[Logarta on the IIRC Report] BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 09/23/2010

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BLURBAL THRUSTS

Louie Logarta

09/23/2010
President Aquino should really be cut some slack by critics regarding his disposition of the 83-page report submitted to Malacañang earlier this week by the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) headed by Justice Secretary Leila de Lima on the Aug. 23 hostage tragedy.

He is currently being pilloried for his subordinates’ decision to give priority to Beijing, over his countrymen, in furnishing them with an official copy of the damning IIRC report that recommended the filing of criminal and administrative charges against 13 police officers, government officials and reporters as this is supposedly tantamount to showing subservience to the dictates of China and goes against the very grain of his pronouncement during the inaugural speech delivered in Pilipino at the Quirino Grandstand on June 30, 2010: “Kayo ang boss ko.”

For all intents and purposes, P-Noy is as much a hostage to superpower China, the acknowledged big bully in this part of the hemisphere, as those eight unfortunate Hong Kong tourists who lost their lives to Luneta hostage-taker Senior Insp. Rolando Mendoza as a direct result of the bungling by concerned authorities who could have easily neutralized him early on but didn’t due to fuzzy reasons only they can comprehend..... MORE

Source:  The Daily Tribune

URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100923com4.html