September 15, 2007
Former President Joseph Estrada was convicted of charges of plunder by a regime that is guilty of far heavier and numerous crimes. In convicting Estrada, Gloria Arroyo has succeeded only in heightening the people's desire to punish her innumerable crimes of plunder and murder, and put an end to her regime and the entire rotten system of government in the country.
The special court that tried and convicted Estrada acted in full compliance with the dictates and machinations of Malacañang. For the past years, Malacañang has been using the Estrada trial up to the very last hour to exert political pressure and dangle special priviledges in exchange for deals with the accused.
In convicting Estrada, Arroyo's aim is to counteract and forestall the continuing challenge of the Estrada camp questioning the legitimacy of her regime and pushing for its overthrow. Riding on the historical necessity and validity of EDSA-2, Arroyo now wants to put away Estrada for good, deprive him of his assets and prevent him from further supporting the opposition and the widespread clamor to put an end to her rule.
In doing so, however, Arroyo is succeeding only in burning all possible bridges of reconciliation between rival reactionary camps, driving deeper the political wedgebetween the ruling regime and the reactionary opposition. She is intensifying the level of factional violence and, thus, further weakening and shaking the entire bankrupt ruling system.
The crisis of the ruling social system has become so severe that the spoils of pillage can no longer be shared in peace between those in and out of power. Arroyo and her rotten ilk have become more and more atrocious and calloused in plundering the economy and oppressing the people. They hunger for more and more billions amidst the depleting national resources and the growing impoverishment of the masses of the Filipino people.
Since the onset of the ruling regime in 2001, Gloria Arroyo and her conspirators have amassed and dispensed among themselves hundreds of billions of pesos through unprecedented scales of crooked schemes. The numerous anomalous contracts and projects, bribery, and scams under the Arroyo regime—from the IMPSA bribery at the very onset of the regime to the Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard, from the fertilizer funds scam to the ZTE broadband deal—all dwarf the plunder case against Estrada and make him look like a saint.
The conviction of Estrada has only further emboldened the Filipino people to ever more determinedly expose and fight the hypocrisy, deceptions and utter rottenness and brutality of the Arroyo regime, even as Malacañang exerts every possible effort to muffle the people's outcry, stonewall investigations and suppress criticism.
The illegitimate and utterly rotten, corrupt and criminal Arroyo regime is in no position to render justice in the charges against Estrada. It is absurd for one guilty of plunder on a far bigger scale to be making judgments on another accused of it on a smaller scale. Justice, after all, can never be had from criminals.
The Filipino people have rendered judgment on the crimes of the past regimes. They have done so in EDSA-1 and EDSA-2 and will do so against the Arroyo regime. They are the ultimate arbiters of history.
The people are extremely indignant and exasperated at the unprecedented and staggering proportions of the crimes of plunder and murder committed by Gloria Arroyo against the Filipino people. She has been repeatedly indicted and found guilty in mass protests, public proceedings and people's tribunals in the country as well as abroad. By continuing to advance the people's war and intensifying mass protests and all other forms of resistance against the regime, the Filipino people seek to execute this judgment and punish Gloria Arroyo. In time, she will be overthrown and punished for all her crimes.
The Filipino people demand justice for the plunder and atrocities committed by the imperalists, the reactionary ruling classes and their big bureaucrat and fascist officials. The people's thirst for justice can only be fully quenched by putting an end to the thieving and brutal US-Arroyo regime and eventually overthrowing the entire semicolonial and semifeudal rule and system.
The special court that tried and convicted Estrada acted in full compliance with the dictates and machinations of Malacañang. For the past years, Malacañang has been using the Estrada trial up to the very last hour to exert political pressure and dangle special priviledges in exchange for deals with the accused.
In convicting Estrada, Arroyo's aim is to counteract and forestall the continuing challenge of the Estrada camp questioning the legitimacy of her regime and pushing for its overthrow. Riding on the historical necessity and validity of EDSA-2, Arroyo now wants to put away Estrada for good, deprive him of his assets and prevent him from further supporting the opposition and the widespread clamor to put an end to her rule.
In doing so, however, Arroyo is succeeding only in burning all possible bridges of reconciliation between rival reactionary camps, driving deeper the political wedgebetween the ruling regime and the reactionary opposition. She is intensifying the level of factional violence and, thus, further weakening and shaking the entire bankrupt ruling system.
The crisis of the ruling social system has become so severe that the spoils of pillage can no longer be shared in peace between those in and out of power. Arroyo and her rotten ilk have become more and more atrocious and calloused in plundering the economy and oppressing the people. They hunger for more and more billions amidst the depleting national resources and the growing impoverishment of the masses of the Filipino people.
Since the onset of the ruling regime in 2001, Gloria Arroyo and her conspirators have amassed and dispensed among themselves hundreds of billions of pesos through unprecedented scales of crooked schemes. The numerous anomalous contracts and projects, bribery, and scams under the Arroyo regime—from the IMPSA bribery at the very onset of the regime to the Diosdado Macapagal Boulevard, from the fertilizer funds scam to the ZTE broadband deal—all dwarf the plunder case against Estrada and make him look like a saint.
The conviction of Estrada has only further emboldened the Filipino people to ever more determinedly expose and fight the hypocrisy, deceptions and utter rottenness and brutality of the Arroyo regime, even as Malacañang exerts every possible effort to muffle the people's outcry, stonewall investigations and suppress criticism.
The illegitimate and utterly rotten, corrupt and criminal Arroyo regime is in no position to render justice in the charges against Estrada. It is absurd for one guilty of plunder on a far bigger scale to be making judgments on another accused of it on a smaller scale. Justice, after all, can never be had from criminals.
The Filipino people have rendered judgment on the crimes of the past regimes. They have done so in EDSA-1 and EDSA-2 and will do so against the Arroyo regime. They are the ultimate arbiters of history.
The people are extremely indignant and exasperated at the unprecedented and staggering proportions of the crimes of plunder and murder committed by Gloria Arroyo against the Filipino people. She has been repeatedly indicted and found guilty in mass protests, public proceedings and people's tribunals in the country as well as abroad. By continuing to advance the people's war and intensifying mass protests and all other forms of resistance against the regime, the Filipino people seek to execute this judgment and punish Gloria Arroyo. In time, she will be overthrown and punished for all her crimes.
The Filipino people demand justice for the plunder and atrocities committed by the imperalists, the reactionary ruling classes and their big bureaucrat and fascist officials. The people's thirst for justice can only be fully quenched by putting an end to the thieving and brutal US-Arroyo regime and eventually overthrowing the entire semicolonial and semifeudal rule and system.
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