On the road to dictatorship
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Vindictive Noynoy and his power-hungry Justice secretary must be stopped by the high court from usurping the court’s power to issue a hold departure order (HDO) disguised as a watch list order (WLO) that can only be lifted with an allow departure order (ADO) and by the Department of Justice (DoJ) chief.
That judicial power usurped by the executive departure on the basis of a DoJ ruling must be immediately be struck down by the high court as unconstitutional for the simple reason that other powers not within the realm of the executive power can also be usurped, which is a great danger posed on the citizenry’s other constitutionally-guaranteed rights that can moreover lead to a dictatorial regime.
If the Justice chief uses a mere department ruling that she and her office have ruled upon to constrict the constitutional rights of citizens, what then is to stop a Justice chief, on orders of the Chief Executive, stemming from vindictiveness, from coming up with a ruling that grants herself the power to issue search and seizure orders, apart from invading one’s privacy, all of which belong to the province of the judiciary?.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111109com1.html
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eh talaga ba namang pumapalag ang hudikatura? moro.moro....
"If Leila de Lima and her principal, Noynoy, are not stopped from usurping the powers of the judiciary, as Noynoy and his Budget secretary have already usurped the powers of Congress over the purse, more abuses and violations of the Constitution as well as more usurpations of powers will be committed by them, which would naturally lead to a dictatorial rule, having usurped the other department’s powers — including Malacañang’s attempt to usurp the mandated financial autonomy of the judiciary, as well as making Congress report its expenses to the executive, which would be yet another usurpation of the financial autonomy of supposedly independent constitutional offices."
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