newsinfo.inquirer.net/629047/aquino-open-to-2nd-term Mag-extend dahil may personal na galit sa Supreme Court? Hindi maari. Ang iniisip niya ay maari lang gawin ng isang revolutionary government, hindi ng ruling party na nagnanais lamang manatili sa poder. May mas wasto at hindi personal na dahilan para ganap na baguhin ang bulok na sistemang nagtatago sa burgis na konsepto ng separation of powers. Ganito ang buod ng mensahe ni Ka Dodong Nemenzo sa kanyang keynote address sa katatapos lamang na Ika-4 na Pambansang Kongreso ng PM: The Supreme Court cannot pose as a paragon of righteousness. It has its own pork barrel which the chief justices dispenses to influence the course of justice. I therefore have no sympathy for those who claim to be defending the sanctity of the highest tribunal. Katulad sa mga heneral ng AFP, ang Supreme Court justices mayroon ding pasalubong at pabaon. Every practicing lawyer knows the filth that fuels the regional trial courts and the Court of Appeals. The big law firms in Makati are not really practice law; they function as influence peddlers in the judiciary. Separation of powers is a concept of bourgeois liberalism that is meant to perpetuate the capitalist social order, making fundamental reforms almost impossible. The corporate lobby groups are extremely influential because (together with the drug lords and jueteng lords) they are the main sources of electoral funding. Some of them own the mass media, and the mass media survive on revenues from corporate advertising; they control the ideological apparatus of the system, they are able to mold public opinion. SWS and Pulse Asia only measure the effectiveness of mass deception. The progressive party list representatives have filed many reform bills; but name me one that threatens the class interests of the bourgeoisie which passed the House of Representatives. They cannot even go beyond the committee level. If by a miracle Congress adopts a fundamental reform bill, the corporate lobby groups will work on the Senate. And if by a greater miracle it passes the Senate and the President signs it into law, the lobby groups will corrupt the bureaucracy to ensure that a reform law is never put into effect. This is how the separation of powers preserves the status quo. Therefore, the struggle for good governance cannot just be a struggle to remove the crooks from the government. It should be a struggle against the entire capitalist system.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 01:39:00 +0000
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