DE-CROWNING CORONA

The grip of CJ Corona on the Supreme Court is so tight that he no
longer looks at his status from a historical viewpoint. All he is
thinking of is the power that he thinks he should not relinquish. How
sad.

After all these years that we in the NGO movement have been
conscientizing the public about good governance, we now have in one of
the highest echelons a man who refuses to submit to public demand to
resign. Gracefully.

Come Tuesday, we should expect real and figurative fireworks.

It seems that these past few months, we have had our share of untoward
incidents: murders of prominent broadcasters in the provinces, of an
education official, of a government official, and "arsonic" fires at
urban poor areas. Maybe we have grown numb and so have developed that
tendency to skip looking at things from a macro viewpoint; should we
do, all things now seem to point to a graver resolution of this case.
We should be doubly alert as Tuesday nears, when the CJ will be
sitting at the Senate Impeachment Sala.

If I were PNoy, I would not leave the country so easily at this time
when things could get more rotten later on. The CJ is using the
intellect of former radicals to free him from charges of dishonesty in
not declaring his SALN. By the way this brings to mind, how a
particular ex-radical writer would really use his worst epithets just
to justify corrupt practices. It makes  me cringe with horror, how
un-nationalistic he could get in his writings. Is this what you call
somersault writing? From being an ultra-nationalist to ultra-rightist
writer?

The bankers are right: the question should be how the CJ acquired
those dollar accounts. How much Philippine money did he use to buy the
dollars? Where did he get the Philippine money? Who gave it to him?
How did he acquire it? Who are the signatories in the deposits? Where
are the duplicate papers of the deposits? Who are the bank officials
who accepted the deposits? Can they corroborate the accounts? What are
the names of the bank branches that received the deposits? On a
monthly basis, how much did the deposits earn in terms of interests?


The amount of dollars in question is mind-boggling to say the least.
It could already finance the social and cultural needs of the
Philippine government on to 2016. And where should the money come from
but from the pockets of the toiling masses of the country? De-crowning
Corona should include the image of the people all the time, watching
intently how this drama will end. We are part and parcel of the total
picture -- how we have been shortchanged by officials who had and have
only been thinking of their own welfare.