"In favor of Sigaw - Puno, Santiago, Tinga, Corona, Cancio, Nazario. Two undecided. Seven against. Fearless forecast is 8-7 in favor of PI."We have all heard the rumors, and on the morning of oral arguments for and against the Singaw petition at the Supreme Court, texts like this are unnerving. If the information is true, then we are once again going to be terribly disappointed. Real constitutional law experts (as opposed to Raul Lambino) like Edwin Lacierda and Adel Tamano believe that the Supreme Court would be hard pressed to reverse itself in this matter. But we all know stranger things have happened in this Kingdom of the Possessed.
In dire times, most of us turn to God for comfort and blessings. This morning, at 9:00 am, Fr. Bernas will officiate mass at the Ateneo Law School (Rockwell) for the oppositors to the Initiative. Apart from praying for the strength of those who will represent us in the Supreme Court this afternoon, we will pray for the Justices. We will also pray for our apathetic people, the need for their hearts to be opened to the truth and the importance of justice and accountability.
But there still that pagan side to us. The side that can't help but wager bets. Wanna bet the SC will reverse itself? This is one bet I desperately want to lose.
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And I pray that Mrs. Arroyo will be daring enough to create a "truth commission" that will determine if she really won the year 2004 presidential election. I hope all the Christian bishops in our land will one day hold a "united mass" for such a thing to happen. Fr. Bernas can lead such mass.
A PETITION FOR THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF THE U.N. ORGANIZATION
This is a petition which is urging U.N. Organization's official and administrative leadership to democratize the whole framework, processes and procedures of the United Nations' Organization. We, the members and leaders of the League of Political Abrogationers (L.P.A.), have created this petition in order to ensure that the whole U.N. Organization will be a "real vanguard institution" for the protection and promotion of real and global democracy. We, the members and leaders of the League of Political Abrogationers (L.P.A.), are gathering 1.5 million on-line signatures for this on-line petition. Once we have gathered the '1.5-million signatures' for this on-line petition, we will submit this on-line petition to the administrative and official leadership of the United Nations. This on-line petition is a 3-point petition. This petition goes as follows:
"A PETITION FOR THE U.N. ORGANIZATION'S ADMINISTRATIVE AND OFFICIAL
LEADERSHIP TO DEMOCRATIZE THE STRUCTURAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK,
PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES OF THE WHOLE U.N. ORGANIZATION"
We, the members and leaders of the League of Political Abrogationers (L.P.A.), are urging the U.N. Organization's administrative and official leadership to democratize the structural and organizational framework, procedures and processes of the whole U.N. Organization. Our group believes that the whole U.N. Organization should be democratized through peaceful and legal means. Therefore, we, the members and leaders of the League of Political Abrogationers, are urging the administrative and official leadership of the U.N. Organization to do the following:
a.) The U.N. Organization's administrative and official leadership should create new organizational by-laws that will effectively democratize all the decision-making procedures and processes of all the administartive departments, agencies, institutions, assemblies and structural groupings of the U.N. Organization. Such new by-laws should also include the principle of having a U.N. administration made up of "elected legislators" from the countries which they came from. Elections and referendums should also be introduced within the structural framework of the U.N. Organization. The new by-laws should give the citizens of U.N. member-states the chance to elect the leaders who will sit as officials, including the Secretary-General of the U.N., of the United Nations.
b.) The U.N. Organization should create a democratic "global constitution" for all member-states and non-member states of the U.N. Organization. Such "global constitution" should ensure that all countries of this world will adhere to all of the principles of democracy. Such "global constitution" should guarantee the respect and protection of the natural environment, animal rights and human rights in all of the countries of this world. Such "global constitution" will also safeguard free and fair trading among all the nations of this world. Such "global constitution" will also safeguard our world from human-made disasters. Such "global constitution" should also guarantee effective international cooperation when it comes to dealing with environmental disasters and 'space accidents' (like huge commets hitting our world) that may occur. Such "global constitution" should also guarantee the promotion and protection of environmental and human safety rights. The U.N. Organization should create such democratic "global constitution" now.
c.) The administrative and official leadership should also make a new charter that will guarantee the participation of the whole U.N. Organization in the promotion and protection of democracy in every country, in every social organization and in every culture of this world. Such new charter should have an effective mechanism within the organizational framework of the U.N. which will guarantee the participation of the U.N. Organization in the promotion and protection of democracy all over this world.
The readers of this message can sign this on-line petition by clicking this web page
now: http://www.petitiononline.com/gelly55/petition.html .
Please sign such petition now.
Sincerely,
RUMMEL PINERA
Helga, I tend to agree with MB. Our forecasts may be different but the result would be the same -- in favor of Gloria's Chacha.
Although I share the trepidation of a looming railroad crash through the House, Bystander, I still hold out the hope that we've a chance to at least fight it out in the SC. If we lose there, then we have to look at getting out the NO vote in the plebiscite. This is what we get for being voices in the wilderness. The people's apathy will be their undoing, they'll wake up one day to find her presidenta for life.
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