Germany ‘moved on’ after Hitler?

that CJ Sereno did not comply with Sec. 7 of RA 3019, requiring that one report income earned, expenses incurred and taxes paid. It is indeed good law but my studes have yet to show me a single case of compliance on the basis of which I guarantee passing. Joe is deafeningly silent this time on noncompliance with Sec. 7. He himself has not complied, along with Prez Duterte. Scofflaws.

I wrote to Joe last Tuesday that in his petition for quo warranto, he “accorded importance to Sec. 7 of RA 3019 — and even hammered on it — requiring

detailed and sworn statement of assets and liabilities, including a statement of the amounts and sources of his income, the amounts of his personal and family expenses, and the amount of income taxes paid for the next preceding calendar year. . . .’

“Please examine the SAL of all Justices of the SC. Your own SAL does not include what is in bold above [ income, etc..]. Neither does the President’s. No student of mine has been able to show a single compliance…

“My intent is not to pick any quarrel with anyone, but, I am for law reform. Permit me to doubt your compliance with the wise Tolentino Law on SAL (later SALN, in my sssshhh, stint in the Senate).

anomaly should go.

“My practical proposal is for an amnesty and then strict compliance the year after, so that we may mature as a nation.”

who I believe have not complied with the Calida standard, either. So, why was CJ Meilou removed? And the Caesar’s wife standard our Supremes virtually erased, as a practical matter. Violation of Sec. 7 of my SALN law entitles one to cor-

- tion of Sec. 8 of the Tolentino Law also probationable. Not impeachable in either case, in my view, given the lightness of the offense, unlike treason or bribery, which are “of so serious and enormous as to strike at the very life or the orderly workings, let alone the life, of the government.”

Move on – from federalism

Move on, we are told. Where I see moving and rising clearly is in the price of rice and other commodities.

Cha- cha of Mo- Cha Uson is not moving. Taking a power nap? A requiem I see. Malacañang should stop rattling the bones of a federal skeleton from which all semblance of life has departed. It “hath not been dead, though it hath slept.” Spake Shakespeare in “Measure for Measure.” More like the sleep of the dead. I doubt that we would see another Lazarus being raised here. On federalism, we should move on and let it rest in peace.

On the Marcoses, it is not the place of Imelda, Imee and Bongbong to say move on, given their involvement in kleptocracy and human rights violations ( as Raissa Robles, for one, can attest and validate). Maybe their sins cannot be visited upon Irene and the

But, with our kind of luck, like in the Asiad, we may yet shock and awe the world, not admiring, but, bewildered, looking askance, this time.