Dear Atty. Vicente Millora,
In connection with your letter to the Inquirer editor today, January 16, 2012, with all due respect to you, may I state that it is not correct to equate the impeachment of CJ Renato Corona to an attempted destruction of the Supreme Court itself. Fact is, there are INDICATORS of a misbehaving Supreme Court, especially of CJ Corona, and to simply grin and bear it on the part of the people smacks of slave mentality on their part.
From the viewpoint of ordinary Filipinos who suffered from the misrule of the past Arroyo administration, the issue in CJ Corona's impeachment maybe capsulized as follows:
As pointed out in my forthcoming 2nd email on crime and protection--instead of punishment--in the Arroyo regime, rampant CORRUPTION of as much as roughly $25 MILLION took place in the Arroyo administration from 2001 to 2005, as admitted by then Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez herself.
If we care enough to observe events, if we are intelligent enough to know the implications of events, then we would know that: (1) Ombudsman Gutierrez coddled Arroyo administration officials by not going all-out after them; (2) COA and other government officials similarly protected through inaction the Arroyo regime, and (3) the Supreme Court coddled both the perpetrators and coddlers of corruption in the Arroyo administration--by means of its decisions that, among other things, prevented through upheld executive privilege the exposure of Pres. Arroyo's hidden role in the approval and signing of the ZTE-NBN contract, as well as delayed for five months the 2010 impeachment case of Ombudsman Gutierrez in the House of Representatives.
In effect, by apparently protecting the perpetrators and coddlers of corruption in the Arroyo administration, the Supreme Court worked against the best interests of the people and deserves punitive action. The people have to seek redress for their grievances by starting somewhere, and that start was provoked by the seeming most guilty of the SC justices--CJ Renato Corona. Under our rule of law, under our systems of checks and balances, the route is via the IMPEACHMENT process provided by no less than the Constitution itself.
Under the circumstance of our misbehaving Supreme Court as expounded on in my cited 2nd email, the impeachment trial is for the best interests of the people. Therefore, to aggrieved Filipinos victimized by big-time corruption in the Arroyo regime (such as through Arroyo-regime-initiated unwarranted increase in VALUE ADDED TAX from 10% to 12% simply to replenish public funds lost from corruption ), working against the impeachment trial is tantamount to working against the best interests of the people.
(For, what is wrong in having the TRUTH--whether for or against CJ Corona--come out once and for all in the Senate impeachment trial. If he is innocent, then let his name be cleared. If he is guilty, let him suffer the consequences. Is that not the RULE of LAW invoked by CJ Corona's defenders themselves?)
My succeeding emails present at length the case against CJ Corona and the Arroyo administration--which serve as the evaded grave provocation to the present punitive action against former Pres. Arroyo and CJ Corona. As a concerned citizen, if I am wrong and their defenders and apologists can validly prove it, I will gladly eat humble pie.
So that Supreme Court justices and/or their supporters will not say that I am writing against them behind their back, I issued my herein forwarded emails to them through their email address available in the Internet, that of the Supreme Court Public Information Office.
MARCELO L. TECSON
A Concerned Citizen
San Miguel, Bulacan
January 16. 2012
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