It's out of control... the times are crazy...
First it was the Truth Commission that was dumped.
On December 7, 2010, the Supreme Court declared President Benigno Aquino III's Executive Order (EO) No. 1 creating the Philippine Truth Commission as unconstitutional, quoting it as "violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution" for focusing on the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
The Truth Commission is the body tasked to investigate the alleged corruption and cheating scandals that hounded the nine-year Arroyo administration.Former SC Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. headed the commission.
10 votes against 5 marked the Truth Commision. Said that it violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution in as much as it singles out for investigation reports of graft and corrupt practices in the previous administration.
Section 1, Article III of the 1987 Constitution provides that: "No person... shall be denied the equal protection of the laws."
Second, about the alleged ill-gotten wealth of the Marcoses. The Canlubang Mansion.
The Sandiganbayan has junked with finality the government’s claim over the so-called Canlubang Mansion that was seized from the heirs of the late President Ferdinand Marcos for allegedly being part of their family's ill-gotten wealth.
In a 9-page resolution promulgated last Dec. 1, the Sandiganbayan Fourth Division affirmed its Jan. 11, 2010 ruling ordering the Presidential Commission on Good Government to return ownership of the 25-hectare land in Cabuyao, Laguna, and the mansion erected on it to the three Marcos children who were registered as owners.
The Canlubang property was one of the two mansions ordered returned to the Marcos family this month by the courts. The Supreme Court ruled late Monday that the PCGG failed to prove that a beachfront, 42-hectare estate on Leyte Island was acquired improperly.
third, the latest was the acquittal of the suspects in the infamous Vizconde Massacre.
After a decade of turtle-like investigation of the Supreme court, it ruled out that the suspects, headed by Hubert Webb, son of ex-senator Freddie Webb were acquitted.
Personally, these cases define what Justice system we have here in the Philippines. Thanks to our beloved Justices in the Supreme Court. They once again proved thaat Double Standard exists here. That the so-called justice is a privilege of the rich.
Now, where can we run- we, the unfortunate ones? But with all these injustices, I know God is not asleep. I just don't want to wake up one morning hearing that Andal Ampatuan, Jr., the prime suspect in the killings of
57 innocents including journalists, children, men, and women that suffered rape, is about to be freed. And our Justice declared that the killings were done not by the Ampatuans but Mickey Mouse and all the dwarves of Snow White. Poor old Grumpy.
Justice is served.
