Omb. Merceditas Gutierrez Gone Down

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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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo Scandals (February 2001-June 30, 2010)

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Palace concern of 2010 election security

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Zarsuela 2010 election

The grand zarsuela play in Philippine politics of deception and corruption never comes to an end.

National Security Adviser Norberto "Bert" Gonzales, showing his political prowess and clout over Mrs. Arroyo, continues his defiant action, ignoring Palace advice by his statement on the upcoming 2010 elections as a "national security concern".

After all the much reported Palace call for Gonzales to refrain, cease and desist from inciting any further the House of Representatives on proposition's schemes for a transition government to be elected simultaneous in 2010 to pave the way for Charter change

A truly political deception player, Gonzales said the issues regarding the 2010 presidential elections constitute national security concerns, because, according to him, "For a long time now, our country has been drifting to nowhere because of our dysfunctional politics. It was about time the nation, as one people who believe they deserve better, fully addressed the issue."

Presidential Political Adviser Gabriel Claudio on the other hand played along with Gonzales by stopping him from making any public proposals to elect a transition government in 2010, which, Claudio said, were being attributed as official statements from Malacanang.

The incumbent administration's political proposal involved convincing the winner of the 2010 presidential elections to push for political reforms (?) through Charter change Cha-cha) during his first three years in office, then voluntarily{?} step down after Cha-cha had been effected.

Gonzales even suggested that, "I can see that beyond the traditional politicians, we have leaders who are presenting themselves as reform candidate or are being pushed to be so in 2010. Perhaps, Brother Mike Velarde can be this transition president. Even Mr. Joseph Estrada, if he really wants to seek again the presidency, can consider becoming this transition president.”

Claudio played that the proposal to cut short the term of the winning president in 2010 would not be agreeable to the winner because "nobody is foolish enough to accept that."

Gonzales said that though his proposal for a transition government in 2010 may seem a foolish idea to most people, the supreme sacrifice of voluntarily stepping down from the presidency is the most effective way of effecting political reforms through Cha-cha.

"Are we saying that our country is bereft of leaders who are stupid enough to offer their selves to make this sacrifice?" Gonzales said.

What a political play we have here.


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