Thursday, November 01, 2007

At par with Estrada, et. al.

With GMA's pardoning of Erap, here is a list of new things could officially get away with (courtesy of Jim Paredes, of the acclaimed APO Hiking Society and his awesome blog):

But to be fair, let's allow the same right given to Erap to every Filipino. That's right. Let the Republic of the Philippines allow all Filipino citizens to enjoy the right to unlawfullness equally. If we can't be equal in the eyes of the law, let's bend the rules. Plainly, we should all be allowed at least one crime and a guaranteed pardon that we can 'legally' commit. Let's make this official. Calling Mar Roxas, Villar, the Catholic Bishops and all who supported the pardon and are 'happy for Erap", give a litsen. This new idea could be your legislative coup d' grace. It is the only way to save the joke we call 'democracy' and 'rule of law' since we refuse to do the right thing.

Here's a list of crimes all Filipinos should be allowed to do even just once.

a) steal billions from the government (like the Marcoses, Erap Estrada and many others)

b) do not pay taxes and behest loans (like so many we know, JDV, et al)

c) subvert the government through coups, armed rebellion, etc. (like Honasan, Enrile, CPP-NPA, MILF, Trillanes and all who have done so and are still scott free)

d) murder (like what some congressmen and senators, and other public officials have done). But to be fair, government officials should not be exempt targets by regular citizens, since they do same to each other anyway.