01/06/2012
“Like Saguisag, I still
recall Corona’s sneer and derision of poor people in Edsa Tres,” said a
texter — adding that the current Chief Justice (CJ) “represents the
worst of his class…” Another called the chief magistrate “matapobre”
(someone who looks down on the poor), since he also “called the pro-Erap
masses… at the Edsa-Ortigas April 2001 (uprising) as toothless,
pant-less hordes…”
They were, of course, referring to a recent
column by former senator, Estrada counsel, and anti-Marcos human rights
lawyers’ group icon, Rene Saguisag, who holds the view that the
forthcoming Corona impeachment trial is a crusade against a knave and a
lowlife. Those messages, coming from my radio listeners and column
readers, expressed surprise at my linking arms with former Gov. Homobono
Adaza and lawyer Alan Paguia in our petition against the impeachment of
the chief magistrate of the Supreme Court (SC).
Probably
perplexed at my apparent siding with the CJ, these texters confronted me
with his past that ran contrary to my long-standing pro-Edsa III and
anti-elitist position. So I replied that although Saguisag is entirely
correct about Corona being a knave, he is absolutely wrong if he
believes that the CJ (or his impeachment) is the real issue here.
This
move against Corona was initiated by Malacañang mid-December last year.
While I maintain that the whole scenario is part of the Aquinorroyo
moro-moro, my analysis has expanded as other events have fallen into
place.
With the many things transpiring around Syria and Iran,
along with the angry exchanges between the US and Russia over missile
defense, coupled with Obama’s refocusing of his country’s presence in
the Asia-Pacific through his buildup of 2,500 US Marines in Australia
(incurring the ire of China and Indonesia), I saw a number of things
that fit into the jigsaw puzzle.
First, we have the moves of BS
Aquino III in assaulting the SC (with veiled threats that the Senate and
Vice President would follow). Second, there is this recent shift in his
national military policy from “counter-insurgency” to “territorial
defense.” Third, there is this order by BS Aquino of a squadron of
F-16s, which Hillary Clinton seems all too willing to provide. All these
amount to none other than a US-BSA III dictatorship in the making — no
different from that of Cory’s revolutionary government.
For sure,
Gloria Arroyo is merely a scapegoat. The rest of her cohorts, who are
now in cahoots with the BS Aquino regime, are allowed to run free. We
need to name only a few to establish this point: Speaker of the House
Sonny Belmonte, who is an erstwhile Arroyo enforcer; his protégé Jojo
Ochoa, who sits at the right hand of BS Aquino lording over all today;
the corporatist gofers in various Cabinet and regulatory agency posts
(such as Rene Almendras in Energy) protecting their corporate bosses in
the privatized public utilities, who have successfully kept all the
anomalous profit-gouging under cover. Oh, should we forget Arroyo
veteran and even bigger “corporat” Cesar Purisima, who enforces the
diktats of the US and the multilateral finance mafia? Of course, he’s
just part of the Hyatt 10 caboodle, all Arroyo veterans now serving
under the new “useful idiot.”
Enter Corona, a specimen of the old regime and what do we have? A perfect “red herring,” that’s what.
The
term, which originated in Britain, was coined when “British fugitives
in the 1800s would rub a herring across their trail, thereby diverting
the bloodhounds that were hot in pursuit…” In this case, Corona is an
ideal “red herring,” especially after he was appointed by Arroyo under
the controversial but arguably legal “midnight” clock. As for those
comments of his against the masses of Edsa III, well, they are now ready
ammunition against him.
But come to think of it, how many in the
coterie of BS Aquino today are not exactly like Corona? The Hyatt 10,
for one, sneered upon Edsa III; the SC justices seemingly favored by the
current dispensation, such as Carpio or Sereno, moved against the
populist causes being espoused by the masses, with the latter even
expressing her contempt for “consumers” and its advocates in her ponente
favoring Meralco and the Energy Regulatory Commission. Now that they
are raising issues left and right against Corona, beginning with his
plush condo, let’s see if they or their boss are faultless in that
department!
Bono Adaza likes to quote this Arab saying: “Fool me
once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” The tactics and
strategies in building up this new dictatorship in the country under the
guise of an “incorruptible” has been sold to the Filipino once before
and left a bitter legacy.
Cory Aquino was given revolutionary
powers that allowed her to wipe out all elected officials, erase
economic and public protection provisions, and ensure the potential of
successful US-backed coups by enshrining the Praetorian principle in the
Constitution.
This time around, the US wants a dictator to push
this nation to become a bait for a conflict in the South China Sea
against a large nation that has never conquered any lands outside its
coasts in millenniums past — a neighbor that, moreover, has only offered
trade, roads, bridges, trains, and other infrastructure loans in a hand
of friendship in recent times. These facts, notwithstanding, the US
will again have its “useful idiot” acquire dictatorial powers to destroy
this country for the nth time.
These are the reasons that should
compel us to see this “red herring” of Malacañang and oppose its
goosesteps toward the Second Yellow Reich (and a Reichstag fire-burning
of the Batasan). We should shake out of their hypnotized state those
“sheeple” mesmerized by mainstream media and the ruling class’ survey
outfits. We should take action now to stop this useful idiot’s drive
toward autocracy.
(Tune in to Sulo ng Pilipino/Radyo OpinYon,
Monday to Friday, 5 to 6 p.m. on 1098AM; Talk News TV with HTL,
Saturday, 8:15 to 9 p.m., with replay at 11 p.m., on GNN, Destiny Cable
Channel 8; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com for our articles plus
TV and radio archives)
(Reprinted with permission from Mr. Herman Tiu-Laurel)
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL:
http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120106com6.html
