SUBSCRIBEHonasan apologizes
Gringo Honasan, after having been granted to post bail, was a free man the other day. After hitting the crowds campaigning, he, in an interview, admitted that he also made mistakes and that he apologized for the series of coup-d’etats that he has initiated and brought into the country during the administration of Cory Aquino. As much as I would want to believe the sincerity of this now aging man, I still doubt if it is really heartfelt. Come to think of it, he is running for the Senate as an independent and has to cover much ground considering that he was incarcerated and one thing that can get him votes is to tug at the hearts of Filipinos and get their sympathy.
Its a rather cheap shot. He has to prove his sincerity first. Idealistic as he might be, you can’t always trust a man who has gone against the goverment more than seven times and in the process disrupted the economic and fledging peace that was just attained after 1986 and still cannot shake off rumors that he’s behind other destabilization attempts like the failed Oakwood mutiny.
With his apology, will he do a Tessie Aquino-Oreta and explain why he was a coup-d’etat king?
