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Shall We Impeach President Arroyo?
« on: October 24, 2007, 05:53:14 PM »
By Joe Espiritu
Columnist
Bohol Sunday Post

The bribery attempt of Atty Francis Ver, a ranking member of Kmapi, Pres Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's political party cannot be accepted as totally logical. It raises plenty of questions. The operator could be either an oxymoron or a brilliant strategist. The plot is Byzantine, so devious that it could not be clearly discerned at ordinary levels. Such scenario foisted upon a gullible public but there may be analytical minds, which would question such actions.

The move is to impeach the President. Impeachment proceedings, according to the constitution must start in the Lower House. Charges may be filed by government - read opposition politicians - or private practitioners. When filed, the Speaker of the House refers the case to the Committee on Justice. The Committee decides is the case is sufficient in form, filed in the required procedure, and sufficient in substance, that there is cause for the case to be filed.

If it has both, the case is referred back to the House if it has sufficient numbers required to approve the filing so it could be tried in the Senate, which acts as the judge and jury of the case. Should the President be found guilty, the President is asked to step down. If along the line, the case will not prosper, she cannot be made to face another impeachment proceeding until the next year.

This year and impeachment complaint is file against the President. The charge is about the so-called anomalous National Broadband Network deal with the ZTE Corporation of Chine. The complaint was filed by lawyer Roel Pulido, an attotney for the Magdalo group, which staged the Oakwood mutiny. However, opposition lawyers contend that the complaint is a weak one and should not be entertained.

Then comes Atty Francis Ver attempting to bribe partylist Anakbayan Representative Crispin Beltran a whopping two million pesos to help the impeachment filing. Rep. Beltran naturally refused and caused the Lower House to pause from their 2008 national budget deliberations to listen to his privilege speech denouncing the bribe.

The questions that are starting to rise are many. Why in the first place would Atty Roel Pulido, a lawyer for the Magdalo, an outright opposition group be involved in filing a weak complaint design to bail out the President? Does it mean that he had sold out? In either case, he is in a no win situation. He could be considered a bad lawyer in the former or a mercenary one in the latter. No self-respecting lawyer would want that.

As for Atty Francis Ver, he is not a sacrificial lamb but a judas goat. The former is offered to appease a mob out for blood while the latter leads a group of sheep to slaughter. The Beltran vote is only one, why not approach another Congressman who would be more receptive to money? Rep Beltran represents a left oriented group Anakpawis. Some picture him as a principled ideologue while others see him as a Machiavellian operator.

If his group and other allied organizations would like to see the President shot down figuratively, why help her acquire immunity albeit temporarily, from impeachment? As Ver knows that Ka Bel is a member of an organization committed to, changing the present system to their own why then would Francis Ver approach Crispin Beltran of all persons, with the bribe. As Sec Rinaldo Puno said, it would be like bribing the Pope. As if the Pope could be bribed.

It seems that Malacañan Palace is orchestrating the moves to protect the President from impeachment for the year, but the methods are so complicated.

The scenario is thus; the Palace caused a lawyer commissioned by rebel soldiers to defend them in court because of his capability to file a weak impeachment complaint. Bribery is ordinarily carried out by intermediaries so the source cannot be traced yet Francis Ver a high official of a political organization did not bother to cover his tracks. Bribes are offered to most the receptive yet why was the bribe offered to Beltran, a known opposition member and an ideologue. Was it offered so Beltran could denounce it?

Would the brains in the Palace manipulate public opinion so they in the Palace will be embarrassed? Hardly likely. Alternatively, is it the opposition making those moves hoping for a groundswell that would drive the occupant from the Palace?

Logical. Alternatively, is it the Palace making those moves to make the public believe that all these were handiwork of the opposition? Now that is a complicated story.

--published by the Bohol Sunday Post


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