A number of years
ago, I was hiking up a wild mountain in Alaska with a naturalist who would not
go anywhere without his bear gun. He was a realist naturalist, I suppose, and
understood that the large creatures in that part of the woods would eat first and
growl later. We came across a big pile of bear dung, fairly fresh. He took a
stick and flipped through the shit to examine what the bear had been eating.
Reading Get Real Post is a little like that.
As you probably
know, the editors of that blog site have banned me from commenting there. They
view me a little like Corona views the Ombudsman, always poking around in
uncomfortable places. Getting too near to the truths that threaten their
intellectual or emotional fabric. So am relegated to having to comment in a
side hallway rather than the courtroom of direct and honorable argument.
Well, they have
delivered the normal tripe about Chief Justice Corona, the rationalizations
that extremists are inclined to cling to as their icon of virtue turns into an
out-of-touch, blathering, sniveling malcontent on nationwide television. The
Chief Justice behaves rather like a large two-year old on a three hour tantrum
and the Get Real proud patrons try to
tell us how cute he is.
Pathetic is
different than cute.
As it was my
commentary regarding an article by Get Real
scribe Arche that got me banned, I take
special interest in his articles. I find that he is an intelligent guy, not
unkind, writes well, but is evidently pinned to the same agenda as the editors,
and doesn't mind being the berries in the Get
Real turds.
Here's what he
writes about those who would find fault with the undignified Corona meltdown.
- Despite what Filipinos everywhere said about demanding the truth from Corona’s mouth, they are not really after the truth; they are only after someone whom they can verbally beat up like a lingual punching bag. We are not a truth-based society; instead, we are a ridicule-based society, especially when people are convinced that, in repeatedly demeaning the respondent’s image
Let's see, Mr.
Corona spent three hours beating up on dead men, presidents, government
officials, legislators, and prosecuting attorneys, blaming and whining and
crying his way in self indulgent self pity. Filipinos are supposed to, what,
sit back in admiration of his judicial bearing and intellectual might?
When he signed his
waver, people actually cheered. It is what they want. Transparency. Then he
pulled his dirty trick. On the people. They are supposed to roll over and
praise the guy?
- One would seriously think that if Corona intends to get away from everything through acting, he would be more creative than to act “sick” and instantly earn the ire of the Filipinos who simply can’t move on from the Arroyo incident. And yet he went sick.
Indeed, his driver
and car were ready for his quick exit . One would seriously think that is
masterfully unplanned, impromptu accidental arrangement.
He exited full
strength. He got sick after he was stopped from fleeing by the Sergeant at
Arms. It is called "loser's limp", like when the star player whose
team is getting pulverized suddenly ends up with an injury that serves as his
excuse for not being responsible for anything that transpired on the field. And
the blind hyper-allegiant fans gets suckered in. Rather like some blog article
writers.
When Chief Justice
Corona was wheeled back to the courtroom, he did not even have the grace or
courage to look ONCE, from his wheel chair, at Senator Enrile as he spoke.
- And now, we have another prospect of mistrial based on “grave abuse of discretion.”
Right. Abuse of
discretion. I tell you, the bear is crapping big now. Presiding Senator Enrile
abused Chief Justice Corona by using his discretion to allow him to speak. The
man kept running on after Senator Enrile interrupted three times to
respectfully suggest he was out of order. Corona didn't care. He was on a
mission.
- Corona not only signed his waiver authorizing government bodies to examine his accounts, he is also giving Filipinos the opportunity to check out the accounts of the other politicians by challenging them to sign their waivers too!
His second surprise,
making his waiver contingent on 189 other signatures, was a vindictive dirty
trick. On the people. It made a mockery of transparency. I fear Arche is trying
to reconstruct by dumping a whole bottle of perfume into this growing pile.
- In many aspects, Corona’s dare was pretty nifty, hitting two birds with one stone. The first bird was the reputation of his persecutors. The second one was the hypocrisy of the Filipinos, attempting to uphold the rule of law only when it suits their egotistic purposes.
Yes, and that's
pretty nifty, too, slandering the entire Filipino nation as indulging in
hypocrisy, as you write this tripe.
The only attitude I
see from the normal Filipinos around me is to want a honest and forthright
Chief Justice. You know, Chief Justice Corona could have won the day by
reporting the balances in his four dollar accounts, after having effectively
rebutted the Ombudsman's Power Point presentation. He could have won the day by signing the
waiver on secrecy, unconditionally. What a statement of credibility and
openness that would have been! What a dramatic statement FOR transparency! But
he signed it, waved it, read it. Then pulled it back.
Insulting the people
who were so generous of heart as to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Then he walked out.
Insulting the
people's earnest representatives in the Senate.
The man is
emotionally challenged with a debilitating persecution complex. He is unable to
stand the heat in a kitchen he entered surreptitiously, in the dead of night,
as a favor to a woman now in jail.
I suggest Arche
needs to wipe the . . . umm, film . . . from his eyes and look simply at the
disreputable and disrespectful display that was put on by the Chief Justice,
with his "vast legal knowledge",
in the guise of testimony, last Tuesday. And stop slandering good people who,
when they see the king is naked, simply say the king is naked.
