Pardon or No and Why?...Erap

**tagaisla** · September 22nd, 2007 01:11 PM

tama ang nakakarami,kailangan makulong para naman yong iba pa ay sumunod.ang dapat magimg no.1 proj.ngayon ng gov.ay kulungan dahil for sure kukulangin tayo ng kulungan.sana hindi na tinanggal ang death penalty.

**freeloader** · September 22nd, 2007 04:48 PM

NO pardon. If ever ma-pardon c erap we'll be the laughing stock of the international community

**flex** · September 22nd, 2007 07:44 PM

NO PARDON

Has anyone seen the program where his Tanay resthouse was featured? Lintik....kulungan ba yan?! At ngayon, they want to pardon him pa....

It's all about politics....

We never learn....sadly...naging apathetic uli ang middle class sa mga developments ngayon...and i'm guilty of it as well

Cguro sawa na talaga ang mga tao, they just want to get on with their lives...

**eggman** · September 22nd, 2007 07:51 PM

Bigyan na nang Pardon tapos ikulong si Abalos....

**Monseratto** · September 23rd, 2007 10:44 PM

Ano nanaman ang kapalit nito? Para di rin makaso si pandak at ang kanyang ka-biyak?

Erap now ready to accept 'absolute pardon'

Former president Joseph Estrada is now ready to accept the absolute pardon reportedly being offered by Malacañang, ABS-CBN News reported Sunday.

Cagayan de Oro Rep. Rufus Rodriguez, the former president's spokesman, said Estrada wanted to be with his 102-year-old mother, Doña Mary Ejercito.
Estrada's ailing mother is at the San Juan Medical Center because of pneumonia.

Rodriguez said Estrada is concerned with his mother’s health.

The congressman said if ever Estrada accepts the pardon, the motion for reconsideration that is scheduled to be filed before the Sandiganbayan before September 27 will automatically be withdrawn by the former president's lawyers.

Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno earlier said he is brokering a deal between Malacañang and Estrada's camp for the former president's pardon. He added that the formula for the pardon "is still being worked out".

He said negotiations for Estrada’s possible pardon by President Arroyo have progressed so that both sides are now down to talking about the “implementing rules”.

The interior secretary said Estrada could be set free by Christmas if the President agrees to pardon him.

“I’m hoping that we can do it (pardon for Estrada) before Christmas. That’s my hope, so I can join the Christmas party of the Estradas, they’re always fun,” Puno, who is also presidential adviser for political affairs, told reporters. “I hope we can all have a Merry Christmas.”

Estrada, who was deposed in an Army-backed popular revolt in 2001, was the first president in Philippine history to be convicted of plunder.

It was alleged that the former movie star had amassed more than $80 million in wealth gained through tax kickbacks and illegal gambling payoffs. His conviction triggered low-key protests, but his supporters have vowed to take to the streets ahead of his appeal.

Mrs. Arroyo's aides visited Estrada in detention prior to the verdict and have floated suggestions through the press that the government may be ready to grant a pardon to the former leader.

A pardon, analysts have said, could calm political tensions and finally bring a close to a bitter political drama that has dragged on for six years and slowed economic growth in the Philippines.

**hubertq34** · September 23rd, 2007 11:28 PM

erap=no pardon
gma=no pardon
marcos=no more life, rip

**jaspi11** · September 23rd, 2007 11:32 PM

no pardon at dapat ilipat sa munti...nagyabang pa sa TV ng i feature yung tanay rest house nya parang di nakakulong..buhay hari pa din...libre pa security

**jonski** · September 24th, 2007 12:06 AM

Yung mga may gusto ng pardon siguro they deserve na nakawan at lokohin lang sila ng pulitiko at wag silang magreklamo sa batas at wag nilang sabihing laging pinapaboran ang mayayaman laban sa mahirap.

**cutedoc** · September 24th, 2007 12:16 AM

actually i saw this coming, verdict will be guilty, then either he will stay at a posh prison, house arest or presidential pardon...

if erap accepted the pardon ,it s also like admitting he comitted all the bad deeds, however even if the verdict has been out still he is pleading not guilty, so where in the world did all those riches come from?