+ Follow FREEDOM FORCE Tag
FREEDOM FORCE
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[Title] => So we muddle along / Boxing: Pacquiao and Tyson
[Summary] => Time there was when we really believed a social explosion was imminent, that the nation would shake, its unbelievably corrupt leaders would scramble to the exits and – voila! – the dreams of our dead heroes would be fulfilled. Almost endlessly, I warned our long seething social volcano would erupt. I could almost see it then, a huge, livid lava flow of popular anger streaming down the slopes, the Filipino people rejoicing that at last the big rogues, rascals and rapscallions had been slapped into jail.
Well, sad to say, I was horribly mistaken.
[DatePublished] => 2005-04-15 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134313
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[AuthorID] => 1204555
[AuthorName] => Teodoro C. Benigno
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[Title] => Time bomb ticking / A closer look at FPJ
[Summary] => We are told by the leaders of the massed forces of FPJ, and FPJ himself the nation will or may explode if the Supreme Court should disqualify him from aspiring for the presidency. These are not empty words. FPJ himself is not known for bluff or bluster. He is normally quiet, his movie face a mountain slope of stoic strength. He roars into screen action only when sufficiently provoked. But what happened? What he said last Friday in Mariveles eloquently indicates he has lost his mind and is now ready to fight with all fists and all weapons blazing.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-16 00:00:00
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[Title] => Time bomb ticking / A closer look at FPJ
[Summary] => We are told by the leaders of the massed forces of FPJ, and FPJ himself the nation will or may explode if the Supreme Court should disqualify him from aspiring for the presidency. These are not empty words. FPJ himself is not known for bluff or bluster. He is normally quiet, his movie face a mountain slope of stoic strength. He roars into screen action only when sufficiently provoked. But what happened? What he said last Friday in Mariveles eloquently indicates he has lost his mind and is now ready to fight with all fists and all weapons blazing.
[DatePublished] => 2004-02-16 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 224236
[Title] => GMA gathers her forces / Whither Third Force?
[Summary] => It s a quirk of our history that 19 years after EDSA, 22 years after Ninoy Aquino’s martyrdom, the two major forces that succored the republic are now backing the presidential bid of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Voila! – the Roman Church and the Armed Forces of the Philippines.
[DatePublished] => 2003-10-15 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 215190
[Title] => The gathering storm; is there a way out?
[Summary] => It was Julius Caesar, I believe, who said great decisions are made at floodtide since once the flood recedes the opportunity is lost, the deft seizure of history disappears. I am afraid the Philippines is again reaching that point. The past days have been marked by turbulent events. It’s a pity I cannot wait for the day – today – to end as I write this piece. There’s such a thing as a columnist’s deadline. About half a hundred young rebel soldiers have camped out in Makati, holding the nation hostage with bombs that can blow this corporate citadel up.
[DatePublished] => 2003-07-28 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134313
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[Title] => The Mindanao enigma / Remembering Edsa
[Summary] => It’s simply amazing that on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean, no top government personage worthy of his high office can say the truth about what will soon happen in Mindanao. In Washington, White House spokesperson Art Fleischer insists American combat troops will soon join – or is the word assist – Philippine troops in engaging the Abu Sayyaf rebels for the purpose of exterminating them – physically.
[DatePublished] => 2003-02-24 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 134313
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[ArticleID] => 187670
[Title] => No to house arrest/ Gov’t of national salvation
[Summary] => The Republic should be spared of the inane and asinine proposal that former president Joseph Estrada should be granted house arrest because after all Christmas is in the air and aren’t we Filipinos mostly Christians? I find that carabao manure of the first chop.
Firstly, Mr. Estrada is an accused felon charged with plunder, a crime so heinous that he can be sentenced to death by lethal injection.
[DatePublished] => 2002-12-13 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 177588
[Title] => Perusing the mail
[Summary] => If I have issued apologies in this space, it was almost always for not tending to my mail, to my loyal even devout readers who never tire of writing this columnist, come hell or high water. So without further ado, I give way today to them, rather a portion of them since the mail has mounted this high. Those whose letters are not mentioned will just have to forgive me, it’s just not possible to include all. I have chosen to drastically reduce the huge pile of congratulary missives about Freedom Force, they have had so many airings already in this column.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-27 00:00:00
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[ArticleID] => 168290
[Title] => CBCP: No credible alternative to GMA
[Summary] => Amid her declining popularity, President Arroyo won an important vote of confidence from the influential Roman Catholic Church yesterday, with bishops saying there was no credible alternative to her leadership.
[DatePublished] => 2002-07-15 00:00:00
[ColumnID] => 133272
[Focus] => 0
[AuthorID] => 1735838
[AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta
[SectionName] => Headlines
[SectionUrl] => headlines
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[ArticleID] => 168303
[Title] => FF support, 3rd blizzard
[Summary] => If only to further prove that our Freedom Force concept has traveled the land here and swept over the seas to almost all Filipino communities abroad, we are publishing a third wave of letters. Not in all the years I have been writing this column for The STAR, now on its 13th year, has a concept of this author touched the hearts and minds of so many. Maybe it’s the times. Almost six decades after World War II, a floundering Philippines finds itself close to the edge the cliff.
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