The case against Corona
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| Jonathan De la Cruz |
By now, with the stupendous and unbelievable narrative of LRA Administrator Eulalio Diaz III about the alleged “45” properties of Chief Justice Renato Corona and his wife (which has since been reduced to 21 if we go by the prosecution’s count or 11 and decreasing if we go by the latest stipulation between the parties and six if we go by Sen. Ralph Recto’s count or five as admitted by the Chief Justice) the public is increasingly realizing that Corona’s case will probably rest or fall on whether the incomplete filing of his statement of assets, liabilities and networth (SALns) from the time he was appointed to the high tribunal in 2002 to the present is so grave and dangerous to our democratic way of life that he deserves to be removed from his office.
After parading Corona to the country and to the world as the “poster boy of corruption and maladministration” and “the biggest stumbling block to P-Noy’s daang matuwid (straight path) agenda for development and reform,” and imposing eight “very strong” charges to back his withering blackballing by the rampaging Malacañang-cum-House of Representatives express, we are now being told that the Chief Justice should be yanked out of his office to save our democracy because he did not include one property in his SALn?.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120323com5.html
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