May punto naman si Didagen Dilangalen, dating Maguindanao congressman na ngayon ay tagapagsalita ni dating Pangulong Joseph Estrada.
Sabi ni Dilangalen, dahil inamin na rin ni Supreme Court Justice Artemio Panganiban na nagkamali sila sa kanilang hatol na kamatayan kay Leo Echegaray, siguro naman maari nila ring aminin ang kanilang pagkakamali sa pagpapasumpa kay Gloria Arroyo na pangulo noong 2001 dahil hindi naman nabakante ang posisyon ng pagkapangulo noon.
Sinabi ito ni Dilangalen dahil noong isang linggo, sinabi ni Panganiban na nagkamali ang Supreme Court, kasama na rin siya, sa hatol na kamatayan kay Echegaray dahil hindi naman nasiguro kung anak niya o anak ng kayang asawa sa iba ang batang nahalay.
Sabi ni Panganiban, kung hindi niya anak, dapat ang parusa ay life imprisonment lang.
Isinagawa ang pagpatay kay Echegaray, ang pinakaunang biktima ng death penalty mula ng iton ay ibinalik sa batas, sa pamamagitan ng lethal injection noong 1999, panahon ni Estrada.
Hindi na maaaring ibalik ang buhay ni Echegaray kaya sabi ni Sen. Aquilino Pimentel, mag file siya ng bill na magbibigay ng P10 million sa pamilya ng nasawi. Para na rin yan humingi ng tawad ang pamahalaan sa kanilang pagkakamali.
Nakakahanga itong ginawa ni Panganiban ng pag-amin ng pagkakamali sa kay Echegaray. Maari naman siyang tumahimik at wala na rin sigurong uungkat ng kaso. Ngunit nilabas niya. Kahanga-hanga siya.
Marami ang nagugulat sa pinapakita ni Panganiban na pagka-independyente sa pag-iisip dahil maala-ala natin malaki ang papel niya, kasama ni dating Supreme Court Justice Hilario Davide, sa pagtupad ng plano ni Arroyo ng pang-aagaw ng pagka-presidente kay Estrada.
Sa ating batas, ang bise presidente ay maaari lamang maging presidente kung ang presidente ay namatay, permanente siyang ma-disable, maalis sa posisyon, at mag-resign. Wala ni isa sa ganoong kundisyun ang nangyari ngunit pinasumpa ni Davide na presidente si Arroyo habang nasa Malacañang pa si Estrada.
Maala-ala natin na sinabi ni Panganiban na kaya raw sila nagdesisyon na pasumpain si Arroyo dahil nagbukas raw siya ng Bibliya at ang nabasa niyang verse ay parang nagpahiwatig na ilagay sa Malacañang si Arroyo.
Nang dinala ni Estrada sa Supreme Court ang isyu, pinanindigan nina Davide at Panganiban ang pagpasumpa kay Arroyo at ginamit nila ang diary ni Sen. Edgsrda Angara na nag-iisip naman raw talagang mag-resign si Estrada. Ang diary ay lumabas maraming linggo nakalipas and Edsa Dos.
Ang ugat ng krisis na nangyayari ngayon sa bansa ay ang Edsa Dos, ang pang-aagaw ni Arroyo ng pagka-president kay Estrada noong 2001.
Sana makunsyensa rin sina Panganiban at ang iba pang Supreme Court justices na kasali doon at gumawa ng paraan na matuwid ang kanilang pagkakamali.
Ellen,
When that happens, Panganiban and the SC announcing they erred when they declared that Estrada had “constructively resigned” and Gloria therefore was the legitimate successor, I will eat my slippers!
Ooops… and that Gloria therefore SHOULD NOT BE the legitimate successor, I will eat my slippers and I will throw in a rubber boot in the process…
Malabo siguro mangyari na aamin ang Supreme Court ng pagkakamali sa kaso ni Erap dahil nandiyan pa ang mga bata ni Gloria katulad nina Justice Tony Carpio.
Sana mayroon doon sa mga retired justices na na magkwento kung ano talaga ang nangyari.
Panganiban has been admitting a lot of errors. This FEU graduate is a puke! Parang nakakaloko!
I don’t know whom he is trying to impress with his declaration of misdeed in “misjudging” a criminal who was condemned by the young child he raped and scarred for life.
There is no restitution for rape as a matter of fact, and reason I guess why in the Bible, it is prescribed that rapists and all those who do not follow the Law of Chastity be stoned to death.
Panganiban claims he bases his judgment on some inspiration after reading the Bible randomly. Gosh, what a creep! He should ask if the inspiration he gets is not one from the Devil himself! These guys should not be playing with human lives!
But I think it’s good that he is admitting his errors. kaya lang, kulang pa.
E-mail from Jess Mancera:
Hindi po ako naniniwala na ang Pilipino ay nakalaya na. Dahil sa ngayon ay nananatili tayong nakagapos pa sa mga dayuhan lalo na sa Amerika.
Kami pong mga mahihirap at mga naghihirap na OFW lalo na sa pagpapaaral sa
aming mga anak ay patuloy na nakagapos sa kahirapan. Lalo na at naging biktima pa ng mga walanghiyang may ari ng mga plan holder ang ilan sa aming mga kasamahan.
Diyan sa ating INANG BAYAN sa ‘Pina’s may isang nagnakaw ng 1 kapirasong bakal upang ipakilo at ipagbili para may ipakain sa pamilya, ay madaling nahuli binugbog ng pulis at madaling naikulong. Samantalang may 1 tao na nagngangalan ng “BOLANTE” at wanted ng senado dahil siya’y susi sa pangungurakot ng milyon-milyong pera ng kapwa naming mahirap
na magsasaka ay malayang malaya na namumuhay sagana sa ibang bansa.
Mga kaawa awang mag-aaral sa nagsisikipang eskwelahan sana naman ay pagdamutan nila ng kahit kaunti sa kanilang ninanakaw. Wag sanang pagtakpan ng mga kasinungalingan ng taga Malakanyang. Dahil ba ang mga anak nila ay sa Amerika mga nagsisipag aral?
Mam Ellen, opinion nami’y mga mayayamang politiko ay kurap na taong gobyerno lamang ang tunay na malaya.Malayan nakapag lalabas ng kuwarta at namumuhay ng sagana. Hindi tulad naming OFW. Dugo, pawis at luha ang kapalit ng pinapasok naming pera. nagpapasok kami ng pera at hindi kami naglalabas.
Malaya ba tayo?
I feel sorry for Filipinos really that they are dumped with creeps to man their Supreme Court, where the judges are supposed to be unblemished!!!
Over here, our judges of the Supreme Court come from the ranks and files of judges in the lower and higher courts of Japan, and then their names are presented to the public in a referendum to scratch out if they are questionable. Even with just one scratching the name of the Judge nominated to the Supreme Court can mean disqualification on the principle that the judge of the Supreme Court should be best and excell over the people whose welfare and interest they are bound to uphold and protect. Bawal pati ang babaero, past or present!
Pray, how many now sitting in the Supreme Court have not indulged in this malady that afflicts majority of Filipinos, male and female—this afflication called “fornication and promiscuity”? I understand Art Panganiban is not clean on this!
OK, so Panganiban is admitting his error on Echegaray, but how about the error of the court proceedings on Estrada? Kailan ba nila pakakawalan si Estrada na hindi naman mapatunayan kung may kasalanan nga o wala even when his admission of signing a document under another person’s name in fact constitute a crime called “falsification of documents.” Iyon ngang kasalanan ni Bansot, ayaw nilang pakialaman dahil kasabwat sila! In short, kung susundin ang batas, dapat disqualified na rin si Art Panganiban from sitting at the Supreme Court dahil sila ang pasimuno ng mali!
Isa lang ang sigaw ng MAJORITY of Filipinos: PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Ellen, all:
The Inquirer news flash says, ” SC Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban, pinanindigan ang kanyang pahayag na mali ang hatol na bitay na ibinigay kay Leo Echegaray.”
Oh yeah? Then, why doesn’t he and his fellow judges who now admit of misjudging a rapist not resign from their positions and take responsibility for their mistake or mistakes?!
It is not enough that they admit and say sorry for the mistake and misdeed done in the name of justice. There should be due restitution for what they did, still do and may continue to do.
Frankly, there is a book I keep that was written by a leader of our church, Spencer W. Kimball, regarding “The Miracles of Forgiveness” where he wrote this warning: “The outlook is bleak, but the impending tragedy can be averted. There is only one cure for the earth’s sick condition. That infallible cure is simply righteousness, obedience, godliness, honor, integrity. Nothing else will suffice. To the unrigteous nation, there comes a day of reckoning. To each individual, righteousness or unrighteousness, there is similarly a time of judgement, a time for accounting for one’s mortal probation when that phase of eternal existence is past.”
As for rape, he says, “Also far-reaching is the loss of chastity. Once given or taken or stolen it can never be regained. Even in a forced contact such as rape or incest, the injured one is greatly outraged. If she has not cooperated and contributed to the foul deed, she is of course in a more favorable position. There is no condemnation where there is no voluntary participation. It is better to die in defending one’s virtue than to live having lost it without a struggle. While one may recover in large measure from sexual sins, they are nevertheless heinous, and because of their gravity, the Lord has placed them very close to the unpardonable ones in order of seriousness.”
I wonder if Panganiban has any inkling of what the Bible says are unpardonable sins if indeed he refers to it for his judgment upon lawbreakers like the late Echegaray!
I think Chief Justice Panganiban here is trying to undermine the whole court, by pointing out that he dissented on the case he admitted the court had been wrong.
How about questionable decisions where he voted with the majority decision?? And there were too many. But if he is truly convinced of the mistake he should urge the congress to appoint an independent body to conduct an inquiry why the mistake was made in such an important case and recommend procedures and guidelines so the same mistake will never happen again. It is just unimaginable that the highest court could come out years after and tell the nation “ok we are sorry, we made a boboo and leave it at that”. That is irresponsible..
I wonder why Justice Art Panganiban admitted this mistake just now? After leo Echagaray died of lethat injection? Bakit hindi siya umalma noon bago pa man bitayin si Leo??? For delicadeza, pwede ba mag-resign na ang buong members ng supreme court? Your department is headed by a man who has committed a lot of mistakes-from Erap ouster to Gloria’s oathtaking. My goodness!!! Where in the world you can find a supreme court delivering conviction and later on will admit it was a mistake???It involves human lives?? Paano na ang buhay ni Leo, ang dangal ng mga kamag-anak nila. Sana pala ay sinunod natin ang himutok ng mga anti-death penalty na nag-vigil noon bago bitayin si Leo. Hindi kami mga baboy Mr. Panganiban!! Pero binaboy nyo ang ating saligang batas. Enough is enough. Umalis na kayo sa inyong poder kasama ang ipokritang babaeng sinungaling, mandaraya at magnanakaw na nasa malakanyang. Doon kayo sa impyerno maghari-harian kung saan lahat na makakasalmuha nyo ay tulad nyong mga kampon ng dilim. God have mercy on us!!!
On second thought, baka pwedeng ituwid na rin ni Justice Panganiban lahat ng mga pagkakamaling nagawa nila. Palayain na si Erap na talaga namang pinanggigigilan ni Villa-Ignacio. Hindi ko rin manintidihan si Justice Villa-Ignaco, kahit kailan ito magbukas ng kanyang bibig, lahat ng sabihin niya ay paninira kay Erap. Kulang na lang ay bitayin na niya si Estrada. bilang magistrado di ba dapat ay maging unbiased siya, hear both sides and never give comments to put down the accused? As if he is in Sandigan Bayan just to convict Erap. Totoo nga pala ang sinabi ni Pres. Estrada “Sandigan Bayan was created only to convict him” and perhaps kill him.
13 June 2006
I dont have optimism in the leadership of villar in the senate, why, if you ask, remember when he was then speaker of the house, impeached the very person who help him get the highest position the lower house. His burning ambition to become the the senate president gives me the chill, much more his ambition to become the president of the Philippines.
Remember how he impeached erap in 2000, after the opening of the session, villar immediately opened the floor by transmitting to the senate the article/s of impeachment to the senate???
Now comes the funny part, villar and his buddy, noli boy, are now holding the no. 2 and no. 3 position in the country, what does it spells??? i dont know with you people, but i throw a cast of doubt in these two personalities (de castro and villar) de castro, who knows nothing how to run a government bureacracy and villar with his burning ambition sends me the big chill. Tsk, tsk, tsk………..
jinx
13 June 2006
At yesterday’s vin d’honneur, hosted by the leprechaun at the palace by the stinking pasig river, chif justice panganiban really stood by his words on the echegaray case, tsk, tsk, tsk….too late the hero as they say. But Iw ould really admire this guy, if he says the error on the ouster of erap in 2001 “the so calle contructive resignation” if there really exist.
Here is the funny part, the Vice President, in the middle of the meida interview on panganiban, throwed a couple of questions on panganiban, can someone pls tell the veep not to do it anymore, for crying out loud he is not a media man anymore, he is the “VICE PRESIDENT” of the Philippines.
jinx
I agree with you Vic, why is Art Panganiban not taking full responsibility for the mistakes that he and his colleagues have been doing in the name of Justice? Nakakasuka ang hypocrisy ng taong ito talaga!
Paying the family of Echegaray for “mistake” kuno of executing him for a crime he committed that cannot be restituted is crazy, I guess, especially when the capital punishment was still in order. The point is how fair was the investigation of the case and the trial of that case especially when we see a Department of Justice manned by people without scruples and principles to follow the rule of law.
What a bunch of hypocrites these crooks really are indeed!
Off topic, but has anybody read Philstar’s article entitled “Palace: Time to Abolish Senate” by Aurea Calica? kung meron kayong kopya, paki post naman o.
kasi interesado ako sa laman nung article na yun. at hindi na siya accessible sa philstar archives.
at wala na rin siya sa google news, even though i thought i saw it listed there yestereday.
http://www.philstar.com/philstar/News200606110401.htm
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johnmarzan try that link on msn search or you can do the msn search that what i did. good luck
“Palace: Time to Abolish Senate”
by Aurea Calica Dated june ll, 2006
The time has come to abolish the Senate by replacing the current form of government with a single-legislature parliamentary system because the chamber has become obstructive, Malacañang said yesterday.
The Senate produced 12 bills that were signed into law by President Arroyo, a piddling effort according to two administration allies in the House of Representatives.
Deputy Majority Leader Antonio Cerilles and Rep. Exequiel Javier said the Senate’s output “caused the dismal performance of the 13th Congress.”
Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye said the Senate failed to act on several important pieces of legislation needed for the country’s economic recovery.
“We lament the non-passage of vital reform bills, including the national budget, due to the non-cooperation and dilly-dallying displayed by the Senate,” Bunye said in a statement.
He said the “gridlock caused by the Senate has hindered confidence in our economy, stunted opportunities for growth with social equity and hampered the pursuit of national security because of several key pieces of legislation that are gathering dust in the upper chamber.”
Bunye said the situation “is the clearest and best” argument for Mrs. Arroyo’s call to replace the current US-style presidential system with a parliamentary form of government “for which we now have a growing momentum of public support.”
Earlier, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said it was obvious that the Senate was blocking moves to adopt a parliamentary system to protect itself from being eliminated.
It is now up to the public to decide on the Senate’s fate, Ermita said.
Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. also said the Senate was a failure and should be dismantled.
He complained that dozens of bills passed by the House remained unacted on by Senate, adding that “futility and wastefulness” marked the just-concluded Second Regular Session of the 13th Congress.
“The list of bills ignored by the Senate is long. We can go on and on rattling off each title. And each one is further proof of the failure of the Senate — and of the utter futility and wastefulness of a two-house legislature,” De Venecia said.
The Speaker appeared frustrated by the legislature’s failure to enact important measures and blamed this largely on “destructive politics” in the Senate.
He said the situation showed that the country should adopt a unicameral parliamentary system. “My colleagues, this system cannot continue; we have to break it, we have to dismantle it.”
Mrs. Arroyo is fighting opposition efforts to force her from office over allegations that she cheated her way to victory in the May 2004 presidential election.
Drilon withdrew support from her in June last year following her admission that she had an inappropriate phone conversation with an election official during the vote count. But she denied rigging the outcome.
Mrs. Arroyo accuses the opposition of shifting the battle to the Senate after she successfully fought off an impeachment bid in the House last September.
She charged that Drilon and other senators critical of her were trying to weaken her with a series of investigations purportedly aimed at uncovering corruption.
The Senate investigations are meant to help legislators craft laws, but Mrs. Arroyo claimed they are actually “in aid of destabilization.”
The President earlier assailed the Senate for trimming certain appropriations from her administration’s budget proposal for the year, saying it would cripple economic development programs as well as those meant to ease the plight of the poor.
Among the measures that remained pending in the Senate were: the alternative fuels bill, the proposed measures on automated elections, the anti-terror bill, the tax reduction for low-income earners, amendments to the Bases Conversion Development Authority Act and eco-zone incentives, rationalization of fiscal incentives, anti-smuggling, tourism policy and the extension of Agricultural Competitiveness Enhancement Fund.
These bills were identified as priority measures during a recent meeting of the Legislative Executive Development Advisory Council. Legislation or obstruction?
In a joint statement, Cerilles and Javier deplored the Senate’s “obstructionist politics” which they said had made Congress “irrelevant.”
“When you speak of Congress, you refer to both the Senate and the House. It is lamentable that while the House has diligently worked to act on and pass numerous important local and national bills, these measures only end up stranded in the Senate,” Cerilles said.
Cerilles, of Zamboanga del Sur, added the senators were “more interested in looking for other matters outside of the appropriations hearings,” resulting in the failure to pass the 2006 national budget.
“Their hearings were more like a probe than a budget hearing. Obviously, the House was able to finish the budget long before the senators wrapped up their budget discussions,” the former environment secretary observed.
Senators “gave too much focus to investigations which, however, have not yielded any remedial legislation at all. I concur with the Palace that the delay or non-approval of the budget can be blamed on senators,” Cerilles said.
He and Javier pointed out that legislating is lawmakers’ “primary duty.”
“With the Senate’s failures, the overall performance of the 13th Congress is dismal. Their concentration on investigations and politicking resulted in no legislation at all,” Javier said.
“This proves our point that the much-publicized Senate investigations were not in aid of legislation but of the oust-PGMA variety and grandstanding with an eye for the 2007 elections,” Javier reiterated.
According to De Venecia, the House approved 802 bills that ended up stalled in the Senate.
In contrast, Majority Leader Prospero Nograles said the House under De Venecia’s leadership either passed or adopted 25 percent or 1,732 of the 6,900 bills filed, surpassing its record in the Eighth to the 12th Congresses.
Senators had also agreed at the economic council meeting to sit down with members of the House to try to resolve the House-Senate impasse on the bid to amend the Constitution.
But the supposed “breakthrough” quickly dampened as senators and House members failed to reach any agreement on the proposed constitutional amendments.
The administration and its allies in the House are hinging on the people’s initiative because of the deadlock.
De Venecia, one of the leading advocates of a parliamentary system, has not given up on his chamber’s proposal that Congress convene as a constituent assembly to make necessary amendments to the Constitution.
“With a new Senate leadership in place this July, we will continue to reach out to the other chamber. We can have another bicameral conference to revive discussion on constituent assembly in late July or early August,” he said following the sine die adjournment of session of Congress Thursday night.
Under a 2004 term sharing agreement, Sen. Manuel Villar takes over the Senate presidency from Franklin Drilon when the Third Regular Session of the 13th Congress begins on July 24.
“Our collective effort to call a constituent assembly to amend the Constitution has fallen on barren ground. That is why the majority coalition in the House is now shifting its support to the people’s initiative launched by people’s organizations and the 1.7-million strong Union of Local Authorities of the Philippines (ULAP),” he said.
ULAP groups governors, mayors and other local officials.
Senators led by Drilon disagree with the House on how to amend the Constitution. They prefer amendments drafted by a constitutional convention made up of elected delegates.
They argue that amendments proposed by a constituent assembly would appear self-serving because lawmakers would make up the body.
A people’s initiative being pushed by Arroyo allies could skirt the Senate-House impasse.
The two sides were supposed to resolve their differences through a series of talks. Their representatives have had two meetings but have reached no agreements.
The Senate said it would only cooperate on amendments concerning economic reform and not on political reform, including the move to change the country’s form of government.
The people’s initiative has also run into opposition from senators, who are questioning its legality. — With Delon Porcalla
Admin; per request by johnmarzan I posted the the article. But I’m sorry I copy and paste and the result is double posting and extras after back to top. If possible delete the unneccessary extras. Again thanks, am not that good with this thing yet..
Hahahha!
Vic, you just made Philstar’s day…
Philstar’s story was actually based on Bunye’s statement last June 10. Here it is:
Inquirer has a nice editorial on that statement of Bunye. It is titled, “The Secretary lies”.
http://news.inq7.net/opinion/index.php?index=1&story_id=78827
thanks vic and ellen for posting those articles.
nung nakita ko yung title nung article na yan sa philstar, i said to myself, PALACE: TIME TO ABOLISH SENATE, wow that some CRAZY rightwing attack headline coming from the palace newsletter.
banner headline pa yan ha. wonder what people from other countries would think kung nakita nila yang headline na yan?
what if bush said something similar, na he’d like to “abolish the senate” because the democrats have taken over it after the midterm elections and because it was uncooperative at hindi sunod sunuran sa kagustuhan ni king george, how would that play with ordinary americans, republicans and democrats?
And the leprechaun wants unity and to stop politicking, she’s been politicking this past year. With her minions in the lower house, and her ass-licking cabinet doing the demolition job for her, have they gotten any closer to their goals? I suppose not, for her Cha-Cha train has stalled and the people increasingly disgruntled by her arrogance.
BTW, GMA if I remember right was sworn in as “ACTING PRESIDENT” only. Which means all along that Erap was still president but on leave only. Which brings us to Angara’s diary, an individual may keep a daily journal but he can never confirm another man’s frame of mind. It might be to his perception that Erap intends to resign, but it is Erap alone who can make that decision. It could be interpreted as “hearsay” and not the truth. I don’t know how the SC came up with the conclusion of Erap’s resignation based on somebody else’s perceived interpretation.
Ellen,
Yep, the Inquirer’s editorial was really going for the jugular.
You know Schumey, like you, I cannot to this day figure out how supposedly LEARNED men of the law and members of the Supreme Court to boot could declare a duly, constitutionally mandated and universally elected president of the republic CONSTITUTIONALLY RESIGNED based on a highly debatable piece of evidence as a private diary which was written no less than by a politician.
Can you imagine that no less than our “esteemed” supreme court justices convicted a man based on practically hearsay; that these men in judicial robes deprived a man of his day in court by warping the letter of the law?
This is really quite extraordinary. Dean Jorge Bocobo was absolutely right – it was no more, no less a political-judicial-military coup d’état of the most ignoble kind.
I have lost faith in our Supreme Court. I believe their members have absolutely lost the moral RIGHT to rule supreme over the judiciary.
Most of all, to me Davide, along with Gloria and Angie Reyes should be burned at the stake for prostituting the institution.
What a judical farce…Really incredible.
gusto ko sana i-post dito ang ‘ABOLISH THE HOUSE’ …
http://www.malaya.com.ph/may29/edbaylon.htm
Thanks, Nelbar. Brilliant idea by JB Baylon.