STATEMENT
November 26, 2024
This is a reply to the statement issued by the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) on order of Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin dated November 23, 2024.
The Marcos administration’s insistence that the President’s life is under active threat is ominous.
I raise this caution as the President and his sycophants aggressively sell a narrative based entirely on my statement, which is taken out of its logical context.
There is absolutely no flesh on the bone, and despite the absence of a reliable investigation, authorities were quick to consider this a national security concern.
The diametric contrast and inaction are displayed when I have expressed in previous months threats to my person and continuing threats to the life of OVP personnel.
Tossing the word ‘assassin’ into this issue makes things even more terrifying – and especially because I never used that term during my recent consternation against the Marcos administration’s failure to serve the Filipinos while it masterfully persecutes political enemies.
Common sense should be enough for us to understand and accept that a supposed conditional act of revenge does not constitute an active threat. This is a plan without a flesh.
I am confident that an honest scrutiny would easily expose this narrative to be farce, imagined, or nothing at all.
Shukran.
