With all due respect, Senator Saguisag, you are treading on dangerous ground again. You wanted the bases out as a matter of principle, come what may. What happened is that the Chinese seized on the vacuum that was created and are now the owners of what used to be in the Philippines' Exclusive Economic Zone.
You want PNoy out by 2016 as a matter of principle. Even if that would probably mean a return to GMA-style, Estrada-style and, to an extent, Macoy-style governance. When you already know what the bull is going to do in the China shop, wouldn't you try to do everything in your power to stop the bull from coming into that shop in the first place? Being married to an idea - the one presidential term written into the 1987 Constitution - at the expense of being blind to its consequences it seems to me is a slavish concoction of a mechanical mind. We must be focused on what is good for the country and not what is good for the constitutionalists. No constitution is perfect. Especially the U.S. Constitution. And that is why there are now 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and counting. The first ten amendments are the Bill of Rights. The delegates to the first constitutional convention forgot about the Bill of Rights. Imagine! This shows that a constitution is only as good as the sum total of the delegates' smarts. As knowledge advances, succeeding generations may in fact be in possession of new knowledge that trumps the biases inherent in a constitution. There was bias against prolonged tenure because of the country's experience with the evil Marcoses. But those biases do not apply when the executive is a benevolent and corruption-fighting machine. We have found a leader who is potentially a benevolent version of Singapore's Lee Kwan Yew. We may not have another one like him in the next few generations. So what happens to the country in the interim? We have to do everything in our power to keep PNoy in office, especially since the heir apparent can be viewed only "through a looking glass, darkly." The title of a novel that is now near-classic. C On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:13 PM, Rene Saguisag [email protected] [Worldwide-Filipino-Alliance] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > * The Supreme Court would know how to deal with sedition. So would the > DOJ. * > > > * But, there is nothing seditious in filing professionally a vigorous > motion for reconsideration (MR), which courts routinely deny anyway. That's > what lawyers are expected to do in our adversary system, raise every > possible defense available under the laws of the land. The MR may > incite? But, Holmes said, every idea is an incitement. Which urges > immediate action. "Let's march now!" differs from "let's march next year."* > > * No way the SC would reverse itself in DAP the way Florenz Regalado > had an 11-0 decision reversed 0-11 in 1967 in Tactaquin v. Palileo, a tort > case. So a mere four months later; today an MR in the Lenny Villa case > (Ateneo Law frat hazing fatality) has been pending for two and a half > years. * > > * I am for bringing down our high and mighty and unelected Supreme > Court to the level of the U.S.'s, which rules on illegality and > unconstitutionality, but never, to my knowledge, on abuse of discretion of > a co-equal branch, elected at that. That has been the case since Marbury > v., Madison, decided in 1803, on judicial review. * > > * I am for weakening our judiciary so that it would no longer decide on > the location of a petrochemcial plant, the sale of Manila Hotel, or the > choice of National Artists - better left to the elected who run for > reelection. * > > * In the U.S., the judiciary is the least dangerous branch, here it is > the most dangerous. It seized on "Grave Abuse of Discretion," which Chief > Justice Roberto Concepcion, as a ConCom Delegate, on July 10, 1986, seemed > to me to have been an effort to prevent martial law abuse, not in times of > normalcy. No GAD in the paradigmatic admired U.S. Consti. * > * We are now into the last 675 days or so of the PNoy watch. I will do > what I can to help him return to private life in 2016, to write a book, > plant a a tree and father a son who will carry on the family name. He has > suffered enough trying to lead an ungovernable scofflaw nation.* > > * An anti-pork rally today? Would that mean we in the 1987-92 Senate > are to be condemned? Pork continues in the U.S.. It is not toxic per se. If > the picnic succeeds, without the smell of gunpowder we had to deal with in > the time of Macoy, that may hold promise of massing against China. Sana. * > > * Meantime, we look at the Inevitability of Jojobama in 2016 when all > the saints will go marching in? Daughter Nancy, instead of helping us deal > with China, BangsaMoro, Global Warming, etc., is busy defending her > dynasty. * > > * Insanity I think is a qualification for wanting to run an un-runnable > ungovernable masaya scofflaw nation of know-it-all kadunongs and pilosopos, > now more than a hundred million, and multiplying like rabbits. Millions of > insane voters prevented a restoration of Erap in 2010. * > > * GMA, JPE, Jing, Bong, Gigi, Janet, et al. would then be immune today > but an Ampaw Prez may have seen to the contrary, without minimizing the > presumption of innocence. * > > * Would today's rally be progressive? Or nihilist? Who would benefit in > anarchizing our society? * > > * Let's enjoy Fil-Aussie golfer Jason Day's and Pinoy archer Gabriel > Luis Moreno's feats na lang. * > > -- > Saguisag & Associates Lawyers > 4045 Bigasan Street, Palanan > 1235 Makati > Office Nos. 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