ang hagit ni CJ Corona

[kuyabog]

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desperate attempt to gain an acquittal

[reptoid]

Defense and prosecution attorneys have a very simple mandate. What's more important is the ethical standards of people in high office. A judge who hides money citing a 1974 loophole in my estimation lacks sufficient common-sense and or integrity to retain his position.

[lhorenzoo]

Guilt by hypocrisy

Without condition, qualification, or equivocation, Chief Justice Renato Corona has submitted his waiver to the Senate impeachment court. The Bank Secrecy Law and the Foreign Currency Deposits Act notwithstanding, he has opened both his peso and dollar accounts to the scrutiny of the accusers that took him to court, the senator-judges deciding his fate, and the public-at-large for whose benefit and on whose behalf the impeachment was supposedly initiated.

mpeached, disgraced, and portrayed as the personification of evil itself, the Chief Justice has raised the stake on his persecutors—within the impeachment court and, more importantly, outside of it.

In court, the Senate has noted the submission of the waiver though emphasized that it is not a “producer” but a “hearer” of evidence. It will not summon concerned banks and their representatives, which neither the prosecution nor the defense is willing to present as witnesses.

Outside of court, however, the signed waiver sends a message that reverberates well beyond the halls of the Senate all the way to the walls of the Palace, rocking its self-proclaimed pillars of accountability and transparency. Amid the tremors, the President of the Republic, his appointees, and all his allies in all branches of government—all those that had initiated and supported the impeachment process in the name of good governance—could no longer take refuge in the convenient excuse, “we are not on trial here.” No excuse could be so simplistic; nothing as evasive; nothing, equally pathetic.

Corona, regardless of his diminished credibility, said the single most important statement of the proceeding: “we are all on trial here.” The man who has had two by-passes had the heart to authorize the opening of his bank accounts while those that had, all the while, pontificated in the name of transparency, cowered at the prospect of being judged by the very standards they self-righteously impose on others.

Renato Corona—ironically, the accused —whether acquitted or convicted, has turned the tables on his accusers. He may be defeated in court but outside of it he has produced “evidence,” blanket and damning, against those without the same gumption to affix their signatures on a similar waiver.

In the same court of public opinion where they had previously trotted around with their moralizing, at worst, these “guardians of morality” have just been charged equal guilt for non-full disclosure and at best, proven without an iota of doubt, guilt for supreme hypocrisy.


n 2010, Liberal Party presidential and vice presidential candidates Benigno Aquino III and Mar Roxas, respectively, boldly proclaimed they would sign a waiver authorizing full disclosure of their bank accounts should they be elected into office.

“This is in line with the advocacy of Noynoy Aquino and myself for honest and clean governance … I will propose to Noynoy (Aquino) that this be made to apply to him and to all Cabinet secretaries,” promised Roxas.

Two years later, the statement proved nothing more than a stone-cold bluff, forgotten and folded, issued and withdrawn with the flimsy disclaimer “we are not on trial here.”

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bitaw no? asa na man tong campaign promise nila mar roxas ? nahanaw man.

[elvishtattoo]

Drilon did not bite. Simply because his vote for impeachment has been established even before the hearing started. Sigurado na ang iyang re-election sa 2013. Damned pig.

[lhorenzoo]

i hope the principal accuser of cj , the president in the interest of fairness and tuwid na daan, be the first one to sign the waiver.

[elvishtattoo]

i hope the principal accuser of cj , the president in the interest of fairness and tuwid na daan, be the first one to sign the waiver.

not gonna happen. he is too busy looking for " gwapa " women to pay attention to Corona's challenge...

[lespaulibanez]

Imho ang hagit ni corona is off-timing.

Ang iya reason is for transparency and public accountability.
Why single out on the 189 politicians if your interest is on transparency and public accountability.
Surely disclosure of their monies applies to all regardless of affiliation.

[Saint_hard]

nindto unta ni para mahibaw an nato...kay basin naa pa nyay datu ni Manny Pacquiao ani nila

[supernova37]

those who signed the impeachment against corona has no right supposedly in throwing the first stone to corona if they are not going to sign the waiver... their hands are not clean so with the stones i'm sure.

True..ang walay sala ra ang angayan mubato.

[amingb]

Salute kong Escudero ug Cayetano ug 3 cebuano congressman .... ang uban gipalusot sa pikas dunggan matod pas uban poster basin ug mas daghan pa ug kuarta ni pacman .....