AS a law dean, this priest from San Beda should stop making comments such as calling senators childish.
First of all, as a law dean he should refrain from making comments unless he speaks for the whole San Beda law school. As a priest, he should reserve his comments to himself unless he wants to go into politics. As a regular reactor to news publications, he should do so but not under the cloak as a priest or as a dean. Then I will welcome his comments.
Please don’t mock your school name or your students. And calling the senators childish reminds me of my teachers in grade school. Yes, we deserved then to be called childish but calling the senators at this time childish for doing their jobs is a behavior that this priest dean has not overcome yet, his being at one time a grade school teacher. If you want to be a regular critic for or against political issues, unless you want to compromise your position as dean, then stop addressing yourself as priest dean.
Meanwhile, the reaction of the senators to the Supreme Court decision is normal since the Senate is a co-equal body under our Constitution. The SC decision drew a lot of reactions from the public as well as private sector. What I have learned from my political science professors is that the SC ’s role is merely to interpret the law and to keep in mind that the rationale behind such law is to protect the Constitution and to protect the interest of all and not one person who in this case is the appellant. The SC decision unless reversed will send signals from hereon that it’s all right to report a crime and then cover it up by invoking executive privilege.
Under our present laws, if you deliberately engage in a cover-up of a crime then you are equally liable for it even though you did not commit it. I rest my case and I hope this priest dean would do the same.
– Franklin Ysaac, Sen. Gil Puyat Avenue, Makati City, Philippines (via e-mail)
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April 1st, 2008 at 8:31 am
Remeber Isaac!!! This is a free country where everyone is free to express his opinion. Why did you not react to the statement of a certain person who called President GMA a bitch? is it because your feelings were represented? I agree you are another idiot supporter of the oppositionist that do nothing but to keep opposing.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:16 am
Sacramental matters are very particular. Only the local ecclesiastical authorities of Manila like Cardinal Rosales can speak about that. In General, Abp. Cruz no longer represents the CBCP. While Fr. Rahnie as a Law School Dean is competent to speak on matters of law. He is not only a priest but also a professor of law.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:11 am
I like the opinions of Fr. Rannhie. I prefer what he says than Archbishop Oscar Cruz’s declaration that GMA should not be given communion. He later denied having said it but it’s You Tube now and his statement is very clear. That’s make him a liar. Besides, Manila is not his territory as a Bishop. It’s not proper for him to make any statement regarding the sacraments outside his territory of jurisdiction.
April 1st, 2008 at 1:25 am
The “rule of law” means that no one is above the law. The majority of the Philippine Supreme Court, in ruling for Neri apparently believes that Neri, GMA and her cohorts are ALL ABOVE THE LAW.
April 1st, 2008 at 1:21 am
The dean can say anything he wants. I am a lawyer and of all the three branches of the Philippine government, it is the Senate that’s the only one doing its job. The Executive stole the elections and engaged in kickbacks - a violation of the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act, Plunder, etc. The Supreme Court has abandoned judicial responsibility by ruling that Neri may hide under “Executive Privilege.” The Philippines, a former U.S. Commonwealth has similar laws with the U.S. Faced with that legal issue, the U.S. Supreme Court will NEVER in its wildest dreams allow executive privilege to hide a conspiracy to commit a crime. Only Chief Justice Puno and his fellow dissenters upheld the rule of law. The majority obviously leaned not on the law but wrongly on GMA’s side.