Teresita de Castro, the Chief of Injustice

Philippine Supreme Court, Chief of Injustice

In the same way that many Supreme Court decisions, political or otherwise, during the Marcos Dictatorship, are considered unlawful by the best and brightest lawyers in the country, we have witnessed the same massive erosion of justice in the decisions of the Supreme Court leading-up to the imminent disqualification of Leni Robredo as the duly-elected Vice President and the corresponding installation of Bong Bong Marcos as the bogus Vice President by the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), which is composed of the justices of the Supreme Court.

The recent appointment of Teresita de Castro as Chief Justice is the penultimate stroke to the final act of treachery--the reprise of the Marcos Dictatorship. Unfortunately, Filipinos cannot claim that we have been taken by surprise. It does not take a genius to read the writing on the wall since Digong assumed the Presidency and De Castro (under the auspices of the Coalition of Plunderers / Magnanakaw Inc.) has been an integral pawn in what can only be characterized as the complete and absolute perversion of the Supreme Court.

Let's go over her sterling voting record on recent political decisions.

January 21, 2015—The SC dismissed the disqualification case against former president and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada, saying he was eligible to run for the 2013 elections. De Castro voted in favor.

January 21, 2015—The SC denied Senator Jinggoy Estrada’s plea to junk the graft and plunder charges filed against him in connection with the pork barrel scam. De Castro voted against.

August 18, 2015—The SC granted bail to Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, who is among those implicated in the pork barrel scam. De Castro voted in favor.

October 20, 2015—The SC halted the proceedings of the Sandiganbayan on the plunder case filed against former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. De Castro voted in favor.

November 10, 2015—The SC upheld the power of the Court of Appeals (CA) to review and stop orders issued by the Ombudsman to elected officials. This was in connection with the Ombudsman suspension of Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin “Junjun” Binay Jr. De Castro voted in favor.

November 10, 2015—In the same decision on Mayor Binay’s case, the SC decided to abandon the condonation doctrine in future cases. The said doctrine—which Binay cited in his defense—absolves an official of administrative liability committed while he or she was in office if that official is reelected. De Castro voted against.

November 8, 2016—The SC allowed the burial of the late President Ferdinand Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani or Heroes’ Cemetery. De Castro voted in favor.

October 10, 2017—The SC allowed the arrest of Senator Leila de Lima based on spurious testimonies of incarcerated drug lords. De Castro voted in favor.

May 11, 2018—The SC upheld the defective Quo Warranto petition against CJ Sereno and ruled that it was the proper remedy to oust CJ Sereno. De Castro, among other SC justices, voted in favor, in spite of having been accusers of CJ Sereno in earlier hearings in the Lower House.

What can I say? Hail to the Chief of Injustice!

The only silver lining in the appointment of De Castro is that she is required to retire by law in October 2018. In effect, she will remain in the Supreme Court for less than two (2) months.

Further, because Digong stated categorically that De Castro's appointment was based on seniority, it should follow that the next Chief Justice should be Antonio Carpio--one of the few trustworthy individuals left at the Supreme Court and by no means a pushover to Digong.

It is no wonder that Digong, in spite of citing seniority in the appointment of De Castro, is already conditioning the public in bypassing Carpio as the next Chief Justice after De Castro.

For President Rodrigo Duterte, Carpio's refusal to accept a nomination to the top post after the ouster of Maria Lourdes Sereno still stands.

"He stated publicly that he's not going to accept so why cause a person to accept a path he does not want?" said Duterte on Monday, August 27.

Carpio never said he does not want to be nominated Chief Justice after De Castro retires. This is just the typical misinformation narrative of Digong to bypass a Chief Justice who would not automatically behave like his lapdog. In fact, Carpio has subsequently indicated that he could now accept his automatic nomination “because there is no longer a delicadeza issue or legal reason to decline.”

The Boiling Frog and Digong

The boiling frog is a fable describing a frog being slowly boiled alive. The premise is that if a frog is put suddenly into boiling water, it will jump out, but if the frog is put in tepid water which is then brought to a boil slowly, it will not perceive the danger and will be cooked to death.

If Digong informed the Filipino that he would install Bong Bong Marcos as the next President of the Philippines by whatever means necessary after he is elected President, that would have been tantamount to dumping the Filipino into a boiling pot of water, which the Filipino would most assuredly have rejected outright--just like the frog jumping out of a boiling pot of water.

However, Digong diabolically and systematically subjected the Filipino to tepid water at first while slowly increasing the temperature to the point that the Filipino and our fragile democratic institutions, including any and all forms of opposition, are about to be boiled to death and eradicated, so that he can serve the Presidency on a silver platter to Bong Bong Marcos.

Let's not forget the latest whimsical fiasco of Digong to neutralize Senator Trillanes, which will most assuredly be countenanced by the majority of whores in the Supreme Court! (Although the subsequent decision of the Supreme Court to deny Trillanes' plea for preliminary injunction was such a cop-out, it necessarily had to give some semblance of due process to Trillanes lest the people decide to burn down the Supreme Court outright.)

Isn't it about time we jump out of the boiling water? Isn't it about time we take out Digong?

Certainly in the coming May 2019 elections, let us reject all of the trapos that support Digong, who are illustrated in the pictures below (courtesy of Rappler):







Let us reject these whores and lackeys of Digong while we still can. Let us take back our democracy; otherwise, we are doomed to a repeat of an even worse era of Marcos dictatorship that we may no longer be able to overthrow!