Category: Government

The SC can stop the trial if there is grave abuse of power by any branch of government

February 10, 2012 Ilda 139 Comments

The impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona has certainly divided the sentiments of the Filipino people. There are Filipinos who side with the prosecution in condemning the Chief Justice despite the absence of hard evidence; there are Filipinos who side with upholding the rule of law and respecting the institutions; and then…

Crime, Economy, Government, Media, Politics

MalacaÃ±ang breathes down neck of Karen Jimeno

February 8, 2012February 8, 2012 benign0 58 Comments

Poor MalacaÃ±ang, again caught grasping at straws as they pick on the intriguing past of Karen Jimeno who is the star spokesman of the defense team in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona. In a â€œreportâ€ issued by ABS-CBN News yesterday, Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte haughtily announces MalacaÃ±ang’s looking forward to Jimeno’s…

Glitz and Glamour, Government, Politics

Prosecutor FariÃ±as admits that Articles of Impeachment were rushed and badly-written

February 8, 2012February 8, 2012 Ilda 47 Comments

Prosecutor Congressman Rodolfo FariÃ±as finally admitted at the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona that the 188 Congressmen who signed the impeachment complaint may not have read and understood the articles of impeachment properly. According to him, he did not sign the impeachment complaint because he was a slow reader compared to…

Crime, Government, Politics

Day 13: Impeachment prosecutor Rudy FariÃ±as spices up trial and charms media personalities

February 8, 2012 benign0 11 Comments

It looks like Ilocos Norte Rep. Rudy FariÃ±as might be laying the groundwork for a completely different approach to prosecuting Chief Justice Renato Corona. In what was described in an ABS-CBN â€œreportâ€ as an episode that provided “some unexpected comic relief” to the impeachment trial, FariÃ±as delivered a fine performance for the cameras as he…

Crime, Government, Media, Politics

Impeachment and looming bank runs: Is economic plunder the real agenda of the Second Aquino Administration?

February 7, 2012February 7, 2012 benign0 29 Comments

Looks like the venerable Philippine Savings Bank (PS Bank) is the next hapless chump thrust into the circus spotlight. In the usual tradition of the way the prosecution habitually pre-empts any court order to authorise any of its police activities, an “envelope” delivered by a shadowy “small lady” allegedly containing Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato…

Crime, Economy, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Niel Tupas Jr gets the boot, Hacienda Luisita shares up!

February 6, 2012February 6, 2012 benign0 12 Comments

Well, not really. Hacienda Luisita Inc (HLI) is not a publicly-listed company and therefore we can only do thought experiments on how the price of some hypothetical HLI shares floating in the equity market would react to the news of Iloilo Representative Niel Tupas Jr’s removal as head of the prosecution team in the impeachment…

Economy, Government, Politics

Losing Momentum

February 4, 2012February 4, 2012 a 48 Comments

Itâ€™s been almost a month since the prosecution under President Noynoy Aquino’s (PNoyâ€™s) guiding hand made a bold move and attempted to allegedly bring Chief Justice Renato Corona to justice. Armed with PNoyâ€™s convoluted sense of justice and the will of the brainwashed masses through unrelenting trial by publicity, the prosecution, led by Niel Tupas,…

Prosecution conducting a trial by media against CJ Renato Corona

February 2, 2012February 3, 2012 Ilda 105 Comments

Why are some members of the prosecution team for the trial of the impeachment of Supreme Court Chief Justice, Renato Corona still talking about the details of the case to the media? Arenâ€™t they violating the court rules by doing so? Unfortunately, for reasons unknown to the public, the Impeachment Court seems unable to stop…

Civics, Crime, Government, Media, Politics