EXTREME ARROGANCE OF THE OFFICE OF THE OMBUDSMAN!

The Ombudsman’s immediate defiance of President Aquino’s dismissal of its deputy is nothing short of EXTREME ARROGANCE.

Without even first filing for an appeal, Assistant Ombudsman Jose de Jesus said their office is ignoring the order on the ground that IT’S ONLY THEM who can discipline their officials, and that Gonzales had been cleared of any wrongdoing.

So as far the Ombudsman is concerned, their above ANYONE and ANYTHING, including THE LAW. They’re UNTOUCHABLES in their own right. It’s ONLY THEM who knows what’s right or wrong in their turf.

If that isn’t ARROGANCE to the max, then we need a NEW WORD in the dictionary.

If that’s the case, then anyone in the Ombudsman can engage in graft and corrupt practices and still remain free by simply conniving with everyone else in the office.

Think about these, guys:

The law is VERY CLEAR – the President can hire and fire officials and employees of the Office of the Ombudsman. It’s the Ombudsman who can be removed only by impeachment.

Gonzales was dismissed because it took him nine months to resolve the case of the Luneta bus hostage taker instead of just days as regulations require.

No less than Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, himself an acknowledged top-notch lawyer, described the delay as suspicious.

And the Ombudsman would not even give a credible defense to all these.

AN OVERHAUL of the law creating the Office of the Ombudsman is in order. With their defense of Gonzales, WE HAVE NO ASSURANCE that NO IRREGULARITIES are taking place in their chambers.

If that’s how the Ombudsman thinks, then it had better GET OUT of the country and establish its own kingdom somewhere else in the world. The NORTH or SOUTH POLE maybe.

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Three of our friends on “Only the heroin owner would want Cacayan dead” :

MARLENE DAMOLO HOWE of Tacoma, Washington, USA

If I were Tita Cacayan I would come out clean now! Either way she's dead. Better make things right before it's too late. At least, she could atone for some of the sins she committed that caused other people's death. Keeping silent and wanting protection to stay alive is futile.

JULIAN RABAGO of Cavite City

Dead men tell no tales.

LOUISE DEL CARMEN of Canlaon City, Negros Occidental

Dapat siya ang parusahan ng death penalty. Lethal !lethal,firing

 squad,ihulog sa bunganga ng volcano. Basta, dapat sa kanya lahat yun.  30