Was Napoles Charmed By UPLaw Class 1978?
Ms. Janet Napoles, the controversial suspect in the multi-million scam of Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) must have been charmed by the UP law Batch 78, — she has two members of this class as her lawyers. Lorna Kapunan, who until recently retired as her lawyer, was a member of that class; the other, Rene…
A Review of Enrile’s Memoir By Installment…
JPE’s Memoir, is a narration of political events that bedevil the nation beginning 1924, when a poor boy, Juanito Furagganan, JPE’s childhood name, was born in barrio Mission in the town of Gonzaga, a sandy, coastal, fishing village situated at the mouth of the Mission River, Cagayan, up to the historical impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona of…
Why It Is Easy To Believe That Marcos Ordered Ninoy Killed!
There are people who believed that on the tragic day of August 21, 1983, Marcos was bedridden with failing kidneys because of lupus (or due to stressful life, not lupus according to JPE’s Memoirs) and therefore he could not have ordered the ‘murder’ of the popular oppositionist former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr. But Marcos was not always hobbled in…
Do We Have The Will To Put Ex-CJ Corona Behind Bars?
Recurring political images in the Philipines: ROLSON RODRIGUEZ, a barangay chairman of Sto. Domingo, Binalbagan, Negros Occidental was found guilty of dishonesty and oppression. He was dismissed from the service and stripped with all his retirement benefits and civil service eligibilities. DELSA M. FLORES, court interpreter of a regional trial court of Davao received from the municipality of Panabo the…
The Chief Justice Wishes To Be Excused Hook Line And Sinker!
After almost 3 hours of ‘privileged speech’ CJ Corona wishes to be excused. He does not need the permission of the presiding officer, Juan Ponce Enrile to do that, after all, he is the chief justice! Delivering his monologue, with curt admonitions from the Presiding Officer, Corona was transported into his own world of privileged,…
Whom The Gods Wish To Destroy!
Not in my lifetime did I dream that lead counsel Justice Serafin Cuevas could be this simpleton to commit the blunder of a neophyte trial lawyer — calling a witness he did not prep and ask her questions the answers of which he had not expected. Or perhaps, the veteran lawyer and jurist was misled by his…
How Lucrative Dispensing Justice Is?
The tables are turned. Defense counsel for CJ Justice Corona presented Congressman Tobias Tiangco on March 12, 2012 to prove that the articles of impeachment filed by the house against the jurist was flawed because it was impossible for the 188 congressmen to have read the complaint before affixing their signatures thereat and if ever they signed the…
The Marcos Lies!
For Senator Bongbong Marcos to say that his father was a hero and not a thief and that his last heroic act was his restraint in not ordering the massacre of the civilians massed at EDSA 1, in February 1986 is but normal of a son and a politician. In his eyes his father is an all-time hero; and as…
Honasan Talking About Bill Of Rights Makes Olalia Twisting In His Grave!
Watching Senator Gringo Honasan interpellating Secretary of Justice Lila De Lima during the impeachment trial of CJ Renato Corona yesterday about affording even a lowly citizen his constitutional rights to life, liberty and property as the very basis of the existence of any government gave me goose pimples. Rolando Olalia must be twisting in his grave! God Save The Queen…
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