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There are certain things in life that must be dealt with and even if it is unpleasant to deal with. It happened just after our B2B trip this week. When we arrived at the Manila Domestic Airport the news was out that Trillanes and General Lim with a motley crew of civilian supporters and military men visited the Manila Peninsula and for the nth time and played the often repeated performance of a Sour Putsch. The decided sweetener to this politcal cocktail was the rallying of the people.

No sweetener and no popular support. And after three Simbas laid waste to the lobby of the hotel which was followed by tear gas being thrown inside. It was after that the fearless leaders decided to surrender so as to avoid bloodshed, I have a nagging suspiscion that the blood, skin and life that they did not want to shed was their own.

If this is going to be the Swan Song of this method of changing leaders and government well it is somehow apt and ironic. It is in plush hotels like this that plots were hatched and almost one of three coup attempts were made. And all of this coup attempts made in the hotels ended up abruptly.

There seems to be a disconnect in the learning curve here somewhere

Adolf Hitler had the Beer Hall Putsch while Trillianes of Manila had the five-star Hotel Coups and before that were the successful religious shrine based “revolution”.

Let us hope that this is the Swan Song. But why did they do this? Is it truly concern? or Is it desperation from being slowly abandoned by their allies?

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