KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.17 JULY 2011

KAKAMPI MO ANG BATAS.17 JULY 2011

Marine colonel’s call for PNoy ouster legal?

LIFE’S INSPIRATION: “For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people. It teaches us to say `No’ to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, while we wait for the blessed hope—the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ…” (Titus 2:11-13, the Holy Bible).

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1987 CONSTITUTION ENCOURAGES FIGHTING LEADERS: As long as the 1987 Constitution retains its so-called people power provisions and the provision granting members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines the status of being “protectors of the Filipino people”, calls for the ouster of President Aquino and any other president after him for that matter will continue.

The reason is that these people power provisions and the Constitutional recognition of the AFP as protectors of the people actually make it legal for anyone, whether civilian, police, or military, to be seeking the ouster of officers of government, as these parts of the Charter virtually scrapped the crime of rebellion, insurrection and other offenses against the state or its government from our statute books.

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MARINE COLONEL’S CALL FOR PNOY OUSTER LEGAL? Even now, in view of these legal mandates, I don’t think any criminal or administrative case can be thrown at, or will stick against, Marine Col. Generoso Mariano with his video-taped and media-distributed footage advocating the ouster of President Aquino in view of what he said as his government’s failure to “save the life of the majority”.

If President Aquino wants to stop future adventurism against his regime from the military, the police or from any other sector, he should call for a Constitutional Convention right away and, among others, delete the foregoing provisions from the Constitution which, by a stroke of irony, his own mother promulgated in 1987.

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CAN PCSO EXEC PROVE BRIBERY VS. BISHOPS? I hope that Director Aleta Tolentino of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) knows what she is talking about when she lashed at the “bribery and temptation” of Roman Catholic bishops who received donations of sports utility vehicles during the Arroyo administration. I am also hoping that the PCSO would not be engaging in the same “bribery and temptation” under the Aquino government, with Tolentino as a PSCO director.

Indeed, it is easy enough to say that the bishops engaged in “bribery and temptation”, as Tolentino did before media at that, but proving that “bribery and temptation” attended the donation of the SUVs is another matter---especially because the PCSO has the mandate of donating funds, vehicles and other goodies to anyone it takes fancy of, as it has done in the past.

What Tolentino should study now, to determine if “bribery and temptation” are present, are, first, the media advertisements and other donations under the current PCSO board, and see if they are not being used to bribe and tempt mediamen or other parties to side with Tolentino and the PCSO board now. I hope that six years from now, there will be no disclosures about PCSO wrongdoings during Tolentino’s time.

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JESUS CHRIST ON JUDGING OTHERS: Our Lord Jesus Christ, in Matthew 7:1-5, has this to say on judging other people: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged…Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?

“How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye…”

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