Duterte's Supporters Should Release Video Marcos Snorting Coke

By Mortz C. Ortigoza

 Philippines National Police (PNP) Chief Director Gen. Benjamin Acroda, Jr. filed a criminal case against retired Army Brig. Gen. John Lacsamana Macanas, Sr. Macanas, according the police chief, used his name and photo to peddle fake information about an alleged plot to oust President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr.

 Acorda sued his fellow PMYer with violation of Article 154 of the Revised Penal Code or the Unlawful Means of Publication as amended by the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.

President Ferdinand "BBM" Marcos, Jr. (left photo) and former President Rodrigo Duterte (right top photo) and daughter's Vice President Sara Duterte while holding their polboron (powdery Spanish shortbread). Lately, pro Duterte vloggers have been opining about Marcos caught in a video snorting a powder cum cocaine.

Parroting what Maharlika - a fire breathing pro-Rodrigo Duterte’s lady vlogger –, Macanas had been harping on his YouTube videos’ General’s Opinion that Acorda, military Chief- of- Staff General Romeo Brawner, Jr. and presidential sister Senator Imee Marcos have confided with President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. to step down from power after a video of him sniffing cocaine have reached the generals.

 Macanas used the word “polboron (powdery Spanish shortbread)” as the crack that President had been consuming.

NARCS

When Acorda reacted earlier on Macanas dragging his name in persuading Marcos to resign in the YouTube Video entitled: Good News! AFP, PNP Generals Convincing PBBM to Resign? (NOTE: Dear readers please take note of the question mark after the last word of the title because that will play a major role in the finding of probable cause and the merits by the prosecutor and the judge).

 I spent some hours watching the retired General and Maharlika’s other anti-Marcos videos.

In one of the videos, Macanas kept citing Maharlika – an Ilongga based in the United States – about a video of a polboron video being showed by the generals to their colonels – who are members of the Philippines Military Academy.

Maharlika was more acerbic than the monotonous commentary of Macanas - typical of men in uniform - that she interchanged the polboron on her videos as narcotics the president snorted with Special Assistant to the President Antonio Lagdameo, Jr. in the Palace. The illegal drug peddler, Maharlika added, was Justice Secretary Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla, Susmariosep!

Macanas (PMA Class of 1983) said the Generals would not forward the allegedly incriminating video to the colonels - who upon seeing them become restive – with a fear that they could disseminate it to the public.

What kind of logic was it?

HIGH ON COKE?

A livid Maharlika assailed Kuting (her other reference to Marcos) by not meeting the generals who visited him on December 28 at the Palace because according to her he was high on dope.

“Kung ako ang Commander-in-Chief Pasko iyan. Okay? Pasko di ba? Iyong mga Generals na iyan okay lang na meron tayong party na kahit man lang saang lupalop ng mundo talagang na merong sini-celebrate na Christmas party. At the fact na Dec 28 iyon palangga kung ako ang Commander- in- Chief ninyo tatratuhin ko kayong tao, hero, at bayani kahit may naramdaman akong sakit o high ako sa polboron – but definitely kung high ako sa polboron si Kuting ako, di ba?” the woman vlogger at You Tube hit the President.

Somebody from Malacanang, Maharlika said, however gave each of the generals an envelope that contain wads of money as Christmas gift from the President.

FORMER PRES. DUTERTE AS MASTERMIND

Former Senator Antonio Trillanes – rebuked Duterte as the mastermind on this video’s brouhaha.

“Aside from these personalities that are closely allied with Mr. Duterte they also have the motivation. They have the opportunity and in fact as it is the daughter of the former President –Vice President Sara Duterte is the Constitutional successor of whether it is through resignation, impeachment, (military and police) withdrawal of support, people power, coup d’état. All of these things are on the table for Mr. Duterte so that he could get back into power,” the former coup plotter turned Senator told the host of ANC TV after Acorda sued Macanas.

My take on this hullabaloo:  The Generals, Maharlika, Macanas and whoever should post publicly the video to prove its authenticity otherwise it was another ploy by the enemies of the President to agitate the people to hate him and could cause gullible members of the military and police to rise in arms against the power that be.

That video showing the President sniffing cocaine or meth could be likened to Duterte’s threat to then Senator Leila de Lima that he would show to the public how she and her driver-bodyguard copulate. Until Duterte stepped down from the presidency in June 31, 2022 no sex video of De Lima with one of her countless lovers (who were drivers and bodyguards) has been exposed by the President.

US. INTERVENES TO PROTECT MARCOS

Furthermore, if there is a putsch by the soldiers and the cops to install Duterte (who is vulnerable to be sued with mass murder of civilians during his stint) or his daughter’s Vice President Sara Duterte (who faces a suit in the Supreme Court because of her receipt last December 2023 of the P125 million in confidential funds deemed illegal by authorities and a probable impeachment bid by some congressmen allies of Marcos because of the sum), what happened in the deadly December 1,  1989 coup's God Saves the Queen could be repeated again.

I’m not talking here how the thousands of renegade soldiers under cashiered Army Col. Gringo Honasan gutted to the ground the national economy because foreign investors shunned the country beleaguered by countless failed military takeovers, I’m talking here about the intervention of the United States who cowed those soldiers when those lethal U.S F-4 Phantoms started taking off from Clark Air Base in Pampanga – then an American leased base - and flew around Metro Manila and the nearby provinces to deter the adventurism of the messianic complexed coup plotters.

I even told former President Fidel V. Ramos – who used one of my columns’ FVR Irks by Benguet’s Guv Long Speech in one of his published books – about how former U.S Vice President Dick Cheney remembered the 1989 Golpe when Ramos – a West Pointer - was then the Secretary of National Defense and one who prodded President Corazon C. Aquino to call the Americans to save their government.

At Page 173 of the 563 pages hardbound of Cheney’s memoir titled In My Time he said: “For one thing, President Aquino made it clear that she would publicly deny having made the request. Asking the United States to bomb Filipino citizens, even if they were rebels, would not go over well inside her own country. But we were committed to defend the government of the Philippines and needed to come up with a show of strength to discourage the rebels”.

DUTERTES THREAT TO THE U.S INTEREST IN THE SCS

In case the soldiers and the cops try to unseat President Marcos and those men-in-uniforms allied to him could be overpowered by the enemies of the state, Uncle Sam and his long sophisticated stick could deal with them. The Yanks would not allow the Dutertes - as my hypothetic premise – to return in power because they would be detrimental to the U.S interest against the menacing saber rattling Mainland China.

South China Sea (SCS) hosts $5.3 trillion worth of goods being transited annually, with $1.2 trillion of that total accounting for trade with the U.S.

The older Duterte when he was the president of this country for six years cozied up with the top apparatchiks of the Communist Party in Beijing while his vice president’s daughter has these deafening silences on the countless encroachments and occupation  by the Chinks of our islands and shoals in the SCS and the harassments of the Chinese Coast Guards and its militia ships on our coast guards and civilian ships that bring provisions to our Marines at the ghost ship's BRP Sierra Madre in the Ayungin Shoal.