Caught in the crossfire
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| Larry Faraon, OP |
With the monumental decision on the Hacienda Luisita case, the obvious perception is that even the most noble of advocacies such as land redistribution and ownership program was being “caught in the crossfire” between warring feudal lords of the Supreme Court (SC) and Malacañang Palace. Indeed, timing is always interesting. They can deny it to death, but it would seem that the decision upholding the right of the sugar farmers over the portions of land in the huge Cojuangco estate in Tarlac comes just in time when the SC needed leverage and ballistics to get back at the Executive Branch over its disregard of the former’s temporary restraining order (TRO) against the watch list order (WLO) of former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo a week ago.
Of course, the farmers and their supporters are gleeful. I still remember clearly when my two spinster aunts would clash over anything. They would try to outdo each other in giving me coins and chocolates, of course, always to my advantage and gain!
We just hope that the magistrates were acting objectively on the “merits” of the case instead of going along with the speed by which the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Commision on Elections (Comelec) concocted the electoral sabotage charges against Arroyo. Of course, the Hacienda Luisita case had been pending almost buried six feet below the ground of the SC’s pile of unresolved files. But since timing is always interesting, it is always convenient to resurrect some “messiah” in condemning and punishing the violators of the law. It would even look like the SC was daring P-Noy to disregard its decision a second time around!.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111127com6.html
1 comment
may punto si father. hindi nakita ang esensya ng reporma sa lupa dahil sa konteksto ng hatol. subali't kahit papaano naman ay hindi na madadagdagan ang bilang ng namatay sa pag.rally/hacienda luisita massacre.
"However, since the monumental decision on the Hacienda Luisita case was caught in the crossfire or simply put, was used as ballistics against an aggressor, then the Filipino people, even the Hacienda Luisita farmers themselves may have missed the more significant and integral relevance of the land redistribution and ownership vis-à-vis its proper context, namely, real land reform and its finality of agricultural progress for this country. That is sad."
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