GMA Release Imminent!

[Arthur Little]

I take it that now she will make a full medical recovery of biblical proportions and loose the silly neck bandage

... oh? Didn't know it was that tight! So when were you let loose AGAIN?

It seems that most politicians in the Philippines who are accused of doing anything wrong all of a sudden are struck down by some life threatening illness that requires immediate and long term hospital treatment

Lest you - or ANYONE else - be in doubt ... there's been friction between Arroyo and the the Aquinos for more than a decade now ... beginning, I believe, during Gloria's first period of office when, in accordance with the terms and conditions of 'Agrarian Reform', an agreement reached by her predecessors, she redistributed land to the farmers - to whom it had originally belonged - much to the chagrin of the greedy Aquino/Cojuangco clans, for reasons best~known to themselves.

After being re-elected in 2004, the Aquinos claimed that voting "had been rigged" .

Also, during her second term as President, a young *OFW - domestic servant - was sentenced to death for the murder of her employer who'd brutally raped *her ... whereby, as the Philippines' Head of State, Gloria was forced to hand over what essentially amounted to "blood money" in exchange for sparing the girl's life ... an act of humanity seized upon by Aquino to discredit Macapagal Arroyo by accusing her of misappropriating Government funds.

So ... on becoming President himself in 2010 he took the opportunity to exact revenge on his predecessor, some 2 years' later by issuing instructions to the effect that she be arrested on each of the falsely drummed-up charges I've mentioned, her passport confiscated (to prevent her from travelling abroad to receive treatment for her very real spinal complaint) and that she then be detained under hospital confinement indefinitely.