5 Reasons why Gloria would not bomb Glorietta?

After the news regarding the Glorietta blast came out, several groups raised the idea that it was a diversionary tactic by the government. Aside from the fact that the first person who raised the “diversionary tactic angle” was the only person I saw on TV planning to bomb Glorietta, i.e. the Honorable Senator Trillanes, there are several reasons why I don’t buy that angle…

1. The effects of the blast are too costly that the government cannot afford it. The government has exerted a lot of effort to attract foreign investments into the Philippines. A bombing in Metro Manila would undo several years of hard work. And it would take several years of peace and order before investors forget the blast. The blast will adveresely affect investment inflow, economic growth, the stock market and the real estate market.

2. They say that the blast is meant to distract the public from the political issues hounding the administration. If someone can pinpoint a time period when the president, any president of any country, is not embroiled in a political issue, then I will campaign for Trillanes next election. GMA has been in more serious political issues than now. The people are actually tired of corruption issues and grandstanding senators.

3. Typically, nobody is hurt in diversionary tactic bombings. Remember the staged Enrile assassination during the Marcos Regime used to justify Martial Law (for my age-group, read your history books), nobody was actually hurt other than the bullets and the car.

4. They said the bombing was planned so that the government can use the Anti-Terror Law, a.k.a. the Human Security Act. According to government officials, the law was severely watered down that it is very costly and difficult to implement. It is easier for the government to charge the bombing suspects with illegal possession of explosives.

5. I still don’t see the military guarding malls and other public places. If the blast was planned so that GMA can declare emergency powers calling in the military, then the military should be in the streets by now.

Echoing the call of Edj, please tell the Honorable Senator Trillanes to please shut up. At the least, please think before speaking. Come to think of it, we have no-talk, no-think senators (Lapid, Gringo, and Bong), no-think, just-talk senators (Jinggoy, Trillanes) and talk-and-talk-and-talk senators (Miriam, Ping, Chiz, Allan Peter…).