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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 th...