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[In the Web] Chief justice impeached for ‘supporting Arroyo’

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Titanic clash looms in the impeachment of CJ Corona. Photo from http://globalbalita.com.

Raissa Robles in Manilla
Dec 13, 2011

Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona was impeached yesterday by the House of Representatives for allegedly issuing decisions favouring former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo‘s government.

Corona will become the first Philippine chief justice to face an impeachment trial before the Senate. It will start next year, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said late yesterday.
Only 95 signatures were needed.Corona’s impeachment came suddenly when 188 lawmakers in the 287-member House signed the Articles of Impeachment that the house leadership drafted this weekend.

Edcel Lagman, the House minority leader and a loyal ally of Arroyo, branded the move “the mother of all blackmails”. He claimed congressmen were told they would miss out on “pork-barrel” funding for pet projects if they did not back the move.

Arroyo is under guard at a military hospital after her arrest on charges of electoral sabotage. She denies the charges.

Other lawmakers denied Lagman’s claim. Congressman Teodoro Casino said that his militant bloc signed up to the impeachment because “this is an important step in holding [Arroyo] accountable for her crimes against the people”.

Last month, the Corona-led Supreme Court ruled that Arroyo could leave the country despite a travel ban issued by the Department of Justice. But immigration authorities blocked Arroyo from boarding a plane on the orders of the justice department.

Corona warned court employees yesterday of “a secret plot to oust me from office, by any means fair or foul” and promised a fight.

Corona is the third highest official to be impeached, after former president Joseph Estrada in 2000 and ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez earlier this year.

Animosity between Corona and President Benigno Aquino came to a head last week after Aquino delivered a stinging conference speech moments after shaking Corona’s hand.

Aquino told Corona he was a “midnight appointee”, because the latter assumed office only a week after Aquino’s sweeping electoral victory last year, then detailed a number of decisions Corona made favouring Arroyo.

Corona served as her presidential chief of staff and spokesman before she appointed him to the Supreme Court.

Please read original article posted at http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2af62ecb329d3d7733492d9253a0a0a0/?vgnextoid=037a9249b2334310VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&ss=asia%20world&s=news

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[In the Web] Trillanes lawyer: Treat Gloria Arroyo the way her government treated my client

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Will CGMA be prosecuted like Sen. Trillanes? Photo from http://innaga.blogspot.com.

by Raissa Robles

When Senator Antonio Trillanes was in detention for a capital crime, he was banned from using the Internet and mobile phone by a regional trial court judge.

Trillanes appealed the ban but the government of then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo successfully blocked this, as well as his request to physically attend Senate sessions.

That was four years ago. Now the shoe is on the other foot.

Today Congresswoman Arroyo (CGMA) is the one in detention for a capital crime and a regional trial court judge recently barred her mobile and Internet access.

This prohibition prompted her husband-lawyer Mike to send my former Philippine Star colleague Jess Diaz the following text message:

Why is the government trying to isolate and cut off CGMA’s communication line with the outside world as if she’s a convicted criminal already?

This is another assault on her constitutional rights, much more an unlawful obstruction of her right to perform her function as an elected representative of her district in Pampanga.

When will this oppression stop?

Mike Arroyo’s rant seems to have ignored what his wife did to Trillanes and how that might have set a precedent on how courts should treat detained lawmakers facing non-bailable charges.

Trillanes’ lawyer Reynaldo Robles told me in an interview:

When the senator was in jail we made a (court) request for him to use the Internet and a cellphone. He was not allowed. Now, if they change the rules just because of former President Arroyo, obviously they are not being objective anymore.

This (request for Internet and phone access) is the ultimate test of (the court’s) objectivity.

Please read full article at http://raissarobles.com/2011/12/05/trillanes-lawyer-treat-gloria-arroyo-the-way-her-government-treated-my-client/

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[In the Web] Gloria Arroyo’s downfall actually started in July

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GMA with Ampatuans. Photo courtesy of Asiancorrespondent.com

 

By Raissa Robles

The Arroyo camp is complaining that the Commission on Elections and the Department of Justice “railroaded” and “rushed” the electoral sabotage case against her. The truth is the opposite of that. The “evidence” of Arroyo’s crime first came to light on July 11 this year and quickly unfolded from there.

It all began when Zaldy Ampatuan –  a suspected mass murderer whom Arroyo  handpicked to be  Governor of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) – suddenly told ABS-CBN TV that his family helped rig the 2007 polls for Arroyo in their home province of Maguindanao.

He claimed that as a result, Arroyo’s candidate Juan Miguel Zubiri won a seat in the Senate.

During the Comelec counting at the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC), Zubiri emerged No. 1 in Maguindanao province and won over 195,000 votes there. Gloria Arroyo’s senatorial bets won all the votes there while the opposition – that then included Benigno Aquino III – all got zero.

Arroyo’s spokesman Raul Lambino said the accusation was self-serving. Ampatuan merely wanted to save his own skin. By offering to testify against Arroyo, he might evade being charged for the 2009 massacre of 58 people, including 34 journalists, in Maguindanao, southern Philippines.

At that time, Ampatuan had already been in a maximum security cell for two years trying to avoid arraignment for the mass murder.

Ampatuan’s claim would probably have fallen by the wayside if another controversial personality had not surfaced three days later on July 13 and sang the same tune. Lintang Bedol, an election supervisor for the southern province of Sultan Kudarat and long wanted by the Comelec for cheating, suddenly gave an interview to ABS-CBN saying Arroyo cheated in the 2004 and 2007 elections.

Two weeks later, the man whom Zaldy Ampatuan claimed was the main beneficiary of cheating suddenly resigned from the Senate. Juan Miguel Zubiri vacated his Senate seat on August 3 tearfully saying:

“Without admitting any fault and with my vehement denial of the alleged electoral fraud hurled against me, I am submitting my resignation as a duly elected Senator of the Republic of the Philippines in the election for which I am falsely accused without mercy and compassion.

Kung may nandaya po sa 2007 elections, wala po tayong kinalaman diyan…[If anyone cheated in the 2007 elections, we did not know anything about it."

The candidate who had accused Zubiri of stealing the votes assumed Zubiri’s vacated seat and vowed to go after the “mastermind” of the cheating.

Senator Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III had actually fought a lonely four-year battle to unseat Zubiri from the Senate and claim it as his. Way back in 2007, he had accused two provincial election officials, Lilian Radam and Yogie Martirizar, of cheating for Zubiri.

This is the same Yogie Martirizar whom I wrote about as having almost the same calcium deficiency disorder as Arroyo in my piece entitled – Gloria Arroyo stopped a woman, with an illness and a case just like hers, from leaving the country for four years

Read more at http://raissarobles.com/2011/11/21/gloria-arroyos-downfall-actually-started-in-july/

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[In the Web] Philippine massacre victims’ kin sue ex-president

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Families of the Victims of the Maguindanao Massacre still crying for justice. Photo from http://politicalwatchuntv.wordpress.com.

 

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Relatives of 57 people massacred in the Philippines’ worst political violence sued former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Tuesday, claiming she could have prevented the killings.

At least two Arroyo allies, including a former governor of an autonomous Muslim region, are among about 100 suspects being tried on murder charges in the massacre that occurred two years ago Wednesday. The dead included 32 media workers, making it the worst single killing of journalists in the world.

Arroyo was arrested last week on charges that she ordered the former governor, Andal Ampatuan Sr., and another official to commit election fraud two years before the massacre. Arroyo has condemned and denied any knowledge of the killings, but lawyer Harry Roque said she should have known that Ampatuan and his son were a danger.

Roque filed the lawsuit Tuesday, seeking 15 million pesos ($346,000) in damages. In court documents, he argued that Arroyo turned a blind eye to a decade of human rights abuses in the region and “instead she cultivated ties with the Ampatuans, who would prove indispensable to her continued hold on political power.”

Reporters, drivers and assistants were accompanying family and supporters of the Ampatuans’ political rival en route to file for candidacy in regional elections when gunmen allegedly led by former town mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. stopped them and led them to a hilltop clearing where they were mowed down and hastily buried in mass graves.

Relatives and colleagues of the journalists who died visited the massacre site Tuesday, the eve of the killings’ second anniversary. They offered prayers and 58 white lilies and lighted candles. A Catholic priest celebrated Mass at the mound where concrete markers bearing the names of dead were erected.

Reynafe Momay-Castillo, daughter of journalist Reynaldo Momay — the 58th victim whose body has not yet been found — could not hold back tears as she spoke to reporters. “I have been waiting for two years. …I have also been denied justice for the two years that I’ve been searching for my father.”

Arroyo expelled the Ampatuans from her ruling party after the massacre and declared martial law in Maguindanao province, enabling the army and police to round up the suspects and attempt to restore order.

Roque said that although there is no evidence that Arroyo masterminded the massacre, “she not only funded and armed the Ampatuans but gave them the sense of influence. She could have prevented it. She knew about possible dangers.”

Read more: http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Philippine-massacre-victims-kin-sue-ex-president-2281339.php#ixzz1eULYADDT

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[In the Web] Payback time

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Philippine President Gloria Arroyo administers the oath to her newly appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona at the Malacanang Palace in Manila. Corona is the 23rd chief justice of the Philippine Supreme Court.. Photo from http://gulfnews.com

By Mr. Oldtowner

Former Philippine President Gloria Arroyo is now reaping of what she sow in her 9 ½ years in office. Mrs. Arroyo was charged before a lower court of election sabotage and was ordered arrested in her hospital bed in late afternoon of Nov. 18, 2011. The arrest warrant was immediately served before Mrs. Arroyo could take her move of going abroad. The ex-president is facing various lawsuits.

 

Mrs. Arroyo was accused of big time corruption, election cheating, human rights violations and other anomalies that muddled the whole process of governance. Impunity is associated to the then government of Mrs. Arroyo. Her trusted allies, minions and paid hacks made a killing in defrauding, looting and bleeding the country’s wealth. Allegedly, immoderate greed persisted even in the last days of the term of the Arroyo government.

 

It was like a bacchanalia of anomalies committed. The corrupt system of government affected the very foundation of moral authority usually associated in good governance. All institutions, both private and the public sectors, shamelessly connived with the Arroyo government in changing the outlook of managing the country. The military and police organizations were used in rigging the 2004 and 2007 elections.

 

Political clans and warlords around the country were ushered in to the seat of power to help the Arroyo government of committing more anomalies and human rights violations. The administration created a monster that stirred fear and anxiety. It was like that there’s no end to injustice. The Arroyo government even tried to stay in power by amending the constitution but met with angry opposition from the different sectors of society.

 

Nevertheless, Mrs. Gloria Arroyo finished her term but not without assuring herself of protection from lawsuits. The sly former leader appointed most of the justices of the Supreme Court and without a doubt her appointees’ loyalty were tested during the first few months of the new administration of President Noynoy Aquino.

 

Read full article at http://www.groundreport.com/Business/Payback-time_1/2942648

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[In the Web] Credibility vs. legalism

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Supreme Court Spokesman Midas Marquez announced that the High Court voted 8-5 reiterating the temporary restraining order on the Watch List Order of Justice Secretary Leila de Lima issued against former President Gloria Arroyo. Photo from http://ph.news.yahoo.com

Framework

By Efren Sicangco Cruz

It seems to me that this whole Arroyo controversy, for non-lawyers like me, is more an issue of credibility rather than a question of legalism, which means the tendency to observe the letter rather than the spirit of the law.

This reinforces the thesis that all Supreme Courts, in the Philippines or the United States or any other country, are political institutions and justices are influenced by their political beliefs. We should not, therefore, accept their decisions as legally infallible.

In the issue of whether the TRO legally invalidated the hold order and, therefore, GMA should have been allowed to leave, is one clear example of my statement that this is an issue of credibility. I have listened to so-called brilliant lawyers debating both sides of the question.

On one side of the issue is Associate Justice Ma. Lourdes Sereno, who made copies of her nine-page dissent available to the public last Friday. According to her, the TRO issued on Nov. 15 remained ineffective because the Arroyo couple had failed to comply with Condition No. 2 — that the “petitioners shall appoint a legal representative common to both of them who will receive subpoenas, orders, and others legal processes on their behalf during their absence.”

On the other side of the issue is Court Administrator and spokesperson Midas Marquez, who held a press conference last Friday to announce that the Supreme Court had rejected the appeal of the Executive Branch to reconsider the issuance of the TRO and said that the TRO remained in full force and effect.

Justice Sereno said that Court spokesperson Marquez was wrong when he told reporters that the TRO remained in effect. She said: “The Court Administrator cum Acting Chief of the PIO is hereby advised to be careful not to go beyond his role in such offices and that he has no authority to interpret any of our judicial issuances, including the present resolution, a function he never had from the beginning.”

Marquez, on the other hand, refused to budge and said : “As much as we should all respect the dissenting opinion of the good Justice, I announced the majority opinion which prevails and should be complied with.”

My lawyer friends are all feverishly debating the legalisms of these pronouncements. Who am I to believe? There is no doubt in my mind that I simply believe that Associate Justice Sereno has more credibility than Court Administrator Midas Marquez. In a court case when there are two contradicting testimonies, the final judgment is based on credibility. Therefore, I am not proposing anything incredulous or even illegal.

I leave it to my readers to examine the background of each contending person, as they would do in a court of law, and decide who is more credible. I feel comfortable in saying that I believe most of my readers will come to share my conclusion.

It has been the contention that, in order to escape from politicized decisions, citizens must resort to litigation. I share the conclusions of many other political observers that the law, especially constitutional law, is simply politics by other means. Judges decide cases on the basis of the results they favor and then select the legal criteria or precedents to justify and make persuasive the results they have already chosen.

Read full article at http://www.bworldonline.com/content.php?section=Opinion&title=Credibility-vs.-legalism&id=41979

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[In the Web] Gloria Arroyo (GMA) Mugshot, Fingerprints Taken Today

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This is NOT the actual Gloria Macapagal Arroyo mugshot but a parody found online. The actual GMA mugshot will be posted here once it is available. (Credit: Guerry, Source: At Midfield) Photo from http://manila-paper.net

The Philippine National Police (PNP) has schedule the booking of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo today. GMA’s mugshot and fingerprints will be taken at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Taguig City where Gloria Arroyo continues to be confined. Chief Supt. Agrimero Cruz Jr., PNP spokesman, said the booking process will just take a short time but the exact time is still unknown. The PNP will still get clearance from GMA’s doctors for the process.

“We are waiting for attending physicians to complete medical checkupon GMA before we begin with the booking procedures,” Coronel said in a text message, according to TV5 News.

GMA was placed under arrest yesterday on orders of the Pasay City RTC. The court found probable cause in the case of electoral fraud filed by the Comelec yesterday morning. Electoral fraud is a non=bailable offense and Gloria Arroyo is expected to be put under the custody of the PNP while awaiting trial. A room has reportedly been reserved for her.

But the PNP and Aquino government made it clear that utmost respect will be accorded the former president. DOJ Secretary Leila de Lima likewise revealed that the government will not object to a hospital arrest or a house arrest for Gloria Arroyo if her lawyers files for the said privilege.

UPDATE:

“Don’t publish Arroyo mugshot.” A lawyer for GMA has appealed to the police to to publish GMA’s mugshot so as not to subject her to further embarrassment. Atty. Ferdinand Topacio, now infamous for his ‘testicular offer’, made the request to the Philippine National Police.

“We already requested the police not to release the mugshot,” Topacio said. “Let’s treat the former president with the respect due her.”

We will find out in the coming days if the PNP will grant the request.

Please read full story at http://manila-paper.net/gloria-arroyo-gma-mugshot-fingerprints-taken-today/18538

 

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[In the Web] Former Philippine President Gloria Arroyo arrested on fraud charges

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November 18th after being arrested in the hospital she was currently admitted in for charges of election fraud. Photo from bakitwhy.com

MANILA (BNO NEWS) — Former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was arrested at a Manila hospital on Friday on charges of electoral fraud, preventing her departure from the country to seek medical treatment.

Incumbent President Benigno Aquino and his government have long accused Arroyo of corruption during her two terms in office, from 2001 until 2010. However, authorities had not formally charged her until Friday because prosecutors said they wanted to make sure the evidence is strong enough.

“Today, the Pasay Regional Trial Court branch 112 issued a warrant of arrest for Representative Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, after reviewing the electoral sabotage case filed by the COMELEC (Commission on Elections),” said Secretary of Justice Leila de Lima.

“Thus, Mrs. Arroyo is compelled to stay in the country, and face the charges of electoral sabotage filed against her, bringing us closer to uncovering the truth behind the controversies surrounding the 2007 elections.” Senior Superintendent Franklin Bucayu, head of the Southern Police District, told a news briefing outside St Luke’s Hospital that Arroyo is now in police custody.

“The arrest warrant has been served. We tried to read her rights but her lawyers waived it because of her conditions. She smiled at us and she was expecting it,” Bucayu said.

The arrest comes just days after the Supreme Court issued an order which allowed Arroyo to leave the country to seek medical treatment for a rare bone disease. It allowed her to travel to at least five countries where the Philippines has no extradition treaty, meaning Arroyo could have found refuge there to escape charges in the Philippines.

But the Philippine government refused to comply with the court order and instructed immigration officials to stop Arroyo and her husband Jose Miguel Arroyo from boarding a flight to Singapore.

Officials said the fact that Arroyo went straight to the airport following the court decision only heightened the government’s suspicion that they intended to evade charges.

 

Read full article at http://news.rickey.org/former-philippine-president-gloria-arroyo-arrested-on-fraud-charges/6291

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[In the Web] Arroyo’s pleas political, not human rights issue

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Former Philippine president Gloria Arroyo, wearing head and neck brace, asks to leave the country for medical treatment. Photo: AP Source: AP

By: *

It would be the supreme irony to allow GMA (Gloria Macapagal-Aroyo) to invoke our most sacred human rights protections to escape justice. That would be her supreme, final perversion of our democratic institutions. While countless voices have correctly quoted human rights law, our democracy must recognize GMA’s pleas as a political, not human rights, issue.

Our Bill of Rights is our democracy’s greatest triumph. It is “counter-majoritarian”; it empowers the weakest member of our society to stand against the most powerful members. Wind and sunshine may enter the humblest hovel, but the king must first knock at the door.

The Bill of Rights is applied by the courts with very strict scrutiny in favor of the disadvantaged for whom “those political processes ordinarily to be relied upon to protect minorities” historically do not work: From the Maguindanao massacre victims to millions of starving children who might be fed and clothed with the money from the fertilizer and ZTE scams.

That is why we must pierce legal rhetoric to see what is really at stake.

Portrayed as victim

One, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has been portrayed as the victim boxed into a corner and fighting for her survival. Lest we forget, the supposed underdog here is a former President and now a member of the Philippine Congress, with loyal allies and appointees in high places, with a formidable war chest at her disposal, much of it our own money, the criminal complaints say. She is not a political nobody by any stretch of the imagination.

Two, if there was any legal sleight of hand, it lies in the TRO, which consolidated the separate cases of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Jose Miguel Arroyo. In a discussion of this case with some law school classmates, it was asked: How did Mike get to benefit from Gloria’s medical emergency?

Political solution

I would be the first to call for the rule of law, but the image of GMA the human rights victim gives pause. As the Inquirer’s editorial called for, this issue needs a political, not a strictly legal, solution. We must stop looking at the neckbrace and wheelchair in a vacuum and allow our democracy’s checks and balances to play out at the very highest level.

It has been said that the Supreme Court can withstand defiance, but it cannot withstand ridicule, and the Arroyo court has clearly dissipated its reservoir of public trust. The ultimate guardian of our Constitution is “We the People.”

What De Lima is really doing is, beyond the Constitution’s explicit text, asking people to recognize that this is really a political issue. President Aquino seems willing to be judged by history alongside Arroyo and the Arroyo court. Perhaps we should let him.

Legit President checks SC

The textbooks say that to condone a secretary of justice ignoring a Supreme Court order is to go down a slippery slope. However, history has shown that when the referee is punching alongside a boxer, the Filipino people have been ready to throw away the rulebook and reclaim their ultimate authority at Edsa.

Faced with GMA as human rights victim, this is not the best time to demonstrate our commitment to rule of law, to grant a reviled former President her fundamental right to travel, but the worst time, to allow her to escape with impunity in a final, irreparable mockery of the rule of law.

 

*Raul C. Pangalangan- former dean UP College of Law, currently Professor of Constitutional and Political Law at the UP College of Law

 

Read full article at http://opinion.inquirer.net/17515/arroyo%E2%80%99s-pleas-political-not-human-rights-issue

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[In the Web] ‘Aquinorroyo’ Conspiracy?

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Aquino and Arroyo: Perhaps not good friends but are they really political enemies? Photo from asiancorrespondent.com.

By Perry Diaz*

Last November 15, 2011, the Supreme Court issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) that would prevent the Department of Justice in enforcing its watch list order (WLO) against former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The ruling included three conditions, to wit: (1) Payment in cash of a P2 million cash bond; (2) The appointment of legal representatives, who will receive all legal documents including subpoenas; and (3) Report in person or call the Philippine embassy or consulate office in countries where the Arroyos will travel.

In a statement made to the press, the former First Gentleman, Jose Miguel “Mike” Arroyo said that the Supreme Court ruling was a “triumph of justice.” But the Akbayan Party thinks otherwise. The party’s spokesperson, Risa Hontiveros, condemned the TRO as “a huge disservice to justice” and “a parole before a conviction.”

 

“The Great Escape” foiled

As soon as the news of the ruling was announced, Gloria posted the P2-million cash bond and made bookings for Singapore at 4:00 pm, 5:00 pm, 7:35 pm, 7:55 pm and 9:00 pm. When the Arroyos did not show up, the flights, which were booked with Philippine Airlines and Singapore Airlines, were canceled.

But at 8:00 pm the Arroyos arrived at the Ninoy International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 1 through an ambulance. They were going to take an 8:50 pm flight bound for Hong Kong via Dragon Air when they were barred from entering the gate at NAIA.

 

Mockery of justice

Sad to say, the ripple effect of the TRO is that it sets a precedent that any Filipino who is facing criminal charges but has not yet been formally arraigned in court can leave the country at will. Indeed, the ruling made the Philippine justice system virtually inutile.

The question is: Why did the Supreme Court allow Gloria to travel considering that preliminary investigation is ongoing on six plunder charges and one electoral sabotage case against Gloria? One can argue that Filipino citizens have an “absolute” constitutional right to travel. But the Supreme Court had set legal precedents that the right to travel is not absolute.

 

Legal precedents

In his Inquirer column last November 10, Raul Pangalangan, former Dean of the UP College of Law, said: “To start with, the Supreme Court itself has ruled that the right to travel is not absolute. The Court has upheld the power of the Presidential Commission on Good Government to issue hold-departure orders against ‘persons [who are] known or suspected to be involved’ as Marcos cronies. Yet that power was not explicitly granted in the PCGG’s charter, and was merely implied from its power ‘to conduct investigation[s]’ and ‘restrain any [act] that may render moot and academic, or frustrate or otherwise make ineffectual [its] efforts.’

 

“Political” decision

Given these legal precedents set by the Supreme Court, the question is: Why did the Supreme Court turn a blind eye to these legal precedents and take exception of Gloria?

For one thing, the Supreme Court is stacked with 12 Arroyo appointees, nine of who are perceived to be rabidly loyal to her, including the “midnight” Chief Justice, Renato Corona. Known as “Arroyo Court,” it has consistently issued rulings that were favorable to Gloria and her allies. With the resignation of Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez, a loyal ally of the Arroyos and Gloria’s “line of first defense,” the high court is her “court of last defense.” And the recent ruling seems to manifest that.

 

Conspiracy theory
In my article, “Would Gloria come back?” (October 19, 2011), I wrote: “I usually take conspiracy theories with a grain of salt. But there is one conspiracy theory that keeps crossing my mind since the May 10, 2010 presidential election. About two weeks before the election, ‘Aquinorroyo’ started buzzing around in Manila. I ignored it and accepted the results of the elections hook, line, and sinker. ‘No way it could have happened,’ I told my source.

 

Is “Aquinorroyo” real?

Romulus Jove Beltran, a Facebook blogger, said it succinctly: “He [P-Noy] has had enough time to gather all the evidence he needs which is not so hard to do considering that they’re glaring. He’s not making sure of his case if you ask me… the slow pace is deliberate…! And now, Gloria is going to escape because the careful hunter prepared for the hunt much too long…”

Which makes one wonder what is preventing P-Noy from filing charges against Gloria in court? It looks like the “Aquinorroyo” conspiracy is real after all.

 

*Perry Diaz is based in Sacramento, California, United States of America, and is an Anchor for Allvoices.

 

Read full article at http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/10885282-aquinorroyo-conspiracy

 

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