I stand by my vote

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The elections is over. The people have spoken. But I am proud to say that I am not one of those millions who elected the yellow man as next president of this republic. I am proud to have chosen and voted for the best among the candidates. Even if my bet, the HONORABLE GILBERTO TEODORO did not win, he is still the best candidate who would have started the drive towards the road to change, reconciliation and further development in the Philippines.

Last Monday, I cast my vote, looked at the very popular PCOS machine, and prayed that my one vote for Gibo would be helpful in bringing in a new breed of change in this country. But like the millions who voted for Gibo, my vote was defeated by the bigger number of voters who cannot move on from the Marcos-Aquino rivalry and the over use of "Mom and Dad". My vote was also defeated by those who voted for Erap even if his track record and criminal conviction proved him to be unworthy of the seat of the presidency.

What I learned from this election is how to select the best candidate and stand up for him until the end. I also learned that the Filipino people is hard to teach when it comes to choosing the most capable leader of this land. The elections also affirmed the mediocrity of the electorate. I may be saying all things negative but those are really the thoughts and the feelings I have now.

Move on -- that's what we all have to do now. Support the incoming president? Maybe in time.

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5 days to go

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With just five short days left before the 2010 national elections in my beloved country - the Philippines, candidates are indorsed here and there by various religious and socio-political groups. The Iglesia ni Kristo indorsed the yellow men Noynoy Aquino and Mar Roxas. The CBCP indorsed JC delos Reyes. The Kingdom of Jesus Christ the Name above every name indorsed Gilbert Teodoro.

With all these, the elections is just getting more and more exciting. Nonetheless, I continue to support my candidate, Gilbert Teodoro!!!

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To doubt or not to doubt

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I haven't written for a long time, in this blog, since there's so many things coming up that made me busy I can't even watch marathons of the TV series I've downloaded. The episodes have piled up and I just need a couple of days to watch so I can catch up.

Anyway, last week I bought the last piece (maybe just for that day, there are more hard bound version left) of the paper back version of the book Shadow of Doubt, Probing the Supreme Court by Maritess Danguilan Vitug. (Paper back costs P475, the hard bound cost P750). I heard about the book as it was kind of controversial when it was launched. A classmate finished reading it and he influenced me a bit into reading it too.


I have the highest respects for the members of the Court and I wanted to know what the book contained that made some Justices unhappy for its release. Interestingly, the writer is not a lawyer. She is a journalist. So I expected that there would be some tough remarks against the Justices, judges, and members of the legal profession who are or who have been in close relations with the present administration. Indeed there are too many hits on these honorable members of the Court and their colleagues in and out of their chambers. I have covered almost half of the book. I can't finish it right away because I read it only during my free time. Surprisingly, Ms. Vitug discussed something that I knew from some source and which I wrote about sometime last year in another domain. Anyway, the writing in Ms. Vitug's book only affirms that such "happening" is true, that I was right, and that the one who used my own writing against me found it offensive that I knew about it. Come on, "connections" is not limited to that earthling.

The Philippine judicial system has its own highs and lows - from the selection of the members of the Supreme Court and inferior courts, to the performance of Justices and judges and even lawyers in the prosecution service. Society is unforgiving for members of the legal profession and it is not hard to criticize this profession for some who understand it less.

One part of the book was about the Justices appointed by the incumbent appointing authority that were found to be erroneous by her critics. For example, the appointment and the eventual recall of the appointment of Mr. Justice Gregory Ong. Citizenship issues arose when he was appointed that lead to his not being an official member of the Supreme Court. Ms. Vitug stressed that Justice Ong failed his Criminal Procedure class in San Beda College of Law when he was still a law student. She kind of questioned the positions of Ong as prosecutor, Judge and Justice of the Sandiganbayan because of such failed mark in Crimpro. (I passed Crim Pro in San Beda with flying colors.) It was as if she was making the point that such failure in Criminal Procedure meant that Ong was not fit to handle criminal cases. For a law student, failure in a subject does not mean that the student can no longer be an expert in that field. When we fail, we study harder to learn the lesson. Add to that, failing in SBC law does not necessarily mean the student is dumb or that he does not understand the subject. (I do not have to discuss the system in SBC) This is one point I did not actually like in the book.

As to the revelations (revelations since they were new to me) about the character of some of the Justices, I was shocked upon reading those. It appears that these people really do know how to appear innocent. Well that makes them wise men - wise enough to conceal what they think could destroy them.


(to be continued...)

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