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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Editorial: Impeachment process
The current national condition's dragging pace is getting to be a real bore. It's making the flow of our lives go almost to a stand still.
What's happening to our republic? If it were a ship, it has run into a shoal and is aground with nary a hope of ever getting extricated from it soon enough.
As it is, the country's tone of life is one of tentativeness, of being becalmed, as those with particular roles to play in the nation's development dynamics await a change in the political weather.
National attention is now on Congress, where somehow the decision on whether the ship captain should stay on or go will have to emanate.
Which brings us to the all-too important question of the impeachment complaint filed in Congress by the political opposition, with all the presidential detractors presumably behind it.
If the group or groups behind the move are one in the belief that President Arroyo is guilty in all or most of the charges contained in the impeachment complaint, then by all means they should stop all other destabilizing activities.
They should get on with the impeachment process rather than pursue a course that would place the country in a state of unease.
It makes potential investors assume a tentative stance about their plans, and places the country and people in a circumstance akin to a state of suspended animation.
This is the situation that is unacceptable to the well-meaning citizenry.
If the objective of the opposition and the President's detractors is really to change the national leadership, then it has to go through the accepted due process. The constitutional course for them would be to impeach the President.
It would be unacceptable now to keep trying to launch the so-called People Power short cut that involves only people in Metro Manila while the rest of the nation stand by.
At this point, it is gravely disastrous and counter-productive to the rest of the nation to allow the aggrieved left-oriented detractors to continue with their destabilizing rallies, which are tantamount to keeping at bay potential investors and tourists from infusing much needed dollars to our international reserves.
It has been reported that the nation's dollar reserves, although still stable at more than $17 billion in July, has nevertheless decreased.
Thus, it has become imperative that in order for our country to move again from the shoal where it has run aground and been becalmed for the past few months, we should get on with the impeachment proceedings.
If it is the only way we could move again, even the President should welcome it.
(August 11, 2005 issue)
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