By: Ben Contreras
Have you ever seen a crocodile farm? Most likely, you will find them basking in the sun waiting for their next meal. They love chicken meat. And when the caretaker appears, they know it’s feeding time. Throw the meat and they will move like hungry creatures ready to devour clean whatever comes their way.
In a crocodile farm called Philippine Congress, dwell a specie known locally as “Buaya”. Though it is the direct translation of crocodile, such name gained popularity for its notoriety. There are also subspecies found in the streets, in government offices and in our courts.
Some claim that they are the regenerated homo sapiens of yore. Whatever, some survived and remained as men and women in Congress but still maintained the acquired trait of crocodiles.
Seriously, Philippine politics has reached its lowest level when due process, which means, the legal way, has given way to politics or shall we say, the number game.
This is no longer about Sara. This is about fairness of the law. If the law does not apply fairly to everyone, then let’s have the rule of the jungle. I believe there are those waiting for this to happen.
Those who don’t like Sara can rejoice. It’s their given right to choose. Those who love Sara are free to express their anger. But Sara is not just Sara. She is the vice president voted into her office by millions of Filipinos. And now, she has been impeached.
Justice served, gloated the haters. But even justice has a price. Lady justice can peep through her blindfold at the sound of clinking silvers.
The bones of contention to my recollection are misused of confidential fund, lost of confidence and abused of authority, if I am not mistaken.
“I have a secret to tell you but I can’t.” Why? “Because I want to keep it as a secret. Otherwise, it’s no longer a secret.”
Can anyone give me a better, if not the best definition of this word “Confidential”? One such definition is, “…unauthorized disclosure that could be prejudicial to the national interest.”
Sara’s travails have never been about laws or violations thereof. It has always been politics, dirty as it has always been.
The haters keep coming back at her, how she misused her confidential fund and the size of the questionable amount, 120million something. Somehow, I never heard them question the confidential fund of the president which runs into billions. And who doesn’t have confidential fund? Do I have to also answer this question?
The Qcom has shown its ferocity like a kangaroo court trying to pin down the vice president. The process has gained notoriety but slow on its real purpose. Then came the national budget signed by the president with allegedly questionable circumstances that could be damaging to this administration.
I wonder if it’s a matter of diverting one issue to another since it has become a big legal issue already filed in court. One thing is clear though. It hastened the impeachment of Sara like a tremor sans warning.
Like the vindictive president who wanted to impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona, the honorable (kuno) impeached Corona for a price. No qualms about tainted honor and integrity. It’s just politics, right.
We have seen the same in the Lower House today. Is the Senate going to repeat history? It’s a number game well played.
Even a few experts admit it’s just politics and nothing to do with law or legality. So be it. How about when a person takes the law into his or her own hands? Is it just politics or about law?
To admit that it’s all just politics is very tempting in a sense that if the people revolts, what do we call it? Is it politics or is it about law. I would like to believe that it would be about rights of the people.
Power emanates from the people. Power the people has the right to remove.
Everything is fluid. Anything could happen. If there would be blood, it would be yours and mine, your families and my families, your future and the future of our children. Choose wisely. We may be running out of time and out of options. And by the way, our Mindanao Railway project was given a zero budget and yet, nothing is heard of our Mindanaoan servants. Nabayaran rin ba? Fuck! Namo!
