UNBELIEVABLY WELL PUT CHAY, BUT YOU KNOW THE PHILIPPINES, IT IS NOT "PRINCIPLE" IT IS USUALLY ALLIANCES, INFLUENCE PEDDLING, AND CRONYISM THAT MOTIVATES ALL POLITICAL GAMESMANSHIP POLITICS IS MERELY THE FACADE FOR THE PERSONAL QUEST FOR POWER BY MANY POLITICIANS BECAUSE THEY SEE THE FILIPINO MASSES AS BEASTS OF BURDEN.. THEY COULD CARE LESS IF THE EDUCATED 10% KNOW THEY ARE OUTRIGHT THIEVES AND CRIMINALS. AS ERAP BOASTS, " I DON'T CARE WHAT 10% OF THE FILIPINOS THINK OF ME BECAUSE I CAN CONTROL THE REMAINING 90% COMPRISING THE MASSES THAT IS NOT AN EMPTY BOAST. TO BE ELECTED MAYOR AFTER A CRIMINAL CONVICTION, EVEN IF PARDONED IS TELLING OF THE FAILURE OF THE PINOY TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN REALITY AND CELLULOID FILM FANTASY LET ALONE IMELDA IS SOLICITING THE HELP OF HER NEPHEWS IN LAUNCHING THIS WHITE PAPER AGAINST BINAY, WHO IS SUPPOSEDLY THEIR ALLY BECAUSE SHE KNOWS THIS IS THE LAST CHANCE FOR HER SON TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT. ERAP HAS TRIED TO RESTRAIN BINAY FROM DEFECTING CLAIMING HE IS THE KINGMAKER BUT IT SEEMS BINAY IS NOT CONVINCED ERAP HAS HIS OWN AGENDA. HE WANTS HIS DIMWITTED SON NOW IN JAIL TO BE THE VP CANDIDATE IMELDA ONLY NEEDS TO CONVINCE 30% OF OUR INDOLENT MASSES BECAUSE SHE CAN BUY THE OTHER 25%. AS THEY SAY IN THE PHILIPPINES, SA BILANGAN ANG PAGPAPANALO. HINDI SA BOTOHAN IF IMELDA HAS GOTTEN CONTROL OF PART OF THE $ 13.5 B NEVER RECOVERED ( WE ONLY FOUND $ 1.5 B ) THEN WITH $ 1 B, SHE CAN BUY THAT REMAINING 25% SHE HAS DELUSIONS OF REDEEMING HER HUSBAND'S SORDID REPUTATION, EVEN IF SHE HAS TO BUY IT SHE WANTS HER HUSBAND BURIED IN THE LIBINGAN NGA MGA BAYANI EVEN IF HE IS BETTER SUITED FOR LIBINGAN SA MUNTINGLUPA LYNN 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. (+632) 551-6350/833-4140 Fax No. (+632) 831-2276 __._,_.___ Posted by: Rene Saguisag <[email protected]> Reply via web post • Reply to sender • Reply to group • Start a New Topic • Messages in this topic (1) VISIT YOUR GROUP • Privacy • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use . __,_._,___ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Center for Good Governance" group. 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