Josie By Ronald Roy COMMENTS 03/05/2010

Josie By Ronald Roy COMMENTS 03/05/2010 Unknown to most people, some years back, the Concerned Citizens Group (CCG) was founded by three of civil society’s militant ladies, the late Josefina Trinidad Lichauco (probably the most alluring campus blend of beauty and brains of her time), Bettina Legarda and Marily Orosa. Theirs was a shared sense of imperative to awaken a docile citizenry still steeped in stupor arising from the euphoria of a power grab at the expense of a duly elected President, Joseph Estrada. Time passed with escalating unease and waning popular support for the fake President Gloria Arroyo, as the notion progressively crystallized in CCG’s psyche that she had taken them for a ride, that she was obscenely corrupt, and that she had an exceedingly voracious appetite to forever remain as the country’s top political honcho. Alas, civil society had created a monstrous tyrant, and the CCG had to move fast! Along with UP Law Professor Harry Roque whom the “tres Marias” had tapped as an indispensable pro bono legal arm, the four agreed to serve as CCG’s conveners. Thus unfurled a series of forums sponsored by the four oppositionist stalwarts.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100305com5.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL A decade of mismanagement FRONTLINE Fishy smell of poll cheating ZOOMING IN Dubious explanation for ARMM ballots NO HOLDS BARRED What for? COMMENTS Josie DIE HARD III RP: In chaos and darkness