| Philippine President GMA 's exercise of her | | | | meant (by the framers of the 1987 Philippine |
| absolute power of Presidential Prerogative to | | | | Constitution) to be unqualified - and could be |
| grant Executive Clemency to her predecessor | | | | subject to abuse instead. Consider: |
| ex-President ERAP (who was Plunder-convicted | | | | - Coud Presidential Pardon be granted even |
| by the SandiganBayan Court after 6 years of | | | | without the Convict's Acceptance-of-Guilt and |
| litigation) would make a good Case Study for all | | | | without Public Apology expressed? |
| Students-of-Politics worldwide. Soon after his | | | | - Could the granting of Presidential Pardon not be |
| release from his privately-owned Tanay | | | | self-serving as in the case of President GMA |
| RestHouse "Imprisonment", ERAP (whose Political | | | | suspected of possibly pre-empting her own |
| & Civil Rights have been restored) considers | | | | probable future imprisonment upon the "coming |
| himself as a plain Citizen now free to be at the | | | | close" of her corruption-scandal laden Presidency - |
| bedside of his "dying" Old Mother - and to pursue | | | | as forwarned by ex-President FVR ? |
| his publicly avowed advocacy of helping the Filipino | | | | - Is the Philippine President the only and final Judge |
| Poor . If he truly makes good on his promise, | | | | of "National Interest" in a nation deeply divided and |
| convicted ERAP could be a converted ERAP - and | | | | revolting over a controvertial Presidential Pardon? |
| should be welcomed back to Philippine Society. | | | | - Where is Good Governance - with |
| As a Filipino Senior Citizen who keeps abreast | | | | Discriminatory Justice favoring the "Politically |
| with Political Events in the Philippines and as a | | | | Strong" and with a Presidency obstructive of |
| Roman Catholic who adheres to the Christian | | | | Senate Investigations and suspected of bribing |
| Doctrine: "Charity builds upon Justice"; I am of the | | | | Congressmen & Governors? |
| view that the Constitutional Mandate of "Absolute | | | | For the sake of a "Better Future", let National |
| Power to grant Presidential Pardon" could not be | | | | Cleansing begin! |