For those who may be interested- the BBC "HARDtalk" interview with Senator Trillanes is here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004t1s0/episodes/downloads

I watched this a few days ago. It had a huge billing of Trillanes being "destroyed" by the interviewer, didn't quite get that far and felt the interviewer had a bit more sympathy with Trillanes than he usually shows to other interviewees.

I thought that Trillanes did well; he is not wholly fluent in English (unlike, say, Risa Hontiveros, who certainly is). But it's hard not to like a man who, asked "Senator - are you a democrat?" replies, "I am a member of the Nationalista Party". In other words, he certainly is. The idea that one might not be a democrat, and might want to stage a coup, simply passed him by.

I listened to it on the World Service and I agree with your last sentence