old and staggeringly obvious.
"Collectors and dealers share photographs of their ivories on Flickr and
Facebook. CITES, as administrator of the 1989 global ivory ban, is the world's
official organization standing between the slaughter of the 1980s—in which
Africa is said to have lost half its elephants, more than 600,000 in just those
10 years—and the extermination of the elephant. If CITES has overlooked the
Philippines' ivory trade, what else has it missed?" Christy said.


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PHNO-HL: DENR SUSPENDS IMPLEMENTATION OF MINING NEW POLICY GUIDELINES (E079)

DENR SUSPENDS IMPLEMENTATION OF MINING NEW POLICY GUIDELINES
(E079)
[PHOTO -The DENR logo]
MANILA, OCTOBER 1, 2012 (INQUIRER) By Jeannette I. Andrade –
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) has suspended the
implementation of its guidelines on the government's new mining policy to give
way to amendments on its "ambiguous" provision on the renewal of expiring mining
contracts.
In a memorandum issued Friday by DENR undersecretary Demetrio Ignacio Jr. to
all concerned offices and the Mining and Geosciences Bureau (MGB), he said that
DENR administrative order 2012-07 or the implementing rules and regulations of
Executive Order 79 is suspended pending the issuance and effectivity of
amendments.
The IRR for EO 79, which embodies President Aquino's policy on
mining, was supposed to take effect Saturday (Sept. 29, 2012), or 15 days after
it was published.
Ignacio told the Inquirer that the decision to suspend the implementation of
the IRR was reached after a meeting last Monday in Malacañang convened by the
Mining Industry Coordinating Council (MICC), headed by Finance Secretary Cesar
Purisima.
"It was decided to make the IRR less ambiguous," the undersecretary said,
adding that the meeting had been called over concerns raised by the Chamber of
Mines of the Philippines (COMP) on section 9 of the guidelines which it has
described as "patently illegal."

[PHOTOS FROM THE BATANG
TIBAK BLOG- MINING IN THE PHILIPPINES]

The COMP claimed that the government review of mining contracts would shorten
the maximum 50-year period for projects by imposing a bidding scheme for the
renewal after the first 25 years of a tenement.

The group further said that the provision contradicts the Philippine Mining
Act of 1995 which provides: "Mineral agreements shall have a term not exceeding
25 years to start from the date of execution thereof, and renewable for another
term not exceeding 25 years under the same terms and conditions thereof, without
prejudice to charges mutually agreed upon by the parties."

Section 9 of the IRR states that "in the case of expiring 25-year mining
tenements, the qualified mining tenement holder electing to exercise its rights
to renew the said mining tenement for another 25-year term shall file the
pertinent mining application in the MGB not later than six months prior to the
expiration of the same mining tenement."

It further provides that "the mining contract/agreement that may be renewed
shall be subject to new terms and conditions pursuant to the laws, rules and
regulations that are existing at the time of the renewal or may be hereafter
issued, such as, but not limited to, the establishment of the contract area as a
mineral reservation."
Ignacio told the Inquirer that during the meeting, the members of the MICC
agreed to amend the provision to make it clearer and suspend the implementation
of the IRR until the amendment is published.
"We are not going to do anything else," the undersecretary assured, referring
to changes in other portions of the IRR.
EO 79 has been touted as the centerpiece of the government's mining reforms
program while the IRR was described to be leaning more toward environmental
preservation than earning revenues for the government from mining.
FROM INQUIRER BUSINESS NEWS
Mining group to challenge in court a provision in new mining
rules By Riza T. Olchondra Philippine Daily Inquirer
1:17 pm | Wednesday

[PHOTO -Chamber of Mines of the Philippines president Benjamin
Philip Romualdez]
MANILA, PHILIPPINES: Mining companies will challenge the government in court
over what they claim as a "patently illegal" provision in the implementing rules
of Executive Order 79 on mining policy reforms, according to the Chamber of
Mines of the Philippines.
Chamber president Benjamin Philip Romualdez told reporters on the sidelines
of the Mining Philippines 2012 Conference that mining companies were "preparing
legal action against government" over Section 9 of the implementing rules and
regulations (IRR) of EO 79.
The IRR provision says the government can renegotiate the terms of mining
contracts after the first 25 years. This effectively shortens the potential
project period from the existing maximum period of 50 years.
Mining companies "will sue," Romualdez said. Since the government took "a lot
of time" in putting together the IRR, industry players have carefully reviewed
the provisions and their position is to sue, he added.
Romualdez expressed hope that Vice-President Jejomar Binay (photo at
right), the keynote speaker at the conference, would relay to the agencies
and officials concerned the industry's "shock" over the implementing rules.
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FROM THE BATANG TIBAK
BLOG
<http://batangtibak.blogspot.ca/2010/06/philippine-mining-industry.html>
THE PHILIPPINE MINING INDUSTRY
by Ramon I. Castillo Benguet Mines, Philippines

[PHOTO- Checking for the suitability of the ceiling after
an explosion.]
The Overview
…profit dictates the operations, to a philosophy that incorporates social
and environmental considerations as equal to profit.

The Mining Industry has been under siege for its social and environmental
issues. For years, the industry has been attacked with countless accounts of
environmental disasters, socio-cultural displacements, and mining firms'
encroachment into traditional lands. When the industry started to create a more
environment and people-friendly advancements, these negative attacks were dodge
off, and the industry bounced back and boomed.
The industry's advancements created a new image of what the industry could
bring to the people. With the world's drive towards globalization and
industrialization, the industry of mining became more efficient in sustaining
ones nations' economic growth.
Since 1985, over 75 countries started to introduce or in the process of
introducing new mining laws and policies, to improve the environment for private
investment. Even though Philippines has been one of the countries suppressed by
the destruction caught by the Mining Industry, the government has always been
willing to embrace the new transitional mining firms to exploit the mineral
resources.
No matter how the government would describe it, they can't deny that they
more desirably go for international firms that local corporation to exploit the
Philippine resources. This shows that now the profit dictates the operations, to
a philosophy that incorporates social and environmental considerations as equal
to profit.

Understanding Mining and the Mining Industry

Mining is simply the extraction of minerals from the earth. It is a distinct
industry because of the nature of its product, which dictates the nature of
operation and process that have to be undertaken. To note are the following:


•Ore grade- is the percentage of desirable material out of the total
matrix. The global average for copper ore, for example, is around 0.9% (while
Stocks lasts). This means that for every ton of excavation, less than a kilogram
of metal is produced. For gold, the figures are more appalling. On the average,
around 6 tonnes of rock need to be processed to produce an ounce of gold. Ore
grade are getting lower and lower since the high grade ores are naturally the
first to be mined.
•Compounds- Minerals, especially metals, are not usually found in
elementary form. While some metals may be extracted through "gravitational
methods", those that are in the form of compounds such as sulphides or oxides
need to be extracted using chemical separation methods. The mineral input needed
for extraction of these metals usually contribute substantially to total
wastage.

Reference: -All That Glitters: Understanding the Myth of Sustainable
Mining in the Philippines, Issue Paper 97-01, by Andre Gerard Garcia
Ballesteros, LRC-KSK / Friends of the Earth Philippines. -www.mgb10.com -http://www.snowdengroup.com/peopleschoice2007
/thumbnails/Castillo_751_mining5.jpg
THE PHILIPPINE MINING ACT OF 1995
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PHNO-HL: MAR ROXAS ON LEAVE AS LP CHIEF / MAR TAKES OATH AS DILG CHIEF

MAR ROXAS ON LEAVE AS LP CHIEF / MAR TAKES OATH AS DILG
CHIEF

[PHOTO -Interior Secretary Manuel Roxas II. FILE
PHOTO]
MANILA, OCTOBER 1, 2012 (INQUIRER) By TJ Burgonio - Interior
Secretary Manuel Roxas II is taking a leave of absence as president of the
Liberal Party in view of the 2013 elections and to be able to focus on his job,
and President Benigno Aquino has accepted this decision.
"To remove any suspicion, I deemed it best to take a leave of absence, and
this has been accepted by the President," Roxas told reporters after taking his
oath as Interior Secretary before the President at Malacañang's Reception Hall.

By taking a leave of absence, Roxas said, he could focus on his job at the
Department of Interior and Local Government and "faithfully perform" his job.

Roxas said his first act as interior secretary on Monday would be to file a
leave of absence from the party presidency, and submit this to the President. He
is taking over from the late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, who died in a
plane crash last August 18.
Roxas could not immediately say who would succeed him as party president, and
said party rules provide a mechanism for succession.
Under the rules, the party's executive vice president would assume a vacancy
in the presidency, but that position was held by the late Robredo.
Roxas said that the party secretary general, incoming Transportation
Secretary Joseph E. A. Abaya, would move up as the new EVP. But the party would
decide whether Abaya or the LP vice president, Budget Secretary Florencio Abad,
would assume the presidency.
FROM PHILSTAR
Mar takes oath as new DILG chief By Aurea Calica
(The Philippine Star) Updated September 30, 2012 12:00 AM

[PHOTO - President Aquino administers the oath of office of
new Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas at Malacañang yesterday.
Looking on are Roxas' wife Korina Sanchez, mother Judy Araneta Roxas and son
Paolo, and Leni Robredo, widow of the late DILG chief Jesse Robredo]
MANILA, Philippines - Interior and Local Government Secretary Manuel Roxas II
said yesterday he wants to focus on his role in ensuring peace and order as well
as strengthening local government units.
Roxas filed a leave of absence as president of the Liberal Party (LP) as he
took his oath of office before President Aquino at Malacañang yesterday.
He said he wants only one "hat" to help him avoid conflict of interest in
dealing with the LGUs and the police.
He said the upcoming 2013 election is also one of the reasons why he had to
focus on one job only to ensure that the people would enjoy "freedom from fear"
as the Philippine National Police (PNP) would now be under him.
Roxas said he spoke with the President about it and he was expecting that he
would approve of it. He said the President was surprised with the idea since the
Chief Executive seemed comfortable with him being head of the LP and the DILG.

He said the safety and security of the people are paramount and that despite
progress and statistics showing crime incidents were down, there would always be
victims needing to obtain justice and feel safe.
Roxas said under the party rules, he would no longer have much duties and
responsibilities and that the executive vice president would assume "whenever
there is an incapacity or vacancy in the presidency."
Unfortunately, Roxas said the LP executive vice president was the late DILG
chief Jesse Robredo.
Incoming Transportation Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya is the current LP
secretary-general.
Roxas also gave assurance that he would continue Robredo's projects,
especially in promoting transparency in LGUs and the proper way of spending
people's money.
Roxas said he has not yet chosen his undersecretaries, including the
replacement for Rico Puno, who resigned after a controversy related to guns
purchase at the DILG.
He said he would still have to look into the issues and study the documents
since he never laid a hand on them before taking oath.


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PHNO-HL: SAME OLD FACES IN 2013 POLLS: POLITICAL DYNASTIES, VETERAN POLITICOS

SAME OLD FACES IN 2013 POLLS: POLITICAL DYNASTIES, VETERAN
POLITICOS

[PHOTO -Senator Edgardo Angara, Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara and Aurora
Gov. Bellaflor Angara-Castillo: Musical chair]
MANILA, OCTOBER 1, 2012 (INQUIRER) Inquirer Northern, Inquirer
Visayas - The electoral match-ups in Northern and Central Luzon for 2013 shows
veteran politicians returning to the campaign trail to protect turf or to
reclaim their old posts.
Families long entrenched in local politics are also asserting their strength
in next year's elections.
The same applies to other parts of the country where politicians may have
switched parties but virtually the same faces and names will file their
certificates of candidacy (CoCs) starting on Monday (October 1).
The Marcoses of Ilocos Norte, Singsons of Ilocos Sur, Ortegas of La Union and
Dys of Isabela are up for reelection.
In Aurora, the Angaras are consolidating their power in their home province,
with its members also vying for posts in the Senate and the House of
Representatives.
Outgoing Senator Edgardo Angara of the Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino and
Vice Governor Gerardo Noveras of the Liberal Party (LP) are likely to square off
in the gubernatorial race.
Outgoing Gov. Bellaflor Angara-Castillo, the senator's sister, is returning
to the House to replace her nephew, Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara, who is running for
senator under LP.
In Pampanga, Gov. Lilia Pineda is running for reelection under her newly
formed party, Kambilan, with her only son, Dennis, former mayor of Lubao, as her
running mate. Dennis is seeking to fill in the seat of Vice Gov. Joseller Guiao,
who is running for representative of the province's first district.

[PHOTO FROM LEFT-Maynard Lapid, Sen. Lito Lapid, Gov. Mark
Lapid]
Sen. Manuel "Lito" Lapid is known to be campaigning for his youngest son,
Maynard, who will run for vice governor.
Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is running for reelection in the 2nd
district.
In Bulacan, Gov. Wilhelmino Sy-Alvarado and his running mate, Vice Gov.
Daniel Fernando, could be running unopposed after Rep. Joselito Mendoza (3rd
district) dropped his plan to challenge Alvarado.
In Nueva Ecija, the Bagong Lakas ng Nueva Ecija (Balane) is fielding Rep.
Josefina Manuel-Joson (1st district) against reelectionist Gov. Aurelio Umali,
while her husband, Quezon Mayor Mariano Cristino Joson, will seek the
congressional seat she is vacating.
Rep. Czarina Umali, the governor's wife, is seeking reelection in the 3rd
district.
Former San Isidro Mayor Sonia Lorenzo will run for representative of the 4th
district against Magnolia Antonino, daughter of outgoing Rep. Rodolfo Antonino,
and San Leonardo Mayor Froilan Nagaño.
In Zambales, reports said former Gov. Vicente Magsaysay (photo at
left) is challenging the reelection bid of Gov. Hermogenes Ebdane Jr.
Ebdane's son, Jun Omar, is seeking reelection as representative of the
province's second district.
Rep. Maria Milagros Magsaysay of the 1st district has announced her plan to
run for senator. Reports said her son Jobo may face outgoing Olongapo City Mayor
James Gordon Jr. in the congressional race.
Representative Magsaysay and Gordon's brother former Sen. Richard Gordon are
running for senator under the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA).
In Bataan, outgoing Rep. Albert Garcia of the 2nd district, son of outgoing
Gov. Enrique Garcia Jr., is running for governor against Vice Gov. Efren
Pascual.
Former Rep. Leonardo Roman is facing actor Onemig Bondoc in the second
district congressional race.
Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos (photo at left) announced that
she would run for a second term. Representatives Imelda Marcos (2nd district)
and Rodolfo Fariñas (1st district) are also expected to run for reelection.
All eyes are on the Laoag mayoral race, however, with members of the Fariñas
clan likely battling for the post that three-time Mayor Michael Fariñas will
vacate in 2013.
The mayor's wife Chevylle, president of the Association of Barangay Captains,
has made known her interest in running for mayor.
In Ilocos Sur, the Singsons will try to maintain its dominance in the
province with reelectionist Gov. Luis "Chavit" Singson (photo at right)
facing his former ally, Tagudin Mayor Roque Verzosa Jr., in the gubernatorial
race.
Singson will run with reelectionist Vice Gov. Deogracias Victor Savellano,
who will face former Singson ally and former Board Member Efren Rafanan. In the
second district, former Deputy Speaker Eric Singson is returning to the House to
replace his son Eric Jr.
In La Union, old political names are seen to dominate again the elections,
with Gov. Manuel Ortega running for his third term and his brother Victor for
his third and final term as representative of the first district.
The recent feud among the province's leaders has caused the once-dominant
Abante Vizcaya to split, with factions led by Rep. Carlos Padilla and Gov. Luisa
Cuaresma, who were former allies.
Arya Vizcaya also broke up and has been divided into two groups, each led by
retired police general Thompson Lantion and former Santa Fe Mayor Florante
Gerdan.
Cuaresma is eyeing the lone congressional seat and is likely to challenge
Padilla.
Gambito, meanwhile, has announced his plan to run for governor and is
expected to face Gerdan, president of Poro Point Management Corp.
In Isabela, voters are awaiting the return bout between reelectionist
Gov. Faustino Dy III and former Gov. Maria Gracia Cielo Padaca (photo at
left), although the latter has yet to announce if she will reclaim the post
she lost to Dy in 2010.
In Cagayan, former Rep. Manuel Mamba said he has been planning to challenge
the reelection bid of Gov. Alvaro Antonio.
In Quirino, Gov. Junie Cua and his son Rep. Dakila Carlo Cua, along with Vice
Gov. May Garnace-Calaunan, are likely to seek their second terms next year under
LP.
In Baguio City, the tandem of Rep. Bernardo Vergara and Mayor Mauricio
Domogan expects a challenge from former Councilor Jose Molintas, who has plans
to run for representative next year, and Marquez Go, who is being groomed for
the mayoral post by a loose alliance of opposition leaders.
In Benguet, Gov. Nestor Fongwan is facing former Rep. Samuel Dangwa in the
gubernatorial race while Rep. Ronald Cosalan will run for reelection against
Vice Gov. Cresencio Pacalso.
In Mt. Province, reelectionist Rep. Maximo Dalog will face retired public
works assistant secretary Roy Manao and Jupiter Dominguez. Gov. Leonard Mayaen
will be challenged by Vice Gov. Bonifacio Lacwasan.
In Ifugao, Rep. Teodoro Baguilat Jr. will face former Rep. Solomon Chungalao
for the lone congressional seat.
In Abra, Gov. Eustaquio Bersamin is running for reelection. The congressional
race will see a close match between reelectionist Rep. Maria Jocelyn Bernos,
Vice Gov. Rolando Somera and former Rep. Cecilia Luna.
[PHOTO - Arthur Defensor Sr. and former governor Niel Tupas
Sr.]
In Iloilo province, LP has brought in together traditional political
rivals—the Tupas, Garin and Defensor clans—under one ticket.
The LP will field reelectionist Iloilo Gov. Arthur Defensor as its official
candidate. Defensor took oath as LP member on Sunday along with his son and
namesake, Iloilo 3rd district Rep. Arthur Defensor Jr.
His running mate is Raul Tupas, son of former governor and LP provincial
chair Niel Tupas Sr., who will run for congressman in the 4th district.
Niel's four other sons will run for reelection under the LP—Rep. Niel Tupas
Jr. of Iloilo's 5th district, Mayor Niel Tupas III of Barotac Viejo town, Board
Member Nielo Tupas and City Councilor Nielex Tupas.
Defensor's reelection bid will be challenged by 4th district Rep. Ferjenel
Biron, who is gubernatorial candidate of UNA. Biron's relatives and allies will
also challenge the LP candidates.
Biron's brother, Hernan Jr., is UNA's congressional candidate in the 4th
district against Niel Sr.
His father, Hernan Sr., will run for reelection as mayor of Barotac Nuevo
town. The congressman's mother, Diana, is the first nominee of the Abyan Ilonggo
party list.
The Garins are expected to maintain their dominance in the province's first
congressional district. Vice Gov. Oscar "Richard" Garin Jr. will run for
congressman to replace his wife and third-termer Rep. Janette Garin under the
LP.
He will face Miag-ao town Mayor Julieta Flores, who will run under UNA.
Oscar's sister Christine is running for reelection as mayor of Guimbal town
while another sister, Rep. Sharon Garin, is the first nominee of Aambis, OWWA
party-list group.
A member of the Garin family will also run for mayor of San Joaquin town to
replace Mayor Ninfa Garin.
Augusto Syjuco will run as UNA candidate for representative of the 2nd
congressional district to replace his wife, Judy Syjuco. He will be challenged
by LP's Pavia Mayor Arcadio Gorriceta.
In Iloilo City, the LP-Nacionalista Party coalition will field reelectionist
Iloilo Rep. Jerry Treñas, Mayor Jed Patrick Mabilog and Vice Mayor Jose Espinosa
III.
They will be challenged by UNA candidates: former congressman Raul Gonzalez
Jr., who will try to retake his old seat in the House; businessman Rommel Ynion,
who will run for mayor; and Councilor Jeffrey Ganzon, who is running for vice
mayor.
In Aklan, UNA also seeks to win against reelectionists of the LP and the
Tibyog Akean, the dominant local political party.
Makato Mayor Ramon Legaspi Jr. (photo), son of former
congressman Ramon Legaspi, is also set to run for governor against third-termer
Aklan Rep. Florencio Miraflores who also served governor from 1995 to 2004.
In Antique, a coalition called "Bag-ong Antique," which is allied with
PDP-Laban and UNA, is seeking to remove from office Gov. Exequiel Javier and his
son Rep. Paolo Everardo Javier.
Lawyer Cornelio Aldon is expected to run for governor. He ran for congressman
in 1992 but lost to Exequiel Javier.
Former vice governor Rhodora Cadiao will run for her former post while former
Valderrama town mayor Raymundo Roquero will challenge the younger Javier.
The coalition is being supported by former governor Salvacion Zaldivar-Perez
and former assemblyman Arturo Pacificador, who is expected to run for provincial
board member.
Most LP candidates in Capiz are seeking reelection. These are Gov. Victor
Tanco, 1st district Rep. Antonio del Rosario, Mayor Alan Celino and Vice Mayor
Ronnie Dadivas.
Old political clans are expected to dominate the 2013 polls in Cebu, unlike
in Negros Oriental where it will be a battle of old and new names.

[PHOTOS- LEFT, MIKE RAMA, RIGHT, TOMMY OSMENA]
Cebuanos are gearing for the showdown of two erstwhile allies—Cebu City Mayor
Mike Rama, who is seeking reelection; and Rep. Tomas Osmeña of Cebu City's south
district.
Rama was part of Osmeña's party "Bando Osmeña Pundok Kauswagan'' for 19 years
until he decided to leave it in 2010.
He has also cut his ties with LP after the party issued a certificate of
nomination to Osmeña who is not even a party member. LP gave Osmeña authority to
issue certificates of nomination to candidates running from vice mayor to
councilor.
Rama said he would run as independent.
Rama has recruited his cousin, talent manager Annabelle Rama, to run for
north district representative against either incumbent Rep. Rachel del Mar or
her father, former congressman Raul del Mar.
The Garcias are expected to dominate in the province.
Outgoing Gov. Gwendolyn Garcia (photo) will exchange places
with younger brother Rep. Pablo John Garcia of the 3rd district after
withdrawing from her senatorial bid.
Gwendolyn will run for 3rd district representative while Pablo John is
running for governor. Their father, Rep. Pablo Garcia of the 2nd district, is
seeking reelection.
Pablo John will face an LP candidate, lawyer Hilario Davide III, son of
retired Chief Justice Hilario Davide Jr.
Davide's running mate is Vice Governor Agnes Magpale who will be challenged
by her own cousin, former Danao City Vice Mayor Ramon Durano IV, Garcia's
running mate.
Magpale's nephew, former tourism secretary Joseph Ace Durano, is running for
5th district congressman.
Ace's brother Rep. Ramon Durano VI will run for vice mayor of Danao. Their
father, Vice Mayor Ramon Durano II, will run for mayor.
Outgoing Rep. Eduardo Gullas of the 1st district has announced plans to run
for mayor in Talisay City while grandson, 27-year-old Gerald Anthony Gullas,
seeks to take his place in the House.
The reelection bid of Pablo will be challenged by a former ally, board member
Wilfredo Caminero, who recently joined LP.
Gwendolyn's rival in the 3rd district may be Pinamungahan Mayor Geraldine
Yapha, whose father, Antonio Jr., was the district's congressman from 1998 to
2007. Antonio Jr. will be the running mate of former senator John Henry Osmeña,
who will run for mayor in Toledo City.
In Negros Oriental, it will be a battle of old and new names.

[PHOTO - FORMER SECRETARY OF FINANCE MARGARITO TEVES]
With the retirement of former congressman Herminio Teves from politics, his
son Margarito, the former three-term congressman and finance secretary, will run
for governor under UNA.
Herminio's grandson, Pryde Henry, will run for reelection as 3rd district
representative under NPC against Zamboanguita Mayor Marcelo Adanza of LP.
Margarito will face reelectionist Gov. Roel Degamo (PDP-Laban) and 1st
District Rep. Josy Limkaichong of LP.
The 1st district will see former Rep. Jerome Paras battle it out with Manuel
Iway. Paras' brother, former Rep. Jacinto Paras, is running for Guihulngan City
mayor.
In the second district, Rep. George Arnaiz of NPC will be challenged by Bais
City Mayor Karen Villanueva of LP.—Reports from Cristina
Arzadon, Leoncio Balbin Jr., Melvin Gascon, Villamor Visaya Jr. and Vincent
Cabreza, Inquirer Northern Luzon; and Tonette Orejas, Carmela Reyes-Estrope,
Armand Galang, Greg Refraccion and Robert Gonzaga, Inquirer Central Luzon;
Nestor P. Burgos Jr., Jhunnex Napallacan and Alex V. Pal, Inquirer Visayas

2013 elections' battle lines drawn LP says common candidates
cannot join UNA rallies , Norman Bordadora Christian Esguerra and
Tarra Quismundo 1:41 am | Sunday, September 30th, 2012

[PHOTO -'IF YOU'RE GUESTS, WHICH HOUSE' The Liberal
party-led administration coalition made a clear parameter on Saturday with
regards Senatorial candidates for the 2013 midterm elections: Don't attend
rallies of the rival group. INQUIRER PHOTOS]

MANILA, PHILIPPINES- The Liberal party-led administration coalition has made
one thing clear to so-called common candidates on the eve of the filing of
candidacy papers for the 2013 polls: You do not attend the rallies of the rival
United Nationalist Alliance (UNA).
While the ruling party is open to some of its chosen candidates being adopted
by the UNA, it has strong objections to these candidates appearing in the
latter's campaign rallies, Liberal Party (LP) leaders said on Saturday.
"They could be adopted by UNA but they should not join the rallies of UNA.
That would be crossing the line," said a top-ranked party leader, who asked not
to be named for lack of authority to speak on the matter.
"I don't think there will be a relaxation of the rules," the source said.

Reelectionist senators Loren Legarda and Francis Escudero, and Grace
Poe-Llamanzares, chair of the Movie and Television Review and Classification
Board, have emerged as common candidates of the ruling coalition and the UNA.

House Majority Leader Neptali Gonzales II, a senior LP member, said that "it
would not look good, even for the candidates themselves" to be seen campaigning
for both tickets.
Doing so would suggest that a common candidate was endorsing his fellow
aspirant on one ticket while junking those on the other, he said.
"While we cannot prevent them from being adopted by the opposing ticket
because that's beyond our control, they should not campaign with the other
side," Gonzales said.
'Where do you stand?'
Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, the LP president who announced on Saturday that
he would be taking a leave from the party presidency, spelled out the kind of
challenge facing these common candidates.
"You should ask the candidates: If they're guests, which house? There are
guests. If you're a guest, then where is your house? Where do you stand?" Roxas
said.
"If I were the voter, I'd ask that question," he said.
The situation was a "reflection more on the candidate, rather than party," he
said. After all, the party's position during Mr. Aquino's presidency has been
clear, he said.
The President will proclaim the administration coalition's senatorial
candidates at Club Filipino on Monday.
Apart from the three common candidates, they are: Senators Alan Peter
Cayetano, Aquilino Pimentel III and Antonio Trillanes IV; former senators Ramon
Magsaysay Jr. and Jamby Madrigal; Aurora Rep. Juan Edgardo Angara; former Las
Piñas congresswoman Cynthia Villar; Akbayan party-list member Rissa Hontiveros;
and the President's cousin, Paolo Benigno "Bam" Aquino IV.
Only Magsaysay, Madrigal and Bam Aquino are members of the LP. The rest are
from the LP's coalition partners, the Nacionalista Party, Nationalist People's
Coalition, Partido Demokratiko Pilipino-Lakas ng Bayan (PDP-Laban) and Laban ng
Demokratikong Pilipino. Escudero and Llamanzares are independents.
Bam Aquino and Llamanzares, the daughter of the late movie star and defeated
presidential candidate Fernando Poe Jr., are new to politics.
According to an LP official, Legarda, who met with the President on Thursday,
expressed her desire to attend the rallies of both coalitions but was told by
Mr. Aquino she couldn't show up at the UNA rallies. He could not say what the
final arrangement with Legarda would be.
The same official said Llamanzares had indicated that she would not attend
the rallies of UNA.
Asked if he would share the stage with Escudero, Roxas replied: "I'm not a
candidate. I will perform my job as DILG (Department of the Interior and Local
Government) secretary and a member of the Cabinet. Campaigning and politics are
a candidate's relationship with the Filipino people."
Escudero is known to have promoted the Aquino-Jejomar Binay team-up in the
May 2010 presidential elections. Roxas, Mr. Aquino's running mate, lost to Binay
in the vice-presidential race.
Next year's midterm elections are seen as a test run for the 2016
presidential elections. Binay has declared his intention to run for president in
2016 while Roxas is the presumptive administration candidate.

'Treat parties fairly'
Deposed President Joseph Estrada, a senior UNA leader who was once adamantly
against sharing candidates with the administration coalition, took the LP stance
against common candidates campaigning for both sides with equanimity.
"That's OK," said Estrada while pointing out that UNA was open to allowing
some of its candidates to campaign with the other ticket.
Binay was not as composed about the issue. Interviewed by phone from
Iloilo where he had been inducting UNA local candidates, the vice president said
the common candidates should treat both parties fairly.
"What the candidates will do for the other party, the same should be done for
UNA," said Binay, who pointed out that UNA had ditched its rule that guest
candidates must exclusively campaign for UNA in order to be accepted into the
lineup.
"The issue is they will stand up for the other party and not for ours? What
about us? What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander," he said.
"If the common candidates take the administration party's stage, they should
also take ours," he said.
UNA is a merger of Binay's PDP-Laban party and Estrada's Pwersa ng Masang
Pilipino.
Rounding up UNA's senatorial slate are: reelectionist Sen. Gregorio Honasan;
Representatives JV Ejercito, Estrada's son, Jackie Ponce Enrile, the son of
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile who is an UNA official; Rep. Milagros
Magsaysay; former senators Ernesto Maceda, Miguel Zubiri and Richard Gordon;
former Gov. Tingting Cojuangco, the President's aunt; and Joey de Venecia III.

Estrada on Saturday said the UNA slate had room for two more. He said De
Venecia, who ran for senator and lost in 2010, was reconsidering joining the
Senate race next year.
Walking the straight path
Leaders of the rival coalitions on Saturday touted up the relative strengths
and advantages of their respective lineups.
"It's people from different places, parties and histories coming together to
support the President's vision for the country," said Communication Secretary
Ricky Carandang.
"Our senatorial lineup has chosen to walk the path of the President," he
said.
"We are offering the voters a choice: to continue with what President Aquino
is doing through good governance or to return to the transactional self-serving
politics of the past," he said.
"This is a broad coalition of parties that has demonstrated its efficacy in
pushing the Aquino administration's reform agenda. Its extensive grassroots
coverage will ensure victory for the administration's coalition slate," said
Budget Secretary Florencio Abad.
"It's a good mix of veteran legislators and young aspirants—social
entrepreneurs, political activists and professionals—who have proven their worth
in their respective fields," he said.
More competent?
UNA spokesperson JV Bautista described the UNA slate as also a good mix—of
Mr. Aquino's ardent supporters and harshest critics. He said the lineup was
formed to provide voters with an alternative to Mr. Aquino's partymates and
partners in the administration coalition.
They will pursue Mr. Aquino's reform agenda, "only more competently" than his
allies, Bautista said.
"It's a strong lineup. The candidates are doing very well in the surveys,
most of them anyway," he said.
He said common candidates Legarda, Escudero and Llamanzares were chosen
because of their long association with UNA's core leaders—Binay and Estrada—in
the struggle against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
"Inasmuch as the other coalition would like to share them, we have to share
them," Bautista said.
He claimed that the three were already in the UNA lineup before the LP
coalition wooed them.
In Legarda's case, it was only after UNA announced that she had been drafted
that the President invited her to join the administration coalition, he said.

According to Binay, in terms of the UNA slate's strength, the effect of the
common candidates was neutral.
"From senators down to local candidates, we are very, very strong. If you put
our candidates one-on-one against the other party, we are stronger than they
are," he said.
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PHNO-HL: OUTRAGE OVER THE NEW PHILIPPINE CYBERCRIME LAW

OUTRAGE OVER THE NEW PHILIPPINE CYBERCRIME LAW
MANILA, OCTOBER 1, 2012 (PAKISTAN DAILY NEWS) Amid the public
backlash, some of the senators who voted for the cybercime law have started to
disassociate themselves from it, even claiming they did not read the provision
on libel
A new cybercrime law in the Philippines that could see people sentenced to 12
years in jail for posting defamatory comments on Facebook or Twitter is
generating outrage among citizens and rights groups.
The stated aim of the cybercrime law is to fight online pornography, hacking,
identity theft and spamming in the conservative Catholic nation amid police
complaints they lack the legal tools to stamp out Internet crime.
However it also includes a blanket provision that puts the country's criminal
libel law into force in cyberspace, except that the penalties for Internet
defamation are much tougher compared with old media. It also allows authorities
to collect data from personal user accounts on social media and listen in on
voice/video applications, such as Skype, without a warrant.
Teenagers unwarily retweeting or re-posting libellous material on social
media could bear the full force of the law, according to
Noemi Dado, a prominent Manila blogger who edits a citizen media site called
Blog Watch.
"Not everyone is an expert on what constitutes libel. Imagine a mother like
me, or teenagers and kids who love to rant. It really hits our freedoms," Dado
said.
Compounding the concerns, those teenagers or anyone else who posts a
libellous comment faces a maximum prison term of 12 years and a fine of one
million pesos ($24,000). Meanwhile, newspaper editors and other trained
professionals in traditional media face prison terms of just four years and
fines of 6,000 pesos.
While harsh criminal libel legislation remains in force in other parts of
Asia, Dado said the Philippine law sent the wrong signal in a country that
overthrew the military-backed Ferdinand Marcos dictatorship just 26 years ago.
Dado, a lawyer's wife known in the local online community as the "momblogger",
is among a group of bloggers and other critics of the libel element of the
cybercrime law campaigning for it to be repealed.
Brad Adams, Asia director for New York-based Human Rights Watch, said the law
was having a chilling effect in the Philippines, which has one of the world's
highest per capita rates of Facebook and Twitter users.
"Anybody using popular social networks or who publishes online is now at risk
of a long prison term should a reader - including government officials - bring a
libel charge," Adams said. About a third of the Philippines' nearly 100 million
people use the Internet, with 96 percent them on Facebook, according to industry
figures.
Five petitions claiming the law is unconstitutional have been filed with the
Supreme Court. Senator Teofisto Guingona, the lone opponent when the bill was
voted on in the Senate, has filed one of the petitions to the Supreme Court.

"Without a clear definition of the crime of libel and the persons liable,
virtually any person can now be charged with a crime - even if you just re-tweet
or comment on an online update or blog post," Guingona told the court. "The
questioned provisions... throw us back to the Dark Ages."
The five petitions all say the law infringes on freedom of expression, due
process, equal protection and privacy of communication. University of the
Philippines law professor Harry Roque, who filed one of the petitions, said the
Philippines was one of a shrinking number of countries where defamation remained
a crime punishable by prison.
Part of the penal code that was drawn up 82 years ago, it goes against the
trend in many advanced democracies such as the United States and Britain where
defamation is now punished with fines rather than imprisonment, Roque said.
Amid the public backlash, some of the senators who voted for the cybercime
law have started to disassociate themselves from it, even claiming they did not
read the provision on libel.
However presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda has defended the cybercrime
law. "The Cybercrime Act sought to attach responsibilities in cyberspace....
freedom of expression is always recognised but freedom of expression is not
absolute," he told reporters on Thursday.
Nevertheless, Lacierda said the law could still be refined. He called for
critics to submit their concerns to a government panel that will issue by the
end of the year specific definitions of the law, such as who may be prosecuted.
afp
FROM THE MANILA BULLETIN
Chiz Seeks To Amend Cybercrime Act By FREDDIE G.
LAZARO September 30, 2012, 7:03pm
MANILA, Philippines — A lawmaker will file an amendatory bill to
amend the provision on libel as a crime in the newly passed Republic Act 10175,
the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
Sen. Francis Escudero (photo), chairman of the Senate Committee on
Justice and Human Rights, said the particular provision in RA 10175 should be
repealed as it runs contrary to his position as a principal author of a bill
decriminalizing libel.
"Section 4 of Paragraph 4 of the cybercrime prevention law broadens the
coverage of libel which now includes those with the use of "computer system or
other similar means that may be devised in the future," he cited.
Escudero said it was a personal oversight on his part that the above clause
was inserted in the Committee Report when the Senate voted for its passage.
It was recalled that in 2010, Escudero filed Senate Bill Number 2162
decriminalizing libel to accord greater protection to freedom of speech and
expression either those done in writing or other similar means by taking away
the threat or fear of incarceration, restraint of liberty and fine.
"This move is just being consistent with my original bill to decriminalize
libel. At the very least, if at all, libel should just be made a civil
liability. If a person is proven to have besmirched someone, let the guilty
party pay for damages. But it should be remembered that in libel, proof of the
truth is defense," he said.
He reiterated what was stated in SB No. 2162, "that a strong media could give
great service to the Filipino people in providing an effective mechanism of
complete and fearless transparency over the excesses of government in the
exercise of its powers and prerogatives."
Meanwhile, the Kabataan Partylist warned Saturday that aside from the
Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Law that can potentially
incriminate netizens or habitual computer users through their Facebook statuses
and tweets, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is also empowered to block access to
social media networks and websites, including Facebook, Twitter, and the popular
meme-based website 9gag.
In a press interview, Kabataan Partylist Rep. Raymond Palatino explained that
"such is the power that the Anti-Cybercrime Law gives to DOJ that even access to
social networking sites may soon be lost."
Lawyer James Mark Terry Ridon, national president and general counsel of
Kabataan Partylist, explained that DOJ can "theoretically invoke" Section 19 of
RA 10175 to impose a total access ban on social networking sites in the future.

Section 19 states, "When a computer data is prima facie found to be in
violation of the provisions of this Act, the DOJ shall issue an order to
restrict or block access to such computer data."
"This effectively gives the DOJ total control of the Internet in the
Philippines. As only prima facie evidence is needed, the new law has done away
with due process," Palatino said.
Online censorship under Section 19 is more encompassing than traditional
censorship, Palatino added. "If for example, an online article is said to be
libellous, DOJ may order the total shutdown of its host domain, effectively
censoring not just the article in question, but also other articles in that site
– a clear violation of the constitutional right to free speech."
"There may come a time when DOJ and the courts will be swamped with reports
of violations of the Anti-Cybercrime Law committed in sites like Facebook,
Twitter, and 9gag.
The violations are not limited to libellous material – people can report
phishing, illegal access and other violations being committed in these sites,
and it would become more practical for DOJ to simply block access not only to
the content or data in question but to the very sites themselves," Ridon
explained.
"The DOJ is thus effectively given the power to cut Philippine access to
Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites. This is how restrictive the
new law is," Palatino said.


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