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 1:12 pm
i think the priest was correct in saying that the senators are being childishs..cannot accept a decision made by the higher court..you know everytime the supreme court decide something in their favor they would shower the sc with praises..but everytime the sc decide against them you would hear a lot of complains..even calling the sc corrupt and hindrance to freedom..come on let’s be real these senators are using the present scandals, this senate hearings to get exposure in preparation for 2010 elections..
April 1st, 2008 at 11:36 am
Isaac is correct in condemning that Gloria apologist who presents himself as an intelligent expert on the law. That priest should shut up because he’s merely defending Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo despite the latter’s utter moral bankruptcy and illegitimacy as president. As a priest, he should condemn evil, corruption and lies, and that means Gloria. But since he won’t or he can’t do it, it would be better for him to just shut up and stop talking about things he know nothing about. I challenge him to an online debate to prove that his arguments are nothing. I’m sure that that priest is not of God. He belongs to what de Quiros said was the “Fellow Below.”
April 1st, 2008 at 11:34 am
Isaac is correct in condemning that Gloria apologist who presents himself as an intelligent expert on the law. That priest should shut up because he’s merely defending Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo despite the latter’s utter moral bankruptcy and illegitimacy as president. As a priest, he should condemn evil, corruption and lies, and that means Gloria. But since he won’t or he can’t do it, it would be better for him to just shut up and stop talking about things he know nothing about. I challenge him to an online debate to prove that his arguments are nothing. I’m sure that that priest is not of God. He belongs to what de Quiros said was the “Fellow Below.”
April 1st, 2008 at 10:54 am
What’s wrong here isn’t that the Dean called the Seantors “childish” but you actually thought they got called that for doing their “job”. Well, if their job was to bicker among themselves and quiet down not when acting as an institution of leadership in pulling this country out of this muck but quiet down when there’s opportunity for political advancement or financial profit, then yes, they are doing a good job. For themselves.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:53 am
kayana2 asks,
so the “padre damaso and ibarra” sagas continues.
what happened to separation of church and state.
is the religion co-mingling with politics has any connections to why phils. and other roman catholic followers countries are still mired in corruptions and poverties.
spain and italy are roman catholic faith followers, but the church do not get involve in the state’s political issues.
noli me tangere.
kayana2 sends,
lasvegasnv.