SPEAK YOUR MIND MONDAY: What is your message to the senator-judges ?

[C.I.C.C.I]

I admire Chiz and Lito Lapid even they voted to convict.

Lito Lapid: for his humility
Chiz Escudero: for his act of signing a waiver to open his accounts to show that he has the moral turpitude to convict CJ Corona guilty.


To Bongbong, Joker and Miriam:
Thank you for giving us hope and showing all is not lost. We know its very difficult to stand for your principle when popular opinion is against it. For that, I really admire the 3 of you.

moral turpitude?

did you mean uprightness?

last time i checked turpitude refers to depravity

[wilqt]

Tuso ka Enrile. Tuso man ang Matsing, Matsing pa rin..

[Jspice]

Mali ang pagkabilang : 3 out of 23 - corrected by Kray0n! Thanks thanks!

[pieno]

To Ferdinand Marcos BengBong Junior...
my message...
buti nag-acquit ka haha kundi magmumukha kang Hypocrite hahaha Daddy mo 2nd sa most evil, most corrupt leader of the 20th Century eh hahaha tatawanan ka ni Corona kapag di mo siya kinampihan nyan hahahhaa

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004...ia.philippines

THE GUARDIAN na nagsabi...

On the take

Head of state Mohammed Suharto
Place, time Indonesia, 1967-98
Amount $15bn-$35bn

Head of state Ferdinand Marcos
Place, time Philippines, 1972-86
Amount $5bn-$10bn

Head of state Mobutu Sese Seko
Place, time Zaire, 1965-97
Amount $5bn

Head of state Sani Abacha
Place, time Nigeria, 1993-98
Amount $2bn-$5bn

Head of state Slobodan Milosevic
Place, time Serbia, 1972-86
Amount $1bn

Head of state Jean-Claude Duvalier
Place, time Haiti, 1971-86
Amount $300m-$800m

Head of state Alberto Fujimori
Place, time Peru, 1990-2000
Amount $600m

Head of state Pavlo Lazarenko
Place, time Ukraine 1996-97
Amount $114m-$200m

Head of state Arnoldo Alemán
Place, time Nicaragua, 1997-2002
Amount $100m

Head of state Joseph Estrada
Place, time Philippines, 1998-2001
Amount $78m-$80m


Hahahahha Sabi ng mga Marcos loyalist, walang sariling utak..gusto robot lang sila haha...sabi nila "Bti na lang pinanganak si Prophet Muhammad. Kundi numero uno si Marcos."

[aslowruler]

Malaki ho ang kinakaltas na buwis sa sahod ko na siyang pinapasahod sa inyo. Kung maaari lamang ay pumirma na kayo ng waiver.

[shintaro76]

Kamustahin ko lang yung mga senator-judges espcially yung 20. Kamusta naman po yung dollar accounts nyo? Huwag nyo pong ililipat sa ibang bansa ah, baka biglang bumagsak ang banking system sa Pilipinas kapag nagkaganun.

[ValugangBaluga2]

Kamustahin ko lang yung mga senator-judges espcially yung 20. Kamusta naman po yung dollar accounts nyo? Huwag nyo pong ililipat sa ibang bansa ah, baka biglang bumagsak ang banking system sa Pilipinas kapag nagkaganun.

totoo bang may mansion si Tito Sotto sa California? Nasa SALN po ba yun?

Just asking po.

[blue_tracer]

abangan na lang natin ang mga bubuwit na magbibigay ng 'espesyal na balita' kay bahay_kubo. kasi ilang araw pa bago matapos ang impeachment nagmumura na siya sa 'result' eh. and he even accurately predicted the actual number of senators that would vote for conviction.

[Nakura]

Thank you for speaking your mind this week!

Here is MONTO GAWE's thoughts on the Corona Trial:

[Objection]

BWAHAHHA

So much for pagbabago gusto ninyo


Yellow Goons isnt fond of transparency

[rodina]

You're a disgrace to your profession as lawmakers. Dapat hindi kayo lawbreakers.

You're an insult to the intelligence of thinking Filipinos.

May your tribe not multiply.

Lahat yan sabi ni or implied by Mirriam. Many of us happen to agree.

Ang layo-layo nyo sa kalidad ng mga jurors sa Edward's case sa US:


"Edwards had been charged with conspiracy, four counts of receiving illegal campaign contributions and one count of making false statements for allegedly soliciting and secretly spending over $925,000 to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, a campaign videographer, during the 2008 presidential election. He faced up to 30 years in prison and $1.5 million in fines if he had been convicted on all counts.
The jury began deliberations on May 18 after a month of testimony that covered the sordid details of Edwards' affair with Hunter, the elaborate cover-up and campaign finance law.

Prosecutors said Edwards knew exactly what he was doing in 2008 when he used nearly $1 million in campaign funds to cover up his affair with Hunter.

Lawyers for the former presidential candidate claimed the payments from Mellon and trial lawyer Fred Baron were intended as personal gifts, not political contributions, to shield Edwards' wife from learning of Hunter's pregnancy with his child. Elizabeth Edwards, who was battling cancer at the time, died in 2010.

The defense argued that while he may have been a "bad husband," he did not violate any federal laws.
"This verdict reflects the struggle that this jury appears to have had in finding some clear cut evidence of criminality," Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor and partner at McCarter & English, wrote in an email. "Despite the government's best efforts, the defense was able to appeal to the jurors' sense of fair play and justice even when dealing with an extremely unsympathetic defendant whose credibility was severely damaged by his own conduct."

"However morally reprehensible the conduct [was] here," Mintz added, "they could not agree that it added up to a criminal violation."

[HeadBaker]

"This verdict reflects the struggle that this jury appears to have had in finding some clear cut evidence of criminality....

the defense was able to appeal to the jurors' sense of fair play and justice even when dealing with an extremely unsympathetic defendant whose credibility was severely damaged by his own conduct."

in the case of corona, malinaw nagkulang talaga ang depensa. even jpe said that before corona testified, the score seemed close. most likely corona would have been acquitted.

we cannot blame some judges (except b. drilon. b as in biased pero pwede rin baboy ) if they are not lawyers and have a hard time understanding legalities. the law is the law and mandates that the senate, whoever is sitting there, be judges during the trial of corona.

the defense should have done a better job in explaining simply and thoroughly what their point is.

[LITHIUM478]

gentlemen and ladies of the senate (with the exception of miriam bongbong and escudero), you are the best reason why we should have a unicameral congress. i hope charter change succeeds and they abolish the useless senate.

I am dismayed how Enrile admired the reasoning of Lito Lapid on how he arrived on the guilty verdict -- a Senator admitting that he knows nothing about the law, when in fact it is his number one job to create laws, and of course to know the laws.

I heard Lapid saying he is at the Senate to represent his class (high school level/grad). The fvck, he should be at congress with as a party list representative if that is what in his mind. Oh well, this is the sorry state of our Philippine politics.

I think the senate should remain as the higher house, elected per region and minus the pork barrel but should have higher qualifications, to make it true in its sense as the house of wisdom.

The entire impeachment trial is just a farce.

[stella so]

Lessons from Renato Corona’s experience: Five tips on how to survive an impeachment trial

Please read: http://bit.ly/L4Zm96

[peterin]

My message to Senators, so far Enrile, Estrada and Angara have said that the ex-CJ has been punished enough, my message:

Sa inyo kasi, bale wala ang loot ni ex-CJ na $2.4m (ang tira-tira lang) at P80m ay barya lang. Pero sa naghihirap na mga tao, karampot lang nyan ay malaking kayamanan na.

so why not prosecute further the ex-CJ and why not forfiet ill-gotten wealth? What he and children cannot explain, the government should take. He should go to Bilibid for perjury, and for any crime that would be discovered, because the money he pocketted could only come from criminal acts, that is my opinion.

Hirap sa mg nasa itaas, yan na ang gustong maging patakaran. Pag alis sa pwesto, wag nang habulin ang nakurakot. Kaya kung mangyari man sa kanila, para silang hari sa yaman, kahit maalis sa pwesto. Kita't ang mga nasa pwesto, walang takot magpayaman.

Bakit ba hindi ipairal ang batas?

Ang Velarde account, ang General Garcia deal. etc.

Yan ba ang tama? Nakakasuka itong mga ito.

[krdskrm]

To Lito Lapid:

[faradayPH]

After the voting result, it only show that sayang lang ang pondo ng taong bayan to maintain two seperate legislative body. Better dissolve na lang yun senate and maintain one legislative body. Tutal same banana din pala yun mga na upo sa senate at congress. puro bayaran at walang prinsipyo maliban sa tatlong senador na nanindigan sa kanilang prinsipyo

[blue_tracer]

taos puso ang ating pasasalamat sa mga senador na bomoto para magkaisa na






ang 3 branches of government: legislative + executive + judiciary. mas masaya, wala nang check and balance. puwede na lahat.

[quint1]

After the voting result, it only show that sayang lang ang pondo ng taong bayan to maintain two seperate legislative body. Better dissolve na lang yun senate and maintain one legislative body. Tutal same banana din pala yun mga na upo sa senate at congress. puro bayaran at walang prinsipyo maliban sa tatlong senador na nanindigan sa kanilang prinsipyo

may criticism sa senate ng foreigners kung bakit hindi elected by district ang mga senador na iyan, unlike the us senate and advanced western countries. they don't represent specific geographical constituencies, unlike the us senate.

sayang ang pera sa pagbayad ng suweldo at pork barrel ng senador. hindi na kailangan ng congress made up of the senate and the house. dapat isa lang tutal parehas namang walang prinsipyo iyan.