EVIL GENIUS. So former Sen. Joker Arroyo tagged President BS Aquino for making the Administrative Code of 1987 as legal ground for the transfer of some P147 billion in government savings to the Disbursement Authorization Program.
“(President) Cory (Aquino) signed it in 1987 and yet up to the end of her term in 1992,she never used it. The question now lies, why P-Noy used it 25 years after it was signed?” Arroyo said.
Far from being his mother’s son, President BS is likened by Arroyo to the family’s mortal enemy – President Ferdinand E. Marcos. If only in the manner of disbursing public funds. Said Arroyo: “It seems that P-Noy and Marcos thought alike.”
Noting how the Great Ferdinand used the 1918 Administrative Code as basis for his control over government funds during his time. And squandering the public monies in the process. President BS, like the Dictator FM, in effect arrogating unto himself the Golden Rule – “He who has the gold, rules.” Taking full control over the entire government.
Arroyo too it was that earlier called Congress a “willing rape victim” for letting President BS usurp its constitutionally protected power of the purse with the DAP. No johnny-come-lately to bashing President BS, this Joker is. Remember how at the onset of ‘Noy’s administration Arroyo derided his Cabinet as a “student council”?
Why, even Arroyo’s likening of President BS to Marcos is nothing new. As this piece published here on January 5, 2012 shows.
PNoy’s populism
“KAYO ANG boss ko.” To that declaration made in his inaugural address, President Aquino has steadfastly held. By far doing nothing that will displease his people, indeed, subjugating himself to their will.
At least, that which the unscientific sampling of ABS-CBN’s TV Patrol says is the prevailing thought of the greater majority, and/or that which the Social Weather Station periodically proffers as the real sentiments of the Filipino people.
No matter Teddy Boy Locsin’s derogation of survey results as “the breadth of ignorance out there,” Aquino – his decision-making leads us to believe – adheres to the doctrine of vox populi, vox dei. Of God speaking through his people, and therefore Aquino could do no wrong in following them.
So it is with that solid conviction – of heeding the voice of the Filipino people – that Aquino defied the Supreme Court TRO and dropped the bar on the fl eeing – if only to seek medical treatment abroad – Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
So it is with that unshakeable faith of him doing the will of the Filipino people that Aquino caused – and his Liberal party effected – the impeachment of GMA-appointed Chief Justice Renato Corona.
Subscribing to the popular will. That may well be the mission statement of the Aquino administration. So, isn’t that the very core of democratic tradition? Of government by, of, and for the people. Aye, the very pith of democracy itself.
How dare now of Senator Joker Arroyo insinuating Marcosian tendencies in Aquino’s style of governance and (dis) respect for the rule of law?
The Joker said so much when he called President Aquino “intolerant of any kind of dissent, any kind of disagreement with what the government does.” And practically idiotized P-Noy thus: “He doesn’t understand what government is.
He thinks that good intentions justify doing anything. He doesn’t understand the workings of the Constitution.”
Too bad, ignorance is no ground for impeachment. Aquino’s populist leanings do indeed remind us of Marcos, putting himself in the very mould the dictator crafted of the Filipino politico: “populist, personalist and individualist.”
Yeah, Marcos used the populist platform to arrogate unto himself the sovereign will of the Filipino people in order for him to fight certain evils besieging them, the oligarchy and the communist insurgency, most notably.
As Aquino is now banking on his popularity to wage war against the judiciary and the sickly, if not truly sick, GMA.
As the once popular Marcos went down in infamy, so the still popular Aquino should take stock, at this early, of the impermanence of popularity, of the ephemerality of celebrity.
As the erudite Chief Justice Reynato Puno put it during one celebration of Ethics Day at the Philippine National Police: “…the great truths – whether religious truths, moral truths or political truths – are not determined by popularity vote, because oftentimes the majority rests only on what is momentarily delightful or what is pleasantly pleasurable.”
Aquino may well heed too that English scholar and theologian of the 8th century, Alcuin saying: “And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is very close to madness.” Surely, no voice of God obtained in such “riotousness…close to madness.”
Nor in that which Locsin called the “breadth of ignorance out there.” Something for Aquino to ponder. In his sober moments, if ever he could be detoxed of the exhilarating whiff of popularity.
