A Life in The Day of Juan Ponce Enrile

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By: Bibeth Orteza - @inquirerdotnet Philippine Daily Inquirer / 02 12 AM February 26, 2012
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Also “Presidential Plunder, the Quest for the Marcos Hidden Wealth” and
“Struggle and Hope,” both by Jovito R. Salonga, right next to five books
written by Ferdinand E. Marcos during his martial law years.
On the flyleaf of “The Marcos Years,” the former president had handwritten
a dedication to the man who would remain his secretary of national
defense until 1986 when a People’s Power revolt, aided and abetted by the
latter, toppled his dictatorship.
“Sept. 10, 1972, on the eve of my birthday
To Johnny, who has contributed to the achievements of the Marcos years in

a large way.”
8:25 a.m.
Bing Rosales, sent to study reflexology for two years after showing aptitude
for the therapy, leads her boss down the stairs. “He’s good to us, so we pray
that nothing bad happens to him,” she says.
“Good morning, good morning!” exclaims Juan Ponce Enrile.
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First, his blood pressure is checked. It is normal at 126/60, from a high of

190/90 the previous afternoon. It shoots up every now and then so he has to
take maintenance medication.
He really should sleep early but just the other day, he didn’t hit the sack /
until 4 a.m., he says. His bedtime varies, depending on the amount of
reading he feels he has to do because, he says, he has to study and weigh  TODAY'S PAPER 
things as well as he can.
“You see, I am not the court. The Senate is the court,” he says. “I sign the
subpoenas, but I need the permission of the court. There is equal weight
among the rights of the respondents, the policy of government, the impact
of the decision on the public, on the business sector, on everybody. (If we)
block disclosures on the basis of loyalties, the public will think we are
covering up. People don’t really know the law as much as they do their
doubts and their suspicions.
8:30 a.m.
Breakfast is a sausage with a dab of mustard. Sometimes it’s a bowl of

oatmeal, eaten with inihaw na pusit (dried squid), or rice with scrambled
eggs and tuyo (dried fish). Some mornings it is pan de sal (roll) with cheese.
Enrile is told this paper has referred to him and defense counsel Serafin
Cuevas as the “superstars” of the ongoing trial.
He shrugs, “I don’t know what that infers.”
He likes to pore over his cases alone, he says, and tests the validity of the
opinions of others against his own study of all the issues involved.
“I make my own trial brief,” he adds.
In the years when he was practicing law, he says, he would first check a
case for any violations against the Constitution, and then study the laws that
could apply, given the facts, the pleading or the complaint.
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“I was fortunate to have met brilliant minds in and out of court,” he recalls,
such as Vicente Francisco, Jose W. Diokno, Alberto Jamil, Rod Jalandoni,
Claudio Teehankee, among others.
At 88, he can still name his professors at the University of the Philippines
College of Law where he received his law degree in 1953.
“Jose Espiritu for corporation law, Emiliano Navarro for criminal law,
Enrique Fernando for constitutional law, Peping Campos for negotiable
instruments law, Norberto Quisumbing for trial technique, Bienvenido

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made us memorize the Rules of Court from cover to cover, my goodness.”
He asks Sally for coffee and continues, “My grades were good, but I didn’t
become a bar topnotcher. I answered the exam questions both ways, and
for that I got minuses.”
Enrile placed 11th, with a rating of 91.72 percent, in the 1954 bar
examinations. If that’s not impressive enough, consider this: He got a
perfect score in commercial law.
An argument with professor Vicente Abad Santos caused him a “3” in civil
law.
“I didn’t know he was so sensitive. That was five units so bumaba ang
average ko (that lowered my average grade),” recalls the man who would
have graduated magna cum laude of the UP College of Law class of 1953 but
had to settle for cum laude.
When student and teacher met again, it was as secretary of the Department
of Justice and head of the Board of Pardons and Parole, respectively.
“I gave you a low grade even if you deserved a higher one because you so
irritated me,” Enrile recollects Abad Santos telling him.
“Never mind, I am now your boss,” he recalls answering. “We then became
friends.”
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All his teachers, he says, were good to him, including the ones at Harvard
University where, on full scholarship, he earned his Master of Laws with
specialization in taxation and corporate reorganization.
9 a.m.
“I do not wish them to mark me absent at the legislative session,” he says, so

he leaves home earlier than most people would expect since the
impeachment trial doesn’t start until well after lunch.
After taking some time to read the briefs and curriculum vitae of two
ambassadors scheduled to pay him a courtesy visit this day, he breaks his
silence.
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“I never expected to amount to anything.”
For a caminero (laborer) like him who made 75 centavos a day smashing
rocks on the road from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., to be able to get a good education
was nothing short of a miracle, he says.
At the Harvard Law School, studies mattered to him more than anything
else. Again, Enrile is able to recall his graduate school professors: Paul
Freund for constitutional law and conflict of laws (“one of the brightest
professors ever at Harvard”), Milton Katz for international law (“he became
the director of the Economic Cooperation Administration or the US Marshall
Plan in Europe”), law school dean Erwin Griswold for basic courses in
income taxation, Stanley Surrey for international taxation (“he became US
Treasury assistant secretary”).
“For corporate reorganization I had Ernest Brown. I could not understand a

thing he was saying [in class],” recalls Enrile. “My God, I did not know
accounting at all! So I forthrightly admitted I had a problem following him.”
The professor lent him two books and told him to come back only after he
had read the books. “I did exactly that, and only then did everything sink
in,” Enrile says. “That was when I learned what corporate reorganization
really entailed.”
While at Harvard, the Ilocano scholar received a monthly allowance of

$170. He managed to have $700 in savings by the end of his stay.
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“I didn’t go out much, except for few times with Paeng Salas, Ado Reyes and
sometimes Beniting Legarda,” he says.
At the time, too, his romance with a girl from Iloilo had just ended. “Her
letters simply stopped,” he says. “I presumed she had found someone. I
presumed wrong. I would find out she never married and that, shortly
before she died, she wanted to see me.”
He didn’t have to nurse a broken heart for long. While in Massachusetts he

met a girl from Costa Rica and, shortly thereafter, marriage was being
discussed.
“Her condition was for us to live in her country, where her family had
sizable land holdings,” recalls Enrile. “I said no. I had just met my father. He
was as happy as I was to meet him How could I agree to live in Costa Rica?” /
was as happy as I was to meet him. How could I agree to live in Costa Rica?
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Enrile swings by the legislative session in the same hall where he is to

preside later and is marked “present.”
Senate President Pro Tempore Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada is presiding over a

group that includes Vicente Sotto III, Franklin Drilon, Gregorio Honasan,
Ralph Recto, Joker Arroyo, Ramon Revilla Jr., Antonio Trillanes IV, Manuel
Villar, Manuel Lapid, Alan Peter and Pia Cayetano, Teofisto Guingona III,
and Francis Escudero. Out of their robes the senators are easily
recognizable.
A short elevator ride takes Enrile to

the Office of the Senate President,
which has been his since the 14th
Congress started in November 2008.
He responds to morning salutations

from employees not by merely
nodding but by verbalizing a hearty
“magandang umaga rin!”
In his office, there is time for chitchat

before the diplomat guests arrive. He
knows exactly where he is in the
conversation, so much so that one has
to interrupt him and ask how he
keeps his focus. He seems taken
Senator-judge Juan Ponce Enrile as presiding officer
aback by the question, as if at the Corona impeachment trial. INQUIRER file
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wondering why his focus is a
concern. He answers nonetheless.
“Even before I sleep, I anticipate what is to come, what I’m to encounter. I

make up my mind about certain decisions, the direction I’m going to take,
and that’s it—unless someone can persuade me to the contrary. But I do not
close my mind. I am not against hearing other positions. I need to be sure I
am not making an error in judgment when I arrive at my present position.”
10:45 a.m.
The diplomats arrive, and Enrile receives them in the conference room
adjacent to his private quarters.
After an hour, he returns with a brisk stride that says so much about his
morning exercises and calisthenics.
“I sometimes dance, even by myself, while watching a dance DVD. I sweat

and I get to stretch,” he says. “Every now and then I drop by the 365 Club at
the Hotel Intercon. It’s no longer what it was in the days of Ka Doroy [then
dean of newspapermen Teodoro Valencia–Ed.] and Mesiong Yabut [former /

mayor of Makati–Ed.], but I still have friends there. My sister Armida is also
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The relationship with Armida Siguion-Reyna has an interesting back story.
The boy who was given his mother Petra’s family name, Furraganan, found
out who his father was while he was getting ready to join the guerrillas in
the last World War.
“Anakka iti ruar. Ponce ti nagan ti tatang mo. Maysa nga abogado. Awan
ditoy, adda didiay Manila,” his mother had confessed to him in Ilocano. (You
are my child out of wedlock. Ponce is your father’s name. He is a lawyer. He
is not here, he is in Manila.)
From that day on, Juanito went by the nom-de-guerre Valentin Ponce, the
first after his day of birth, which is Feb. 14, and the second, in honor of his
father.
Juanito had two older brothers Eduardo and Eligio, sons of his mother by
her first husband Martin Paddayuman, who died early. He also has five
younger siblings from his mother’s marriage to Macario Rapada of Ilocos
Sur. They were Marciana, Melanio, Luisa, Juliana and Ireneo.
The family tree gets more complicated.
One day he was invited to the home of Vicente Alvarado, his father’s
neighbor in Aparri. “There I was introduced, without any warning, to Nena,
Teresing, Edeng, and Carmeling,” says Enrile.
The girls, it turned out, were his father’s children by Rosario Martinez of
Cagayan, along with a son named Mario, whose boat had been torpedoed by
the Japanese on his way back to Manila to marry his girl.
So there before him were four more Ponce-Enriles. Soon he would find out
about Nancy, another half-sibling from their father’s liaison with Maria
Balisi of Aparri.
As far as he knew then, he had seven half-siblings by his mother and six by
his father, whom he had never met.
11:50 a.m.
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Senator Trillanes comes in next, with a procedural question. It’s a short,
quite cordial exchange.
12 noon
The Senate President is not one to lunch alone. Four others join him for a
Chinese meal of clear soup, steamed garoupa, steamed shrimps, crabs with
black-bean sauce and bok choy sprinkled with garlic.
He continues with his recollection. “So I had met some paternal siblings.”
Late in August of 1945, Alvarado returned from Manila, with a message for
Juanito.
“My father wished to see me, and I was to go with him to Manila at once,”
recalls Enrile.
In the city, he was brought to a house in Sta. Mesa. After a week, he still had
not heard from the father who he had been told wanted so badly to meet
him.
He would soon discover that one of his roommates, William Balisi, was a
full brother of the same Nancy whom he met in Aparri. William was
therefore also his half brother.
William whispered to the young probinsyano that he had disappointed

their father, which was why he was doing errands in that household, in
addition to holding a day job at the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office.
“Don’t be like me,” Enrile recalls William telling him. “You study hard.”
William then informed his younger half-brother that there had been a
misunderstanding of sorts and it didn’t look like the Sta. Mesa Ponce-Enriles
were going to introduce Johnny to their father.
Johnny would have to go see the old man on his own, but how? He hardly
knew his way around town.
“Listen carefully now, this is the way to Papa’s office,” William instructed
him.
From Sta. Mesa, all the way to Legarda, to Azcarraga (Recto Avenue), to R.
Hidalgo, to Quezon Boulevard, Enrile found himself in Quiapo where he
was struck with a baton by an American sentry.
“I had no idea what jaywalking was,” he recalls.
He then walked straight to Carriedo, crossed Avenida Rizal, passed the Ideal
theater, walked towards the Sta. Cruz bridge, walked around Plaza Sta.
Cruz, found Dasmariñas Street, turned left around the corner and went on
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the Edificio Soriano. I entered the building from Plaza  TODAY'S PAPER 
Cervantes. I saw people standing in front of a door on the right side of the
corridor. I stopped and watched. William told me to go to the seventh floor
of the building. As I stood there, I noticed people rushing out of the door as
it opened, and people outside rushing in before the door closed. It was my
first time to see something like that. I was afraid I would not get out from
there alive.
No one had told the boy from Cagayan about the wonderful contraption
called the elevator.
On the wall facing the elevator door on the seventh floor were the words
“Dewitt, Perkins, and Ponce-Enrile Law Offices.”
Juanito approached Santiago Gampued, the telephone operator behind a

desk in the lobby, and introduced himself.
“I want to see attorney Alfonso Ponce Enrile. I am Juanito Furraganan.”
He was made to write his name on a small piece of paper and told to wait.
Gampued returned shortly and motioned him to a narrow hallway that
ended in front of a polished wooden door on the northeast corner.
Seated behind a large desk cluttered with piles of paper was a man Castilian
in appearance—light complexion, bushy eyebrows, hair almost all white,
thick eyeglasses over his high-bridged nose. The man stood up upon seeing
him.
“He was of medium built and as tall as I was,” recalls Enrile. “I’d have
thought him urbane, if I knew the word then. And imposing.” Although his
face was somewhat haggard and marked with lines, Enrile thought him
good looking.
“He walked towards me, I met him halfway,” recalls Enrile. “He stepped
forward, raised his arms, put them around me, held me tightly and said, ‘I
am sorry, my son.’”
1:45 p.m.
Gumban has walked in and out of the office twice, perhaps to remind his
boss of the time. He sees what he sees and backs out.
The Senate President is crying.
He apologizes, but is unabashed. “I break down every time I recall the first
time I met Papa.”
In October of 1944, he says, he was being beaten up by the Kempetei almost

every day, and had no way of knowing if he was going to live or die.
“Now, September of 1945, I find myself being hugged by the father I had
only much recently found out about, and he’s telling me I’m not going back
to Sta. Mesa. I’m to ride with him to Malabon. He is driving a black, three-
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seater Chevrolet convertible sports car ” says Enrile
seater Chevrolet convertible sports car,” says Enrile.
The car stopped in front of the steel gate of a large compound that held a
two story semi-concrete house a few meters away. They get off. They are
met by a handsome woman, two girls and two boys much younger than
Johnny. (Raquel, the oldest girl, happened to be with their maternal
grandparents in Pinaglabanan.)
“Papa goes… Papa goes…”
He removes his glasses, wipes the tears off the lenses and, half-laughing,
half-crying, says, “Papa said, ‘Mama, Mida, Nene, Junior, Toti—this is
Juanito. He is my son. From now on he will live with us.’”
Enrile was 21 when he was enrolled a high school junior at St. James
Academy in Malabon. After his senior year, he had to take a validating
examination for all high school subjects from first year to the first semester
of third year as his academic records were incomplete.
After high school, Juanito was accepted at Ateneo de Manila for his two-year
pre-law studies, and graduated cum laude, despite having to work as an
assistant librarian in his father’s office. By this time, so many shovels and
picks away from his caminero days, he was getting paid P120 a month.
The library proved to be most memorable for the advice that came from his
father’s senior partner Clyde A. Dewitt, a former Thomasite:
“If you aspire to be a trial lawyer, master the rules of evidence. Gain the
habit of knowing thoroughly the facts of every case you handle. Study the
case from the viewpoint of the other side as much as you study your side.
Learn the technique of cross-examination by heart. You acquire that skill,
not from reading books, but from actual practice in the courtroom. To be a
corporation lawyer, you must have a thorough knowledge of corporation
law, a familiarity with business practices and a working knowledge of
accounting.”
Before Enrile entered the UP College of Law, his father instructed Mariano
Carbonell, a senior lawyer in the same office, to file a petition to judicially
change his surname.
2:14 p.m.
The Presiding Officer, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, calls the
Impeachment Trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato C. Corona to
order.
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Francis Cobb • 8 years ago

Ah, kaya pala naisulat sa front page ng Inquirer eh dahil kaibigan ni Bibeth Orteza yung
anak ni Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc (PDI editor-in-chief) na si Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala! Tsk-
tsk-tsk.
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Francis Cobb • 8 years ago

I am still baffled as to why the Inquirer allowed Bibeth Orteza, the daughter-in-law of
Armida Siguion-Reyna, to write this story. This is a blatant violation of media ethics and a
rotten public relations/political campaign article! ANG DAMING KINURAKOT NI
ENRILE, PERO PINAPOGI SIYA NG HUSTO NI BIBETH SA ARTIKULONG ITO! I
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tata_boy • 8 years ago

Sana ibalik ni JPE iyong pera sa kaban ng bayan, tabla na tayo.
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Bayabas San • 8 years ago

His greed for power and to perpetuate his evil ways continues even at the departure area.
He continues to uphold thuggery in government.
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Juanito Jenisan • 8 years ago

Mabuhay si Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile as an Impeachment Court Presiding
Judge MABUHAY!!!
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Juanito Jenisan • 8 years ago

He is really brilliant this country needs more like him
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averagejuan • 8 years ago

Sen. Enrile may be a smart guy, but he's also got an ego to match. He has already helped
shaped the country's history, for bettter or worse. He should give way to the younger
generation (and not necessarily his kin). Take a breather Mr. Senator. Enjoy your
grandkids. Leave the politicking to those who have a longer stake in the way the country is
governed. And one last thing ... why did you back off of chasing Bobby Ongpin and his
dubious financial transactions? You don't owe him anything.
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Bayabas San • 8 years ago

I agree with Artemio Piquero:
May this Satan's disciple die soon.

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De Javu • 8 years ago

Correct! Everybody deserved a second change. Kung makabato sila parang ala silang dirt
sa sarili. Whether we like it or yes, Enrile has already made his name among Filipinos,
good or bad.
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De Javu • 8 years ago

Grabeng ang bi bitter nyo mga teh!
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nennen12345 • 8 years ago

the most important thing enrille changed his ways while still on earth. that is why God is
telling us to repent while there is still time otherwise we will be judged according to what
we have done.
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Eonron Haydon • 8 years ago

A scumbag!
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PHtaxpayer • 8 years ago

He's
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pasture then investigated for smuggling in his province. He's one reason why the PH is in
a sorry state that it is. We need young idealistic Senators and Congressmen to steer this /
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country towards a more progressive and modern economy, not to merely maintain the
status quo and be a servant to the superpowers. Does anyone in Congress even have the  TODAY'S PAPER 
balls to say the PH can be #1?
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Faith Diao • 8 years ago

This thug should not be romantIcized even by his daughter-in-law. What good is inherited
money taken from oppressed people.
This author will forever be known as the one who sold her trade for money...and the word
is prostituting her journalist-profession.
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tarikan • 8 years ago

A day in the life of Juan Ponce Enrile...instead of "A Life in the Day of Juan Ponce Enrile".
You may ask why, Ms. Bibeth? It was the day the staged ambush took place and few days
later the dreaded martial law was declared. Where were you Ms. Bibeth, too young to
remember? Or it is just convenient to not remember? He is in the limelight now and
shining, your uncle in-law, but he has been in the limelight before although not
particularly praiseworthy like "dagdag bawas" (forever attached to his name) and Mr.
Balimbing. You take the algebraic summ of the pluses & minuses, he is in the negative.
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boyfarmer > tarikan • 8 years ago

We have to leave the past behind. The Enrile we have now is different and his
political fortune is unexpectedly soaring due to his fair handling of the
impeachment trial while the mastermind of this impeachment, Noynoy is going
down and self destructing.
Enrile, whatever his shortcomings were, has redeemed himself. A simple twist of
fate. . .
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Emma Chua • 8 years ago

i agree with many people here, enrile's martial law role shrouded in secrecy. he doesn't
want to talk about it and just evades questions.
why doesn't he come clean? i'm sure if he has nothing to hide then he heas nothing to fear
his life has wildly diverged from being the martial law implementor to hero of edsa and
now head of impeachment court. that's the mystery of enrile.
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hopelovefaith • 8 years ago

who needs enrile's smart and knowledgeable tricks if he uses them for his self-serving
purposes.

what has he done and given to the filipinos that are worth writing for in philippine
history.

your bravado meant nothing to the common filipino unless it is contributing to better his
life. are you helping us eradicate corruption? did you reveal what your role was during the
marcos regime? why were the people fearful of your character during marcos era? why
did we feel that you were one with them during the marcos regime?

you can keep your skill and knowledge in the courtroom. it means nothing to the filipinos.
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Artemio Piquero • 8 years ago

May this Satan's disciple die soon.
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boyfarmer > Artemio Piquero • 8 years ago
Watch your mouth, Enrile might go to heaven and you to perdition
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TUBAGBOHOL.com • 8 years ago

Know the truth and the truth will set you free.
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robustgrowth • 8 years ago

a life worth emulating
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zidyay • 8 years ago

Ms. Orteza is a nice person but not JPE. He was the executioner of Marcos and would have
been executed himself if he didn't turned around. He was lucky the people gave him
second chance because he separated ways from his boss. No amount of face lifting will
remove the fact that he gained his wealth using his influence and power while working as
one of loyal implementors of Marcos decrees and orders.He faked his ambush to allow
Marcos put our nation under martial rule and he continued faking his decisions up to
taoday to keep himself in position. This man deserves no trust of anybody who has respect
on himself.
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Utak Pinoy > zidyay • 8 years ago

Even Jesus appoints a murderer as his disciple so don't judge the man by his past,
judge his current action instead. We may judge a man's work as evil but we aught
not judge the man as evil for only God has the final word of that.
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agaylaya > Utak Pinoy • 8 years ago

Placed in proper context...we can forgive but we will never forget.
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Utak Pinoy > agaylaya • 8 years ago

You can only have real forgiveness for someone when you are able to
'forget' the emotional pain that they have caused to you in the past.
As long as pain still holds your heart there will be no forgiveness but
only anger.
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agaylaya > Utak Pinoy • 8 years ago

"..forgive us our sins, as we forgive those who sinned against us....."
that is what makes real forgiving so difficult because we can not
forget..there is no delete button in our heads to do that and yet we
are called upon to forgive.
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Utak Pinoy > agaylaya • 8 years ago

That's because you have not forgiven even God Himself sir.
Ultimately all pains and sufferings are cause by God. If in your heart
you believe you had been unjustly wrong by fate sir, try to pray to
God without hiding your anger. Swear and curse Him like you would
to a friend that had betrayed you in your prayers. There's a
difference in cursing and swearing at God out of hopelessness and
pain than with pride.
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Max Elemino • 8 years ago

After reading the story of life of JPE ones, i want to read it again and again. There is no
other words to say except we are lucky to have a person like JPE. MORE POWER AND
GOD BLESS HIM ALWAYS.
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Mae20120225 > Max Elemino • 8 years ago

Tunay po na mabuting tao si Sen. Enrile, na witnessed ko po yan nun namatay ang
lolo ko.
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pepengkabayo • 8 years ago

"If you aspire to be a TRIAL LAWYER, Master the Rules of Evidence.
Gain the habit of knowing thoroughly the facts of every case you handle.
Learn the technique of cross-examination by heart...Enrile said per advice of Dewitt, his
father senior partner."
I hope the House Prosecution Team read this advice of Enrile.

Enrile's getting stressed by these young lawyers and affecting his health.
For now, these Young House Prosecution Lawyers with Tupaz in this Impeachment of
Corona cannot be considered
as TRIAL LAWYERS yet but they are still TRIAL AND ERROR LAWYERS.
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Roose Bolton > pepengkabayo • 8 years ago

Birth pains of the first impeachment trial without a chief justice presiding beside
the senate president.
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Odyi • 8 years ago

NEVER NEVER TRUST THIS EX- MARCOS MAFIA LIEUTENANT. HE IS A TWO-
FACED COIN IN THE UNDERWORLD AND A SMART ONE IN THIS GAME. HE WILL
GAIN MORE THAN NOT IN ACQUITTING CORONA, SO PEOPLE OF THE
PHILIPPINES…BE VIGILANT!!! HE IS AN OLD CROOK…A SMART CROOK!
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Guest • 8 years ago

If this man decides to take the side of Gloria and Corona because of money, the people will
not forgive him this time and will exact justice based on what he has done as martial law
henchman of Marcos.
The way he suppresses the truth now, he has not learn his mistakes and I think the history
will not forgive him. Maybe his conscience has become worn-out and useless because of
past sins.
I hope I am mistaken, for God always forgives a remorseful person. Is he a remorseful

person? You answer it yourself.
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boyfarmer > Guest • 8 years ago

Yes, you are mistaken. Enrile has redeemed himself.
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He can hide underneath all that pomp and ritual with robes to match in the senate and
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boyfarmer > Jazzeroo • 8 years ago

If Enrile and Ramos were not in the Marcos government, there will not be persons
who could lead the country out of Marcos rule. God has given them that destiny.
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marimalo > Jazzeroo • 8 years ago

you got it right.tumbok na tumbok mo.corrupt na, balimbing pa.
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mega chat • 8 years ago • edited

I always thought that Senate Pres Enrile is sexist. I always hear him saying "he," "his," or
"him," never using the female pronoun. My thinking was confirmed when he didn't allow
the striking out from the records of the sexist statement uttered at the impeachment trial
by Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano' that went something like: "Kalalaki naming tao, makikinig
kami sa tsismis." Even Cayetano's senator-sister Pia objected to this statement during the
session. Alan had a hard time wiggling himself out of his sexist statement. And fellow
sexist Enrile had to back him up. Sad.
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TinimbangNgunitKulang • 8 years ago

What is this for? Repackaging the Enriles? If they want redemption, they should go in
front of the people, confess their crimes and ask for forgiveness.
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MarcyPulilan • 8 years ago

This is Bibeth Orteza's bid to become a propagandist. How to make a demon look human.
But the sad thing is no matter how good a story is about a bad man, the bad will always
stand out. JPE is a bad character in Philippine history no matter who or what is said about
him. The bad things he has doen to the Philippines is still being felt by those who are
hungry, persecuted and suffering. No amount of good words can fix the damage he has
done to the Philippines. And he should be remembered in the likes of Marcos, Ramos,
Estrada and Arroyo (GMA). May our kids and the future Filipinos not emulate them for
the sake of our future generations.
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noreligionhavefaith • 8 years ago

this guy does NOT have a life. he should be enjoying his retirement years and spend time
with his family, instead, he succumbs to the GREED and hunger of power!
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AkoayPinoy > noreligionhavefaith • 8 years ago

Mr. Enrile the architech of Martial Law PD 1081. Did you know that Enrile is also
the architech of deforestation of Samar? Kinalbo niya ang Samar at ang mga kahoy
ay binenta niya sa mga European.
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hopelovefaith • 8 years ago

juanito enrile is like an empty can. he already sold his soul to the devil. he does not work
for the filipinos.

he may be smart and knowledgeable only to serve and glorify himself. i have yet to see his
actions benefit the filipino people.
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What the story did not tell is that Juanito's mother was the lavandera of Alfonso during
the latter's soiree in Isabela. Juanito's father was an 'atchay-killer' during his time. /
the latter s soiree in Isabela. Juanito s father was an atchay killer during his time.
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illegitimate children of Alfonso, why did he single out
Juanito whom he knew little about aside from being his son, in bringing to his house
where his legitimate family lives.
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hopelovefaith > Just_JT • 8 years ago

yes, I agree that the question about why Juanito was singled out among Alfonso's
bastards is nagging.
the writer is just out to promote a sweet story about enrile. the writer will not
reveal any thing to tarnish the image of Juanito. some details were left out
intentionally.
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Karabkatab • 8 years ago

"A Lie Often Told Enough Becomes the TRUTH".....accdg. to Lenin
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Karabkatab • 8 years ago

What now Manong? You have the wealth, health and a good write up of your life. You
were once a witness to one of the country's darkest chapters in history. With your sharp
memory recall, we believe those treacherous passages of our timeline are still vivid in you
mind. Before you bid goodbye to this world, we hope you will leave a legacy of redemption
to this nation you once tried to foresake...
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and Gordon Davidson; “His Excellency, George Washington” by Joseph J. Recommended by

“Sept. 10, 1972, on the eve of my birthday

To Johnny, who has contributed to the achievements of the Marcos years in

“Good morning, good morning!” exclaims Juan Ponce Enrile.

First, his blood pressure is checked. It is normal at 126/60, from a high of

Breakfast is a sausage with a dab of mustard. Sometimes it’s a bowl of

He shrugs, “I don’t know what that infers.”

“I make my own trial brief,” he adds.

instruments law, Norberto Quisumbing for trial technique, Bienvenido

“I do not wish them to mark me absent at the legislative session,” he says, so

“For corporate reorganization I had Ernest Brown. I could not understand a

While at Harvard, the Ilocano scholar received a monthly allowance of

He didn’t have to nurse a broken heart for long. While in Massachusetts he

Enrile swings by the legislative session in the same hall where he is to

Senate President Pro Tempore Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada is presiding over a

A short elevator ride takes Enrile to

He responds to morning salutations

In his office, there is time for chitchat

“Even before I sleep, I anticipate what is to come, what I’m to encounter. I

“I sometimes dance, even by myself, while watching a dance DVD. I sweat

dean of newspapermen Teodoro Valencia–Ed.] and Mesiong Yabut [former /

The relationship with Armida Siguion-Reyna has an interesting back story.

The family tree gets more complicated.

William whispered to the young probinsyano that he had disappointed

“I had no idea what jaywalking was,” he recalls.

until he reached Plaza Cervantes. /

Juanito approached Santiago Gampued, the telephone operator behind a

“I want to see attorney Alfonso Ponce Enrile. I am Juanito Furraganan.”

The Senate President is crying.

In October of 1944, he says, he was being beaten up by the Kempetei almost

“Papa goes… Papa goes…”

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