Until when, up to where? HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 08/02/2010

Until when, up to where?

HE SAYS Aldrin Cardon 08/02/2010 If the Philippine Truth Commission of 2010, signed last week by President Noynoy, was his gift to his departed mother, the late Cory Aquino whose death anniversary was commemorated yesterday, a year after it became the very long vault that catapulted the newly-empowered President to Malacañang, then he should assure that it does not become part of the political fiction factory that has long mired the country and its people in the gutters. Why, there were reservations expressed about the much-vaunted Truth Commission! From Noy’s choice of Hilario Davide to head it, to its redundancy as its job could be done by the Department of Justice and the Ombudsman — under ideal conditions, of course, it’s formation was not without hitches. Its critics only came short of calling the Truth Commission myopic, but Sen. Joker Arroyo, who shared cells and many street battles with Noy’s father, the martyred Ninoy, came out to warn the young Aquino that his new body, created through Executive Order No. 1 (EO 1), is doomed to fail as it has no legal to stand on. Arroyo, no relation to the main target of the Truth Commission but who was among those who supported her illegitimate reign for nine years, also claimed it would suffer from a legal infirmity, and was surprised Davide, who used to be Gloria Arroyo’s Chief Justice, happily clammed up about its legal flaws.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100802com4.html

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