“Truth must be hidden; justice must be selective”
THE more one observes the several episodes of the series titled “Greed without Limit,” the more one gets the sinking feeling that multi-institutional players are engaged in a massive cover-up to hide the truth.
When Orly Guteza boldly strode into the Senate hearing to expose the periodic deliveries of suitcases filled with millions in cash to high officials of the land, and swore to “tell the truth and nothing but,” the DOJ and the chairman of the Blue Ribbon Committee questioned the affidavit notarized by a 24/7 plug-and-play notary public, who was pressured later to claim that her signature was falsified.
Orly’s truth was not what they wanted to hear, so their ploy was to impugn the notarization of his affidavit, in clear attempt to hostage the truth.
Thereafter, dark forces threatened Guteza and his family, forcing him to recant his sworn testimony, and point to an incumbent senator and a former Cabinet member as having “masterminded” his revelations.
But a week after, fugitive Zaldy Co released video after video from wherever he was, validating Guteza’s testimony, rendering the forced recantation moot, and useless for propaganda purposes.
However, the earlier “confession” of Roberto Bernardo which implicated several senators, DPWH officials and executives in Malacanang and DBM, supposedly after being “conscienticized” by a “pious” archbishop from the near North was accepted hook, line and sinker, and the resigned undersecretary was declared a state witness, with all its exculpatory privileges.
Still, Bernardo’s “truth” was only partially treated. But for one Trygve of the DepEd secretary who was given perfunctory treatment in his cameo appearance, touch them not was the protective mantle given to the DBM secretary without whose approval funds could not be released.
Nor an executive secretary whose nephew, the PLLO undersecretary liaised between the Palace and Congress. Neither an undersecretary of justice with long and close ties to the chief executive.
Touch them not — afraid their testimonies could lead elsewhere higher? Truth is again hostage.
Then after Undersecretary Cabral died, a young legislator came out with the deceased’s list of “allocables” and “non-allocables” that peppered the General Appropriations Act, but he was “silenced.”
Truth must be hidden; justice must be selective.
Earlier, the Discaya couple were made out as the biggest contractor cum payola givers in the land, jailed consequently, but the biggest cong-tractor of them all aside from Zaldy Co, Edwin Gardiola of Batangas, has been conveniently omitted, except for the AMLC “freezing” his bank accounts of which we have heard nothing thereafter.
Gardiola is no longer in the construction business. He merely trades paper licenses which is more lucrative, in collaboration with powers that be. Once again, someone seemingly untouchable.
Convinced that truth is being perverted, 16 ex-Marines, one army officer and a reservist decided to come out and bolster colleague Guteza’s earlier story about suitcases of cash transferring hands.
Apart from sordid revelations involving the highest officials in the land, the Brave Eighteen disclosed how they carried two large suitcases filled with cash to a “secret” office in a Salcedo Village building where the same was converted into two million US dollars by Zaldy’s Mark Ticsay and Paul Estrada.
Media pinklawans jumped into disbelieving assertions. How could you convert such amount into dollars when the BSP and banks delimit the sale of foreign currency? Media dolts never heard of money exchange dealers similar to the Binondo central bank of Marcos Senior.
Yes Virginia, “Binondo CB” has transferred operations to Makati and is riding high in the time of Marcos Junior.
How else do you think the big crooks transfer their money to buy mansions in Geneva, Long Island, Tuscany and Andalucia, even Porto?
But here is the kicker: the dollars were meant for “foreigners,” said Zaldy’s men Friday, with one seen in photographs as ICC’s Chantal whose team went to the Philippines several times to “investigate” in aid of prosecuting Rodrigo Duterte.
And the go-between with the foreigners is none other than Antonio Trillanes, who parlayed being a PGMA mutineer into a Senate seat, was PBSA’s self-proclaimed backdoor China negotiator and a certified PRRD hater.
The Ombudsman, who as justice secretary swore that his government never cooperated with the ICC, has admitted having met with those investigators, en su casa mismo, but only to protect witnesses for the prosecution of Duterte.
Sacre bleu!
The truth about the crime of the century is held hostage by the gatekeepers of justice in both the executive and legislative. So how can Filipinos ransom that truth?
Lawyers are taught: “fiat justitiae, ruat coeli.” Let justice be done, though the heavens fall.
Not in these benighted isles. Not under this government.
