Remove the Philadelphia lawyers from RP

Posted on September 14, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum |

Rafael L. Oriel, Jr.
14 Sept 2006


According to the dictionary, an arrest warrant is a warrant authorizing law enforcement officials to apprehend an offender and bring that person to court. The same dictionary tells me that police power is the power of a nation, within the limits of its constitution, to regulate the conduct of its citizens in the interest of the common good. It is the inherent authority of a government to impose restrictions on private rights for the sake of public welfare, order, and security.

Obviously, somebody committed a crime by wiretapping the President but for unknown reasons there is no arrest warrant that was issued because nobody seems interested. It was a crime nobody wants to solve. Sometime this year, a court has issued an arrest warrant for an ex-senator who is facing charges over an alleged plot to overthrow the President. The said arrest warrant cannot be served up to this day because his whereabouts are unknown.

Very recently, a Pasay City judge issued a warrant of arrest against a senator because of a P10-million libel case filed against him. The Pasay City judge ordered the Pasay City police to serve the order to the Senate but the policemen failed to serve the warrant. In spite of the warrant of arrest, it looks like the policemen have no power to make the arrest. Last Sept. 11, 2006, on orders of the Senate, the Chairman of the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) was immediately arrested. Was he told of his rights by the arresting “law enforcers” just before they made the arrest?

You know, just like in the movies. I wonder who served the arrest warrant and on what specific charge? For snubbing the senators? Was the arrest warrant served by law enforcement officials? How come the serving of the arrest warrant was so efficient this time in comparison to the others that I mentioned and possibly many more that are not made known to the public? According to the news, the arrested PCGG chief was not brought to court but to the Senate. The committees on government corporations and public services directed the Senate’s Sergeant-at-Arms to detain the arrested government official in his office at the Senate. This sounds more like a high school student being detained in the principal’s office, is it not? For how long can they detain the PCGG chief in the Senate’s Seargeant-at-Arms’ office without any charge being filed in court? I often heard people talking about separation and balance of power in the government under the present presidential system. What separation and balance of power are they talking about? It seems to me that these exercises in futility are more like a game of “Who is the boss?” or “Palakasan” at the expense of taxpayers money, nation’s progress and citizen’s welfare.

The more I read about current events happening in the country, the more it became clear to me that some are more privileged than others and can possibly be above the law. I do not know about you but it looks to me like there is too much room for improvements for the sake of the country and its people. Changes are urgently and badly needed to make improvements in order to increase efficiency and productivity. How on earth can people make the necessary changes for improvements when even people’s initiatives are deemed unconstitutional? It sounds like the Constitution is by itself unconstitutional. What a joke? Why not start blaming and catching the real culprits instead? Why not remove all the loopholes and install the necessary prevention countermeasures?

It is about time to put Philadelphia lawyers in the country out of business. For the information of those who do not know, Philadelphia lawyer is a lawyer of outstanding ability at exploiting legal fine points and technicalities. No wonder there are so much crimes in the country that remain unsolved and many more are being committed everyday. I am quite sure that out of the more than 80 million Filipinos, there are only few who are rotten. The rest are good ones. Let us put those who are rotten out of business and separate them from the others to prevent the rot from spreading.

God have mercy.

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