MOUTH
MANILA, JANUARY 26, 2012 (MALAYA) Nestor
Mata - 'The sinister plot to oust Corona was
hatched by President Noynoy and his Liberal Party cohorts last December, soon
after the Supreme Court decision vis-à-vis Hacienda Luisita.'
AT long last, the truth slipped right out of President Aquino's mouth that he
and his fellow leaders and members of the Liberal Party plotted the ouster of
Chief Justice Renato Corona from the Supreme Court.
Aquino revealed this during the LP's 66th anniversary, which was held soon
after the fourth day of Corona's trial before the Senate impeachment court. He
boasted in his speech that the CJ's impeachment was "one of the brightest
moments of the Liberal Party."
He must have been so overwhelmed with sheer delight over Corona's travail
that he blurted out the plot against the CJ was "laid out" last December at a
meeting led by himself and LP leaders and party members and "other congressmen
who may not be Liberal in name but Liberal in their heart and in deeds." And he
proudly called the participants as "partners in laying out measures to reform
the Judiciary," which hardly disguised the fact that they colluded in the ouster
of Corona.
Not only this, LP stalwart Budget Secretary Butch Abad also disclosed that
President Aquino, as party chairman, urged their party mates to "stand squarely"
behind Corona's prosecutors.
This was obviously a signal to help the prosecutors, who, as we have seen
during the first four days of the trial last week, were fumbling, rambling,
stumbling, and blabbering incoherently, exposing themselves as thoroughly
unprepared for the case.
Aquino's admission –or, one might say, his public confession--- belied
earlier avowals by his Palace mouthpieces that the President didn't have a hand
at all in Corona's impeachment and that the filing of the complaint was "purely
a business of the House (of Representatives."
This prompted pundits and political observers to comment that the collusion
hatched by Aquino and his band of political pit-bulls in Congress came soon
after the Supreme Court's decision ordering the distribution of Noynoy's
Aquino-Cojuangco clan-owned Hacienda Luisita to its farmers and workers.
Those same members of the media commentariat said that Aquino actually
"dictated" Corona's impeachment by 188 congressmen, who, without bothering to
read the pre-prepared complaint with its Articles of Impeachment, signed and
dispatched it to the Senate, faster than the legendary "Bicol Express."
"Aquino's actions," in the words of one of them, "betrayed his vindictive
motive to punish Corona in his misinformed belief that the CJ influenced the
SC's landmark decision." Or, as a member of The Noisy Minority pithily
commented: "Kung walang Corona, may Hacienda Luisita!
As the impeachment trial entered its fifth day the other day, Corona had to
face "trial by publicity," too. Malacañang's corps of mouthpieces, eagerly
assisted by those congressmen-prosecutors and Aquino's yellow-dyed followers and
supporters in media, continued to spread black propaganda against the besieged
CJ.
Even Aquino himself joined the propaganda blitz. Last weekend, apparently
misinformed by what happened during the first fours of Corona's trial, he
publicly urged the CJ to "explain the apparent discrepancies between his
Statement of Assets and Liabilities and Network (SALN) and his declared
properties."
What he didn't know was that the congressmen-prosecutors had failed
to prove their allegations that Corona owned 45 real estate properties. Corona's
SALN showed that he owned only five real estate properties.
So, taking Aquino's remarks as diktat, on the sixth day of the trial last
Tuesday, they tried to introduce Corona's Income Tax Returns (ITRs) as proofs of
his alleged "hidden ill-gotten wealth." But the defense lawyers quickly objected
to the presentation of the ITRs because these were not among the allegations in
their original impeachment complaint.
As the Corona impeachment trial enters its eighth day today, it's clear that
the congressmen-prosecutors, judging by the way they're fishing for evidence,
are thoroughly unprepared. And this must be the reason why Aquino and his
frenetic mouthpieces and propaganda corps seem more interested in demonizing
Corona and dragging his family and in-laws through black propaganda, shaming all
of them, and hoping he would resign instead of fighting to prove that he has
been wrongly accused before the Senate impeachment court.
Actually, many discerning pundits and commentators, uninfected by the yellow
political virus, see in Aquino's actions, even before the trial, indications
that he wants to gain complete control of the judiciary and the legislature
branches of government. These are, indeed, ominous signs that he is paving the
path to a state of one-man rule.
No, no, no, Mr. President, we don't want one-man rule, again! What we need is
a leader who follows the rule of law, not of the jungle!
***
Quote of the Day: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to
repeat it!" – George Santayana, Spanish-born philosopher in his book "The Life
of Reason."
Chief News Editor: Sol Jose Vanzi
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