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CJSereno VS Duterte: A timeline to impeachment (Part 3: 2018)

As the House of Representatives’ Committee on Justice, led by Duterte Man Rep Reynaldo Umali, continued its hearings to decide on whether or not there is probable cause for the Sereno impeachment, what became obvious was that this was a concerted effort to get the Chief Justice to crumble and just resign. After all, the allegations against her were being made public, and in the hands of Duterte’s men in Congress, these were being spun into fact. This is exactly what they did to Senator Leila de Lima, who used every platform available to her to fight back, hysteria and tears and all, including playing the victim card, which also arguably made things worse for her: this gave Duterte’s propagandists, troll army, and social media employees the ammunition to use her as object and subject of their propaganda.

CJ Sereno knows better, and refuses to play Duterte’s game. And they must hate her for not playing into their hands. (more…)

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CJSereno VS Duterte: A timeline to impeachment (Part 2: 2017)

Wherein 2016 Duterte revealed himself to be very defensive about the war on drugs, and therefore ready to attack anyone at all — including the Chief Justice — for putting it into question, in 2017 he was on a roll, blaming practically everything on the Supreme Court, and specifically on Sereno.

He continued to be hung-up on the judiciary imposing TROs on government projects, even when early on Sereno had clarified that there were very few such TROs. He started stating as fact the allegations against Sereno detailed in Larry Gadon’s impeachment complaint. He insisted that Sereno was part of a plot to oust him from the Presidency, alongside the Left, the Dilawan, the Ombudsman, and Trillanes.

Talk about Presidential paranoia.

Here’s how Duterte’s men in the House of Representative decided to give him Sereno’s head on a silver platter.  (more…)

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CJSereno VS Duterte: A timeline to impeachment (Part 1: 2016)

For anyone at all who even thinks for a minute that the CJ Sereno impeachment is exactly the same as the CJ Corona impeachment, here’s a huge difference: Corona was a midnight appointee of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who was allowed to do a midnight appointment, expressly disallowed by the Constitution but allowed by a CJ Reynato Puno Supreme Court. If that name’s familiar, he’s now in charge of the Consultative Commission for ChaCha (can you smell the stench of Prime Minister GMA?) — the rest of the story’s here. In that sense pNoy was actually and in fact undoing an illegal midnight appointment by GMA in his push to impeach Corona. At any other time, a President like Duterte would be praising pNoy for righting a wrong.

Ah, but we are in this time, when Duterte is the model of the most petty, most juvenile President this side of town — America has its own problems after all. And in this world where Duterte is king, and Congress reps and every other hooligan or clown lawyer is ready to fall at his feet and deliver whoever’s head he wants on a platter, we watched as Senator Leila de Lima was jailed for not much else but rumors and very flimsy, highly questionable proof of culpability; as we are watching Chief Justice Sereno being brought to an impeachment court.  (more…)

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Asec #Mocha is correct …

There ARE many, more important, things to talk about, other than her award from the UST Alumni Association Inc. I couldn’t care less about the fact that she was given it, in fact, and it must be said that it is absolutely offensive that the photos of Asec Mocha’s past life are being reposted on social media just to point out that she is undeserving of this award. Seriously: since when did this kind of shaming, as bound to an unapologetic conservatism, cloaked in Catholic righteousness, been acceptable?  (more…)

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Putting out fires

If there’s anything this government, this President, is good at, it’s putting out fires. And it’s not by actually ensuring that we get to the bottom of the cause(s) of these fires, or even count the victims properly (hello, HTI), and certainly it is never about calling out those who are so obviously responsible for these fires, whether oligarchs or factory owners or the leadership of the Philippine Export Processing Zone (PEZA), and certainly not the family that owns NCCC Mall, now found to have violated building safety requirements, which led to the death of 37 in the December 23 fire. (more…)