The Day Senator Trillanes Called A 5-Star Revolt,
Peter Parcel Drank Coffee & The Bride Danced

Senator Antonio Trillanes the other day (November 29 Manila) called for a revolution at the Manila Peninsula Hotel and nobody came: Why? Why, the Manila Pen is a 5-star hotel, and wasn’t that an invitation to dinner? But no, learning from Mao Tse Tung, the Filipinos didn’t think a revolution is a dinner party.

The rebels walked to the Manila Peninsula in a drizzle even as they called on the people to join them in their revolt. I would have imagined that the cooler heads would prevail. Were they sleepwalking? The renegades braved the rain of water; at the hotel, they could not brave the rain of bullets that came after they commandeered the hotel, refused to surrender while they enjoyed world-class accommodations, when elite government troops sprayed tear gas grenades and automatic fire into the lobby. ‘It was terrible,’ Peter Parcel said, who was at the lobby and had only dropped in for coffee; ‘gunfire was pouring in through the windows’ (Thomas Bell, telegraph.co.uk). The renegades could have learned from Fidel Castro that a revolution is not a bed of roses, or a cup of coffee.

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