PP1017...lifted?

Whoever thinks that the mere lifting of Presidential Proclamation No. 1017 has restored the democratic freedoms we have - has gone totally nuts....

False-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo eventually lifted this so called emergency rule. But as is, The damage has been done on the national psyche. Like a Battered wife, the alliance against FPGMA's rule has tasted the iron hand of FPGMA's unbounded ambition to hold on to power whatever the cost.

The lifting intended to preempt an eventual Supreme Court ruling that would have said that PP 1017 was unconstitutional.

There is no substance to the lifting of PP1017... just like Marcos who "lifted" PD1081 in 1981 but kept everything under a blanket martial law until 1986... even after the lifting of PP1017 - There is still a total curtailment of our liberties under GO #5 with the absence of the freedom of assembly, the continuance of warrantless arrests, and a fuckup threat and total intimidation of the media/presses.

Imagine this - just hours after the lifting of PP 1017, charges were filed against the editor-publisherNiñez Cacho-Olivares and two columnists (Ike Señeres and Herman Tiu-Laurel)of the Daily Tribune newspaper for inciting to sedition. That's a load of BULLSHIT!!!

I shudder to think about our people fighting for freedom and true democracy vs FPGMA.
The nation still languishes under the totalitarian dictatorship that this administration has placed us to cover its' greed, corruption and banality.

The true state of emergency is FPGMA's continued occupance of Malacanang. There is no other issue here than the continuance of an illegitimate administration.