Conrad de Quiros on Leandro Aragoncillo and what a REAL coup plotter looks like. He also praised the SC for their "independence" over the arroyo admin.
- DOJ Sec. Raul Gonzalez: I hope they go back to the hills
JUSTICE Secretary Raul Gonzalez yesterday said five party-list congressmen who had sought protective custody from the House of Representatives are not off the hook yet despite a Makati court’s rejection of an amended complaint charging them with rebellion.
As the so-called Batasan 5 finally left the House premises after more than two months of being under its protective custody, Gonzalez said: "I hope that they will go back to the mountains. That’s where they belong."
No, that's where you and your so-called president belongs, Raulo.
More from Malaya Editorial: A formula for detention without trial
The chronology of events should show clearly enough that at this moment there is no case against the five congressmen. But Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez makes it appear that the decision not to arrest the congressmen was by his tolerance. Gonzalez said he did not want a media spectacle. So he was letting them go. Anyway, they could be arrested anytime.
So we are back to the question: What is the basis for continuing to threaten them with arrest without warrants?
We are left with that PNP CIDG complaint which says there is an ongoing rebellion being waged by the Communist Party of the Philippines/New People’s Army and that the CPP/NPA has been joined by the opposition and right-wing adventurists. The five are leaders of "front" organizations of the communist party; therefore, they are engaged in rebellion.
Following this line of reasoning, all the government has to do is have the police accuse somebody of rebellion to have him arrested and thrown into jail (rebellion is a non-bailable offense).
The DOJ can then take its own sweet time building a case. When the DOJ finally gets around to filing a case and the case is thrown out by the courts, the hapless "rebel" continues to be a guest of the state while the DOJ files a motion for review. The DOJ suffers another setback, it proceeds to build another case.
If this is not formula for indefinite detention without trial, we don’t know what is.
Read this too from Lito Banayo: When outlaws rule nations
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- May bagong kwento si MLQ3, entitled: ‘Calabasa’ gets a call". Can you tell who's who? And can you tell kung kaninong talking points ito?
“Step 1: Never say you’re wrong. Step 2: Always say they’re wrong. Step 3: Say the enemy is the elite. Step 4: Say we represent the masses. Step 5: Say we want change. Step 6: Say they never want change. Step 7: Say our change is the only change. Step 8: Say we will win! Step 9: Say they will lose! Step 10: Say those who ask questions are insincere, because sincere people do what they’re told! Step 11: Our critics are confusing the issues by trying to sound smart! Step 12: Whatever they say, reverse it, and say it back! Can I tell you? It works every time!”
- PCIJ: Bureaucrats punished for accusing Palace of disrespect for civil service
IS the Career Service Executive Board (CESB), the government body that oversees the top tiers of the country’s bureaucracy, being punished by Malacañang?
Many in the CESB think so. After all, in a March 20 resolution, the CESB did something unheard of: it accused Malacañang and the Cabinet of "transgressions" of civil-service laws, rules and regulations.
The strongly worded Resolution No. 619 said the unjust termination of an undersecretary, presumably Education Undersecretary Juan Miguel Luz, a career bureaucrat, and the appointment of non-civil service eligible officials "have resulted in growing apprehension and demoralization among the members of the CES (Career Executive Service), which can further erode the institutional foundations of a professional bureaucracy."
It also pointedly reminded President Arroyo that in a Jan. 22, 2001 speech, she had recalled that her own father, the late President Diosdado Macapagal, had advised her to "respect the bureaucracy, respect the civil service." (Resolution 619 can be downloaded from ww.pcij.org)
In return, Malacañang has reacted with a series of what appear to be punitive and retaliatory moves against the CESB.
Within days after the resolution, two of the CESB’s eight members lost their seats. Two others – one of whom was reportedly forced to resign – were replaced after a couple of weeks. Insiders at the agency say the resolution also strengthened the resolve of Palace officials to replace Civil Service Commission chair Karina David as CESB chair.
Earlier, Malacañang had withdrawn its then two-week-old nomination of CESB executive director Mary Ann Fernandez-Mendoza as commissioner at the Civil Service Commission. Mendoza had issued a ruling that Luz was a tenured civil servant who could not be summarily terminated.
Vindictive talaga. Read the complete article of Yvonne Chua here.
- Jake Macasaet: The Looting may go on
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