POINTS TO PONDER FROM IMPEACHMENT TRIAL

“We should all follow this standard, which should apply to all. Transparency of bank accounts is good,” Cayetano who is the minority leader in the upper chamber said.

“I ask the President to instruct his Cabinet to sign the waivers or resign and leave government. Lead by following, or get out of the way. Executive, legislative, judiciary. COA, Comelec, BIR, Customs, judges, governors, mayors, bar...angay captains, congressmen, senators, let us agree on one standard,” Cayetano in explaining his guilty verdict on Corona said.

“At least, what the Chief Justice did may set a precedent. We can agree on safeguards and protection. Let us allow the Ombudsman to have a free hand in looking into bank accounts of public officials. All of us should have the same standards,” he said.

“The waiver, taken together with the SALn, and if the FOI Law is passed, we will have entered a dawn of transparency and accountability in our country. It will be a new milestone in the Tuwid na Daan,” he added.

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Sino kaya sa mga Senators ang may dalawang prepared speeches? One is to convict and the other is to acquit?? Nagtatanong lang kasi ganyan ang politika dito sa Pinas.

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    Ching Plaza tama ka rey, election time next year, I'm sure the others we're watching ano ang majority doon sila..these are the Unprincipled Leaders aka TRAPO

 

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Noynoy should not immediately appoint a new chief justice but call for a council composed of the current justices and some of the immediate past chief justices - Davide, Panganiban and Puno; and respected legal minds like Salonga. I would even go as far as including Enrile in such a council and several top law school deans; and get their advice and counsel on the kind of person, not a specific person, who ought to seat in that august chair.

Then he should even let the remaining justices choose from among themselves based on that sage advice - the general outlines of which should be made public.

Why? He needs to send a signal that he is willing to start from a clean slate and is willing to give everyone a chance to prove that they are for the country's welfare. It will also avoid any accusation that he is putting his own person there which will make him the same animal as Gloria Arroyo.

By not doing it himself he will be sending a signal that, 1) I am confident enough to get help from those who are my betters, 2) I am redefining what strong leadership means in a truly democratic society to mean the joint responsibility of leaders and followers for the results, and, 3) We need to build bridges between ourselves. BY MAYO G. LOPEZ OF AIM