Revgov? Impeachment blues
Chief Justice Roberts was not even an Associate Justice when elevated. No resentment from those bypassed who may have had an understandable moist eye cast on the Chief Justiceship.
Congress is better off lawmaking and policymaking, not probing and impeaching and judging. Lavish lifestyle for getting an expensive car for court use? Eventually, all 15 should get one, state-of-the-art; on SALN, punished lightly in RA 6713, has she been given a chance to amplify or correct, if needed? CJ telling judges not to surrender without a warrant, which document the Constitution requires? Of course, it is said that impeachment is political but not to the point of making it a Kenkoy proceeding. We need to study harder the history of impeachment of magistrates in the US, England and even India. Only US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase was impeached; the impeachment failed. Chase was acquitted.
Be careful with revgov
On limiting our population, only two kids suggested but how about only one wife (and perhaps one
for each Who are our role models? Ideally, only one wife, but if are factored in, nothing doing. Digong has a fave partner on public occasions that he should marry so as not to confuse the youth, prosecutors and judges. He is reported to have
in Davao and Cagayan de Oro, per scuttlebutt. Speaker Bebot Alvarez converted to a tribe in Mindanao allowing more than one wife and famously asked who among us has no Are we really a nation of ladykillers?
I label ladykillers as emotional terrorists even as we label the NPAs as terrorists, but we may not properly take into account why the latter rebel. They may be citizens with a grievance, e.g., a farmer whose daughter gets raped by an hacendero, who is not prosecuted or, if prosecuted, is acquitted. The farmer may then go out of the system.
But, what is Prez Digong’s excuse for going revgov? May we have a Heal-Heal-Heal, not Kill-Kill-Kill, presidency instead?
- tra in mind: the right thing must be done in the right way at the right time in the right place for the right reason. Be careful with revgov, and maybe, faithful Honeylet deserves matrimony.
Talking about Leila’s guilt is improper. I am again reminded of her because Charles Manson just died at 83. Nixon blasted him as guilty of the rape-murder of pregnant Sharon Tate, and the killing of others. The public howled. The White House was quick to apologize; no, it did not mean to prejudge.
Have Digong, Justice Secretary Vit Aguirre (another one now with a moist eye cast on the Senate) and SolGen Joe Calida talked too much about Leila’s supposed guilt? Had she kept quiet, she would now be in the Senate where, with any kind of luck—I never underrate anyone’s capacity for subjective growth—we may have Prez Manny Pacquiao (now bored in the Senate) shine and and go for the whole enchilada, with Veep Mocha Uson in 2022. Those concerned may all play coy but if ordered to run by Digong, who are they to say ‘no’?
Play coy, I urge, and don’t say China is “privileged” to be third telco player. Let it compete and bid. Else, if unbidden, it comes, we may feel like the Pop who, asked for his daughter’s hand, had to say, “sure, you might as well have her hand. You have had everything else.”
And charge, not just shame Gen. Dionisio Santiago, so he can defend himself in some proper forum. Same fate as Secretary Mike Sueno’s. The Palace convicted and shamed them without due process.
Palace, I don’t like your style.