VOIDING AMNESTY

BY DEFINITION, AMNESTY IS THE ACT OF RELEASING OR PROTECTING A PERSON OR PERSONS FROM PROSECUTION FOR WRONGDOINGS. 

IT IS A FACT THAT SENATOR ANTONIO TRILLANES AND OTHERS  COMMITTED A CRIME AGAINST THE PEOPLE WHEN THEY STAGED A REBELLION WAY BACK NOVEMBER 29, 2007 KNOWN AS THE "MANILA PENINSULA SIEGE." WHATEVER MORAL PRINCIPLE THEY STAND AND FIGHTING FOR, STAGING A REBELLION AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT DOES NOT JUSTIFY IT.

THE PEOPLE ALWAYS REMEMBER THE WRONGDOINGS OF THE "MAGDALO GROUP" FORGETTING ABOUT WHAT THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR. BRINGING BACK THE ISSUES AT HAND DURING THAT TIME MORE OR LESS GIVES US AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR. HERE ARE SOME OF THE ISSUES DURING THAT TIME: 

1. MASSIVE CHEATING IN 2004 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
2. THE JOSE PIDAL ACCOUNT.
3. THE PLUNDER OF MAJOR GENERAL CARLOS GARCIA.
4. THE UNEXPLAINED WEALTH OF PAGCOR CHAIRMAN EFRAIM GENUINO.
5. THE MOST EXPENSIVE ROAD IN THE WORLD, THE MACAPAGAL HIGHWAY AND MUCH MORE.

CORRUPTION IN THE GOVERNMENT TAKES DIFFERENT FORMS. IT KEEPS ON EVOLVING FROM ONE FORM TO ANOTHER. THE "BRUSKO" LOOKING SENATOR ANOTONIO TRILLANES IS RELENTLESS TO FIGHT CORRUPTION AND WAS A STAUNCH CRITICS OF WHOEVER RUNS THE AFFAIR OF THE COUNTRY AND IN THIS TIME, PRESIDENT RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE.

WE MAY NOT LIKE HIS STYLE, BUT IN A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY SUCH AS OURS, WE NEED MUCH OF HIM AS GOVERNMENT NEUTRALIZER. 

THE PRESIDENT WAR ON DRUG IS AN ISSUE SUBJECT TO PEOPLE'S SCRUTINY AND WHY NOT? THERE ARE SUFFICIENT REASONS TO DOUBT HIS SINCERITY IN HIS BATTLE AGAINST DRUG.

SENATOR ANTONIO TRILLANES DRAG, THE PRESIDENTIAL SON AS MEMBER OF TRIAD SYNDICATE. IT IS A SERIOUS ACCUSATION THAT NEEDS TO BE PROVEN. BUT TRILLANES HAD BALLS TO STAND FOR HIS BELIEF THAT THE PRESIDENTIAL SON INDEED HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE ILLEGAL DRUGS THAT ESCAPE IN THE WATCHFUL EYES OF THE BUREAU OF CUSTOMS.

WHAT AN IRONY, STREET PUSHERS AND USERS WERE EXECUTED AT LEAST IN THE MIND OF THE PEOPLE WHILE NO ONE IN THE BUREAU OF CUSTOM WERE PUT IN JAIL. 

ONE THING MORE, SENATOR ANTONIO TRILLANES WAS NEVER ACCUSED OF ANYTHING WITH RESPECT TO MISUSING THE PUBLIC FUNDS OR THE MONEY OF THE PEOPLE. IF MY ASSERTION IS RIGHT, SENATOR TRILLANES NEVER BEEN INVOLVED IN CORRUPTION.

GOING BACK TO REVIVING HIS CASE ON THE GROUNDS OF AB INITIO  OR VOID FROM THE BEGINNING, THERE ARE STANDARD NORMS THAT ARE VIOLATED BY THIS PROCLAMATION.OF PRESIDENT DUTERTE. 

1. IT IS UNETHICAL FOR DUTERTE'S ADMINISTRATION VOIDING OUT THE AMNESTY GIVEN BY PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION. 
2. SINGLING OUT SENATOR TRILLANES IS ANOTHER. OUT OF THE SO MANY WHY TRILLANES ALONE?
3. DOES THE INSTIGATOR, SOLICITOR GENERAL CALIDA HAS THE MORAL ASCENDANCY TO FACILITATE THE INVESTIGATION?
4. WHEN AN AMNESTY WAS GIVEN, HIS PAST SINS WAS ALSO FORGIVEN.
5. THE LOST OF THE DOCUMENTS SHOULD BE ATTRIBUTED TO THE GOVERNMENT.
6. THERE ARE MANY OTHERS.

THE CONTROVERSIAL PROCLAMATION OF DUTERTE VOIDING OUT THE AMNESTY GIVEN TO TRILLANES DIVIDE THE PEOPLE AND SO TO SPEAK THE NATION.

I DO NOT WANT THE NATION TO BE DIVIDED CAUSE IT HARMS NOT THEM SITTING IN THE GOVERNMENT BUT THE LESS FORTUNATE ONE.

WE NEED TO STAND FOR WHAT IS RIGHT AND WHAT IS BETTER FOR THE COUNTRY. IF OUR GOVERNMENT REMAINS LIKE THIS, THERE IS NOTHING LEFT FOR OUR COUNTRY.