P-Noy's latest satisfaction rating has again improved from good to very good according to latest SWS survey. Basing it on this survey we can surmise that the Filipino people recognized the effort of the present administration to bring to the bar of justice all the people guilty of corruption in the previous administration with no less than the president at the forefront of the anti-corruption campaign. This in particular is the serious drive to investigate all the perceived excesses of former president Gloria Arroyo and her husband Mike and other members of the Arroyo family and file appropriate charges in court. Although we cannot help
but admire the determination of this administration to go after all the officials of the arroyo administration allegedly involved in maleficence and send them to jail if proven guilty beyond reasonable doubt, somehow, the act of some of his officials including some members of the senate and the House of Representatives manifests an ostensive superfluity and overkill judging from the way they brought their case to the bar of public opinion without due respect to proper juridical protocol and procedures. Many legal luminaries are questioning the preemptive announcements in the media done not only by Malacanang but likewise by other investigating bodies particularly the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee without considering the strength and values of all the evidentiary documents and the credibility of the witnesses paraded during the senate hearings to insure an airtight case for the eventual conviction of the guilty people involved. Majority of the Filipino people are so incensed with the corruption that happened during the previous administration that all moves directed against GMA and her cohorts are openly welcomed by them irrespective of the plausibility of the nacharges or issues that were being brought out in the media. This headbashing of the Arroyos became a successful strategy made by then opposition parties before the 2010 elections catapulting them to power and banishing the members of the previous administration to political oblivion. The perceived resolve of sending all those corrupt officials to jail is now the paramount goal of most of the Filipino people that is why they continue to support P-Noy failing to take cognizance of the more pressing problems now affecting them which include among others poverty, job creation, education, peace and order, spiraling prices of basic commodities and other serious international issues relevant to our survival as a nation.
It is in this context that I have my reservation in regard to the sincerity in purpose of some of those who are publicly sensationalizing the issues against the Arroyos sans the basic principle of proper judicial proceedings. For one, why are they exposing all the alleged evidentiary documents they possessed and parading all witnesses that were supposed to directly link all the accused to all the frauds committed during their term. They (the accusers) have to know better. The Arroyo couple is not an Erap who readily admitted during media interview that he signed the Velarde account in front of the bank officials right in Malacanang palace. GMA is a highly intelligent person while FGMA is not a stupid lawyer. And what's more, they are leaning on a very thick logistical wall to be able to hire a battery of brilliant lawyers to defend them in what is expected to be a long and protracted court battle. And so the question is, why were all the accusers brandishing all the supposed documents and showing them to the public. If this is not a publicity stunt then I wonder what it is. Or quite possibly, it can be a trojan horse scenario to give the Arroyos a chance to prepare for the expected court litigations.
Another point we may have to consider is the obvious gullibility of the masses who readily believe all the corruption expose' on a mere "say so" statements. Admittedly, all the senate and congressional hearings that took place and will have to take place in the near future have all the trimmings of a "telenovela" plot in which our gullible "masa" are breathtakingly anticipating to watch live on television. For the discerning people however, all these statements gathered and were presented in the hearings will not be recognized the moment the case reaches the proper court. Everything will start from scratch.
The situation is just a case of maneuverings of shrewd political characters out to gain media mileage and a hopeless gullibility of our maleducated masses. What could be more pathetic than seeing these guilty people laughing their way to freedom.
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