Convict Estrada
i don't want to forget and forgive. guingona seem to have forgotten (but not forgiven) what estrada has done to the country. despite his cheap and amateurish attempt to paint a "new" man, the heinous crime we are talking about is plunder of national coffers and betrayal of public interest and trust.
but it is obvious that public interest is not a priority of most politicians, private interest, compounded private interest is more like it.
i say guingona has not forgiven estrada because he never overturned his earlier assertion (year 2000, as senator, guingona delivered the famous "i accuse" speech that highlighted the romance between sison and estrada and their love child: jueteng)but instead went on a delusional branch that we should free estrada because he is a changed man.
that meant that estrada was flawed from the very beginning, or that guingona himself believed that estrada was and is still guilty of the charges, only that we should set him free because the current administration has a bone to pick with estrada.
the purported case against the current administration is its own story, one that is off tangent to this case. estrada is the one on trial, not the current government. i refuse to be diverted by brilliant rhetoric and keep my focus clear of the reality that estrada is being tried for a crime against the filipino people.
politicians should remember that - the filipino people.
i am not pro-administration, i am pro-filipino. i am in the same sentiment as millions of other thinking filipinos who are sick and tired of being hailed as the most forgiving of all races but ridiculed behind our back as the equivalent of slugs, spineless.
our highest judiciary should hold estrada and his camp in contempt for preempting the decision in their media frenzy and not-so-subtle attempt to blackmail the filipino people.
i am sick of these "liars" milking the white elephant of legal fees, money that is rightfully owned by the filipino. that makes them conspirators to the plunder case. these lawyers are not gentlemen and obviously subscribe to the tenet that "he who shouts the loudest, wins."
if that is the game, then i call upon thinking pinoys here and abroad: cry, shout, lament, wail, and roar to drown the hissing of forked tongues.
convict estrada, the filipino people deserve that victory.
i can not, and will not, forget and forgive.
but it is obvious that public interest is not a priority of most politicians, private interest, compounded private interest is more like it.
i say guingona has not forgiven estrada because he never overturned his earlier assertion (year 2000, as senator, guingona delivered the famous "i accuse" speech that highlighted the romance between sison and estrada and their love child: jueteng)but instead went on a delusional branch that we should free estrada because he is a changed man.
that meant that estrada was flawed from the very beginning, or that guingona himself believed that estrada was and is still guilty of the charges, only that we should set him free because the current administration has a bone to pick with estrada.
the purported case against the current administration is its own story, one that is off tangent to this case. estrada is the one on trial, not the current government. i refuse to be diverted by brilliant rhetoric and keep my focus clear of the reality that estrada is being tried for a crime against the filipino people.
politicians should remember that - the filipino people.
i am not pro-administration, i am pro-filipino. i am in the same sentiment as millions of other thinking filipinos who are sick and tired of being hailed as the most forgiving of all races but ridiculed behind our back as the equivalent of slugs, spineless.
our highest judiciary should hold estrada and his camp in contempt for preempting the decision in their media frenzy and not-so-subtle attempt to blackmail the filipino people.
i am sick of these "liars" milking the white elephant of legal fees, money that is rightfully owned by the filipino. that makes them conspirators to the plunder case. these lawyers are not gentlemen and obviously subscribe to the tenet that "he who shouts the loudest, wins."
if that is the game, then i call upon thinking pinoys here and abroad: cry, shout, lament, wail, and roar to drown the hissing of forked tongues.
convict estrada, the filipino people deserve that victory.
i can not, and will not, forget and forgive.
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