Comments on: The Plain Truth About Hacienda Luisita

By: luis

luis — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:15:01 +0000

I would like to presume that aurora is not so dumb, but simply taking the hardline of activist and the left or maybe shes both. No one can convince nor get to the bottom this kind of people,Ive been there before.So the best thing to treat this is to ignore than to argue non-sense things.

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Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:44:46 +0000

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By: Basilio Jamisola

Basilio Jamisola — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:05:25 +0000

Unfortunately, Aurora is like the others who are so dumb and their IQ is so low that they can never comprehend even if they read the Plain Truth article 1 million times. Pabayaan mo na lang na mag yak yak ang mga yan.Anyway there are still many who understand..

By: noel

noel — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:09:19 +0000

Until the legal provision on the SDO is revoked by legislative fiat or stricken down by SC ruling, it remains a valid and available option, regardless of who exercises it.

Having said that, perhaps it would be a valid question to ask: doesn’t the CARP[er] law prohibit the beneficiaries from selling, transfering or otherwise encumbering their land grants within a prescribed period? If so, it seems to me that, while the SDO may be unacceptable to some sectors, even as it remains in the law, redress properly belongs either in the legislature or in the SC.

Meantime, I’m of the view that equal, if not heavier, weight has to be assigned to prohibited sales precisely because they are expressly prohibited.

The point being: SDO remains legal; sales within the prohibited period remains illegal. If we admit that that the SDO option is still in the law and, therefore, it’s exercise prima facie legal until revoked in either of the two ways stated above, then the sale of CARP land grants within the proscribed period is prima facie illegal and must, thus, be prosecuted. So, who did, when and how, and why is no one being prosecuted for it?

This is not to diminish or denigrate the legitimate concerns of all farmers, particularly those of the HLI’s. But I think a fairer view dictates that we look deep into the violations perpetrated at will by some of those who, by being legislators with exceptional means and real interests [pun intended], had the gall and gumption to violate the very same laws they crafted.

Talk about vile designs and vile motives.

By: Engr. Jojo

Engr. Jojo — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:00:04 +0000

@Aurora, I don’t know what is your motive in trying to concoct things which is very far from the truth. How can you say that the Military was harassing the Agri-workers of HLI, when the workers freely participated in the two referenda that conducted separately by the DAR and the PARC which were also ratified by 92.6% and 96.27% of the participating beneficiaries respectively. They were represented in the Board of Director by FOUR people from theirs ranks. They are not lackeys of the Cojuancos. They are also entitled to 3% Production Share from the GROSS SALES of HLI on top of their Salaries, Wages and Fringe Benefits.
Each of them is given no less than 240 sq. meters of Home Lot.

The P9.50/day take home pay is a product of your imagination because I believe that the Minimum Wage that the law prescribed for agricultural corporation is even more that P180.00/day.

And again, you said that the acquisition of that property is through a loan from GSIS and Chase Manhattan Bank, what wrong with that? GSIS and other Financial Institution usually extend loans to any client who has the capability to pay and has enough equity and properties for collateral.

Hacienda Luisita is already subjected to Agrarian Reform Program through the Stock Distribution Option, a provision in RA 6657 otherwise known as the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law of 1988. A provision
designed by the lawmakers who crafted and enacted the
law as a social justice program and at the same time maintained the economies-of-scale of the vast estate.

Unless otherwise declared by the Supreme Court the SDO in Hacienda Luisita as Null and Void Ab Initio, Noynoy, even if he becomes president can not implement another Land Distribution Scheme in Hacienda Luisita. HULI NA ITO AURORA, KUNG HINDI KA PA NANINIWALA, BAHALA KA SA BUHAY, WALANG KINALAMAN SI NOYNOY DITO.

By: Regina

Regina — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:19:06 +0000

@Aurora Now I am confused. Isn’t that 9.50 their share as stockholders, not salary?

By: Aurora

Aurora — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:10:14 +0000

@Engr. Jojo, And again, the cojuangcos acquired hacienda luisita using public funds from the central bank and gsis, meaning it is people’s money. They don’t even shelled out their own money then made more money from it, so why should they be justly compensated? Where’s the democracy your talking about?

By: Aurora

Aurora — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:05:57 +0000

@Engr. Jojo, how can be SDO be agreed mutually when the military is harassing the agri-workers and those who represented the farmworkers at the board of directors of Hacienda Luisita, Inc. are lackeys of the Cojuangco-Aquino family?
@Regina, they are also not subsidized as they loan it from hli which are automatically deducted from their salaries, thus, plunging to only P9.50 take-home pay. the point is, their man-hours are also shrinking as the Cojuangco-Aquino’s have made money in selling and converting agricultural lands to commercial, residential and industrial use without the consent of supposedly co-owners of HLI, the agri-workers. As the lands widely converted, correspondingly the man-hours or work on the lands also declined, thus, leaving the farmworkers jobless and no source of income. While they perish in poverty, the Cojuangco-Aquino enjoy their lavish ways of life and now one of them fantasizing to be president.

By: Awie

Awie — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:46:46 +0000

Hi Regina, the loudest voice you can hear are not from the genuine farmers of Hacienda Luisita, it’s more of the people who were just influenced badly by the leftist and politically interest. That’s how I can see the scenario now.

By: Regina

Regina — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:43:30 +0000

@lenlen yeah. I knew there was something fishy.