Press Release
October 30, 2008

On the bishop's call for a radical change in the Arroyo government ...

The bishops just exercised their rights to freely express their opinion. Thus threatening them with charges of sedition and challenging them to run in the election from no less than the justice secretary is yet again a show of arrogance from this administration.

I return the challenge to Secretary Gonzales to automatically file proper charges against these bishops if he finds their act illegal. Verbal threats are no act of a self-respecting and thinking individual or agency.

This government has time and again stuck to its true color of wantonly chasing individuals it deems critical to them. Threats of charges and charges per se are immediately filed left and right against their critics.

While this administration is easy to go after its perceived enemies, it takes its sweet time to even lift its fingers against those people allied to them, never mind if these people have brazenly committed malfeasance and misfeasance to the country and the people.

Former President Estrada, who is an Arroyo critic, had already been tried, convicted and pardoned but we have yet to see them touch the cases of former Justice Secretary Nani Perez and now the infamous Jocjoc Bolante.

This is a challenge that Raul Gonzales and Ombudsman Merceditas Guitterez should take up because they owe it to the Filipino people.

Kung nakakalimutan nilang dalawa, ipapaalala ko uli na ang simbolo ng hustisya ay babaeng nakapiring, walang dapat kinikilalang sinuman.

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