There was one curious thing that Rep. Satur Ocampo had said at the recently-concluded Bloggers Kapihan 3.0. In October 2000, Bayan Muna was contacted by Gloria Arroyo’s group, seeking some working relationship with them, with a promise that GMA would support any mass movement versus Joseph Estrada.
On November 20, Bayan Muna and other sympathetic groups presented a 20-point program to Gloria Arroyo, including peace talks, agrarian reform, and rescinding WTO commitments. It seems that a working relationship was forged at that point.
Fast forward to January 2001. With the outrage triggered by the Craven 11, Mike Arroyo’s group, led by Renato de Villa and Lisandro Abadia, contacted Bayan Muna and similar groups, asking for their commitment to fill EDSA with people.
While this is already common knowledge (as written in numerous occasions by other people, like this one by MLQ3), hearing it from one of the protagonists sure beats hearsay. And it gives credence to what some people have already said: that EDSA 2 is a conspiracy that succeeded. And as they say, defeat is an orphan.
UPDATE:
Atty. Theodore Te calls EDSA 2 as “the first successful coup d’etat” in the country.
Good point. Too bad the gremlin in the Palace screwed and continues to screw us all.
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Re: With the outrage triggered by the Craven 11, Mike Arroyo’s group, led by Renato de Villa and Lisandro Abadia, contacted Bayan Muna and similar groups, asking for their commitment to fill EDSA with people.
And many Gloria fools and diehards refuse to believe that Gloria and her Edsa 2 henchmen courted, persuaded, befriended the LEFT to prop her up on Jan 21, 2001.
No less than a member of COPA admitted it to me at a breakfast meeting in Manila a year later!
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More like the coalition of the willing forcing it down the throats of the unwilling. I hope you can share this Angela Stuart Santiago.
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Yeah, and yet we keep on allowing them to screw us up.
Yet no one among them will admit publicly that there was a conspiracy.
Agree.