I was hoping that my shift would not be so-so. As they say, be careful for what you wish for.

As of 8:08PM Manila time, Marine Colonel Arnel Querubin is holed up in the Marines Chapel in Fort Bonifacio. ABS-CBN News and INQ7.net has full coverage. (Be sure to check out these sites from time to time for updates. Already, ABS-CBN News suffered from bandwidth and server busy problems, due to many page views.)

The events yesterday made the bloggers quite busy. In the forefront are the blawggers: Atty. Lacierda states that Proclamation 1017 is just copy-pasted from previous proclamations made by Gloria. Paul Santos and Atty. Marvin Aceron share the opinion that Proclamation 1017 is copy-pasted from Proclamation 1081. Scary.

Atty. Punzalan made two excellent blog lectures on parliamentary immunity and on freedom of expression.

The Daily Tribune incident sparked reactions from the NUJP and from Newsbreak (Ricky Carandang posted the Newsbreak comment in the Comments).

A coworker just arrived and she told me that Col. Querubin has requested the media to stop covering what’s going on in Fort Bonifacio in the mean time. I have no way of verifying this, unless ABS-CBN News and INQ7 update their sites.

Update: Much ado about nothing; standoff finished, soldiers to return to barracks. When Col. Querubin was asked by the media, the new commandant of the Marines told the reporters to direct questions to him. The colonel was gagged.

I was also curious about the former commandant asking that he be relieved from his position. He made things vague, and I think it was circuitous. Why didn’t he just resign? Was it deliberate?