What lies ahead for CJ Corona?
Edison Gatioan
Jan. 21, 2012
Scenario 1: CJ gets acquitted, thanks to his battery of battle tested lawyers and allies of his benefactor. Out of jubilation and "love for his country", he made the supreme sacrifice of resigning his post to relief the SC from cloud of doubts. Juan Dela Cruz rejoiced and starts to restore his faith in our judiciary. As we are a forgiving and forgetful specie, not to mention our being maawain, Corona grabs the opportunity, hires big time public relations operators (not spin doctors ha) and go full blast to replace the morally bankrupt GMA as the figurehead of the opposition and eventually got elected senator in 2013. Ahh this is democracy working in full swing right.
Scenarion 2: CJ Corona is removed by the impeachment court. This time around, he hires spin doctors to do wonders for him. He is painted as a poor victim of circumstances and the vindictiveness of a vengeful president. So now he is forced to take the role of a fiscalizer to prevent Pnoy from becoming a dictator. He practically went around the country to forewarn the people of the evils of dictatorship (oh yes he will always assure GMA that she's okay and definitely not the one alluded to) and political vindictiveness. Because he really work hard on it, well the dehadista suddenly fell for him and elected him senator of the republic in 2013. Well who know, because he has something to prove to the Filipino people, he may reform and emerge to redeem himself eventually. You know, everything is possible. Sabi nga ng ibang mga kaibigan ko, had Marcos been allowed to govern us a bit longer, after plundering us for the better period of his 20 years rule, he may have elevated our country to the stature of an envied neighbor in Asia. :-)
Scenario 3: The inexperienced prosecutors failed to convinced the required 16 senators to remove CJ Corona. Despite public clamor for him to resign, he exemplify the trait of a kapit-tuko and persisted to sit as God of Padre Faura. My pitiful kababayan had sleepless nights and wondered if a discredited SC can really be effective at dispensing justice. After a few nights of restlessness, they finally decides that direct action by the people is still fashionable, and it will be a shame if after educating the world on how people power works, they are now helpless themselves in removing a CJ whom they do not trust, thereby persisted to sit in the Throne of God in Padre Faura deciding what is right and wrong for them.
Scenario 3 will be a contentious issue. Can we say that faced with a situation where the dispenser of justice becomes the very reason of injustice, we are forced to take direct action to reclaim it and place the same in the hand of a truly deserving one. Others may also view it as the rule of the mob. But reforms in general can be instituted in two ways. The ideal setup is that true representatives of the people institute reform with the interest and welfare of the public in mind. If this does not happen, and the mechanics under our Constitution not adequate to provide relief, the alternative is for the people to take a direct action, a revolution of the masses. A painful one, but whom shall we blame, the oppressed people push to the wall or the supposed public servant who are duty bound to serve but instead turn around and become the oppressor?
