Lost credibility
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| Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
Ping Lacson, now a free man and back at the Senate, is doing to Gloria Arroyo and Big Mike, what he believes they did to him, which was what he called persecution, as he is now all out to reopen cases against the duo and publicly humiliate them, the way he says they publicly humiliated him and made him out to be a murderer.
Just the other day, he stated that he has documents showing that the Arroyos sold their helicopters to the Philippine National Police (PNP), and passed this sale as brand new helicopters.
He, along with another staunch Noynoy ally, TG Guingona, who heads the Senate blue ribbon committee, announced that they will be reopening the Jose Pidal case.
The truth is the Senate blue ribbon committee can do as it pleases, legitimately or not. Such probes, and their outcome really depend on which side of the presidential bed the majority is. Since it is today Noynoy’s allies who are in the majority, they can even reopen any old case they want. That’s the way politics in this country is played, unfortunately for those already out of power and position, and fortunately for those who were out of power and position and are now in power and position — a situation that tends to encourage even more the ugly practice of the politics of political vindictiveness — at almost all levels..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20110708com2.html
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