Maybe Gloria Arroyo is reading the Philippine Commentary and Philippine Politics 04.
Both bloggers, most notably DJB (of Philippine Commentary), are logically arguing that EDSA 2 was a planned coup d’ etat that turned into a mutiny that was legitimized by the Davide Supreme Court. For a sample of their comments, read: Davide Supreme Court Legitimized Military Mutiny As A Basis for 2001 Regime Change, What GMA said before COPA members back in Feb. 21, 2001, and NEWS FLASH: MILITARY COUP TOPPLES PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT (with help from Communists and Leftists).
Then read the news: Arroyo rues her liaison with militants, Ghost of Edsa past haunts Gloria, and 4 militant lawmakers accuse Arroyo of conspiracy.
Now, to connect the two: Gloria Arroyo is now – slowly but surely – killing the concept of EDSA as an instrument of change. First, she proclaimed a state of emergency, ironically in the 20th Anniversary of EDSA 1, ostensibly to stop an impending “coup”; most thinkers believe she did it so that she can disperse all rallies that could potentially turn into an EDSA crowd. Second, military officers who had intention of “withdrawing support” (which is another term for mutiny, as DJB says) or who are believed to be unreliable are tagged as coup plotters. Third, she had party list congressmen arrested for charges of rebellion. The three elements of EDSA2 – the military, the Leftists, and the crowd – she had CPR’d.
Her attempts at the media was less successful. The media is another element of EDSA 2, and this element is what she really wanted to stop, if not control. To control the media is an Orwellian trick: when you can’t even know what the reality is. It is information that will shape opinions and actions; if you have control of information, you have control on the thinking of the people.
Mike Arroyo admitted that they conspired with the military before and during EDSA 2. They had conspired with the Leftists, as Cong. Satur Ocampo said, which Arroyo had verified implicitly when she said she rued meeting them. So she should know how to stop others from ousting her. She had done it before, and she knows it can be done against her. Hence, her pre-emptive actions. Her goal: destroy the legacy of EDSA. She is trying to prove – in a convoluted route – that EDSA, particularly EDSA 2, was wrong.
Which is being shared implicitly by those who went to EDSA in January 2001 and who now refuse to go to EDSA to unseat Arroyo. Basically, they say, yeah, we have done that, but look where we are now? Not again, they say.