Few days before the Impeachment Trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona resumes, I was able to read the post below from Gio Tingson's facebook, the Commissioner-at-large of the National Youth Commission.
The arroyo case is not about a stand-off between the judiciary and the executive - it is about the will of the people and our quest for what is just and what is right.
As Sen. Diokno said, “Tagalogs, Ilongos, Cebuanos, and Pampangos use a common word for justice, katarungan, derived from the Visayan root tarong, which means straight, upright, appropriate, correct. For us, therefore, justice is not rectitude, the morally right act; and because it also connotes what is appropriate, it embraces the concept of equity for which we have no native word, and for which on the rare occasions that we use the concept, we employ the Spanish derivative ekidad.
For “right,” we use karapatan, whose root is dapat, signifying fitting, appropriate, correct. The similarity in meaning of the root words for “right” and “justice” indicates that, for us, justice and right are intimately related.
On the other hand, for “law” we use batas, a root word denoting command, order, decree, with a meaning disparate from that of the roots of our words for “justice” and “right.” Our language then distinguishes clearly between law and justice; it recognizes that law is not always just.”
Indeed, JUSTICE and LAW are understood, seen and appreciated by Filipinos differently. Most of the time, we give biased decisions and biased sides in favor of those who are dear to us. I believe that this conscious decision of STILL being with the side of the President especially in pursuing the cases against the Arroyos and Corona is a manifestation that I'm still hopeful with our f*cked up justice system.
Some notes:
1. NEVER FORGET!
Who among you still remember and up to now feel the pain and anger to the Ampatuans immediately after the Maguindanao Massacre. Time flies with our memories and feelings. We are strong against something wrong only for a short moment, only when the issue is hot.
2. Bad people will always have something to cover up the issue, DON'T LOSE FOCUS!
We were all terrified about what happened to Ramgen Revilla, we were all focused in trying to solve the mystery behind his death. We all followed the story until Ramona (Revilla) Bautista exits the Philippines.
Everything dissolved after this stupid sex scandal was exposed.
Where's Ramona now? No one knows. How about the scandal? - It's EVERYWHERE!
3. (Sabi nga ng aking mga kapatid), Dapat kina-KARIR (Career) ang mga bagay-bagay!
Still remember the time when the Sumilao farmers walked from Bukidon to Manila? (Tears)
Still remember the time when we were all moved to do something for our farmers?
PASSION
HEART
PRAYERS!
and positive FORCE to really change the status quo!
May we not forget, that there are still a lot of issues to be settled, still a lot of policies to be polished,
hungry to feed, children to educate, elders to support, trees and animals to protect!
May we never forget that we still have a nation to help!
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We won't forget. I wont, raff.
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