Judiciary, one wrong committed in the past
‘Let’s go, let’s make it right’
By Norman Bordadora
Philippine Daily Inquirer
February 26th, 2012

Twenty-six years after millions flocked to Edsa to overthrow a dictator, President Benigno Aquino III on Saturday rallied Filipinos to take action against the judiciary that, he said, like martial law was one of the “wrongs committed in the past” that needed to be corrected.

Apparently continuing on a recent favorite theme, the condemnation of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona, Mr. Aquino urged “immediate action,” saying martial law happened because people decades ago chose to keep silent until they could no longer bear the sufferings it brought the country.
“Now, after 26 years, it is clear that our fight is not yet finished,” Mr. Aquino said in a speech during the Edsa anniversary ceremonies at the People Power Monument.

“As we link our arms in the straight path, I trust that we can reach a society that is free from a judiciary with two faces—one with a partial justice system and another with balanced scales,” he said.

As in previous speeches attacking Corona, the President urged the people to participate and act as the Chief Justice’s trial at the Senate impeachment court enters its seventh week.

“If you want to remain in the old system, go ahead and pretend to be deaf. Pretend to be blind. Don’t speak. Don’t participate,” he said.
“But if you believe that there’s something wrong in the system and that this has to be corrected, let’s go and push back (Tara, pumalag tayo). Let’s participate. Let’s make it right,” he added.

The President made these remarks in the presence of three senator-judges who were sitting onstage with him—Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III and Sen. Gregorio Honasan.

Enrile made one of his rare appearances at an Edsa anniversary celebration.

Enrile and Honasan were among the military and defense leaders who went against the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the first Edsa People Power Revolution in February 1986. Enrile was the then defense minister and Honasan was his chief security aide and leader of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement, or RAM.

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