Arroyo
New Trillanes Site Blocked from Digg
Looks like Gloria lackeys have penetrated Digg. When I submit Senator Trillanes’ new site, I get this error message:
URL blocked
This URL has been widely reported by users as being regularly used to spam Digg’s submission process and cannot be submitted at this time.
Take note that I’m no fan of the good Senator. He’s a sloppy coup plotter who just gives Gloria more excuses to push the envelope. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if he secretly works for Gloria. Love him or hate him, his site is still newsworthy and should be dugg.
Progress and Tyranny
So I was invited to three parties tonight — one by the Philippine Internet Commerce Society in Ortigas, one by b5media at the Mall of Asia, and one by PLDT Business Solutions at the Fort. You know the IT industry is booming when you have three tech parties on a Thursday night.
I’m a vice-president of PICS, so I went to our party first. As CICT Chairman Rey Chua presented his bullish outlook for the industry, someone from the prosecutor’s office kindly informed us that we all had to go home before Gloria’s new midnight curfew.
Nothing like a taste of tyranny to dull the taste of progress.
The other two parties were in other parts of the city; between the rains and the traffic and the checkpoints, I couldn’t possibly attend either and still beat the curfew. On my way home, I got stuck in traffic near the EDSA shrine, where I served as stage marshal for EDSA II.
Look what that got us. We do stupid things in our youth.
I thought I was helping to bring about revolution seven years ago. As I’ve watched more and more smart Filipinos empower themselves in a disintermediated millennium — from pioneering veterans like Janette Toral to hot superstars like Abe Olandres to promising ingenues like Alodia Gosiengfiao — I’ve come to realize that real revolutions come from ourselves, not from our leaders. Tonight, I saw the repercussions of a false revolution dampen celebrations of a real revolution. The past has a funny way of dragging down the future.
On behalf of PICS, I’d like to thank everyone who came to our party tonight despite the insane circumstances. Talking shop with you guys helped keep my mind off this stupid curfew, if only for a few hours.
