HIGH CRIMES (PART 2)
MANILA,
FEBRUARY 7, 2012 (BLOG COMMENTARY)
BY DEAN JORGE BOCOBO "The heart has reasons that Reason knows nothing
of." (Blaise Pascal)
JANUARY 20, 2012
ELEVEN YEARS AGO TODAY, on Saturday, 20 January 2001, Hilario Davide,
was wearing the robes of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when he strode
up to the stage at the Edsa Shrine to swear into office as President of the
Republic of the Philippines, its grey-garbed Vice President, Gloria Macapagal
Arroyo.
But it was without legitimacy that he administered this oath, for contrary to
the fiction he had forced upon the Court earlier that day, then President Joseph
Estrada was not PERMANENTLY DISABLED, as claimed in a towering lie of a fax sent
to the Court on behalf of Mrs. Arroyo (by her then Chief of Staff Renato C.
Corona [sic!] )but watching in disbelief from Malacanang Palace, with a gun to
his head held by agents of AFP Chief o Staff Angelo Reyes, their co-conspirator
in a coup d'etat that would later be hailed as the Edsa 2 People Power
Revolution.
I was in the hooting throng that cheered this event as liberation from a
corrupt President Estrada, but we did not know of the fiction by which the
Supreme Court Chief Justice was acting in utter violation of the 1987
Constitution, did not know that Joseph Estrada would not leave Malacanang until
after this incredible turn of events.
Three months later, and based on an alleged diary kept by then Executive
Secretary Edgardo Angara, the Supreme Court would "construe"--actually they
would CONSTRUCT--an Erap resignation, in the landmark ruling Estrada v. Arroyo.
But whatever eloquent arguments are to be found in that decision, the simple
fact is that to this day, Joseph Estrada denies he ever resigned, and there is
no resignation letter to be found.
Moreover, just four days previous, on 16 January 2001, a crucial vote at his
Senate impeachment trial, the so-called Second Envelope Vote, proved to one and
all that he had at least eleven votes to sustain an eventual and near certain
ACQUITTAL in that trial.
So that since he had submitted entirely to the processes of impeachment by
the House and Trial by the Senate, he had every expectation of being found not
guilty of all four charges brought against him. WHY THEN WOULD HE RESIGN except
for fear of his life and that of his family at the hands of the mutineers led by
Gen. Angelo Reyes in conspiracy with Arroyo and Davide?
ELEVEN YEARS AGO TODAY, a date that is hardly mentioned now in the newspapers
or by any one at all, because it is in fact the date of a Filthy Family Secret,
the Supreme Court of the Philippines had usurped the "sole power of the Senate
to TRY and DECIDE all cases of impeachment."
This, it did not by some jurisprudential act or decision, but by authorizing
Hilario G. Davide Jr. to simply and illegally swear in the Vice President.
Instead of carrying out his duty as Presiding Judge of the Senate Impeachment
Court, and pretending to be "preventing violence" Davide threw out the Rule of
Law, violated the 1987 Constitution, and forever etched his name in history as a
villain who destroyed democratic rule and opened the gates to the ruinous nine
year reign of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
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Impeachment as Sui Generis Process
The following is a story I have published at Storify based on a Twitter
conversation with Teddy Boy Locsin.
It covers several different topics related to the ongoing impeachment trial
of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Storified by Dean Jorge Bocobo 18 days ago · 554 views 116
Impeachment as Sui Generis Process
I've been having some very stimulating conversations with Teddy Boy Locsin on
topics of great public interest. This morning we had this most enlightening
conversation about the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona.
" @SagadaSun @teddyboylocsin with the circuses and insanity around here,
you're probably right! EdselTupaz
"@DeKampanilya I'm sure someone else will step in. :P
@teddyboylocsin carries the debate with @SagadaSun well enough. LOL
FrancisAcero
"@FrancisAcero @DeKampanilya @teddyboylocsin I uphold
the principle of Constitutional protestantism: interpretive charity! #CJonTrial
SagadaSun
"((http://huff.to/yJUnr6))<Please read!
@teddyboylocsin @servantblessing @limbertqc @FrancisAcero @bethangsioco
@tatancast @mlq3 ~ @EdselTupaz SagadaSun
"@teddyboylocsin Or else they realized there is no
way to remain faithful to their role as a NON POLITICAL judicial body otherwise
@tatancast SagadaSun
"#CJonTrial #CoronaTrial @teddyboylocsin A Supreme
Court must exercise fidelity both to the meaning of 1987 as well as to their
role under it SagadaSun
"@teddyboylocsin It is the toxin in "expanded
certiorari" power to have blinded our Supreme Court to their strictly limited
and separate role SagadaSun
"@SagadaSun No, you are dead wrong, this Court has
enhanced ordnance platform to fight w but prefers to hide its assets than fight
its foes. teddyboylocsin
"@teddyboylocsin Click on the link in (( )) not the
users. :) an article co authored by @EdselTupaz on Huffington Post huffingtonpost.com/daniel-...
SagadaSun
"@SagadaSun No, they should b like Taney Court fighting,
this time a joke of a Lincoln who cannot talk, even if the rest of govt ignores
it.teddyboylocsin
"@teddyboylocsin Click on the link in (( )) not the
users. :) an article co authored by @EdselTupaz on Huffington Post huffingtonpost.com/daniel-...SagadaSun
"@SagadaSun No, theyshould b like Taney Court
fighting, this time a joke of a Lincoln who cannot talk, even if the rest of
govt ignores it. teddyboylocsin
" @teddyboylocsin Well isn't
that what they have done? The Fernan resolution in 1989 has in fact been abused
coz it allows legitimate releases SagadaSun
" @SagadaSun Even King's Bench fought the King in the King's name,
releasing impressed sailors from King's service. teddyboylocsin
"@teddyboylocsin We cannot search for meaning of the Constitution only in
the past or in the text which are both incomplete without context.
SagadaSun
" @SagadaSun Fernan begun corruption of the Court with impunity by
institutional secrecy. teddyboylocsin
" @teddyboylocsin I concede they could fight, but for what. The Rule of
Law is not a Pissing Contest. They are but one part of the Machine.
SagadaSun
" @teddyboylocsin And a long line of CJs seem to have continued it,
mistaking for independence what I've called judicial supremacism.
SagadaSun
" @SagadaSun Well, not true, but in this context, meaning is clear, Court
had the duty to save itself by showing SALNs of all members
teddyboylocsin
" @teddyboylocsin The corruption of "expanded certiorari power" lies, as
always in mistaking it for an ABSOLUTE power. #CJonTrial #CoronaTrial
SagadaSun
" @SagadaSun Forget
this Court, not worthy of our attention. Issue here is not fate of Corona but
fate of independent Court, nothing else. teddyboylocsin
" @teddyboylocsin I agree! And they may in time (after they "dot the i's
and cross the Ts!) :) SagadaSun
" @SagadaSun @teddyboylocsin FOI would be the perfect mechanism to
determine to whom, what when where why and how SALN/public docs be released
cocoy
" @teddyboylocsin Again I agree! But an independent and RESPECT-WORTHY
Court. SagadaSun
" RT @cocoy: @SagadaSun @teddyboylocsin FOI would be the perfect mechanism
to determine to whom, what when where why and how SALN/public docs be released
SagadaSun
" @SagadaSun Court prefers financial secrecy to judicial independence.
Don't compare US SC wch never bowed to FDR. Kramer wrong old USSC died.
teddyboylocsin
" @SagadaSun And the issue there was New Deal, New Deal, not secret deals
for personal gain of justices or their law firms, disgusting.
teddyboylocsin
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Dean Jorge
Bocobo
Dean Jorge Bocobo
@SagadaSun Philippines
"The heart has reasons
that Reason knows nothing of. "
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