𝐖𝐇𝐘 𝐃𝐄 𝐋𝐈𝐌𝐀'𝐒 𝐀𝐂𝐐𝐔𝐈𝐓𝐓𝐀𝐋 𝐈𝐒 𝐀 𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐓𝐀𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐘!

The bail granted by the Muntinlupa court to Leila De Lima is only for her "temporary liberty", pending final judgment. But the peculiar circumstances of the case render her acquittal a certainty.
(Thread 1/-) It seldom, in fact almost never, happens that bail is granted to the accused after the prosecution has rested its case.

Usually bail is applied for at the moment of arrest or voluntary surrender - which is at the beginning of the criminal proceedings.
(Thread 2/-)

𝐒𝐖𝐎𝐇 𝐂𝐫𝐮𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝!
Sometime in the end last year we (me and hubby) were called for a meeting by one of our acquaintances to meet someone who he had mentioned as very “close” with the present administration. Turned out the guy who we met was the son of one of
(Thread 1/-) the “Mistresses” of a powerful but disgraced “General” under Marcos Sr. Not realizing that I am a #Kakampink he went to lengths explaining the inner stories of the administration to brag how well he was connected in the inner circle.

“Next is Inday, and then Kuya

(Thread 2/-)

REMEMBERING YOLANDA: DISPELLING THE MYTHS

Ten years on, we have a new perspective of Yolanda.

If the government response was a failure, I should be the first one to condemn it: I lost 20 relatives to the super typhoon.

Thread 1/- No, it was not a failure. This compared to the actions of subsequent administrations in times of crises, both natural and man-made.

PNoy sent his Secretary to Ground Zero in Leyte to coordinate emergency operations with the local government, the PNP and the military.

Thread 2/-

𝐅𝐔𝐋𝐋 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐂𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐘. 𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐍 𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐍𝐆’𝐬 𝐒𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐍 𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐈𝐃𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐓!
(A VERY LONG THREAD)

REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
PASIG CITY ) S.S.
X-
AFFIDAVIT
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
I, GLENN A. CHONG, Filipino, of legal age, and a resident of Valle Verde 5, Pasig City, Philippines, after having been sworn in accordance with law, hereby depose and state that:
1.I am a former congressman of the lone district of Biliran;
2.I have been advocating for honest and credible elections since the advent of the automated national and local elections in 2010;
advocacy is focused on exposing -
a.The fraudulent election system of, and the systematic cheating of our votes by, Smartmatic and/or its
b.affiliates/subsidiaries;
c.Their wanton and unabated violations of the applicable election laws, especially those involving the mandatory security features of the election system; and
d.Their stranglehold of the procurement process as shown by their monopoly of practically all election and related contracts in the 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 and 2022 national and local elections;
the course of my advocacy spanning over thirteen years -
a.I attended numerous hearings of several committees of the Senate of the Philippines as resource person on automated elections and related issues;
b.I gave lectures/presentations to a wide range of audience across the country showing the anatomy of fraud perpetrated by Smartmatic and its cohorts, and the evidence thereof;
c.I authored a position paper on voter receipt (VVPAT1) which
Supreme Court cited in Bagumbayan-VNP Movement,
1 Voter-Verified PaperAuditTrail

Inc ., and Richard Gordon, as Chairman of Bagumbayan-VNP Movement vs The Comelec,2 a Petition for Mandamus seeking to compel the Comelec to issue the voter receipt;
d.I acted as resource person in the oral arguments before the Supreme Court in the same case; and
e.I published countless write-ups and gave numerous interviews on automated election manipulations, public vigilance and electoral reforms in both mainstream and social media, both in the Philippines and abroad;
2016, I was consulted by the political campaign of a presidential candidate in the United States of America on the issues of automated election manipulation and Smartmatic;
2019, I was also consulted by a technical consultant of the political opposition in Argentina regarding the issue of election fraud involving Smartmatic;
7.A day after the 9 May 2016 national and local elections, I was summoned to the campaign headquarters of Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. (Bongbong) by former Rep. Jonathan A. Dela Cruz to shed light on the tweaking of the transparency servers used during the tabulation of the votes; there, I met the candidate and his wife, Louise A. Marcos (Liza);
8.Thereafter, I was made to face both foreign and local media to explain and answer questions about what happened on the night of the vote canvassing;
9.Over the next six years, I worked with Bongbong and Liza (collectively, Marcos couple), their lawyers, and practically all of their staff who were involved in the electoral protest filed by Bongbong against then Vice President Maria Leonor G. Robredo;
10.Along with the Marcos couple, our select group of six individuals ("techies") regularly and privately met over dinner at the couple's house in Forbes Park and, at other times, at the office of the law firm of Liza in Bonifacio Global City; we met for discussions of technical issues, brainstorming and crafting of strategies, updates and socials;

11.I assisted the Marcos couple, their lawyers and their staff in many different ways without any compensation or expectation of reward because Bongbong's electoral protest was at the core of my advocacy; I firmly believed that Smartmatic manipulated the 2016 general elections as it did in all previous and subsequent general elections;

(THREAD :1/-)
12.On 31 July 2018, I testified before the Senate of the Philippines concerning the anomalies and fraud involving the Smartmatic automated election system in the 2016 national and local elections;
13.Among many others, I testified and produced the evidence involving the electronic transmission of election results in 459 precincts one day before election day; as shown in the records and footage of the hearing, both the Smartmatic and the Comelec were miserably unable to explain the phenomenon;
14.On 22 October 2018, in compliance with an order, I filed a 250-page Comment with the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) in the protest case of Marcos, Jr. vs Robredo;
my Comment, I detailed the anomalies and fraud of the Smartmatic automated election system in the 2016 national and local elections; I attached all the evidence obtained from the election system itself; significantly, the PET did not sanction me for allegedly violating the rule on sub judice, neither did it issue a gag order which was urgently pleaded by the respondent;
16.On 26 November 2018, I filed my Certificate of Candidacy as a substitute candidate for senator in the 2019 national and local elections; my avowed aim was to bring the issue of automated election fraud by Smartmatic into the fore of national attention and discussion; my candidacy would provide me greater visibility and an amplified platform to advance my advocacy;
17.However, on 9 December 2018 -
a.133 days after I testified in the Senate of the Philippines;
b.48 days after I filed my 250-page Comment to the PET; and
c.13 days after I filed my Certificate of Candidacy in substitution,

my trusted and long-time personal/security aide, Richard Y. Santillan (Richard), was mercilessly tortured, and "brutally and brazenly"3 killed by twenty police officers;
18. To be clear, I have no known enemies except Smartmatic and its cohorts; while the politics in Biliran were at times unruly and heated, I have not run for any elective position there or elsewhere for years prior to the incident; thus, to my mind, the incident was a clear case of "selective terrorism"4 perpetrated on a person very close to me in order to frighten me into submission and silence;
19.During the memorial service for Richard, the Marcos couple extended their condolences and sent flowers; less than three weeks after the incident, Liza summoned me to her office and offered to pay for two of my new security aides for the next six months; she deposited their salaries directly to my bank account from January to June 2019;
20.Sometime before the pandemic, in one of our private gatherings at the couple's house in Forbes Park, Bongbong asked who among the eight of us in the dining table had paid the highest price in the fight against Smartmatic; I replied that I probably had paid the highest price with the life of Richard; Bongbong readily agreed;
21.Towards the end of October 2021, after Bongbong had filed his Certificate of Candidacy for president, Liza summoned me to her office; as we ate lunch together, she requested my presence at the Marcos campaign headquarters for "even just twice a week";
22.After she made the request, she asked how much she would have to pay me; I readily assured her that I will be present at the Marcos campaign headquarters two days each week at the minimum until election day, and that she did not have to pay me anything;
23.I reminded her that I have been truly grateful when she paid for two of my new security aides for six months in 2019; since I have volunteered to help the Marcos couple in line with my advocacy, without any compensation or expectation of reward, her gesture wasmore than enough for me;

24.Before we ended our lunch, Liza promised me that if Bongbong is elected as president, I will be appointed as commissioner of the Comelec, then later, its chairman; I thanked her for her promise;

(THREAD: 2/-)

A long thread from the FB of Eliseo Rio Jr.
@ChairGEGarcia
The Commission on Elections (@COMELEC ) and its Automated Election System provider @smartmatic, have made a change in their protocols, which prevented the tracing of the actual source of transmission of votes from
1/- precincts that can potentially be used to tamper with the results as warned by then Senate President Tito Sotto and Senator Ping Lacson.

And here are the proofs that the results of the 2022 Election were TAMPERED OR RIGGED, as warned. In the “Raw Files” (gzip) uploaded by
2/-

I believe these are the three main issues, among others, that hound the #MarcosInvestmentFund (MIF):
1.CRISIS OF CONFIDENCE. Filipinos and foreign investors alike have a crisis of confidence on the people behind the MIF and those who will be managing it.
1/- a thread They do not trust the Marcos-Romualdez political dynasty and their cronies to run the show considering the family's sordid track record of corruption and plunder. This explains why the pledges that the host countries made to FBBM in his 11 or so visits there have not been
2/-

FAT CATS OF THE MAHARLIKA FUND

Under Section 12 of the #MarcosInvestmentFund law, admin costs are limited to 2% of the capital. That looks small on paper. But considering that target capitalization of the fund is in the neighborhood of ₱500B, that would amount to ₱10B.
1/- That's more than the combined budget of P7 Billion allocated to Lung Center of the Philippines (P835.2 M), National Kidney and Transplant Institute (P1.7 B) , Philippine Children’s Medical Center (P2.1 B), Philippine Heart Center (P2.1 B) for the year 2023.
2/-

Dedicated to @loren_legarda for giving us a good for nothing being!

Antiqueño Ingenuity: The AIs of Paliwan 🌊

The top 12 best Paliwan memes are a reflection of how Antiqueños can see the humorous side of a stressful situation, and deal with a calamity with resiliency.
1/- We've also discovered the hidden talents of Antiqueños in social media editing.

These memes were not only ideas or a trend that spread by means of imitation from netizen to netizen within our Karay-a culture, but it carried a symbolic meaning representing a particular
2/-

How the Marcos-Romualdez faction checkmated the Duterte-Arroyo faction:
1. Arroyo wanted to be Speaker but BBM chose his cousin, Martin Romualdez instead.
2. Sara Duterte wanted to be appointed as DND Secretary but BBM appointed her as DepEd Secretary instead.
1/- Both the posts of Speaker and DND Secretary are powerful and strategic. The former has the power of the purse while the latter has the power of the gun.
3. Speaker Romualdez, most possibly with the clearance of BBM, removed Arroyo as Senior Deputy Speaker to prevent
2/-

BBM is ramming down on the throats of the Filipino people his family's racket, the Maharlika Investment Fund (MIF) by certifying as urgent the Senate Bill creating it. While we were sleeping, his cohorts in the Senate are reportedly restoring the GSIS and SSS Pension Funds
1/- and Pag-IBIG Funds as among the sources of the MIF. The proposed use of these funds by the MIF were vehemently opposed by the GSIS, SSS and Pag-IBIG members.They feared rightfully that their lifetime savings deducted from their salaries in their working years would end
2/-

CHA-CHA IS BAD FOR SARA
(Courtesy: FB Post of Atty Wilfredo Garrido- A Thread)
With the Cha-cha bill overwhelmingly passing the House, the ball is now in the Senate's court. It will be suicidal for the Senate to do the same.
1/- We will be back to the 1970s Concon that was rigged by Marcos Sr. in his favor.

First order of business is to lift term limits - not those of the Congressmen, or Senators, or LGU officials, but only that of the President. Yep. Marcos will rule until Sandro becomes
2/-

TIME TO DOWNGRADE CHINESE RELATIONS

(A long thread)

They tried to blind our Coast Guard personnel and all we do is blink?

We've been turning the other cheek far too often for too long. In the latest attempt to curry favor with China, President @bongbongmarcos went to
1/- Beijing to seek a "new golden age" in Philippine relations and to establish a "hot line" across the sea. Communist chief Xi Jinping paid lip service to it. As they have done to all Philippine and @ASEAN initiatives, including the "Code of Conduct" which the Chinese have been
2/-

SIBUYAN: IN GREATER DANGER THAN WE FIRST THOUGHT
(Courtesy: FB Post; Atty Wilfredo Garrido- A long Thread)

It is now clear that Altai Mining couldn't have brazenly despoiled the forests of Sibuyan Island if they weren't so well connected.
1/- With only an exploration permit, they managed to go full-scale and excavate 50,000 metric tons of nickel ore for "testing".

The only thing done during the exploration stage is drilling small holes and taking core samples to be sent to the laboratory for assaying to identify
2/-

NAIA FOR SALE
Thread… Courtesy FB post of Atty. Wilfredo Garrido

There is a grain of truth to the speculation that the latest mess at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport was intended to smooth the way toward privatization of airport operations. By 100%.
1/- There is the mechanism in place. The amendment to the Public Service Act (Republic Act No. 11659), signed into law by Duterte in March 2022, removes airports, among others, from the definition of "public utilities" thereby circumventing the constitutional restriction
2/-

HOW THE MALAMPAYA FUND WAS SCAMMED?
(courtesy: FB Atty Wilfredo Garrido)

The Malampaya fund was supposed to be a gift that kept on giving, royalties from the oil and gas wells off Palawan that was meant to benefit the Filipino people long after the wells had dried up.
1/- Instead it vanished into thin air earlier than the wells themselves - which are still sputtering, yielding oil in trickles - for Dennis Uy and his assignees to whom the wells were passed on like a hooker that was past her prime.

How did this happen? The answers are Gloria
2/-

TECHNOCRATS, MY FOOT
(Courtesy FB post of Atty Wilfredo Garrido)

We can't blame the Marcoses for coming up with the monumentally bad idea called Maharlika Fund. They are merely acting by their nature, generations raised on a poisoned bloodline that has its roots in a fake
1/- guerilla army named Maharlika.

It is the technocrats we should be angry about, the elite class of supposed professionals who ought to be taming the kleptocrats' base instincts and laying down paths on the straight and narrow that will lead the country toward progress despite
2/-

SWOH TROLLS a thread

I was talking to an old friend after a very long time. She was in the BBM camp very close to the National Campaign Office representing a province in WV. Went through a lot and ended up in the still ongoing attack on Leni by BBM fanatics and trolls.
1/- That was when what she said struck me. The BBM camp has nothing to gain from the trolls now. What they wanted was get back in Malacañang by hook or crook. And that they did. They don’t care about Leni anymore. They only have to take care of comelec so that no beans are spilt.
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