After the recent rash of defection or should I say defacation of Gloria Arroyo’s stalwarts and supporters, newspaper accounts report her lawyers teling her to shut up and that they don’t have anything on her anyway.
The shutting up part I will agree to. Close your trap (crap???) because it really is causing you more trouble than you’re worth for. Honestly? I would rather you step down from your post as Congressperson (can’t even call you a woman) and just face the music. We are accusing you of a crime, go get your day in court.
At least your predecessor, who might or might not have been better staying where he was before you entered the picture, had the balls to face his music. Oh, forgive me about the balls. You don’t have one. Never did anyways. But your husband should have a set, so where is it.
But the one about not having anything on you, they have tons of evidence against you! Those you tried to destroy or hide during your term. Okay so you were good in math, I mean, by your calculations then, we were making money and your government was in such a good fiscal position.
All else, you screwed. You screwed the civil service, the military, the foreign service, business, hell even the banks.
So now, all these lieutenants of yours coming out of the woodworks are screaming jackals (jackass?) telling tales of woe and misfortune you call liars.
But they were the names that floated during your term were they not. They were the operators, as some of our political friends would say. They did your bidding (or was it yours?) and made themselves rich in the process too. From where, from our money!!! The people’s money!!! Hell if Manny Pacquiao is the People’s Champ for good, they were the people’s champ for rot.
And they all turned into tweety birds.
It was fun with Garcia and his invocation of his right to self incrimination. But you only invoke your right to self incrimination if you may indeed incriminate yourself when you say something, or maybe my logic is flawed. But that is how I see it.
But after Garcia, and seeing that he will go to jail anyway, without honor nor riches, all the others decided to take the safe route and jump ship. All of them tried the formula of success, running for public office, only your family got in. Now where do they go when even your political clout is not strong enough to protect them anymore.
And besides, what the other lame duck in the palace is doing, is trying to pin the blame on you for every wrong thing he does, much as his mother did to Marcos before (of course maybe Cory did have the right, they did shoot Ninoy) so he can have his legacy and eat it too (that did not sound right did it.)
So yes, it’s about getting you, your husband, your sons, your cousins and everyone who got filthy rich wearing branded toenails while you were president. It’s about putting the big fish in the small tank. It’s about leveling the playing field. It’s about all those allegories that we read in the papers every day before we watch the telenovela on TV in either Pasay or Quezon City.
But underneath it all, it’s not about you.
It’s about getting away with it. Stupidity, mediocrity, foolishness, pride, arrogance, and of coure the money. At the end of the day, when you look at all the players sitting on the poker table, they were the same players dealing the cards during your term and Erap’s term, and FVR’s term and Cory’s term and now even Marcoses term.
It is still them at the counting house, counting out the money. And while we poor citizens that need help who voted for them into power struggle day by day, cent by cent, grain by grain and scale by scale, they bandy their callousness on national television pretending to prosecute the guilty for justice.
I have no ending for this piece. The novela is still going on, and now it’s on webcast too. So I have no ending for this except to say it’s really not about you GMA, but you were a huge part of it all.
