Good Intentions: Not Necessarily Always Consistent with Due Process and the Rule of Law

The nerve.

You may have, on your own toil and effort, raised yourself from rags to riches.

But nothing, as in NOTHING, gives any citizen, whether be you a Senator or President, the right to circumvent DUE PROCESS and the RULE OF LAW.

Does Senator Villar think that the Filipino people is stupid enough not to detect the underhanded way in which he conducts election campaign? Scholarships during election even if he did not ask those students to endorse him constitute a clear and blatant violation of the Omnibus Election Code!

It is either plain stupidity or outright scheming for a politician to hand out anything, as in ANYTHING, even if it is HIS OWN MONEY, that can be interpreted by anyone as favors within the Utang na Loob Filipino tradition.

WHY DID YOU NOT HAND OUT THE SCHOLARSHIPS BEFORE THE ELECTION PERIOD COMMENCED AND NOT STOP HANDING OUT YOUR GOODS DURING THE ELECTION PERIOD?

BECAUSE YOU ARE A TRADITIONAL POLITICIAN. YOU MAY HAVE BECOME RICH BY YOUR OWN EFFORTS BUT YOUR IGNORANCE OF THE LAW (OR PERHAPS YOUR EFFORTS TO CIRCUMVENT IT) TESTIFIES TO YOUR OUTRIGHT NATURE AS A TRAPO.

This also applies to those who use the name and patriotic contributions of their parents to get elected. Naming our ancestors imply you wish to extend their rule to this day, however good their may be, and violates the principle of "rotation of office" in modern democracies.

Politicians who think themselves above the rules should be disqualified immediately!