Abalos again!!!???

[claRkEnt]

Kung di ba naman kasi gunggong si Pandak, bakit pa nag-appoint ng trapo sa isang position na neutral ka dapat. It's pretty obvious na may masama silang balak.

wala namang ganyanan... she's still the president worthy of RESPECT! wag nyo naman tawagin sa kung ano mang pangalan. Please don't forget that President Gloria Arroyo had been a DULY ELECTED head of our Republic.

Tapos, pa-iyak iyak pa nung nag-resign. Sheesh!

with all those unfounded allegations hounding His HONORABLE Chairman Ben Abalos, who would not shed tears. The COMELEC which had been under his leadership for the past 6 years had been doing GREAT and had shown NON-PARTISANSHIP ever since he took over. What is his fault by the way? Is there such a law prohibiting somebody to travel to China and play golf? His only wrong-doing is that he loves to play golf a lot. Nothing more, nothing less! Those travel privileges were not even enough compared to the many sacrifices he had done for the country!

You can't bring your ill-gotten wealth with you when you finally croak. Gusto ba niyang ipamana yun sa mga anak niya, eh katas yun ng kasamaan? Konti na nga lang ang panahon na natititra sa kanya, he should have used it to foster goodwill and charity, para may chance siyang makapasok ng langit. Pero, ibang "langit" pala ang nasa isip niya, hehehe

kitang-kita naman how the people at Mandaluyong (sa labas po) and the Comelec Staff regretted his decision to resign di ba? that just shows his name has no taint and that alone is enough legacy that the Abalos family should be proud of!















:charot: :funny:

[carscout]

Mukhang on the offensive na si GMA. The gun is trained to JDV (Father and Son). All out war of JDV and Arroyo? While the senate is having their vacation...

http://www.malaya.com.ph/oct08/news2.htm

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquire...ticle_id=93148

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakin...ticle_id=93170

This will be fun to watch..Battle of the Giants.

A copy of the impeachment complaint here;
http://www.quezon.ph/wp-content/uplo...-complaint.pdf

And the graft case against JDV3 here;
http://www.quezon.ph/wp-content/uplo...lido-graft.pdf

[carscout]

THE LONG VIEW
Calabasa and the Force


By Manuel L. Quezon III
Inquirer
Last updated 01:11am (Mla time) 10/08/2007



MANILA, Philippines -- A long time ago, in a barangay far, far away, Kapitan Calabasa entered the library of the Palacio Maldita, and gently coughed to inform Madam that she had a visitor. Madam ignored him, as she was in the middle of a call.
“Hello, Ollieder? Ang fulido talaga ng trabaho mo. The fafer you shubmitted should protect me for another year. Pleashe thank you alsho to Maculitna for endorshing it.”
“What? Thish ish not Atty. Laoshnaunano? Who are you? Atty. Fundido? I shee. Thank you, anyway. Sho who wash the endorsher? Shang Kwan? From where? Ah. Yesh, I know the plashe. Where the queshong futi comes from. Thank him for hish endorshement, noh.”
Madam slammed down the receiver and glared at Calabasa. “You shee? Thish ish why we need that Shtrong Baranggay Nagging Network or SBNN!”
“Yes, Madam. I am glad Atty. Pundido and Shang Kwan are helping you. By the way ma’am, may I congratulate you for your handling of that situation with Chairman Ayos, ‘konting kuskos, ayos!’ If I don’t say so myself.”
Madam threw her communicator at Calabasa. “I am not amushed, noh. Ayosh was usheful and now look what haffened.” She frowned, then decided to try to be gracious. “Kap, may 200 ka dito…”
“What??”
“Yesh. 200 ml. Of Lifovitan. It keepsh you going. We musht work hard to maintain our shtrong baranggay.”
“Oh.”
“Be shilent. I am looking for my three shtoogesh. Where are they?”
“Ah, Tremoulous Nerdly is just throwing up, as usual. Loopy Billabirdie is there, Madam, you’re confusing him again with the decorative stone frog. I can’t find Lando Menhaoshiao…”
“Yesh. Wait, I heard him cough. Lando? Come out, come out, wherever you are! Ah, I shaw a fotted flant shake. That musht be him. He’sh invishible, you shee. Very usheful. Shometimesh, he’s vishible, to shign a document. Then he can dishaffear and shteal it if it needsh revishions.”
“Ah, you mean for ETC?”
“Shut uf! Thish ish a crishish! We musht deshtroy Manong Yoda!”
Billabirdie croaked, “Madam, we can say he is perverting the Force. We can tag him as the Invisible Jedi Master manipulating the destruction of the Republic!”
Madam smiled. Then the plant shook to signify Lando Menhaoshiao was saying something: “Pssst, Madam, your ploy to have Pundido file a paper with Shang Kwan’s help is brilliant, but with due respect, if Billabirdie exposes Manong as the Invisible Man, I in turn might get exposed.”
Madam scowled. “How?”
“Ni hao? Fine…”
“Shut up! We’re not talking to ETC. We musht handle thish Manong Yoda.”
The voice from the vicinity of the plant continued, “Ah. Ma’am, with Ayos gone, and Nerdly silent, still, if you talk about an invisible man, they might look for real invisible men, and, after all, Manong’s always been visible, while so far I am the only one of your people known for his invisibility skills.”
“I shee. Sho we musht deshtroy Manong Yoda shome other way… My shonsh want him eliminated.”
Suddenly, the doors burst open. A small figure with pointy ears entered. The figure looked at the shocked assemblage and said, “Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.”
“You! Back off!!” Madam screamed.
“Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you.”
Madam’s voice remained steely. “Oh, well, yesh, but you shee, we musht try to find a way to dishipline your wayward shon…”
“Do or do not... there is no try.”
“He musht be controlled!”
“Not if anything to say about it I have.”
“He’sh deprived me of Ayosh and now he’sh fointing shtraight at me! Thish ish too frightening!”
“Named must your fear be before banish it you can.”
“What? Shtof it! Your shon ish the enemy! Or ish it you?”
The intruder shook his head. “Only the Dark Lord of the Sith knows of our weakness. If informed the Senate is, multiply our adversaries will.”
“What? Nerdly? But he’sh under my guard’sh control! He will never shqueal! I have bound him with imperial privilege!”
The pointy-eared figured gave an enigmatic smile. “The dark side clouds everything. Impossible to see the future is.”
“No! You musht control your shon! And you musht not challenge my hold on Nerdly! And you! Shuffort the fafer I have had shubmitted and kill it to prove your loyalty! And to maintain your foshishion with your feofle!”
Another shrug. “Good relations with the Wookiees, I have.”
“If you deshtroy me I will deshtroy you!” Madam screamed.
The figure looked straight into her angry eyes. “Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.”
The figure then turned his back on Madam, and as he left the library, Manong Yoda said, “The shroud of the Dark Side has fallen. Begun, this Clone War has.”

[RedHorse]

these developments are getting scary for gma..

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bu...id=20071008124

Business
‘The Firm’ firmly out of the Palace
TAKIN’ CARE OF BUSINESS By Babe Romualdez
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Atty. Rodel Cruz of the Villaraza and Angangco law office – formerly known as ‘The Firm,’ now known as “The Other Firm” – is volunteering to be the lead prosecutor against resigned Comelec chairman Ben Abalos, who could be facing charges of graft and corruption as well as bribery on account of the ZTE national broadband network scandal. Atty. Cruz was the former undersecretary for legal affairs at the Department of National Defense during the time of Sec. Nonong Cruz, but who also resigned along with other lawyers from the firm when Sec. Cruz left DND late last year.

Rodel used to be part of the Palace loop, having spent several years serving with Nonong Cruz when the latter was GMA’s chief presidential legal counsel before his appointment to the DND. Formerly called the Carpio Villaraza and Cruz or CVC – now known as Villaraza and Angangco – the law firm’s relationship with GMA goes back to the 1990s. As a matter of fact, CVC was known to have helped manage GMA’s vice presidential campaign in 1998.

The scuttlebutt has it that Villaraza and Angangco, which was giving special counsel to GMA, had already warned against the controversial NBN deal because of certain legal loopholes. And now that the whole thing has blown, Cruz and his colleagues are saying the scandal could have been avoided if the project proponents hadn’t tried to cut legal corners. As it is, nobody could blame “The Other Firm” if it tells GMA ‘I told you so” because the controversy has really become a big headache for the administration.

It can be recalled that speculations were already rife last year that “The Other Firm” was withdrawing its support from GMA because it came into odds with the Palace on several instances when it played internal critic and devil’s advocate. But nowadays, GMA is apparently not in the mood to listen to dissenting opinion and just wants to be surrounded by “yes men” – which becomes a dangerous situation, something that happens to most “dictatorial” leaders.

With this latest development concerning Abalos, it looks like “The Other Firm” has really jumped over to the other side of the fence and is firmly out of Malacañang – which could prove to be a big loss, rather than a small gain, for the Palace.

[Honda97]

these developments are getting scary for gma..

http://www.philstar.com/index.php?Bu...id=20071008124

Business
‘The Firm’ firmly out of the Palace
TAKIN’ CARE OF BUSINESS By Babe Romualdez
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Atty. Rodel Cruz of the Villaraza and Angangco law office – formerly known as ‘The Firm,’ now known as “The Other Firm” – is volunteering to be the lead prosecutor against resigned Comelec chairman Ben Abalos, who could be facing charges of graft and corruption as well as bribery on account of the ZTE national broadband network scandal. Atty. Cruz was the former undersecretary for legal affairs at the Department of National Defense during the time of Sec. Nonong Cruz, but who also resigned along with other lawyers from the firm when Sec. Cruz left DND late last year.

Rodel used to be part of the Palace loop, having spent several years serving with Nonong Cruz when the latter was GMA’s chief presidential legal counsel before his appointment to the DND. Formerly called the Carpio Villaraza and Cruz or CVC – now known as Villaraza and Angangco – the law firm’s relationship with GMA goes back to the 1990s. As a matter of fact, CVC was known to have helped manage GMA’s vice presidential campaign in 1998.

The scuttlebutt has it that Villaraza and Angangco, which was giving special counsel to GMA, had already warned against the controversial NBN deal because of certain legal loopholes. And now that the whole thing has blown, Cruz and his colleagues are saying the scandal could have been avoided if the project proponents hadn’t tried to cut legal corners. As it is, nobody could blame “The Other Firm” if it tells GMA ‘I told you so” because the controversy has really become a big headache for the administration.

It can be recalled that speculations were already rife last year that “The Other Firm” was withdrawing its support from GMA because it came into odds with the Palace on several instances when it played internal critic and devil’s advocate. But nowadays, GMA is apparently not in the mood to listen to dissenting opinion and just wants to be surrounded by “yes men” – which becomes a dangerous situation, something that happens to most “dictatorial” leaders.

With this latest development concerning Abalos, it looks like “The Other Firm” has really jumped over to the other side of the fence and is firmly out of Malacañang – which could prove to be a big loss, rather than a small gain, for the Palace.

If that's the case, shouldn't Villaraza & Angangco inhibit themselves because they were already involved in the case. Conflict of interest yan di ba?

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[SIZE=4]IF ABALOS IS ON LEAVE, HE CAN BE IMPEACHED

[/SIZE]MANILA, OCTOBER 4, 2007 (STAR) By Patricia Esteves - Former senator Francisco Tatad urged the House of Representatives yesterday to push through with the impeachment of resigned Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos, who has reportedly not officially resigned.
“There appears to be no record of Chairman Abalos having submitted a formal written letter of resignation to President Arroyo and of her having accepted such resignation, thereby rendering questionable the veracity of his announced resignation,” Tatad said in a statement.
Tatad, who chairs the Philippine Democratic Caucus and the Citizens vs. Corruption Task Force, said if Abalos has not really resigned, he can still be impeached.
“The published statement attributed to (Presidential Legal Counsel Sergio) Apostol that Abalos would be on terminal leave until his compulsory retirement on Feb. 8, 2008 confirms the fact that Abalos has not resigned and that there was no factual or legal basis for the House to abandon the impeachment case...
“Unless and until he (Abalos) resigns formally and that resignation is accepted by the appointing authority, he remains an impeachable officer, and the interested parties have every reason to proceed with their impeachment complaint against Abalos,” Tatad added.
Acting Comelec chairman Resurreccion Borra said Abalos submitted his “irrevocable” resignation letter to the commission when he attended its meeting the other day.
“The en banc took note of this and appointed me as acting chair based on Comelec Resolution 7808,” Borra told The STAR.
The resolution stipulates that the most senior official of the poll body shall take over in case of a vacancy in the chairmanship.
Borra said Abalos cited in his resignation letter that he quit so that the Comelec would not be “pulled down by the vilification and attacks” against his person.
Abalos also made it known that he wanted to face his accusers in the proper forum so he did away with the immunity afforded to him as Comelec chief.
Borra, however, could not ascertain if Abalos had submitted his resignation to President Arroyo, the appointing authority for top officials of the Comelec, or if such is still required.
“I’m not privy to what he had done,” he said.
The STAR was able to reach Abalos but the latter refused to comment on Tatad’s statement.
“Bahala na sila kung ano ang sabihin nila (They can say what they want). I resigned to protect my family and the Comelec from undue publicity and the vicious and malicious attacks but they still won’t stop,” Abalos added.
Regarding opinions that he technically remains the Comelec chairman because he still has unused vacation leaves, Abalos said he decided not to use them.
“Maraming nga akong unused leaves since 2002 pero hindi ko na yon gagamitin. Nag-resign na nga ako, eh (I do have a lot of unused leaves but I will not use them. I already resigned),” he added.
Tatad cited the theory of constructive resignation, which the Supreme Court invented to justify the ouster of former President Joseph Estrada in 2001, which does not and cannot possibly apply to Abalos.
He said Abalos has to submit a formal letter of resignation to Mrs. Arroyo, who must accept it to be spared from impeachment.
“Abalos has to submit a formal letter of resignation, and President Arroyo must accept it in order for the same to be effective and place him beyond the reach of the impeachment process. Otherwise, the announced resignation, which Malacañang wants now to translate into a mere terminal leave of absence, is completely bogus and he would have succeeded in playing the entire nation for fools,” Tatad said.
Abalos resigned last Monday, saying he wants to spare the Comelec from further malicious attacks.
The Comelec chairman was accused of brokering for ZTE Corp. of China that won the contract for the $329-million national broadband network (NBN) project, which has since been cancelled.
Speaker Jose de Venecia’s son and namesake Jose de Venecia III, stockholder of Amsterdam Holdings Inc. that lost the NBN project to ZTE, told a Senate public hearing that Abalos tried to bribe him with $10 million to make him withdraw his firm’s broadband project proposal.
Iloilo Vice Gov. Rolex Suplico filed an impeachment complaint against Abalos at the House, but before the congressmen could start the impeachment process the Comelec chief resigned.
The President nullified the ZTE contract the other day.
Meanwhile, Supreme Court Justice Dante Tinga declared that he will not leave the SC to join the Comelec as chairman.
In a statement, Tinga denied reports that Abalos had recommended him as his replacement in the poll body.
“I have been authorized by the Hon. Dante O. Tinga, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, to state, concerning media reports naming him as a possible successor to the challenging position of Chairperson of the Commission on Elections, that he has no intention of leaving the Supreme Court in order to accept an appointment to another office,” said Tinga’s Judicial Staff Head lawyer Oliver Xavier Reyes.
The President had earlier said that she will not appoint a new Comelec chair yet because Abalos, who had already resigned, was considered on terminal leave for four months.
The Supreme Court last Sept. 11 issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) on the implementation of the multi-million dollar contract for the NBN deal with ZTE. - With Mike Frialde, Sheila Crisostomo

PHILIPPINE HEADLINE NEWS ONLINE [PHNO] WEBSITE

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tapos i-televise impeachment para lalo maubos oras natin lahat

[claRkEnt]

tapos i-televise impeachment para lalo maubos oras natin lahat

ok, you earned your TCash with that lengthy copy/paste post!... pero bawal OPTIMIST dito... dun ka sa kabilang thread! :hysterical: :rofl:

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boring na daw kay OB thread nato papanong di magiging boring sa kanya to e para na rin syang si abalos dito na ginigisa dahil sa klase ng mentalidad nya

may mga tao pala talaga na "kakaiba" ang priorities, haaaaaayyyy buhaaaayyy

[oldblue]

who cares 'bout this thread. bad trip naman ibang tao dyan binabantayan post ko

[RedHorse]

di bale OB, post lang ng post, di naman sila mods to delete your post or deduct Tcash from you..

[jeffrocks]

who cares 'bout this thread. bad trip naman ibang tao dyan binabantayan post ko

Ayos lang yan pards, you or we can not pleased everybody...remember asar-talo

[oliver1013]

Hehehehehe

[VtEC]

i'm closing this thread









he he he he he he.cool lang bros.

[explorer]

from: www.inquirer.net

Abalos, Neri face charges over NBN deal

Lira Dalangin-Fernandez Leila Salaverria
INQUIRER.net Philippine Daily Inquirer
August 27, 2009

MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE 5) The Office of the Ombudsman has recommended the filing of criminal charges against former elections chief Benjamin Abalos Sr. and former socioeconomic planning secretary Romulo Neri over the graft-tainted broadband deal with China’s ZTE Corp., a party-list lawmaker said Thursday.

But the government anti-graft body threw out the complaints against President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo, both were accused of being involved in the supposedly overpriced $329-million contract, according to a resolution of the Ombudsman sent to the office of Representative Risa Hontiveros of Akbayan.

Also absolved of liability were Pangasinan Representative Jose de Venecia Jr., Department of Transportation and Communication Secretary Leandro Mendoza, DOTC Undersecretaries Lorenzo Formoso and Elmer Soneja, and ZTE officials Yu Yong, George Zhuying, Fan Yan and Hou Weigui.

Reached by INQUIRER.net, Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez declined comment, saying she had inhibited from the case. A panel member, who refused to be named, confirmed a ruling has been made.

The ruling stemmed from the separate complaints filed two years ago by Hontiveros, Bukidnon Representative Teofisto Guingona, lawyer Harry Roque, Emmanuel Villanueva, Dominga Padilla, Roel Garcia, Bebu Belchand, Fr. Jose Dizon, Oliver Lozano, Ernesto Francisco, Carlos Padilla and Roberto Pulido.

The resolution, dated April 21, was approved by Overall Deputy Ombudsman Orlando Casimiro, and signed by Deputy Ombudsman for the Military Emilio Gonzalez III, Assistant Ombudsman Rodolf Elman, Deputy Special Prosecutors Jesus Micael and Robert Kallos and Director Caesar Asuncion.

Arroyo scrapped the contract at the height of the controversy, which triggered fresh calls for her to step down in 2007.

A note at the end of the ruling stated that Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez inhibited herself from the case. It was mailed to the office of Hontiveros and arrived at 5 p.m., on Thursday.

Abalos was ordered charged with violation of the anti-graft law and the Revised Penal Code for taking interest and intervening in a contract “completely alien to his duties,” as was shown by his bribe offer of “200” to Neri and the $10 million offer to Joey de Venecia III, the son of the former speaker. Also cited was his instruction to Rodolfo Lozada to protect their “130.”

“It is without a scintilla of doubt that the actions of respondent Benjamin Abalos, a former Chairman of the Commission on Elections, are highly suspect, reprehensible and should in no manner or measure be countenanced by those in public service,” the resolution said.

“The most glaring of all, a question that Abalos continues to keep mum about, are the reasons for his inordinate and extensive interest in a project that is completely alien to his duties and functions as Chairman of the Commission on Elections,” it added.

It further said that Abalos' presence in a conference in China with ZTE officials “speaks volumes into Abalos' conduct as a peddler of undue patronage.”

On the other hand, the Office of the Ombudsman said Neri was being charged for conferring with Abalos on the project despite the fact that the latter was not supposed to have any role in the project, and for meeting with ZTE officials when the project was under assessment.

As the then chief of the National Economic and Development Authority, Neri should have been more prudent in his actions since the agency was then evaluating the NBN deal, it said.

“On the contrary, Neri acquiesced in attending lunch meetings, conferences and golf games not only with Abalos but with ZTE officials as well. His actions speak more than a thousand. The chain of circumstantial evidence linking Neri to the deal between Abalos and ZTE officials cannot be broken,” it said.

“This panel cannot close its eyes to the conduct or misconduct, to be precise, of Neri, as Director General of the NEDA, in charting his course of actions leading to the approval of the NBN,” he said.

But Neri in a text message said the approval of the project went through a “lengthy process which involves different departments sitting together in committees--technical committee, the Cabinet committee and finally the NEDA board chaired by the President.”

“NEDA approves the project not the supplier like ZTE. It is the agency involved, in this case the DOTC, which chooses the supplier,” he said.

While happy with most of the Ombudsman's decision, Hontiveros was suspicious at the timing of the release of the findings, coming as it is amid the impeachment hearings against Gutierrez and on the eve of an election year.

But Hontiveros said this would not weaken the impeachment complaint, since Gutierrez was still liable considering that her office had sat on the case for two years. There were also other charges in the complaint.

She believed Gutierrez was pressured to release the findings since the NBN deal could be used as an election issue, and that Abalos and Neri were made the fall guys despite their apparent vow of silence.

“It's not enough that there are fall guys. The highest persons responsible should be charged,” she said.

She also vowed to monitor the progress of the case, since she had heard rumors that Malacañang wanted to hold the release of the findings. She also pointed out that Gutierrez had filed defective charges before, which led to the dismissal of the case.

Abalos was also ordered charged with corruption of a public official, in violation of the Revised Penal Code, for his bribe offer to Neri as revealed in the latter's Senate testimony. It said Neri's testimony was “clear and convincing.”

In dismissing the cases against the First Gentleman, the Office of the Ombudsman found that only “surmises and conjectures” were presented against him.

It also absolved the DOTC and ZTE officials of liability since based on the evidence presented, the ZTE offered the best deal and had the best track record compared to the other entities, such as Joey de Venecia's Amsterdam Holdings.

“The contention and comparison as to which proposal is more economically, technically and developmentally viable is beyond dispute,” it said.

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[SIZE=3]WTF?! Dapat ganito ang verdict . . .[/SIZE]

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Abalos needs to go to Taiwan to buy bangus fingerlings? Court smells something fishy

MANILA, Philippines - The Pasay City Regional Trial Court on Thursday junked the petition of former Commission on Elections chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. to be allowed to travel to Taiwan to purchase bangus fingerlings.

Abalos is being tried on electoral sabotage charges before Pasay RTC Branch 112.
Judge Jesus Mupas said Abalos did not need to go abroad to buy the fingerlings since there is enough supply in the country as attested by the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatice Resources.
Felda Domingo Lomuntad, RTC Branch 112 spokesperson, also said Abalos could easily send someone else to Taiwan to purchase the fingerlings for him.
In his petition, Abalos said he wanted to travel to Taiwan to meet with the supplier of the fingerlings, stressing this is the only income he earns for his family.
He also claimed a lack of supply in the Philippines and that the prices offered in Taiwan were much lower than here.
Aside from the electoral fraud case, Abalos is also facing graft charges before the Sandiganbayan over the botched national broadband network deal with China’s ZTE Corp.

Abalos needs to go to Taiwan to buy bangus fingerlings? Court smells something fishy - InterAksyon.com

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Abalos needs to go to Taiwan to buy bangus fingerlings? Court smells something fishy
Abalos needs to go to Taiwan to buy bangus fingerlings? Court smells something fishy - InterAksyon.com