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It’s the chief, not the clerk VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 04/29/2010

Thursday, April 29, 2010

It’s the chief, not the clerk



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Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz
04/29/2010
All alone and possibly also lonely, the clerk is not only being haunted by so many angry and noisy rallies in some parts of the country, but also being bombarded by different insulting words and hurting titles from the different sectors of society — professionals as well as ordinary people.

Among the many accusations launched on the poor man, there is one that is quite outstanding in their significant and import: Acting secretary of Justice, he is precisely now being pictured as the incarnation of injustice. All these notwithstanding, he nevertheless still appears admirable in the sense that he is taking all the blows — standing up but not really fighting back.
Whether he knows and realizes it, he might find consolation in truth that the individual at the very center of the abominable and nauseating and case is not really him, one humble clerk — but his Chief plus the latter’s disgusting and deadly political benefactors.... MORE  

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