MANILA, DECEMBER 21, 2011
(MALAYA) Nestor Mata - ('It's weird when President
Aquino starts a war of words against justices and then offers peace to enemies
of the state.')
AFTER starting a war of words against Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato
Corona, and impeaching him in conspiracy with his political acolytes in
Congress, President Aquino turned around and offered the olive branch of peace
to the Communist Party's New People's Army or NPA.
It's weird! Where in this planet can you see a president that prefers to
fight justice magistrates, who, like him, had sworn to preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution and the Republic, rather than fight those long-time
enemies of the state? Why, it's not just weird, it's outrageous!
Aquino declared a Christmas "truce," an 18-day cease-fire with the NPAs who
have been ceaselessly battling with our soldiers for many decades to implant a
communist-type of government in our country.
Corona, who quietly took Aquino's verbal attacks that culminated in his
speedy impeachment last Monday, finally broke his silence three days later last
week and warned the nation of a "looming dictator" who wants the tribunal's
justices and the entire Judiciary to waltz to his kind of music.
In his half-hour speech, delivered fluently in the Filipino national language
and heard by millions of TV viewers and radio listeners, Corona declared he
won't resign or give in to the dictates of Aquino. And he warned that if he's
convicted, Aquino would become a virtual dictator as he would gain control of
the three branches of government and appoint his puppets to the Supreme Court.
Corona's stinging blasts must have shaken the rafters of the Palace and
jolted its resident king and his courtiers. One of the Palace's blabbering
clowns shrieked at Corona to take "a leave of absence" for calling the president
a dictator.
Soon after Corona's impeachment, talks spread in Manila's kaffeeklatches
about a plot to oust Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, replace him with
someone the plotters think could hasten the conviction of Corona and his
eviction from the high tribunal. And to complete their control of both the
legislative and judicial branches of government, they are targeting next
Corona's associate justices who were all appointees of former President Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo.
All these highly questionable actions of Aquino and his co-conspirators carry
the clear and undeniable markings of what constitutionalists, eminent lawyers,
deans of law schools, pundits and commentators, and even senior members of the
Christian clergy, call a "dictatorial style in running the government."
Even before Corona faces the Senate's impeachment judges to defend himself
from charges, which he branded as "lies and blackmail," thrown at him by Noynoy
and his co-conspirators, there are ominous signs already that Aquino himself
might be next in line for impeachment.
Those signs emanated not only from the gab-fest circles but even in the
corridors of the clergy, where one senior member forewarned that "President
Aquino will be next to face impeachment once it will be proven that he is
employing dictatorial style in running the government." And another also
confirmed that the bishops have long experienced Aquino's "dictatorial wrath."
When informed by his Palace courtiers that the impeached Chief Justice had
retaliated by warning the nation about a "looming dictator," Noynoy Aquino
arrogantly scowled: "Corona, not I, is the dictator!"
Well, let's wait and see who, between Aquino and Corona, is the real defender
and who's the destroyer of democracy, who's preserving and who's scuttling the
independence of the Judiciary, who's upholding and who's trashing the
Constitution, who's going to emerge triumphant and who's going to the dustbin of
history, and, at the end of this combat of mortal titans, who's the dictator and
who's not?
***
Quote of the Day: "Truth and love must prevail over lies and hatred!" –
Vaclav Havel
Thought of the Day: "We must learn to accept that under the Constitution,
the Supreme Court is the final interpreter of the law, not the President, not
the Department of Justice, not the lawmakers in Congress, not the lawyers, not
the deans of law schools, and most especially not the activists in the streets."
– The Filipino Thinker
Chief News Editor: Sol Jose Vanzi
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