it is ad hominem with factual basis if you ask me. but you were right,. it was ad hominem, but i have my caveat, i have my bias against the SC, and I don’t hide it. :)

then again, she is no diogenes.

Anyone against the Supreme Court is my ally. But you can remove my bias and hear out my argument.

The SC is not the only repository of good conduct and good governance and it should remain apolitical.

Thus cases that go to the Supreme Court on Certiorari must be reviewed only if the following are met:

1. there is a justiciable issue
2. party has standing
3. issue is not moot
4. presence of jucidially manageable standard to pontificate.

Where an issue involves the other branch of government, the Court by jurisprudence normally refrain from passing judgment on the executive act because by doing otherwise, it is actually passing judgment on an issue whose resolution is left to the executive department that is better equipped to address the issue. It has become to be known as a “political” issue doctrine.

But in the case of the abandoned MOA-AD, the court is no longer at liberty to discuss it because it has been “mooted” and the Court’s opinion becomes “advisory”, a sort of an “ongoing instruction by the court” on how the executive should act in the future. Justice Puno, if he wants to be an opposition stalwart must resign his post and run for executive position and he should not be allowed to prostitue the dignity of the Court who could have one member or two that remain distinguished and honest.

But what can you do? Chief Justice Puno is the most hideous and the most hypocrite Chief Justice that had occupied the Court.

http://jcc34.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/an-open-letter-to-chief-justice-reynato-s-puno/

“But as we have already mentioned, there is nothing wrong with completing the CARP process until the end of 2008. One reason why the DAR people are not performing their tasks is that the feet of the agrarian reform secretary appear to be planted on the high grounds of power, not on the low level fields under CARP, which are his turf,”
Land Reform Program at Stand Still despite Available Funds

The outgoing president assuming she indeed goes out, will leave that dubious legacy in the guise of upholding the separation of powers principle. CJ Puno must bristle with the prospect that he is being minimized. Remember his vote spelled the doom of MoA-AD.

The destruction of our democratic institutions remains unabated!

EQ