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Section 2 of RA 1379 explicitly states that “whenever any public officer or employee has acquired during his incumbency an amount of property which is manifestly out of proportion to his salary as such public officer or employee and to his other lawful income and the income from legitimately acquired property, said property shall be presumed prima facie to have been unlawfully acquired. x x x”
The elements which must concur for this prima facie presumption to apply are:
(1) the offender is a public officer or employee;
(2)he must have acquired a considerable amount of money or property during his incumbency; and
(3)said amount is manifestly out of proportion to his salary as such public officer or employee and to his other lawful income and the income from legitimately acquired property.
- Chief Justice Renato Corona in
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, petitioner,
eh sinabi mo eh
[hat tip, raissa robles]
More than anything, the impeachment court is an attempt at accountability, to take account of men who are invincible for the sake of those who are not. The court’s power emanates not from the people, but from the court itself, from the faith of the public who live in fear and awe of gavels and robes. Once that faith is shaken, even the most formidable of justices cannot hand down decisions and expect to be believed. Bang the drums, start up the band, send in the clowns.
The impeachment court is meant to restore that awe. It is public, it is open to scrutiny, it is to be a display not so much of the national circus, but a demonstration of the grandest of democratic principles: the public will. The people elected the senator-judges, the rules make no exceptions, and the logic is that no man is too powerful to refuse a just accounting.
This is what the prosecutors forget every time they discredit Corona. They are not there to destroy a man by simply calling him a criminal, a liar and a thief, they are there to prove it in the clearest and most irreproachable way possible that this man by virtue of his sins has no right to run the nation’s highest court. The whole grandstanding lot of spokespersons and lawyers may win the 2013 elections by virtue of their prettily knotted ties, but they do nothing for the country by their sniping and retracting. So what, they ask, if they arranged the articles of impeachment wrong? So what if they declared the wrong totals, so what if the language is vague and the statements of assets and liabilities do not include their legendary 45 properties? The truths they claim depend on how they legitimize these truths in the face of an 82-year-old courtroom veteran who plays the media with the slickness of a Casanova.
It has to do with achievements in defiling institutions upon which our democracy stands. Of our tripartite system, because the judiciary is not periodically answerable to an electorate and is thus insulated from such self-cleansing mechanisms as elections, it enjoys a relative degree of perpetuity. Defile the judiciary and you perpetually defile democracy.
Fortunately, the Constitution affords us a singular remedy—impeachment.
MANILA, Philippines (2nd UPDATE) - Police served on Friday night the arrest warrant for former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo issued by a Pasay trial court judge who found probable cause against her for electoral sabotage.
The warrant was served inside her room at the St. Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig City where she is confined.
“Katatapos lang po namin i-serve,” said Senior Superintendent James Bucayu.
Former first gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo, their family, and some members of the former Arroyo Cabinet were present during the serving of the arrest warrant, according to police.
The Pampanga lawmaker will not be brought out of the hospital as of Friday night because of her illness, Bucayu said.
She is now considered under the custody of the Southern Police District, he added.
Policemen have been stationed outside her room and in key areas of the hospital, Bucayu said.
He said they coordinated with Arroyo’s lawyer, who waived off the reading of her rights.
Arroyo will not be brought out of the hospital and her formal booking, which includes fingerprinting, will be done at the hospital Saturday.
Bucayu said that the former President’s family may just provide a photo for her mugshot.
I see a little woman ex President
GMA GMA will she do an eskapo
Cases have been piling, very very frightening NGII!
Mike Arroro, Mike Arroyo, Mike Arroyo wants to go!
Mag-eskapo-o-o-o-
Gloria’s a bad girl nobody loves her
She’s just a big crook from a rich family
Claims to be sick and wants to leave the country
Easy come, easy go will they let her go
Del Lima NO, we should not let her go
Let her go
Del Lima NO, we should not let her go
Let her go
Del Lima NO, we should not let her go
Hold order mo, we should not let her go, hold order mo, we should not let her
Go go go go go go go
Maam De Lima the Arroyos are planing to eskapo
Mag-a-asylum daw sila at magtatago—tago—tagoooooo!
Instrumental:
GMA SINGS:
So you think you can stop me from going abroad?
Tignan natin ang sasabihin ng Supreme Court
Oh, baby.. Manuod kayo baby
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right out of here…
Instrumental
Justice really matters, anyone can see
Justice really matters to me
Kenney added that when Dr. Bernie Villegas, a population expert and the vice-president of the Opus Dei-run University of Asia and the Pacific, met with the US embassy’s political section chief, Villegas -
A separate cable – this time sent on July 15, 2005 from the US Embassy incommented that he had heard there was “an informal understanding” between Malacanang and the Church that the GRP would not push for HB 3773 “under any circumstances.”
A separate cable – this time sent on July 15, 2005 from the US Embassy in Vatican City – confirmed that Vatican had given marching orders to the Philippine bishops not to join anti-Arroyo protests.
Brent Hardt, the US Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires at the Vatican wrote then that:
¶1. (C) Holy See Country Director for the Philippines Monsignor Luis Montemayor confirmed July 14 that the Vatican pressured the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) not to support protests calling for the resignation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Raisa Robles - RH bill was killed by Pres. Gloria Arroyo in exchange for Church political support
Written by Manuel Buencamino / Dispatches from the Enchanted Kingdom
Look for rat droppings near your food supplies. A variety of sizes may indicate an established colony with both older and younger animals.—Rat Infestations-How to Tell if You Have a Rat Problem
‘The Arroyo administration spruced up the Arlegui Mansion just in case the incoming legitimately elected president decides to use it as his official residence,” my son informed me.
“What a nice gesture,” I commented.
“Gloria Arroyo paid for the renovation out of her official budget,” he added.
“Wow, that’s even more admirable. But why are you smiling?” I asked.
“Because she appointed the mansion with furniture from the Marcos era.”
“You see malice in everything Gloria does,” I told him.
“That would be true if furniture was the only questionable appointment she made,” he replied.
“Are you referring to those midnight appointments?”
“I prefer to call them rat droppings, those little mementos that a rat leaves behind after she goes through your pantry,” he replied.
I had to admit that “rat droppings” is a better term to describe what the press euphemistically calls “midnight appointments.”
“Well, Noynoy Aquino can hose them away after he is sworn into office,” I said.
“Wrong, pops,” he said. “Those rat droppings won’t wash away that easily. They have a protective cover called Supreme Court.”
“The Court will see through those appointments and rule accordingly,” I argued.
“Just like the way it ruled on the appointment of Chief Justice?” he replied.
“Touché, but Noynoy can still appeal to her appointees’ sense of delicadeza.”
“Are you kidding?”
“Why not?” I replied. “Her manicurist declined an appointment to the housing fund.”
“She’s different. She took care of Gloria’s nails, the other appointees tended another part of Gloria’s anatomy,” he said. “Look at the color of their noses,” he added.
“You don’t have to be so graphic,” I said. “Anyway, her spokesman, Gary Olivar, said that some of those appointments were made to provide continuity, that there was no irregularity involved, and that they were made in good form.”
“Olivar said ‘good form’? He should think twice before using ‘good form’ to describe things Gloria has done. Olivar’s appointment was not exactly in good form; as a matter of fact, it’s criminal!”
“What do you mean?” I asked.
“Dual citizens are barred from holding elective or appointive positions. It’s against the dual-citizenship law,” he explained.
“Well, he also said some of the appointments were made to provide continuity.”
“Continuity? President Aquino’s election was a wholesale rejection of the Arroyo regime! What continuity are you talking about?”
“So you want all those midnight appointees to resign at the end of the month?”
“Yes.”
“But some of them might be qualified for their position.”
“Then there’s a chance President Aquino might reappoint them,” he replied.
“Why do you keep calling Senator Aquino president? He does not become president until the end of the month,” I said.
“I know but I’ve been waiting all of nine years for the chance to use ‘President’ again. Forgive me for the premature ejaculation.”
“At any rate,” I said, “Noynoy should be more reconciliatory. The least he can do is express appreciation for the sprucing up of Arlegui Mansion.”
“Yes, I agree he should reciprocate with his own gesture of goodwill. I think his first official act should be to order the sprucing up of the Women’s Correctional for its incoming resident.”
— Lorelei Fajardo, deputy spokesperson of President Gloria Arroyo
I see that now.
Yeap, everybody forgot already. *sigh*
The VILLARROYO coalition has not been so shy in a manner befitting the ardent denial of Palace and NP functionaries that they were in secret alliance, as shown by the very open support the NP has given to candidates who are loyalists of President Arroyo and her husband First Gentleman Mike Arroyo like former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Jocjoc” Bolante who is running for governor of Capiz under an alliance between NP and his local party, LP stalwarts noted.
Reports claimed Mr. Arroyo met with Villar in the house of his wife’s loyalist, former Cabinet member Mike Defensor, to seal an agreement to make President Arroyo the new Speaker of the House of Representatives under a Villar presidency.
The NP has also fielded politicians notorious for their alleged links to illegal activities, like former Batangas Governor Armand Sanchez, who is rumoured to be an ex-jueteng lord and who is in alliance with the Lakas-Kampi, particularly its Batangas chapter which is run personally by Malacañang’s top honcho, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita.
Most telling is the support of pro-administration senators like Senator Lito Lapid, a province mate and close ally of President Arroyo in Pampanga politics, who is backing the presidential candidacy of the NP’s Manny Villar.
The LP has been the target also of legal manuevering of Malacañang’s allies to remove them from their posts before the May 10 elections, a strategy that has victimized so far one of the country’s three Ramon Magsaysay Awardees for Local Governance - Isabela Gov. Grace Padaca - and her fellow LP governors “Among Ed” Panlilio of Pampanga and Jonjon Mendoza of Bulacan.
This is a sample of Villar’s social conscience he’d bring to the presidency, which all decent Filipinos should stop by all means.
The C-5 controversy is a tip of the iceberg. As objective people dig deeper they’ll see Villar’s MO similar to Mafia’s criminal enterprise has also been perpetrated in other subdivisions owned or controlled by Villar’s group of companies.
