Ombion: File a court case or kiss GMA goodbye
The Essentials
Saturday, November 19, 2011
IF THE Pnoy administration can’t or won’t file a case against the former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (PGMA) today or latest Monday, it can kiss her goodbye.
It is also the best option to render the Supreme Court’s TRO for PGMA and her family moot and academic, and consequently prevent PGMA and the Arroyos’ crisis from spiraling out of control.
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Sad to say the Pnoy administration couldn’t simply rid itself of mess after mess, from day one to the present, from Malacanang to Luneta, Spratlys, Zamboanga, Singapore, White House, and back to Malacañang.
What could have been a straightforward lawsuit or class suit against former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) has now turned into a big mess, and one that could end up with GMA out of the hook somewhere in this planet.
Ask anyone and everyone on the street, and they will tell you that there are just so much cases against GMA, from rigging of elections, organized looting of our government treasury, militarization of civilian bureaucracy, patronage and nepotism, the bungling of Hacienda Luisita and agrarian reform, to endless string of extrajudicial killings.
However, the Pnoy administration especially its bright boys and girls keep on missing, and messing up the order of the day.
Pnoy knows from the start the astuteness and shrewdness of PGMA and the Arroyos but never take them seriously. He played with them around like kids.
Pnoy and his supposed gang of veteran legal counsels and astute political advisers could have done the GMA act when she and her storm-troopers led by the late Gen. Angelo Reyes backed by U.S. CIA operatives swiftly ousted former President Erap, and quickly tried him and put behind bars.
Instead of the quick filing of bundle of cases at the onset of its administration, and filing of other cases later, the Pnoy administration engaged the Arroyos and their allies in hollow information warfare, and
busied itself in image building for its fledgling regime in the name of forgiveness, reconciliation and nation healing.
Who doesn’t need of healing and nation rebuilding? Only the serial fools and bastards could not imagine of such noble and Godly act.
But it is something else to deal with a former ruling clique that has demeaned this nation before the world by its ill policies and misplaced ideals, widened the class divide in this country, silenced thousands, made dozens more widows, institutionalized the culture of impunity, and spurred a jobless and equity-less economic growth.
Pnoy seemed to say that he always wanted to be clean and upright in his execution of justice. He doesn’t need to prove that, or to be showy about that. It is his fundamental duty to execute justice to where it is due.
What Pnoy actually demonstrated was not uprightness, nor sincerity, but lack of a deep sense of justice for the tens of thousands of victims of the GMA brutal and ravenous regime. By dilly-dallying on the cases against GMA and her cohort, Pnoy has provided them the sufficient time to repair its weaknesses, stage maneuvers and reposition its strength.
Apparently, GMA and the Arroyos took advantage of the ultra-liberalism and flip-flopping of the Pnoy administration to consolidate and prepare for a bigger coup within and outside the Congress.
In fact, the recent threat of Pnoy bright boys and girls to impeach the Supreme Court justices, could not only be the most serious Constitutional crisis yet in Philippine political history, it also fits well within the
gameplan of the Arroyos -- to go scot-free and leave a chaos nation behind.
The Pnoy administration has only itself to blame for this crisis, and looming national chaos.
Let us pray that the DOJ is working on a case and to file it soon.
If nothing happens yet by next week, let’s kiss GMA and his gang goodbye and a shame to the present administration that is inutile to use its enormous power against the real enemies of the Filipino people.
Published in the Sun.Star Bacolod newspaper on November 19, 2011.
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