Post-Aquino III and the State of Philippine Democratization

Comment on Inquirer's report:

"'Aquino left nothing to chance': Palace rebuts BOI; he's not covered by chain of command" 

Source: Inquirer.net

I guess it's just right to be skeptical this moment when a nation's trust has been broken. Ano'ng laro na naman ito ng Malacañang? In a controversy like this, the Palace will resort to their usual PR strategy and legalese justification (and, if necessary, their patented 'Arroyo-blaming syndrome') to protect the President from any accountability.

Be critical and vigilant about the BOI report, noting that it's highly probable that its draft was first reviewed by Malacañang before making the report public. 

At the same time, this should not stop us from continuing the clamor for the importance of having a truly independent truth commission to investigate the Mamasapano clash.

PNoy's obsession, hate and fear of Arroyo continues and will continue to haunt him. He's anticipating criminal liabilities to be filed against him that will put him to jail right after he leaves the presidency. 'How-low-has-the-mighty-has-fallen', that is Arroyo, and which I think is somehow a good indication of the country's democratization progress against impunity and of the attainment of some degree of respect for, at least, the ''institutional' and procedural' rules of democracy. 

Isn't it good for Philippine democratization and political future if we had had three former (popular) presidents jailed: Estrada, Arroyo, and then Aquino? We could only hope that this development would discourage the ill-intentioned, incompetent, unprepared, mediocre from daring to run for president. May the politically ambitious realize and fear that there's virtually no room for error in governing a sensitive country case such as the Philippines. In one fell swoop all a politician's good deeds are forgotten.

Perhaps, one of the most important goals of political democratization, as well as of socio-economic development, must be to have a nation of 'ungrateful' people. An 'ungrateful' citizenry — who has the material conditions to mind her/his one's business and life's purpose — would be a cure to all that is historically wrong in our country's patronage, clientelist politics.

Apparently, PNoy's political time is basically over, and he's now consumed with making sure that a reliable, favorable ally would be elected next president to immunize him against legal actions and political persecution later on. After the Easter he'll focus on his last SONA speech and cleaning up of his administration's records; then the usual national calamities/disasters in the third and fourth quarter of the year. During the last months of 2015 and first quarter of 2016, the attention will shift to the 2016 presidential candidates, and to local elections in the second quarter of 2016.

Is PNoy's 'good governance', 'tuwid na daan' project, now at the homestretch, paving the way for the return of the trapos with Filipino people voting again with broken-hearts and trauma from the yellow fever???