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| Impeachment Presiding Juror Juan Ponce Enrile |
WHAT ARE THE MORAL JUSTIFICATIONS WHY CJ CORONA IS GIVEN "PLATINUM CARD" BY PHILIPPINE AIRLINES?
A "platinum card" gives the holder the privilege of taking the HIGHEST CLASS available, anytime, anywhere, to any destination in or out of the Philippines, and it is for FREE!
Why should PAL give a "platinum card" to the CJ in the first place?
Did PAL give "platinum card" to P-Noy? Did PAL give "platinum card" to Enrile? How many high officials were given "platinum" privileges by PAL?
So what is the connection between that PAL "platinum card" and the fact that the Supreme Court in a mere administrative ruling withdrew the finality of the SC ruling against PAL in the case filed by flight attendants and stewards?
Enrile suppressed the testimony of PAL vice president for marketing who was to testify how many round-trip flights were enjoyed by CJ Corona and his wife in and out of the Philippines and were to educate the Impeachment Court what is "platinum card" and what are other privileges it offers to holders.
Enrile ruled that the testimonies have no connection with one of the predicate charges in Article 3, that CJ Corona deliberately gave favors to PAL by causing the SC through an administrative ruling to declare withdrawal of the decision ordering PAL to pay Php2.3 billion to its workers it retrenched.
The said case was ruled in favor of FASAP. Then the SC threw out the motion for reconsideration filed by PAL. In the Rules of Court ONLY ONE motion for reconsideration is allowed but PAL filed a Second Motion for Reconsideration that was thrown out again by the SC.
Then, Atty. Estelito Mendoza wrote a letter to the SC and this letter was put in an agenda of the En Banc hearing labeling the same as an "administrative matter" with a separate case number yet it OVERTURNED the regular case with another case number.
The prosecution charged that these acts of causing the mere letter of Atty. Mendoza to be entertained and to cause the withdrawal of the decision of the FASAP case and throwing the same open again were due to CJ Corona and this extraordinary favor is an instance that made the Chief Justice betray the public trust, and in the process showed him to have the lack of "competence, integrity, probity and independence" required for any justice of the Supreme Court.
To the mind of the prosecutors: What caused the CJ to act this way?
Was it due to the "platinum favors" given by PAL?
Enrile ruled that this is an act of bribery. The prosecution insists this is an act showing the motive why CJ favored PAL with the "unwarranted benefit" of overturning the already-closed case.
Because the case has become open again, PAL is saved from paying Php2.3 billion! A whopping lot of money!
With these, was Enrile right in suppressing the testimony?
It is up to my readers to opine.
We in ALAB NG MAMAMAHAYAG (ALAM) urge the people to express their feelings!
ALAM, which is applying for registration as a partylist, is fighting for the feelings of the oppressed to find a voice in the Congress in orders for their concerns to be given more ears and hopefully given favorable actions.
ALAM is constituted by underprivileged media men all over the country, particularly the community journalists. National Press Club (NPC), Alyansa ng Filipinong Mamamahayag (AFIMA) and Hukuman ng Mamamayan Movement Inc. (HMMI) pledged to support its bid to the Congress.
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