Wrong way to go
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Arguments pro and con on the issue of the Noynoy Aquino Truth Commission can always be made by political camps, and the high court may even have the last word on it — should it deem to rule on the issue, but in the end, the so-called Truth Commission tasked to look into the allegations of criminal activities committed by the previous government won’t amount to anything at all, mainly because this body was created, not to be able to pin down Gloria Arroyo on such criminal charges, but to paint a blacker than black picture of the previous president and in the course of things, excuse the incompetence and ineptitude of the Noynoy presidency.
This has already happened during Noynoy’s mother, Cory Aquino’s time as president.
Her first edict was the creation of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG), which was tasked to go after the illegally acquired wealth of the Marcoses, which was then claimed by the Cory government to be some P10 billion, which at that time was already mind-boggling.
Yet if one thinks about it without emotion, just how could Cory and her people have come up with the estimated P10 billion at that time when her decree on the PCGG was drafted just a day after she was installed in Malacañang? Obviously, this charge was bereft of solid evidence..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101116com1.html
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