Wait. What?

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When former Governor Grace Padaca was appointed to the Commission on Elections, despite her pending case for graft coupled with the spectacle of the DILG secretary, aided and abetted by the President paying for her bail, it was bad enough.

It was after all, a clear case of “is this a message you really want to send to people?” Do you really want to tell the world at large that mere mortals have graft cases, but YOUR people can ignore them as “persecution.”

What’s a graft case or two between friends and political allies, anyway?

With the appointment of Macabangkit Lanto to the same commission (How lucky can one agency get?) despite a pending case for – get this – electoral fraud, this forces us to take pause and wonder, is any one up there doing this on purpose?

To play favorites, to be cavalier about cases and the processes of justice sends a clear unequivocal message – All men are created equal, with some of us more equal than others.

So, one can throw the book on people who are “not you” or “not yours”, as they say in the vernacular. One can ask for special privileges for gun ban exemptions on the grounds of security, despite an entire phalanx of government paid “guards”.

One can set policies so that the top 6 per cent of the country become the only people who end up enjoying the benefits of economic growth.

One can abandon entire cultural communities in the peace talks, and abandon an entire people already feeling disposed by the constant stresses of battle in North Borneo and Sulu. But God forbid that the economic and political elite should be made accountable to principles of fair play?

If this administration is not careful, it may end up on record as the biggest recruiter of insurgents since the Marcos dictatorship.

By: Atty. Trixie Cruz-Angeles
(Source : PSSST! Centro)





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