MERGED: All About Gloria Arroyo - Past, Present, Future

[samsungster]

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for sure she will not be in prison even she will be convicted..

[amega1]

you guys know who the real loser in this Arroyo issue is ?? It's the filipino people; the current admin is solely focused on madam Arroyo's persecution that they forgot that there are many more problems that needs to be solved. Let the DoJ and Supreme Court battle this out, only them coz this is their responsibility, those other senators and congressmen should shut up with their opinions and do their jobs in taking care of the country.

I think that this is just one step of the government to make corrupt people know that their corruption can bring them to prison.

Remember, kung naay ma priso gyud tungod aning corruption, ma hadlok na ni sila kay sukad sukad, wa pa man gyuy na priso tungod sa ilang pag-pangawat sa gobyerno ug taumbayan.

[wildfire1203]

i know that. but what the government is doing right now is EVERYBODY as in EVERYBODY is on madam Arroyo's face. There's a branch in the government that deals with this, let them ALONE do it.

tagaan tikaw ug example bai ha para makasabot ka....

sa inyong balay 5 mo kabuok members, each has it's own responsibility... ikaw tig lung.ag.. ang usa tig-hakot ug tubig .. naay tig hugas plato .. naay tig limpyo sa balay.. ang usa kay tig luto sud.an .... if perting daghana hugasan sa plato ayaw ko ug ing.na na ila nang tabangan ug hugas tanan ?? silang lima gyud muhugas sa plato kay perti man daghan, ang uban kay ila lang kalimtan ilang mga trabado ??

..bro,naka-ingon lang ka nga ang focus sa aquino administration is only on arroyo.It's just the media that focus the issue on arroyo kay mao man ang init nga issue karon ug mao ang halinon...but try to read another issue not just on headline..

[networkguy]

tsk tsk tsk


The mockery of the justice system, BS Aquino Style

The Department of Justice DoJ) through its Secretary, Leila de Lima has issued a watch list order (WLO) on former President Gloria Arroyo and her husband former FG Mike Arroyo curtailing and obstructing their right to travel guaranteed under the Constitution. Being an experienced lawyer and a former chief of the Human Rights Commission, certainly, Secretary De Lima is aware that the WLO she issued was illegal, the fact that the legal basis for its issuance was a Department Order 41 which cannot for sure circumvent a provision of the Constitution. But despite that awareness, the secretary vehemently proceeded in preventing the former first couples from living the country.

Not to be harassed, the former president and husband, conscious of their legal rights, through their lawyer went to the Supreme Court (SC) to question the acts of the DoJ Secretary. True enough, the SC issued a TRO by enjoining the DoJ and its secretary to desist from pursuing the WLO and allow the former first couple to leave for Singapore. In spite of knowing that a directive of the highest court of the land is a law, De Lima pretended as if she were an innocent high school student, defied the TRO and tried to wriggle out, by first saying, she did not receive the copy of the order. Second, after her first alibi did not work, she said they have a pending motion for reconsideration that must first be resolved before she heeds the Court’s TRO. At the time she was defying the TRO, she ordered the Bureau of Immigration (BI) and the airport authorities to prevent GMA from leaving and if she was already inside the plane, she should be off-loaded at all cost.

Legal minds and luminaries of the country have only one thing to say: De Lima is wrong. Quoting the words of a San Bedan, a dean at that, Father Rannie Aquino, said that the rule of law should prevail and the acts of the Justice Secretary in defiance of the TRO must not be tolerated. There must be proper sanctions and if ignored, it will have a toll on the entire justice system. So many others such as Father Bernas, former associate Justice Serafin Cuevas and several lawmakers who are learned in law, including the vocal and feisty Miriam, have joined in unison to despise De Lima’s acts. But she seemed hell-bent to do her thing, thereby destroying the principle of separation of powers and the check and balance process enshrined in our Constitution which is the bedrock of our young democracy. Some say De Lima did it just to suit her personal agenda and blindly succumbed to the dictates of a mindless tyrant. As Joker Arroyo, the defender and lawyer of Ninoy Aquino has said, we are now in a state of undeclared martial law. Authoritarianism is the order of the day where Malacañang and DoJ conspired to subvert the justice system.

Not content with what they’ve done, Malacañang, De Lima and the Comelec under the leadership of Brillantes have conspired to further destroy the legal system. Hurriedly and with ill purpose just to redeem composure after their defeat in the SC, they came up with a charge of election sabotage, a crime only patented under BS Aquino which was immediately filed with the RTC in Pasay under a judge who has colorful performance. Without even reading the voluminous complaint and did not even grant a question and answer portion between him and the prosecutor, he immediately issued a warrant of arrest and only for the purpose of overtaking the TRO of the SC.

The judge did not even study whether he has jurisdiction over the case. It must be noted that the accused is a former president and an incumbent high official of the government.

Judge Jesus Mupas should have glanced at PD 1606 as amended that it is not his court but the Sandiganbayan that has jurisdiction over the case against GMA ” Under Section 4. The Sandiganbayan shall have jurisdiction over ( c) Other crimes or offenses committed by public officers or employees, including those employed in government-owned and controlled corporations, in relation to their office.

The jurisdiction herein conferred shall be original and exclusive if the offense charged is punishable by a penalty higher that prision correctional, or its equivalent, except as herein provided; in other offenses, it shall be concurrent with the regular courts.

It is very clear from the Sandiganbayan law that it has original and exclusive jurisdiction over criminal offenses punishable by a penalty higher than prision correctional election sabotage being a heinous and non bailable offense is certainly a crime punishable by life imprisonment. Further, the crime alluded to GMA was done in relation to her office as then President of the Philippines and also that at currently she is a high public official, being a member of Congress, the more reason the Sandiganbayan shall have jurisdiction over the case.

We are not saying here that GMA shall not pay and be penalized for the crimes she may have committed, or that she should go scot-free. What is important is that she be allowed the due process of law, something that was not present in the event that unfolded. There is no secret in this country that cannot be revealed. Mr. Brillantes cannot deny the fact that the case was railroaded as reported by one commissioner to a relative who revealed this to a congressman.

It was stated that Brillantes was indisposed but he was asked to come to the Comelec and preside over an en banc meeting just to pass the resolution to file charges against GMA. Secondly, the DoJ-Comelec panel cannot file the charges on its own directly to the court because it is a mere fact finding panel. The procedure is to submit its findings to the Ombudsman for review and preliminary investigation. But because of the desperation of Malacañang-DoJ to save face as they did expected the SC to stand by its TRO, they had to manipulate and mock the justice system of the country.

What a way to destroy the bedrock of democracy. The judiciary being the so-called weakest branch among the three has a very important roll in the order of things in a nation. It is the last bastion of providing justice to every man under the rule of law. But it seems the mindless tyrant and his cohorts do not really care as long they get what they want. They don’t give a damn even if they destroy the third branch as long as their vendetta and their defense mechanism of using the accusation and prosecution of GMA as a shield and diversion to Noynoy’s failure of addressing the real problems of the nation such as the growing poverty, rise in prices of oil resulting to rise in prices of basic commodities, the increasing unemployment and the failure to implement the honest to goodness government spending in infrastructure such as the acceleration of the PPP go through.

There you are my friends and countrymen. Please undo from Caesar what is for people and let our democracy be stronger and vibrant.


The Daily Tribune - Without Fear or Favor

[wildfire1203]

tsk tsk tsk


The mockery of the justice system, BS Aquino Style

The Department of Justice DoJ) through its Secretary, Leila de Lima has issued a watch list order (WLO) on former President Gloria Arroyo and her husband former FG Mike Arroyo curtailing and obstructing their right to travel guaranteed under the Constitution. Being an experienced lawyer and a former chief of the Human Rights Commission, certainly, Secretary De Lima is aware that the WLO she issued was illegal, the fact that the legal basis for its issuance was a Department Order 41 which cannot for sure circumvent a provision of the Constitution. But despite that awareness, the secretary vehemently proceeded in preventing the former first couples from living the country.

Not to be harassed, the former president and husband, conscious of their legal rights, through their lawyer went to the Supreme Court (SC) to question the acts of the DoJ Secretary. True enough, the SC issued a TRO by enjoining the DoJ and its secretary to desist from pursuing the WLO and allow the former first couple to leave for Singapore. In spite of knowing that a directive of the highest court of the land is a law, De Lima pretended as if she were an innocent high school student, defied the TRO and tried to wriggle out, by first saying, she did not receive the copy of the order. Second, after her first alibi did not work, she said they have a pending motion for reconsideration that must first be resolved before she heeds the Court’s TRO. At the time she was defying the TRO, she ordered the Bureau of Immigration (BI) and the airport authorities to prevent GMA from leaving and if she was already inside the plane, she should be off-loaded at all cost.

Legal minds and luminaries of the country have only one thing to say: De Lima is wrong. Quoting the words of a San Bedan, a dean at that, Father Rannie Aquino, said that the rule of law should prevail and the acts of the Justice Secretary in defiance of the TRO must not be tolerated. There must be proper sanctions and if ignored, it will have a toll on the entire justice system. So many others such as Father Bernas, former associate Justice Serafin Cuevas and several lawmakers who are learned in law, including the vocal and feisty Miriam, have joined in unison to despise De Lima’s acts. But she seemed hell-bent to do her thing, thereby destroying the principle of separation of powers and the check and balance process enshrined in our Constitution which is the bedrock of our young democracy. Some say De Lima did it just to suit her personal agenda and blindly succumbed to the dictates of a mindless tyrant. As Joker Arroyo, the defender and lawyer of Ninoy Aquino has said, we are now in a state of undeclared martial law. Authoritarianism is the order of the day where Malacañang and DoJ conspired to subvert the justice system.

Not content with what they’ve done, Malacañang, De Lima and the Comelec under the leadership of Brillantes have conspired to further destroy the legal system. Hurriedly and with ill purpose just to redeem composure after their defeat in the SC, they came up with a charge of election sabotage, a crime only patented under BS Aquino which was immediately filed with the RTC in Pasay under a judge who has colorful performance. Without even reading the voluminous complaint and did not even grant a question and answer portion between him and the prosecutor, he immediately issued a warrant of arrest and only for the purpose of overtaking the TRO of the SC.

The judge did not even study whether he has jurisdiction over the case. It must be noted that the accused is a former president and an incumbent high official of the government.

Judge Jesus Mupas should have glanced at PD 1606 as amended that it is not his court but the Sandiganbayan that has jurisdiction over the case against GMA ” Under Section 4. The Sandiganbayan shall have jurisdiction over ( c) Other crimes or offenses committed by public officers or employees, including those employed in government-owned and controlled corporations, in relation to their office.

The jurisdiction herein conferred shall be original and exclusive if the offense charged is punishable by a penalty higher that prision correctional, or its equivalent, except as herein provided; in other offenses, it shall be concurrent with the regular courts.

It is very clear from the Sandiganbayan law that it has original and exclusive jurisdiction over criminal offenses punishable by a penalty higher than prision correctional election sabotage being a heinous and non bailable offense is certainly a crime punishable by life imprisonment. Further, the crime alluded to GMA was done in relation to her office as then President of the Philippines and also that at currently she is a high public official, being a member of Congress, the more reason the Sandiganbayan shall have jurisdiction over the case.

We are not saying here that GMA shall not pay and be penalized for the crimes she may have committed, or that she should go scot-free. What is important is that she be allowed the due process of law, something that was not present in the event that unfolded. There is no secret in this country that cannot be revealed. Mr. Brillantes cannot deny the fact that the case was railroaded as reported by one commissioner to a relative who revealed this to a congressman.

It was stated that Brillantes was indisposed but he was asked to come to the Comelec and preside over an en banc meeting just to pass the resolution to file charges against GMA. Secondly, the DoJ-Comelec panel cannot file the charges on its own directly to the court because it is a mere fact finding panel. The procedure is to submit its findings to the Ombudsman for review and preliminary investigation. But because of the desperation of Malacañang-DoJ to save face as they did expected the SC to stand by its TRO, they had to manipulate and mock the justice system of the country.

What a way to destroy the bedrock of democracy. The judiciary being the so-called weakest branch among the three has a very important roll in the order of things in a nation. It is the last bastion of providing justice to every man under the rule of law. But it seems the mindless tyrant and his cohorts do not really care as long they get what they want. They don’t give a damn even if they destroy the third branch as long as their vendetta and their defense mechanism of using the accusation and prosecution of GMA as a shield and diversion to Noynoy’s failure of addressing the real problems of the nation such as the growing poverty, rise in prices of oil resulting to rise in prices of basic commodities, the increasing unemployment and the failure to implement the honest to goodness government spending in infrastructure such as the acceleration of the PPP go through.

There you are my friends and countrymen. Please undo from Caesar what is for people and let our democracy be stronger and vibrant.


The Daily Tribune - Without Fear or Favor

..boy,next time name the author of that opinion.nag-click ko sa imo link nga gihatag ako gipangita didto,wala man jud.

[Golden Thief Bug]

im not a pro arroyo but of all the presidents that have come to this country during my existence, shes the only one who has class and all as a president. if she did wrong, then let her answer all the claims and suffer all the consequences if proven guilty. i voted for her and im proud that i did.. what do you want me to do? vote for FPJ at that time?

ERAP?
FPJ?
NOY2X?

really!?

[wildfire1203]

The P2-M zarzuela of Gloria Gladiator
By Gerard Pareja
Cebu Daily News
Nyor Gamay (NG): Maayo kay na hospital arrest na gyus Gloria kay duna nay intermission ang zarzuela.

Nyor Daku (ND): Unsang Zarzuelaha ang imong giasabut, Nyor?

NG: Kani bang hatahatag larga sa mga Arroyo unya atang-atang sa gobyerno sa airport.

ND: Moro-moro tingali maayong itawag ani, Nyor.

NG: Parihas ra na, Nyor. Puros production number. Song and dance.

ND: Unsay may mga tokar, Nyor? Song and dance man kaha ni?

NG: Ang P2-million Boogie sa Supreme Court. Intawon sad, Nyor, uy. Kanang P2-milllion snacks ra man nas mga Arroyo.

ND: Tinuod. Diha bitaw kadtoy panihapon sa America sa ilang pundok nga mikabat og pila ka milyon. Pero time pa, Nyor, na reverse man diay kuno TRO tungod kay ang P2 million ra nga bond maoy natuman sa Arroyo camp. Wa sila maka assign og legal representative nga modawat sa ilang mga subpoena ug mo-atiman sa ilang mga kalihukang legal kabahin sa mga sumbong batok kanila.

NG: Mao ba, Nyor. Nayabag na diay ning spokesman sa Supreme Court nga miingong nagpabilin ang Temporary Restraining Order nga mopaundang una sa ban sa mga Arroyo pag guwa sa nasud.

ND: Gani 7-6 man ang resulta sa botuhan nga mipatangtang sa gikaingong TRO matud pa niining Vera files (nga source sa Yahoo Philippines) . Ang pito nga miingong di na mapatuman ang TRO mao sila si Senior Justice Antonio Carpio, Associate Justices Maria Lourdes Sereno, Bienvenido Reyes, Estela Perlas-Bernabe, Jose Mendoza, Martin Villarama and Roberto Abad. Ug ang unom nga buot pa mopatuman niani galakip nila ni Chief Justice Renato Corona, Presbitero Velasco Jr., Arturo Brion, Diosdado Peralta, Lucas Bersamin and Jose Perez. Hinuon, karon nga duna nay kiha si Gloria, di naman gyud ni makalarga. Unya, Nyor, unsa man say sayaw sa mga Arroyo?

NG: Nakadungog ka adtong kanta ni Max Surban, Nyor, nga Ikidikid chacha? Mao na ilang gisayaw, Nyor. Kana bang pina kisikisi nga magpatagad. Ila man tong gituyo pag-agi diin daghang tao para ipakita nga nagkalisud intawon si Gloria paglihuk tungod sa iyang vest ug neck brace ug head band ug uban pang panagang. Pero bisag unsaon, Nyor, lisud man gyud kaluy-an si Gloria kay murag maru man gyud og nawong. Ang akong tan-aw niya, Nyor, di man masakiton. Mura mag gladiator.

ND: A grabiha sad nimo, Nyor, uy. Di diay ka moluoy sa iyang mga panagang sa lawas.

NG: Maka paduda man gud ang ilang pagdali. Murag eskapo man gyuy scenario. Unya drama ra kaayo. Nganong sa hagdan man siya nanaog pagabot sa airport nga diha man untay escalator.

ND: Pwerti gyud diay nimong tutok sa TV, Nyor, kay nabantayan pa man nimo ning escalator scene. Pero unsa man say gi-awit sa Malacañang?

NG: “It’s Now or Never” maoy ilang giawit, Nyor. Kay kon di nila madali-dali pagkiha si Gloria, klaro man kaayong mo goodbye Philippines ni.http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/96747/t...oria-gladiator

[Golden Thief Bug]

but i admit, her sons are really annoying and so as her husband (pretty obvious corrupt bastards)

[Golden Thief Bug]

I think that this is just one step of the government to make corrupt people know that their corruption can bring them to prison.

Remember, kung naay ma priso gyud tungod aning corruption, ma hadlok na ni sila kay sukad sukad, wa pa man gyuy na priso tungod sa ilang pag-pangawat sa gobyerno ug taumbayan.

huwat lang pud diay tas ka noy2x turno ani sir, dako dako baya nang hacienda luisita issue, katong land reform bill na gi baliwala lang ni cory ug kato diayng hacienda luisita massacre ug tinudon lang jud na nila ang hacienda luisita issue, ma bitay nas noy2x ug di oras lol

[wildfire1203]

Rule of law and public esteem
By: Randy David
Philippine Daily Inquirer

The public will not forget how GMA insisted on exercising the prerogative to name the new chief justice of the Supreme Court in the last weeks of her presidency, when, out of civility or courtesy, she should have left this choice to her successor who had already been elected. They will remember how she named the palace gardener and her personal manicurist to government boards just before she stepped down from office in mindless disregard of their qualifications. Is this decent? Most of all, they have not forgotten how, after assuming the presidency in 2001 under doubtful circumstances, she caused the humiliating arrest and detention of the duly-elected president she had just deposed. Her arrogance and lack of compassion during that critical moment provoked an uprising by the urban poor who regarded the ousted Erap Estrada as their champion.
http://opinion.inquirer.net/17603/ru...-public-esteem