Noynoy vs Corruption Round 2

Last modified on 2010-07-31 09:45:48 GMT. 0 comments. Top.

On July 26, the president delivered his first SONA with what he promised a great shock value to many people who may already used to hearing something similar in nature. Well, the shock value must have been his own interpretation as there were no massive reactions from the masses upon hearing it. No frozen bank accounts, no cuffed hands dragged to prison for leaving too much paper trail on their tracks.

One irony of it was that it showed many elected officials who used to stealing people clapped their hands in between speeches that mentioned the so called shock value.  It’s not entirely certain why they did it. Either they were totally entertained by the speech finding the president will be too busy chasing GMA leaving their own style of siphoning nation’s wealth to continue unabated, or finding Noynoy their alter-egos in high places who bark only to maintain their own political ratings.

At this time, there were reports of people who will be investigated for smuggling as promised by Noynoy’s campaign slogan and GMA will become the sitting duck target of the upcoming Truth Commission created solely for the purpose of excavating the stench of the past administration.

It makes you even wonder why the bucks stops at GMA where other past administration did horrendous crime too like Erap who was accused of murdering a publicist. Perhaps anything Cory did when she was still alive including the ‘unholy’ alliance she had with Erap seemingly passed to the son.

So far it seems quite good to the promised ‘kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap’. Except that at this time the legal wranglings will again take its toll and get intertwined into the chasing process of  bringing the scoundrels to prison bars.

How many years, or how much money, efforts were spent chasing the Marcoses and here we are we still have Imelda virtually unscathed and living like a queen of the past claiming as much as still she can get from what it deemed fit for the rich and powerful?

Once the legal wranglings take hold of the process, realism starts. Courts are already clogged with cases  and here we are expecting more of it against people who can afford paying high powered attorney to drag the cases as they could want it.

It was raised by someone that chasing Gloria can serve Noynoy good for any other programs like economic reforms may take ages to take effect hence the perpetuity of maintaining good ratings among the people is to feed them something they’ll get interested with while forgetting the main thing which is the economy.

Going to  the legal process may rub wounds on people who were already victimized by the incumbent president’s family clan. Take for instance the Hacienda Luisita which was originally handed over to them for eventual distribution but ended up entangled in the long process of legalism where the family has the means and unwillingness to distribute the land to the farmers.

And Noynoy has left with no choice. It was not much of the revolutionary government his mother had who can just grab as much as she can for anything too conspicuously involved colluding with the Marcoses to acquire something that belongs to others

Luisita is an abject failure of Noynoy  and his family which in the wordings similar to his own virtual defender Condrado de Quiros calling a case where ‘using the law to thwart justice’.

He never spoke anything concrete solution about land reform in his SONA. Neither did he speak about prioritizing FOI which has the bigger promise of exposing the scoundrels expenditures. Instead he offered the hot-line and whistle blower act which can be a quick fixes to the overall problem the Filipino people already have.

Without FOI, elected officials local and national will still be the same old dogs with bad habits — ironing out the kinks in project negotiation pre-arranged beyond the scope of ordinary mortals to see unless they’re part of the deeply entrenched sharing scheme or privy to the bidding process who get a largess of their own.

Noynoy was virtually silent about the big white elephant sitting inside the room of the Philippines decadent system – the oligarchy. Perhaps, he must have been too immersed in it himself who can’t seem to find he himself is part of the REAL problem.

By the way, whatever happened to the Pimentel’s suggested solution of the new president issuing EO to nullify the appointment of Corona? Was Noynoy see a radiant light at the end of the tunnel after reading Joaquin Bernas that Constitution is how the Supreme Court interprets it?