PHNO-OPINION: BOBIT AVILA: ISN'T PNoy ATTACKS ON CJ CORONA SUB-JUDICE?

BOBIT AVILA: ISN'T PNoy ATTACKS ON CJ CORONA
SUB-JUDICE?

MANILA, MAY 15, 2012 (PHILIPPINE STAR) SHOOTING
STRAIGHT By Bobit S. Avila (photo) - Compared to other columnists, I really
do not spend my time watching the live feed of the Senate Impeachment trial,
simply because whether we like it or not, life has to go on and we have lots of
work and better things to do. Above all, if all Filipinos will do nothing but
watch the proceedings in the Senate, then the Philippine economy will slide
further down into ruin.
Right now the prices of basic goods have risen once more… fuel prices have
gone up twice in two weeks and the prices of bread increased this week and no
one in the P-Noy regime seems to care in fixing these problems that are
important to ordinary Filipinos. Malacañang seems too focused on removing Chief
Justice Renato Corona… even to the point of having the Bureau of Internal
Revenue (BIR) investigate him for revenue violations.
If you ask me, this is the height of vindictiveness and perhaps President
Aquino should be advised that Filipinos always have a soft heart for the
underdog. Ask yourself why that Navy Lt. Antonio Trillanes was voted to the
Senate? That's because many people felt that he had become an underdog. This is
why former Sen. Francisco "Kit" Tatad said a few days ago on TV that the tide of
this impeachment exercise has now shifted to CJ Corona's favor. This hate
campaign vs CJ Corona should stop.
Last Thursday I had some free time before another important meeting and I was
able to watch the Senate impeachment around 4 p.m. It was then that PSBank
Katipunan manager Annabelle Tiongson revealed in open court that on Jan. 31, a
person whom she later revealed as Rep. Jorge Banal, a member of the Prosecution
secretariat and Liberal Party approached her and showed her a photocopy of a
document asking if they were authentic. Tiongson did not answer him for fear of
breaking the Bank secrecy law.
This caused Senator/Judge Loren Legarda to ask whether this document held by
Rep. Banal was the same document they had on Feb. 2 that Rep. Rey Umali insisted
was given to him by a "short lady". This mysterious lady has yet to be revealed,
despite the revelation by no less than Senate Presiding Judge Juan Ponce Enrile
that the close-circuit television (CCTV) in the Senate revealed no such short
lady. Meanwhile the radio pundits in Cebu are having a field day finding this
issue so ridiculous they now say it must have been a "white lady". Of course it
could have been all lies!
Meanwhile we saw Rep. Banal on TV admitting that he approached Tiongson and
saying that the documents he showed the bank manager were left in his gate by
someone he doesn't know. What's this… another mysterious person? Another short
lady perhaps, or is it what it is… another lie?
Meanwhile the decision in this impeachment trial hangs on whether the bank
document allegedly by CJ Corona is a fake or not. If it is proven to be
authentic, then PSBank manager Annabelle Tiongson will be in hot water and could
be criminally liable or worse, it could lead to a possible bank run… after all
no depositor would want to put money in a bank that they cannot trust. Hopefully
this issue will be resolved soon. Lest you have already forgotten the legal
dictum, "He who comes to court must come with clean hands." This means, he
should present damaging evidence, not fakes!
Incidentally, earlier Thursday, P-Noy spoke at the La Consolacion College and
once again attacked CJ Corona and exhorted the students to support his cause in
having the Chief Justice impeached, even using a PowerPoint presentation
displaying the disparities between CJCorona's bank records against his SALN.
What I would like to ask is, why is he doing this while the Senate Impeachment
trial is still on-going? Can't the President wait until a decision by the Senate
impeachment court is reached?
Again the President tried to sell that old line, asking the students as if he
was addressing CJ Corona directly in Tagalog "If you have nothing to hide and
have done nothing wrong why then do you not open your bank accounts, which are
already overdue?" How many times must we tell the President to "back off" from
this highly faulty line of thinking, it will boomerang on him because he too has
kept many things away from us, "his Boss", like the issue of his Porsche sports
car.
I reckon that P-Noy is getting impatient with the Senate impeachment and is
now directly addressing the students to take his side. This is another proof
that the tide of the people's sentiments have shifted to CJ Corona's favor,
that's why P-Noy is hell-bent on destroying his reputation directly to the
people? Come now isn't what the President doing a clear case of sub judice? Hey,
I thought no one was above the law in this country?


Chief News Editor: Sol Jose Vanzi
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