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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
It is a good move on the part of the Senate to free former LTA bookkeeper Rowena del Rosario from detention, because if the senators didn’t, the Senate could have had an egg land on its face, if the appellate court ruled in favor of the petition for habeas corpus filed by Rowena’s husband.
But even more than that possibility is the fact that the Senate was already steadily losing public support and respect amid the many criticisms, with some of its senators bringing their institution down by arrogantly demanding from an “invited” guest to their hearing who attended it voluntarily, to give them the answers that they wanted, such as making her state that it is not Iggy Arroyo who, as president of LTA, leased the five helicopters but his brother Mike Arroyo.
Pro-Noynoy senators and naturally anti-Arroyo senators, were seen by the public as being much too vindictive, apart from their usual style of bringing about the trial and conviction of those whom they have already judged as guilty, no matter the lack of solid evidence with which to make a strong case against the Arroyo brothers, and of course Gloria.
Filipinos didn’t like what they were witnessing during these Senate hearings, mainly because of the way these senators were in clear disrespect in treating their “invited” guests, ordering their arrest and “indefinite detention” in the Senate, and acting like prosecutor, judge and jury rolled up in one..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110826com2.html
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