Bloggers File Complaint-in-Intervention in Arroyo Impeachment Case
November 16, 2008
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Political bloggers led by Manuel Quezon III on Wednesday asked the House of Representatives to include the scrapped Bangsamoro Juridical Entity (BJE) agreement in the impeachment complaint against President Arroyo.
Joining Quezon as signatories to the complaint-in-intervention were bloggers Marck Ronald Rimorin, Edwin Lacierda, Jeremy I. Gatdula, Arbet W. Bernardo, Maria A. Jose, and Richard M. Rivera.
A page on the complaint-in-intervention filed by bloggers in the Arroyo impeachment case.
Concerned citizens Pitch Mangondato, Lt. Gen. Fortunato Abat, Jose T. Arce Jr., and Atty Ed Bacungan also signed the complaint.
The group said they believe Arroyo must be impeached for her role in the BJE memorandum on agreement (MOA) with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
In pursuing the MOA — which the Supreme Court later declared as unconstitutional — Arroyo “did a grave injustice to the citizenry,” the group said.
“It was, in sum, a policy of such deceit and recklessness, as to demonstrate her consecration, not to the service of the nation, but to a policy calculated for personal advantage, to the detriment of the nation at large,” they stated in the complaint.
They also said that the intervention is meant to strengthen the impeachment complaint filed last October 13 by a group of citizens led by Jose De Venecia III.
“We have signed it. We stand by it. We submitted it, today, to the Secretary-General of the House of Representatives so that it may fortify the impeachment case against the President of the Philippines,” Quezon wrote on his blog.
The group also launched an anti-Arroyo blog called Oust the Imp.
Also on Monday, former House Speaker Jose De Venecia III formally endorsed the October 13 complaint.
However, Bayan Muna Rep. Satur Ocampo said they will not endorse the complaint-in-intervention filed by the bloggers because the House committee would likely consider it as a separate complaint, as it had done in the past.
[...] I’m going to the House of Representatives to watch ourMotion for Intervention possibly end up buried by the administration majority in the Committee on Justice. There [...]
[...] I’m going to the House of Representatives to watch ourMotion for Intervention possibly end up buried by the administration majority in the Committee on Justice. There [...]