No official can violate constitutional limits of power without abusing authority and committing corruption. The US Supreme Court and Philippine Supreme Court held in the 2013 Pork Barrel System petition that corruption is not just about money being stolen, but ACTS of abusing authority for personal gain.
Government alibi’s of DAP good purposes are not justification of crimes committed. Our demands for justice is not bound by time and requires retribution and restoration. The most important purpose of civil government is to serve justice. Officials who can not serve justice are useless.
The COA chair who continues to put a deaf ear on calls reminding her to issue the notices of disallowances she bragged about at the Supreme Court during the oral arguments on Oct.8, 2013 Pork Barrel System-Pdaf in effect is witholding justice for every filipino citizens and tax payer. These notices will require Pdaf tainted officials in both the executive and legislative department to return what has been stolen or mis-used.
DAP is a direct violation of Art.6, Sec.25, paragraph 5 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is the biggest corruption scam in the recent history of Philippine politics. Not even the late President Marcos was able to consolidate all funds into his office without abolishing congress by declaring Martial Law. This DAP system was able to do it (consolidation funds) through DAP with the existence but without the knowldege of anyone in congress. The P 149B DAP scam in 2 years remains to be unmatched in all corruption scam in the Philippines.
Even if Janet Napoles is given 100 years to work in congress and make P10B every year in 10 years, she will not be able to move money as much as the officials involved with the DAP scam in 2 years. Thats why we assert that Janet Napoles is not the master mind of the Pdaf scam, but the officials who had power and control over the funds and who created the system. Napoles is the business man who perfected the corrupt system our officials created.
These systems of Lump sum and discretionary budgeting more populary know to be the Pork Barrel System in all its names and forms –Pdaf, DAP, insertions. E-commerce funds, Special Purpose funds, Automatic appropriations funds, unprogrammed funds and the likes is making criminals out of businessmen and businessmen out of criminals.
DBM MANUFACTURED RECORDS.
DBM has been releasing records of DAP expenditures exposing only opposition senators when other senators has already revealed that everyone who has voted to impeach the former Chief Justice Corona received DAP funds except for one. In fact administration senators received the biggest releases. Senate President Drillon 100M and Sen.Chiz 99M. The rest received 50M each more or less.
It has been reported that a total of P6.5B pesos was used to pay off congressmen and senators to impeach the former Chief Justice Corona. P10M for each congressmen a total of P5B for the lower house and mostly P50M per senator totaling to P1.5B for the upper house.
Senate must investigate DAP to serve justice, for public information and to build evidence against this plunder. Of the DAP releases, only 4.3% were released to the legislative body while the rest were illegally spent by the office of the President. Where did it come from, who were involved and where did it go must be revealed.
JUSTICE MUST BE SERVED AGAINST CROOKS IN PUBLIC OFFICE & WHAT WAS STOLEN MUST BE RETURNED.
Officials who abused authority must be brought to justice. And what was stolen must be returned. It is for us to demand justice against this abusive DAP system that rendered useless all constitutional limits of power our young heroes laid down in the very constitution they have written. This principles of separated powers was sustained by all constitutions including the 1987 constitution to protect society from corruption and abusive systems and officials.
We must take it upon ourselves to demand justice against these abusive system for our generation to strengthen this nation and must work to learn the issues and teach the young so they may learn how to protect true liberty in their generation.
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