The Supreme Court has officially become a willing tool for the furtherance of injustice and persecution in the country.
With the same vote of 8-6, the highest court of the land denied the motion for reconsideration filed by former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and, thus, affirmed with finality its earlier decision ousting her as the top magistrate of the land.This means that no one from the eight justices who voted to grant the petition for quo warranto initiated by Solicitor General Jose Calida, despite its utter unconstitutionality, changed his or her mind.
They don’t give a damn if the country’s justice system is destroyed. They wanted her out, by hook or by crook.
On the same day Sereno’s appeal was denied, the same Supreme Court ruled in another case to junk the civil suit aimed at recovering billions of pesos plundered by the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, his wife Imelda and their known cronies.
The ruling affirmed a 2011 Sandiganbayan decision dismissing the said civil suit because of the alleged failure of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) to prove that the Marcoses and their close associates conspired to steal from the public coffers.
June 19, 2018 was a day we live in infamy as the powerful Gods of Padre Faura dealt the Filipino people serious and fatal blows. It was Jose Rizal’s 157th birthday. But with everything that is happening with our God forsaken country, even our national hero will surely decline to celebrate his special day.
It was a double whammy to the nation as the so-called guardians of our freedoms and liberties became willing protectors of past and present tyrants and notorious thieves.
It is the same Supreme Court who ruled that Ferdinand Marcos can be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani. Just because he is a former president and soldier. Notwithstanding the well-documented atrocities committed during his tyrannical rule.
About 70,000 were put behind bars after being branded as “enemies of the State.” Around 34,000 were tortured. 3,240 had been salvaged which is now commonly known as extra-judicial killing. Hundreds disappeared. Hundreds more were raped and sexually molested. And for the so-called honorable men and women in Padre Faura, he is entitled to a hero’s burial. Revisionism perpetuated no less by highest court of the land.
It is the same Supreme Court who has wasted all the gains and accomplishments of the Aquino administration in its anti-corruption crusade. Allowing Juan Ponce-Enrile to be released on bail on a supposedly non-bailable offense. Dismissing the plunder and other cases against Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo without giving the Ombudsman prosecutors ample and reasonable time to present their evidence.
It is the same Supreme Court who legitimated Rodrigo Duterte’s martial declaration in Mindanao and its extension. Despite the absence of factual and legal basis and even if the constitutional safeguards and limitation were blatantly violated.
It is the same Supreme Court that refused to grant succor to Senator Leila de Lima who has been incarcerated on invented, legally-defective and politically motivated drug charges. The lady senator whose only sin is to opposed the murderous and anti-people policies of the incumbent president is languishing in jail on what acting Chief Justice Antonio Carpio described as the “grossest injustice in recent history.”
The Supreme Court has become a refuge for scoundrels like the Marcoses, Arroyos, Enriles and Dutertes of this world while turning a blind eye to the persecution of De Lima and the injustice suffered by Sereno. It has effectively turned the Philippine justice system into an apparatus of oppression.
