Yellows up to something again FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/05/2010

Yellows up to something again

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 05/05/2010 From all indications, the yellows are really up to something that smells of protest actions a la elite Edsa as they believe they can’t get what they want legitimately. All too suddenly, Noynoy Aquino’s supporter and lawyer from the FIRM, Gloria Arroyo’s former Ombudsman, Simeon Marcelo, is questioning the appointment of Armed Forces of the Philippines chief of staff before the high court, saying that he took the reins of the AFP on the day the midnight appointments ban took effect. Incidentally, even as the Judicial Bar and Council (JBC) had already decided on submitting to Gloria the list of four candidates to the Supreme Court (SC) top position, as ordered by the high court, there was Marcelo, along with his organization of lawyers, telling the JBC not to submit the list to Gloria. Stated differently, that which Marcelo was telling the JBC is that the body should ignore the SC order, for which he really should be either suspended or disbarred as this call is in clear defiance of the high court order. Strangely enough, it is the same Marcelo, then Gloria’s Ombudsman, who sat on the case against... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100505com2.html

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