Reacting to speculations that the January 25 bombing of a passenger bus in EDSA was an attempt to destabilize the government, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile squashed the idea as impossible.
His exact words: “My God, how can one grenade or two grenades destabilize the government? We are not that brittle.”
“There are always crazy people in this world. Not necessary a terrorist activity. It could be somebody playing with an explosive inside the bus. There are many possibilities.”
Oh, really, Senator? Didn’t you do the same thing, faking an ambush to create the stage for martial law? With the blessings of the soon-to-be dictator?
“Take it from me. I went through it. When we declared martial law, it was an entirely different situation. The security environment was so different from what it is today,” he said in interviews with the press.
Yeah right. Back then, you were in total control of the peace and order (or lack thereof). Now, you’re not. It was, indeed, an entirely different situation.
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The "crazy people in this world" get crazier every year. And the list goes on and on…..
December 30, 2000 –Rizal Day LRT bombing
September 11, 2001 – US 911 attacks
November 17, 2001 – Bombing of Al-Jazeera’s Kabul office
October 12, 2002 – Bali bombings
August 5, 2003 – Mariott Hotel bombing in South Jakarta
August 19, 2003 – UN headquarters bombing in Baghdad
March 11, 2004 – Madrid train bombings
February 14, 2005 – Valentine’s Day bus bombing in Makati
July 7, 2005 – London subway bombing
July 11, 2006 – Mumbai train bombings
December 30, 2006 – Madrid-Barajas airport bombing
June 30, 2007 – Glasgow international airport bombing
March 6, 2008 – Times Square bombing
September 20, 2008 – Islamabad Mariott Hotel bombing
July 17, 2009 – JW Mariott Hotel and Ritz-Carlton Hotel bombings in Jakarta
October 2009 – Kabul’s Indian Embassy bombing
March 30, 2010 – Moscow subway bombing
January 24, 2011 – Russia airport bombing
January 25, 2011 – Makati bus bombing
Don't you get goosebumps?
