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Impeachment of Corona is the mother of all blackmails

Press Statements
  • Rep. Edcel C. Lagman
  • Minority Leader
  • 0916-6406737 / 0918-9120137
  • 12 December 2011

 

             The impeachment of Chief Justice Renato Corona is the mother of all blackmails.

 

             Many of the administration allies in the House of Representatives were blackmailed into signing the impeachment complaint by threatening those who would refuse to sign with the deprivation of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) and other funding releases for their respective districts.

 

             The Supreme Court justices are being blackmailed not to decide pending cases against the Aquino Administration, otherwise the wrath of impeachment will be on them.

 

             We hope the Senators who will act as impeachment judges will be strong and judicious not to succumb to similar blackmails.

 

              The derogation of our democratic institutions is almost complete with the emasculation of the House of Representatives, the violation of civil liberties, the impairment of the rule of law, and now the destruction of the Supreme Court and the judiciary.