Tuesday, June 28, 2005

Jueting investigations "going nowhere"?

Ernie Maceda comments:

The Malacañang line is that the Senate hearings on jueteng should be ended because they are getting nowhere. Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago is more specific. It should be ended because no witness has linked GMA to jueteng payola. So it is Miriam herself who is making this a political circus.

As one who served three terms in the Senate, I must tell you this is the first time that five witnesses have bravely come out to validate the top to bottom corruption of the PNP.

Even setting aside GMA for the moment, this is good reason enough to continue. They have pinned the PNP against the ropes, why stop the fight now? Didn't GMA declare an all-out war against corruption? Didn't GMA call on the citizens to help in the fight against corruption? Didn't GMA call on the citizens to help an archbishop in exposing corrupt officials and you want to stop?

The Jueteng investigations must continue.

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