Gloria’s boys
BY AMADO P. MACASAET
Gloria’s boys
AMADO P. MACASAET
‘The Ombudsman and Mrs. Arroyo are scared that if Mrs. Gutierrez is replaced after conviction by the Senate, her successor will not be in the pocket of the former leader.’
WHOM did the Supreme Court rule may be impeached? I thought it was Ombudsman Mercedita Gutierrez.
So how did it happen that the so-called Gloria’s boys who did not have the courage to identify themselves are claiming that impeachment cannot immediately proceed?
We presume we know that in the sense that Ombudsman Gutierrez can file a motion for reconsideration with the Supreme Court. If that is the case, the supposed respondent, Ms. Gutierrez should be the one to say that she retains the option of filing a memorandum for reconsideration.
The fact that it is "Gloria’s boys" who said the impeachment process should be suspended until the ruling becomes final clearly suggests that these boys, meaning Gloria Arroyo and her supposed cohorts are more scared than the Ombudsman herself.
They talked out of turn and in the process showed that the Ombudsman and Mrs. Arroyo are scared that if Mrs. Gutierrez is replaced after conviction by the Senate, her successor will not be in the pocket of the former leader.
The new Ombudsman may not be expected to do anybody’s bidding, maybe not even that of the President Aquino since the latter must make good his campaign promise that his administration will probe Mrs. Arroyo and her many accomplices for of graft and corruption.
Panic appears to be spreading in the Arroyo camp while there appears to be wild celebration among those who had long wanted to send the grafters behind the slammer, more specifically President Arroyo.
The panic and fear in the Arroyo group are fueled precisely by the ruling of the Supreme Court allowing the impeachment of the Ombudsman.
The message is the magistrates all appointed by Mrs. Arroyo are cutting themselves clean off what has long been suspected as the umbilical cord that binds them with the former President.
This possibility is borne by two factors. One is fear that some of the magistrates may themselves be impeached if they should make a few more rulings clearly in favor of Mrs. Arroyo and just as clearly against the law and normal conduct.
The other is it might have dawned upon them that their only duty is to see to the honest, fair and just interpretation of the Constitution and the laws/
In either or both of the two possibilities, justice and democracy are the clear winners. It is a triumph of good over evil, something that this country never saw in the nine-year no-mandate misrule of Mrs. Arroyo.
Here is betrayed the lingering but now ebbing suspicion that President Aquino is inept, unfit and therefore unqualified. It may well turn out that among our presidents. P-Noy is the most qualified.
He performs the simple and easy task of giving justice to all. We cannot ask for more.
Based on rapidly developing events, the suspicion that Gloria Arroyo covered herself and her tracks of corruption by picking men of undying loyalty to her more particularly her handpicked members of the Highest Tribunal is slowly becoming a myth.
Abuses of unparalleled proportions are always possible when one is in power Gloria Arroyo is no longer in power, and the time of reckoning is at hand.
None of this seems to have come to the mind of Gloria’s boys. They continue to believe that their days of glory will never end.
Let them know know that the end – their end -- is near.
Atonement, repentance, expression of sorrows and regrets will not do them good. In fact, nothing will do them good. Not even the huge loot they amassed.
The lesson of history is such that evil does not last longer than the person who is its apostle. Ancient and contemporary events tell us how true this is.
It is time for them, the Gloria boys and the evil reincarnate they hope to shield from the of the law, of Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faust where he said "…thou has one bare hour to live and then thou must be damned perpetually."
Even more apt is Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in the Country Churchyard: "The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power/ all that wealth, all that beauty e’r grave/await alike the inevitable hour/the paths of Glory lead but to the grave."
Or Macbeth: "Tales told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing." |And finally, of Alexander Pope: "Pride is the never failing vice of fools."
For all of nine years, the country was in trial and tribulation.
Redemption has come. The Gloria boys can only delay it a short while.