YOU’RE OUT MERCY
The time of reckoning has come for Mrs. Mercy Gutierrez of the Office of the Ombudsman. She will gone down in Philippine history as the first top government official to be legally removed through impeachment process. Former Pres. Joseph "Erap" Estrada was impeached but removed by a grand conspiracy led by Gloria Arroyo and the then Supreme Court chief justice Hilario Davide.
In the recently nationwide simulcast Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing, Mrs. Mercy Guttierez openly disapproved the findings of her predecessor, former Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo’s, too weak for lack of evidences of plunder against former AFP Comptroller Gen. Carlos Garcia.
She castigated former Special Prosecutor Dennis Villaignacio for his tardiness when the latter tries to defend Marcelo. She claimed that the Office of the Ombudsman is the sole representative of the people in cases under jurisdiction of Sandiganbayan. That she has the exclusive right and controls what she deems what is best, better and good for the people and country.
Mrs. Gutierrez took the committee’s precious time and turned the hearing into her self-styled privilege speech. She repeatedly brags her position as Ombudsman being a constitutionally an independent body is free from any governmental restrictions.
ONLY WAY OUT
Mercy Gutierrez will be burned out just like what she and her classmate of earlier period Jose Miguel T. Arroyo did both to former Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo and former Special Prosecutor Dennis Villaignacio.
As an Ombudsman, Gutierrez is "pathologically arrogant" and does not have the public trust and basic honesty expected of a public official.
For her hopelessly incompetent seven day work-week since she became Ombudsman, she will suffer from depression and will be physically and mentally exhausted. She will also have severe ulcers and hypertension.
It’s hard to see the pain behind the mask. Bearing the burden of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s secrets is very complicated job. Like what happened to former AFP chief Angelo T. Reyes, there will come a time she wishes she was never born. The bishops and nuns will pray that she opt instead file her irrevocable resignation effective immediately.
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