Tuesday, February 06, 2007 Seares: Clear conscience: 'snoring quietly' By Pachico S. Seares News Sense
THE Manila-based Inquirer in Saturday’s editorial flogged former senator Kit Tatad for his moral crusade to clean up politics, saying “he is hardly the person to hold the broom.”
In an open letter, Kit had lashed at the opposition Senate lineup teeming with members of political dynasties, referring to the Estradas, Pimentels and Cayetanos.
To the Inquirer, Kit has no moral authority, given his roles in helping mount the Marcos dictatorship in 1972 and in blocking the second Jose Velarde envelope at then president Erap Estrada’s impeachment trial in 1992.
Many people still remember Kit reading on TV Mr. Marcos’ martial law decrees, in a voice that can put insomniacs to sleep.
Sleeping like babies
The editorial left out one detail still etched in viewers’ minds: Kit scratching a leg as he read the decrees. But it didn’t fail to seize a line from Kit’s recent open letter denouncing Erap Estrada’s choices for the Senate.
Kit said he has a clear conscience that he describes as ability “to snore quietly in my sleep every night in the hope of waking up in the morning to a loving and merciful God.”
How one snores, in whatever sound or decibel, is no guarantee of clear conscience.
In Cebu, there are people who enriched themselves from summit public works projects or ordered execution-style killings and yet can still sleep like babies.
