Drama as comedy

December 29, 2007  --  Got something to say?
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Nestor MataBy Nestor Mata
MANILA - Exactly one day after church, political, academe and civic leaders published their manifesto denouncing Gloria Arroyos morally bankrupt government,” Senator Antonio Trillanes staged a thrilling drama, but it ended up as a kind of comedy of errors.

Trillanes, an elected senator who still has to warm his seat at the Senate, was joined by Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, former chief of the elite Scout Rangers, and a handful of personalities like former Vice President Teofisto Guingona Jr., Roman Catholic and Protestant bishops and other civic followers, dramatically walked out of the Makati Citys courtroom and proceeded to the nearby Peninsula Hotel.

They were closely followed by a swarm of print and broadcast journalists and foreign news correspondents who reported the unfolding event for the world to see and hear. And they heard Trillanes and Lim announce, not unexpectedly, that we take this fateful step of removing Mrs. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo from the presidency and undertake the formation of a new government.”

In the wake of what the media called the standoff at the plush Pen, the Presidents chief mouthpiece described it as a situation. A political professor agreed, but he called it a critical situation, a political analyst said in a sense it is a mutiny, not a coup detat. No one used the word putsch or rebellion until a vociferous Cabinet official branded it sedition.

After several tension-filled hours, what started as a thrilling drama turned out into a comedy of errors that could have been transformed into a grim tragedy. Fortunately, no blood was spilled as Trillanes and his little band of military and civic supporters, as well as some media members, walked out of the hotel, their hands tied with plastic straw, and taken by military vans to Bicutan and Camp Crame.

In the eyes of objective observers, it was farcical. Along the way to the Pen, the marching band with Trillanes in the lead coaxed bystanders to join them, but all they got were amused smiles by the people. And the same observers were just as amused by the spectacle of fully armed-to-the-teeth soldiers and armored cars sent by higher authorities to quell the mutiny, rebellion, whatever. They were amused by sight of Trillanes who hurled verbal missiles while Glorias soldiers fired live bullets not at the rebels but in the air. They said it was ridiculously ludicrous, if not an overkill.

It is good that Trillanes, Lim and other dissident officers who stood by him were not killed. And now that the smoke of tear gas has settled, its now their turn to answer for their actions which, because they botched their plan to remove Gloria Arroyo, was unlawful in the eyes of those entrenched in power. Had they succeeded, they would have been hailed as heroes.
Nonetheless, if it is any consolation to Trillanes and Lim, what they recited during that Pen situation about the sins of commission and omission of the Gloria government, the lies and the corruption and other despicable wrongdoings is shared by their vocal sympathizers and what is called the silent majority of citizens of this country. Alas, their words have fallen on deaf ears in the last seven years of Glorias illegitimate presidency.

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