Don't care if GMA's immune from criminal charges, DISQUALIFY HER!

DOJ Secretary Merceditas Guttierez said that filing charges against GMA is futile because President Arroyo is immune from criminal cases.

The only way to remove her is thru impeachment or voting her out of office raw.

Ang sabi ko naman kay Ms. Guttierez ay... Okey lang, we can wait naman eh.

Basta ma-disqualify lang si GMA, ayos na.

We can always impeach or file criminal charges against Mrs. Arroyo after the elections, but there is enough evidence available for COMELEC to disqualify her on grounds of illegal use of government funds and resources for her election campaign -- illegal diversion of PAGCOR money to GMA's political campaign, PCSO "public service" ads, PHILHEALTH cards, GMA's "walking ads" streetsweepers.

HEY COMELEC, DO YOUR JOB!!! GARAPAL NA ANG PANDARAYA NI GMA!!! WAG KAYONG MAGBUBULAG-BULAGAN!

Basahin nyo itong mga articles ni Conrad de Quiros (dito, dito, dito at dito) ng PDI para malaman nyo kung gaano ka garapal ang pandaraya at illegal na paggamit ng pondo ng gobierno (for GMA's political campaign) sa loob ng rehimeng Arroyo.

Excerpt sa article ni De Quiros "Stop Her":

What makes the matter particularly grave and urgent is the scale on which she's burning money. It makes drunken sailors look positively abstemious. You see legions of street sweeps materializing from out of nowhere wearing Macapagal-Arroyo shirts and erasing the campaign materials of Ms Macapagal-Arroyo's rivals from walls, and being told the future of their employment depends on Ms Macapagal-Arroyo winning, you know you're being fried in your own fat. I myself personally find oppressive the ad produced by the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO), which has become even more ubiquitous since I last wrote about it. I watched parts of the national billiards fest and an NCAA game on the Solar Sports television channel last Monday, and I swear PCSO head Honeygirl de Leon appeared there on every commercial break to proclaim Ms Macapagal-Arroyo's virtues. I do not know how much that 30-second or so spot costs, but I figure Solar must now have amassed a fortune from it.

I ask anyone of those who have been writing to complain that I have been unfair to Ms Macapagal-Arroyo to explain how that ad cannot possibly be openly campaigning for her, in flagrant violation of Commission on Election (Comelec) rules. Or never mind the Comelec, since rules are to Comelec as garlic is to a vampire. Of basic decency, or fair play. The ad opens with Ms Macapagal-Arroyo being shown with knitted brows, the picture of compassionate fortitude, flying to the aid of all sorts of disaster victims: floods, fire, you name it. The point is clear: It is not government as a corporate entity but Ms Macapagal-Arroyo as an individual person who is rescuing embattled citizens from their plight. It ends with De Leon saying in a voice that gets more and more unctuous each time I see and hear the ad (and it is inescapable) that cooperation and perseverance are what we need to bring about Ms Macapagal-Arroyo's vision of a strong republic. Again Ms Macapagal-Arroyo in various poses.

I challenge any expert in content analysis to come out in the open and say this is not a campaign ad.

As it is, the economic impact of this election spending may be the least of our problems. Though it is a monstrous problem enough in itself. Whoever wins the elections will have to deal with empty coffers and runaway inflation afterward. Like I said, one is tempted to hope that it is Ms Macapagal-Arroyo herself so she can reap the fruits of her profligacy. But that is like throwing a turtle into the sea to drown as punishment.

Exactly!