"Querubin" writes to Pinoy Buzz

On June 22, I put up a blog entry alleging that Querubin's cyber minions had hacked the Dona Victorina blog and reposted the entry which was said to have caused the attack on the blog.

When I was told that the Dona Victorina blog was hacked, I took it at face value because I trust the people who run the blog and have no reason to doubt their word. Moreover, I don't know Colonel Ariel Querubin from Adam and I must confess, I don't trust soldiers who in my view attempted to overthrow a duly elected President.

I have an extreme dislike for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's rule but what I hate more than her is the possibility of a group of military officials who put it into their heads that doing something wrong can ever lead to something right. Macapagal Arroyo was elected (to use the term loosely here) through a democratic process and using force or the threat of force to support an extra-constitutional means of ousting her from power is the wrong way to go.

Brigader General Danny Lim and Colonel Ariel Querubin along with Senator Antonio Trillanes were all involved in attempts to take Gloria Macapagal Arroyo out of power. Perhaps they fully believed that this was the only way to rid the country of the many ills it suffers and that with Gloria out of power, the country would then be saved.

I wish I was still naive.

Here's the thing I cannot get over.

Senator Antonio Trillanes led his men to take over Oakwood as an act of defiance against what they said was the corrupt regime of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Trillanes was apprehended and brought to trial. Thereafter, he campaigned for a seat in the Senate and won in 2007. Some time after that, he walked away from a hearing and went to the Manila Peninsula.

As a soldier, he swore to defend the constitution. He broke his oath during the Oakwood Mutiny. Then as a senator, he swore an oath to uphold the constitution. He broke his oath again with the Manila Peninsula Siege.

Of course, Trillanes was not the first military man to do this. Before him was General Fidel V. Ramos and then Senator Gringgo Honasan.

How many of our military officials have messianic tendencies, I wonder? And can they really save the country from the cess pool that it is in?

Going back to General Lim and Colonel Querubin, they are now seeking election as senators and I really wonder if they will be truly worthy of that position. Their military track records are great, but their track records as citizens of a democratic country leaves much to be desired.

I wonder how well they can participate in debates, baka kapag nasupalpal ang mga privilege speech nila eh biglang mag-amoy pulbura. Huwag naman ganun.

Anyway, just today I got a message on Facebook from someone who says he is Colonel Ariel Querubin and it is apparently an attempt to contradict a number of things which were written by Rain Barnido in the post "Querubin for Senator?... Quid pro Querubin"

In the interest of fairness, I am posting Querubin's message here:

Dear Paul,

Good morning! I saw this in the wall of a Magdalo coordinator in Nueva Ecija. He reacted to the insults made by Sulbatz Mindanao and Rebolusyon ng Bayan for supporting me.

I had three wives one at a time. The first one was annulled, the second one died and the last is my present wife. I never had a mistress in my whole life. I lived a simple life and not a sinful life.

My wife's first marriage was annulled both in the church and civil courts.

We got married first in the States and later in a simple Church wedding in Puerto Princesa. We're members of the Couples for Christ and the Brotherhood of Christian Businessmen and Professionals.

I was never involved in any case involving moral turpitude.

I was afflicted with cerebral malaria in 1980 during an operation in the jungles of Tawi-tawi. I had very high fever which was why I was delusional. I was released fit for combat duty and 3 years later, I was meritoriously promoted 2 months ahead of the members of class 76 to which Gen Yano and Ibrado belong. I went on foreign studies several times and went on UN Mission, all requiring rigid Neuro-Psychiatric tests. I was promoted several times all needing the same requirements, the last of which was my promotion to full Colonel which was confirmed by the Commission on Appointments.

I've been through more than a dozen combat encounters that earned me the Medal of Valor, Distinguished Conduct Star and 7 Gold Cross Medals which manifested my stability under pressure. I was brought back to life in 1989 after being seriously injured by a Sykorsky rocket.

For more than 3 years of incarceration, this evil government was not able to come up with an issue to malign my name, not until the visit of GMA's troubleshooter/henchman. These are the people behind the demolition job against me in Victorina.blog.

I hope you will be enlightened as to why they're destroying me.

Best regards and God bless.

Col Ariel Querubin