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 2nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
Well, it’s the dean’s right to say his piece although we may not agree with him. It’s just that as head of a law school he speaks with the perception that he does so on behalf of the school and the entire San Beda community. Which I think is unfortunate. I also think he should have a more theoretically and conceptually solid argument than calling Senators childish, for someone of his stature. Again, it reflects on his school, unfortunately.
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:31 am
What’s wrong in calling a spade a spade? If an adult throws a tantrum after failing to get what he wants, isn’t that adult being childish?
And before anything else, who says a crime has been committed? Is there already a criminal complaint or has someone been charged for you to say that there is a cover-up of a crime?
You’re already jumping to a conclusion which even the honorable(?) senators are still investigating (or grandstanding?) up to now, boy!
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:50 am
Filipinos are historically emotional and terrifically attached when dealing with political issues. In the last fifty years, thousands if not tens of thousands have gambled their lives simply because of political reasons.
Ordinary citizens like myself do not somehow see this thing very significantly. What is important to us is food on the table in every meal time and then think of food again for the next.
We don’t have taste at all on politics because time has proven that politics here in this country had never helped at all solved social and economic problems.
Being an unfortunate individual having no regular job at present and perhaps hundreds of thousands of us if not millions, want our national leaders to provide us priority in their priorities by setting aside personal interests specifically of the legislators for 2010. You honors, Senators, think of agenda and formulate laws that will ease up our miseries specially we professionals in the rural areas who do not have stable jobs but just blogging here and blogging there.
Stop mingling with the doomsday bishops by creating proof-less and virtual problems to make it appear that you’re better than the rest. I should be with you in the fight of corruption as we ordinary individuals are at all times do hate corruption, but “true colors” are apparent to us here in the countryside that what you Senators are fighting for is not at all a real fight against corruption but a preparatory fight for the forthcoming elections.
When can we evade such personalities like the majority of the Senators whose interests are only for personal and not for the 90M Filipinos. It’s so sad however that 70% of our voters do not vote because of the issues and programs being raised by a candidate but rather because of popularity or because of affiliation with a popular under-educated individual. Only 30% of us to be conservative, do not believe in popularity but rather in programs of government and issues. It’s indeed miserable. Unless this picture turns 180 degrees clockwise, then expect that the country will never improve but rather will continually experience this vicious cycle of proof-less allegations, in short, lies and popularity contest.
I agree with the Dean’s opinion that most of these “trapo senators” are indeed “childish” and “overacting.” Be ashamed!
April 2nd, 2008 at 3:18 am
This so-called dean of sna beda law school appears to be too pro-Gloria. Heard him on TV Patrol once, I could not believe he could be so damn and so blind about what is happening to our government. How could he tolerate this corruption and injustice. Maybe, he is one of the paid or corrupted priests — you never know what money could buy. Shame on this dean! He should be called instead as Dean of lies and corruption!
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:48 am
The dean is right in his observation and assessment regarding the senators reaction to the decision of the supreme court. A lot of these senators are corrupt if not all of them. I don’t trust any of these senators to tell the truth when they are all corrupt. They are all power hungry senators, what a shame.