Impeachment: mind-boggling SC ruling

By Reni M. Valenzuela

Be pro-constitution, yes!

But let me say this, my dear countrymen: Our Civil Code (or its interpretation) is wildly flawed in the portion where it places the Supreme Court at a pedestal parallel and akin to perfection, beyond being co-equal with the Executive and Legislature.

That is highly questionable because however honorable our High Court magistrates may be, they are still humans and sinners, just like all of us. They are not God and cannot be God. “Every decision of the Supreme Court becomes the law of the land.” How is that?

Therefore, please junk the notion (not the nation) that a Supreme Court decision regardless of sanity or whether it is right or wrong, bad or good, legal or mere political — should be held, respected, followed, heeded and obeyed. That is insane, beyond stupidity.

And that is the state of our country (or SONA). Time to correct what need to be corrected. Straighten it all out, dear Jesus. Repent, dear leaders of the land.

The controversial Supreme Court ruling on the Sara impeachment complaint is a case in point. It baffles and boggles the mind. One can only wonder and ask: On what basis did they rule the impeachment complaint against Vice President Sara Duterte as unconstitutional?

I am no Sara hater. Truth be told, I admire her for her beautiful face. But however charming she is, she must face the music. The people want to hear her defenses, not her excuses. I for one haven’t come to a final judgment yet pertaining the accusations hurled against her.

Give us a break, dear government officials, our justices and senators. VP Sara isn’t opposed to making herself heard. Is she? We, the people, want to know the truth and nothing but the truth. And it’s nothing political.

But what indeed are some politicians or people in the corridors of power protecting or promoting?

To our High Court: Was it (indeed) the constitution that you stood up for? I mean our very own constitution in its totality of essence and character — spirit, intent and letter — legally, morally and spiritually — just for how a nation’s constitution anywhere in the world should be viewed, regarded, respected, heeded, obeyed and upheld?

Otherwise, it is not constitution that we have, but sheer letters or “technicalities” for lawyers and so-called “legal luminaries” to go around the law (soullessly) and from which most of the miscarriages of justice springs forth (deliberately) since the thing called “constitution” was first  invented.

Haven’t we all wondered why there’s been too much injustice around in and outside our prison camps, as numerous and filthy as the crooks and crookedness in the government and our flooded streets?

No constitution was crafted by robots, but by human beings or thinking moral agents who have hearts, brains, souls and common sense. They are people with eyes and logic that can distinguish between black and white, and can discern what’s true or false, what’s holy and evil.

Framers of a constitution certainly would not have to include every single explanation, definition and interpretation into every word they put into it to become one final book of a country’s fundamental laws, lest they end up with a constitution containing countless thousands of chapters in it and volumes of it. The greater and more important part of what composes every constitution is left to the sensibility, wisdom, and humanity of humans.

The Supreme Court can render (if they can) the other three impeachment cases filed against the vice president by different petitioners as unconstitutional. But why take it all as one wholesale stuff, to include even the fourth one, whichever they may want to take as the fourth?

Was it really the constitution? Or could it have something to do with the impartiality or “politcality” of the constitution? Hope not.

The mere fact that there were four impeachment cases filed against one government official, that in itself tells all the more the validity, seriousness and imperative grounds behind the complaints, and such a state/condition should give added weight, boost and strength to the impeachment act. Dubious ruling.

Why let other sides, the more important sides of the case fall by the way side? Shades and blinkers off, my dears.

Will there now be a revival of People Power regarding this fresh, unacceptable SC verdict that is seen to be anchored purely on and have stemmed from mere technicality, not on the constitution (and reason, legality, morality) per se?

People knew all along what is right and wrong about the issue — politics — and what they want — the truth. But they smell something very dubitable (from the Senate impeachment court to the High Court), something queer and fishy or something simply not right at the least — just an honest mistake/oversight (hope so).

Though, after all is said and done, we certainly understand that the Supreme Court, in its most recent mind-boggling, shocking decision (in particular), isn’t infallible — much less it isn’t any god of any kind.  “…But with God all things are possible.” – Matthew 19:26

Ignore, forget or lampoon the politically motivated and the merely/highly ambitious in this impeachment brouhaha; those who have personal and political agenda in pushing (or obstructing) the Sara impeachment trial —

BUT not the people who want the truth and who cry for accountability, good governance, and justice.

Email:renivalenzuelaletters@yahoo.com