Return to the wild, wild west FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/20/2010

Return to the wild, wild west

FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 04/20/2010 Government appears to be in complete chaos — and this, even before the chaos that is expected to occur during and shortly after election day, with massive disenfranchisement and counting machines breaking down, not to mention massive fraud that all point to a no presidential and senatorial proclamation scenario. Something is terribly wrong in a bureaucracy where subalterns openly object to what their chief says and does, as in the case of the announced dropping of the murder charges against two Ampatuans: ARMM Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan and his cousin, former Maguindanao Vice Gov. Akmad Ampatuan. The chief prosecutor along with his team of prosecutors, read out a statement before the media and some of the relatives of the massacre victims, saying that the murder case against the Ampatuans should not have been dropped, adding that they were not even consulted by the Justice chief before he came up with this resolution of the review of the case, and then virtually demanded that Alberto Agra, Justice chief, reverse his review ruling.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100420com2.html

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