Despite the silly official claim that President B.S. Aquino 3rd is “unaffected and unmoved” by the mounting calls for his “stepping down,” his own inner official and family circle apparently believes his exit cannot be indefinitely postponed. They seem to believe the only way to save Aquino could be to stage a “Palace coup,” to allow him to hold on, at least as a figurehead, through a “revolutionary government.”

Highly reliable sources say this is one of the options being mulled inside Malacañang as the call for Aquino’s ouster intensifies, in the wake of the unexplained January 25 massacre of the 44 Special Action Force commandos under his direct operational command in Mamasapano, Maguindanao, and as the “commemorative spirit” of the 1986 EDSA “people power revolution” begins to draw crowds at the usual politically sensitive venues within the nation’s capital.

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